Recent content by Nick T

All cameras are sold.

All cameras sold! Thanks.

I was able to adjust the motion settings on the cameras to eliminate almost all of the false positives. I do random audits to see how it's performing and I'm pretty pleased. The one thing I can't seem to find a solution for is moths and such flying into the lens at night and tripping the motion...

It's been working very well. I've disabled notifications from Surveillance Station and I just rely on my Ring cameras to let me know when someone is approaching. I have tweaked the motion settings pretty well within the cameras such that I can quickly recap motion events in Surveillance Station...

I decided to experiment with the "Smart Codec" setting for my IPC-HDW4231EMP-AS camera. Everything had been working great, but as soon as I enabled this feature, it caused the browser plug-in to fail. I have checked and my NAS appears to still be recording correctly and I am able to access live...

So does it only work with H265? I am limited to H264 due to my NAS.

Thanks. I'm getting there. In this case, all I needed was to be pointed down the VPN path. I do appreciate all those folks that actually gave me some constructive ideas / advice.

I haven't researched the smart codec. I have it turned off on all my cameras at present. What does it do exactly?

That's a good point re using IVS and motion detection. Perhaps my setup has a few advantages.

I don't think you can. I noticed that you cannot mix and match local (i.e., SD card) and NAS. Not sure why that's a limitation, but it does seem to be. For now, I have my cameras setup to record local to an SD card and my NAS also records through Surveillance Station. This way I have fallback /...

A couple of things: First, during setup my SS will not show a preview, even though it is setup correctly. So make sure to click all the way through and see if you actually get an image on QVR Client. Second, for cameras that aren't available in the dropdown, QNAP suggested that I choose ONVIF...

I have noticed several settings in my Dahua IPC-HDW5231R-Z cameras that won't seem to stick. The ones that are most problematic are: (1) the custom motion detection zones; and (2) the Sub Stream 1 resolution settings. Regarding (1), I will set up the zones, hit save, back out and then go back...

Hi everyone, I recently got two PC-HDW4231EM-AS cameras from @EMPIRETECANDY (thank you!). It's probably old hat to most of the folks on here, but I found that the location of the SD slot in this camera was not very intuitive, and different than its cousin varifocal, the IPC-HDW5231R-Z. First...

I have iDMSS setup and working, but am having a couple of issues. First, all of my camera views are in a forced square aspect ratio, but my cameras are outputting a widescreen view. This makes the pictures look very distorted, even thought the quality is otherwise fine. I have tried to go...

So I have managed to get a VPN setup to my home network, and I'm able to connect iDMSS to my cameras remotely now (without port forwarding). The one issue I am having is whether or not I am going to have to toggle the VPN on every time I want to view the cameras or receive push notifications...