Review-IP Villa Outdoor Doorbell Station & Indoor Monitor Kit

thesleepy_slee said:

@Holbs thanks for the info. Not sure if I have a -S2 or not though, and they seem to run different firmwares.

I have an issue with the VTO, when I press the ring button, it calls the VTH but not possible to see the video feed, only black screen. I can see it perfectly when doing it manually from the VTH.
I have played with settings and tried to factory reset without success so far.

Could you help me and show me your configs for these commands?

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I have no idea what those commands are that you listed. I use the GUI to setup my config parameters. And my setup is different than normal because I chose not to use the Dahua Cloud for notifications & video feeds to my Android phone but rather an odd ball way of bypassing the cloud all together.
I have been... silent for the last year and half. Bought a company that was going into the red. All my thinking & concentration has gone into my company. IPCT, Dahua, Blue Iris, Home Assistant took a back seat. Now that things are looking healthy, I plan on getting back into things for cameras. Especially, reselling for Andy for both Dahua NVR's and cameras, and also reselling Blue Iris.
Here are my soon to be immediate problems to tackle:
1.) re-position cameras that served their purpose 2-3 years ago but my needs have changed (I still have 20+ cameras).
2.) install this year purchases (replace a 5442 with that 180 degree camera).
3.) figure out issues with the VTO/VTH. I can not "monitor" any camera. At the time I installed this stuff, very little info out there in regards to how to do this, how to do that. I eventually just MQTT'd the doorbell function to a Zooz speaker and left it at that.

In regards to your specific issue of call button on VTO with no display on the VTH... my first thought would be looking to ensure you have the SIP server information entered in correctly.

Holbs said:

I have been... silent for the last year and half. Bought a company that was going into the red...

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Glad to hear things are looking up!

3.) figure out issues with the VTO/VTH. I can not "monitor" any camera.

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I had this issue, and while I can't remember exactly the fix, it had something to do with one of the settings for Port, Stream Type, Protocol, and Encryption.
What is working for me: Port: 554, Stream Type: Extra, Protocol: Local. (Channel is 1, Encryption is unchecked, and IPC). You probably tried all those! LOL!

In regards to your specific issue of call button on VTO with no display on the VTH... my first thought would be looking to ensure you have the SIP server information entered in correctly.

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Actually that is a good place to start @thesleepy_slee . One thing that confused me previously is that the VTO has SIP Server IP settings that do not match what
you should enter for the VTH. For example, if you look at the SIP Server settings through the web interface for the VTO:



But the VTO's IP Address, in this case, is 192.168.1.120 and THAT is the address you want to
enter in the VTH's SIP Server configuration settings. Basically in the VTH you are just entering
the VTO IP Address that the SIP Server happens to be running on. Internally the VTH knows
to use the SIP Server. And if you have multiple VTO's then you need to disable the SIP Server on one of them.
As a related comment: I have never been able to get the Dahua VTO's or VTH's to work with
a separate SIP server (Asterisk my case). I could get a few functions to work, but I think the Dahua
components might use some proprietary SIP functionality.

I think my settings are correct, but an extra check won't hurt.
I have a single VTO, IP .50, and 2 VTH (.51 & .52)
VTO SIP port is set to 5060 on the config page, however show-up at 5061 on second image. Not sure this is normal.
I configured everything using Dahua Tools, and not thru the devices themselves.
It was working fine before, not sure what I changed except sending some CGI commands