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So after reading and reading and experimenting and such, I finally got my basic system largely installed, although tweaking continues. I've got a variety of Hikvision cams around the perimeter of the house, at the front door, in two rooms in the house and in the garage. These are supported by...

The camera was recording and playing back to the SD card just fine. I logged on to check it tonight, and realized that it had stopped recording to the card three or four days ago. I have re-formatted the card, turned the power on and off, re-booted just about everything (although all of the...

After four months of running nearly 24/7, my first 4TB WD Purple died. And it did so in style, making metallic shreaks that could make teeth rattle. Afer taking it out of its enclosure, the number of parts that could be heard rattling around was impressive. After inputting all of my data for an...

I think I have read every ftp/BI related post that google will help me to find. I've think I've tried everything, but I'm still flummoxed. I'm trying to have a cloned camera upload short mp4 files when a cloned camera is triggered. My ftp site is accessible, test file gets posted, and even...

I'm running a Win 10 box, fresh install, 10 Hik cameras of assorted 3 MP and 4 MP types. I have been pushing the i7-4785T computer with 16 GB pretty hard. BI/Task Manager generally report about 25% CPU usage and 3-4 GB of memory usage. Today while fiddling with cloning one camera, I noticed...

I've spent quite a while getting my home brew system vetted before I install it. I've been using a one drive NAS for testing purposes that I am going to convert to a music drive when I get my camera storage settled. I have stumbled across this online space requirement calculator that seems very...

Can anyone tell me what this means in plain English? I/m perplexed. According to the NAS software, there appears to be plenty of headroom, but BI seems to indicate a serious shortage.

Decided on Cat6 cable from monoprice and have carefully studied lots of videos and instructions sets about terminating cables. After about 10 attempts to install 2-piece Cat6 connectors, I seem to be getting better with each attempt and they are looking very clean. However, after connecting my...

Based on reading in the forums, I am strongly considering buying this cable for my install: http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=11438 I will probably only need about half of that roll. Any interest in the other half? Monoprice doesn't sell that cable in 500 foot lengths, which is about what...

On my first foray with a Hikvision camera, I am flummoxed. It would appear that the camera can turn on and off the IR/night vision. But the only way I can get the night vision is to manually set day/night switch back and forth. Auto stays in day mode. What am I missing? BTW, I have also turned...

My head is swimming with information. This is quite the journey. I started with an old cell phone with the ip webcam app and my current phone with tinyCAM Monitor PRO, first using port forwarding to access the phone/camera, and now using VPN. I'm headed toward several outdoor IP cameras wired...