Recent content by billv

Sorry, I was using the log incorrectly. There are log messages but none showing anything wrong with email. The System subset only shows two events when I installed it. I'm still having trouble with email. I have two email accounts that are the same (server, port, password, domain) with the only...

I'm trying to set up email in the camera but it won't work. I'm using my smtp server, port 25 and no login or auth. (Yes I know, only specific IP addresses can send from that server). It fails immediately no matter how I have it set. I've tried using both the domain for the smtp server and it's...

No I never got it to update the firmware using the config tool but I'm not sure what he means by 'old config tool' - a version number would be useful. Nor which port - TCP, UDP, HTTP or RSP... I have never gotten this camera to show in a web browser. I use Blue Iris to view the cameras and...

I tried both of these downloaded from Index of /download/dahua. Neither seemed to want to install. The browser update halts after a few seconds. After waiting 5+ minutes, I refreshed and got a log in screen. After logging in, the version is the same as before. But worse I'm not getting any...

I have some QSee cameras that are rebranded Dahua IPC-HFW3200S cameras. I'm trying to find the most recent firmware, at least version 2.212. Both QSee and Dahua have nothing for these cameras and I can't find any download for the version. What I'm looking for is the so called "location overlay"...

So I have a number of the 5231's installed but I also have some QSee cameras that were rebranded from Dahua and are ID'd as IPC-HFW3200S. These cameras don't have the custom text overlay in the GUI that the 5231 does. But the parameters do show up in the VideoWidget. Can I set the parameters...

Thanks. I assume the ...CustomTitle[1].Text refers to the second line of the five available? And if I want to update all five lines I can just append them to the end, each starting with an ampersand?

Ok, let me try again.... Is there a way to update the text overlay besides the web GUI interface, such as an SDK or json or something else? I want to update the overlay with weather data periodically so need an way to do this programmatically from the computer the camera is connected to. Thanks

Upload text file? The camera has the ability to display up to 5 lines of text. I'd like to upload the text to the camera. Is there a way of doing that? I have a personal weather stations and the cameras are recorded using Blue Iris. With the direct to disk recording, the overlays that are set...

This is probably not the best place to ask this. If anyone knows of a better place, I'd like to know. I have an area probably 60x60 feet that I need to monitor with a camera. Stills are fine but movies are good too. I do not have power or internet at the location. I'm considering some sort of...

Auto reboot? Is there any reason to have the camera reboot daily or weekly? I have my cams set up to reboot weekly.

NPT not working on one camera. I have 11 cameras - 8 are from an old Qsee install (which are Dahua under the covers) and 3 are new 5231's. I have set up timesynctool on the BI server to update the clocks via NTP. I found that one of the 5321 cameras will not update the time via NTP. The log...

The purple drives are designed for surveillance systems, optimized for high write rates. They have been recommended here and other places for theses system. So far I haven't run into a problem. Make sure your DVR can handle the drives. Since my system is a standard PC, I just spanned the two...

I started with a 6 TB purple and wanted more storage time with 8 cameras. I recently added 3 more cameras for a total of 11 and at the same time added another 8 TB purple. Nine cameras of the 11 do continuous recording to disk at 1080P, and 10 FPS. My videos go back to Dec 17. I use a system...

This is off topic but it might be useful for some people here. I found this 8 channel TTL GPIO, 6 of which can be analog to digital input for input voltage 0-5V. It costs on $20 but takes a couple of weeks to ship from India. You can use any language that reads/writes from the serial port - I...