BriceHughes

My company sells and installs CCTV systems, but I have a few customers who already had existing Dahua (or re-branded Dahua) DVRs. They can never figure out the manufacturer's iDMSS and gDMSS apps. Is there a third-party app I can recommend to them that will just display the live view from the currently selected DVR when you open it? Ninety-nine percent of the time, they only want to see the live feed, and most of them don't have several recorders to choose from. It would be nice if it only included CCTV, too. I don't know anyone with a Dahua door control or alarm system. I see there are dozens of clones of the gDMSS app, and I assume it's the same way on iOS. Unless I'm missing something, the only way to easily access your cameras is to make a favorites list and then select that list when you open the app.

The POE standard is 48 volts DC, but unfortunately some manufacturers make proprietary equipment that sends 12 or even 5 volts DC over ethernet, and they sometimes label those products POE as well. You'll also see passive adapters you can plug any arbitrary power supply into sometimes labeled as "POE injectors" when they're nothing of the sort. Any major brand-name manufacturer should be correctly labeling their products, but if you're buying generic, imported, or unbranded products, you'd better read the specs to make sure it will work with standard POE equipment.

Thanks for your reply, Tom. I agree that it's not hard for you and me, but I get a call asking how to use Dahua or Hikvision apps at least every couple of weeks. I don't ever get those calls about EverFocus or Alarm.com. We're not talking about power users. We're talking about users who think Facebook _IS_ the internet. The simple truth is that many of my customers will never really learn how to use their technology and I can either make the best of it or send them to the competition. If gDMSS and its clones are all that there is, I can deal with that. If there's something simpler, though, I'd like to find it.

As background, I support a client with several EverFocus DVRs, and I'm trying to aggregate them into a cloud NVR server. I can't find the RTSP URLs for the ECOR264, ECORHD, and ECORFHD series DVRs. I can access the DVRs using the ActiveX plugin, but I'm pretty sure there is a way to directly access the stream for each channel. I just can't find the syntax for any DVR newer than the original ECOR series.