Recent content by Jeremy Spiering

I don't think there is a good answer. While I like Hikvision cameras, all of their software is terrible. I could be intentional on their part to force people to stay within the Hikvision umbrella of software/hardware, or it could just be something inadvertent that does't work well with...

I mean just swiping the app off in card view I assume logging out will prevent Push notifications.

Not that I am aware of. Sure would be nice. What I do, is record events to a 64GB SD card in the cameras, and record continuous to the NVR. You could also record to a NAS drive just the events as well. Then you can connect to the NVR to get continuous playback, or connect the individual...

You can use any size drive you want, you just need to partition a volume that is less than 200GB from the larger drive, and record to that volume. But yes, it would be nice to be able to point to any size drive or volume, and via Hikvision interface set the amount of space to use.

Just got a new Android phone running Android 9 (Pie). I cannot enable alerts in iVMS-4500. When I try to enable the alerts I get a message saying "Failed to get the push token". Alerts are still working fine on old Android phone. I have a feeling it must be related to permissions related to...

That video doesn't look bad to me at all. Yes, it isn't ultra smooth, but these are surveillance cameras and not designed for ultra fluid motion. If you want it to be smoother, lower the the resolution to 1080P, increase the framerate to 30(for NTSC) or 25(PAL) , decrease the exposure time...

Make sure motion detection is enabled on the NVR. You can set the motion area to nothing so you don't get motion alerts, but if motion detection is not enabled on the NVR, you may not receive any of the smart events such as line crossing and intrusion detection. Not sure which NVR models and...

Nayrnet has written some pretty sweet code for NodeJS. It is really simple to use. I know it isn't C#, but you might consider using it as the listener for the events, and have it trigger your C# application when it detects events. Maybe via HTTP requests or websocket or something like that...

Hikvision has recently released iVMS-4200 Lite (for Windows PC only at the moment). It is a game changer for me. It a less bloated version of the full iVMS-4200. It loads much more quickly, and uses significantly less processor resources while displaying multiple streams. It has eliminated...

How about SmartIR? It looks like maybe there is an object very close to the left edge of the camera? Not exactly how SmartIR works, but from my understanding it detects when objects get close to the camera and it adjusts the IR so the object isn't blown out by the IR. Maybe it could even...

I posted a possible solution here: Converting HikVision MP4 to standard MP4 or other format This works perfectly for me, fixes the wrong length, and makes the MP4 seekable again. Also should play in any player that supports MP4 encoded in H.264.

Try FFMPEG. It will modify the MP4 so it can be played on any device/program that supports MP4 encoded in H.264 (or H.265 depending on your NVR and/or camera). Here is a command you can run to fix your MP4's: ffmpeg -err_detect ignore_err -i video.mkv -c copy video_fixed.mkv You can...

You can use FFMPEG (free) to fix the MP4's without doing any conversion and loss of quality. Fixing the MP4's using FFMPEG only takes a split second, and leaves you with an MP4 that can be viewed in any MP4 player, with the proper time displayed and ability to seek. Download FFPMEG and run the...

You shouldn't have to set the quality on the camera as well. Changing it on the NVR will change it on the camera. There are certain camera only functions that do require you to login into the camera directly if you want to set them, but the stream settings are not one of them. Is it possible...

That looks like IR bleed to me. Did you have IR disabled, and restoring default settings re-enalbed IR?