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    How to hook up audio to headset mic - Hikvision ?

    I have an older gray market Hikvision that it appears cant be upgraded. I wanted to test the concept of hooking a mic from headset up to it to record videos. Really I'm just messing about and wanted to see if I could do it. I have looked at several web sites but am generally confused. Not sure...
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    Meaning of &TYPE macro

    I'm using the following the macro. &TYPE in an email ALERT. The result is "MOTION_AH". When I use it and receive an email. I understand "MOTION", but I don't understand the _AH. What does this mean ? Thanks
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    What are blank spaces in the time line ??

    When I look at the time line sometimes there is a coloured lines and other times blank spaces. Note the picture below . There is a space between the pink and blue bars (which represent cameras) But there is also no blue above pink and no pink bar below blue. Other times the colours do show up...
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    EZVIZ does not work with VPN

    Not sure if this is a networking/ASUS quesion or Hikvision question. Its really both probably. I have a number of problems with the EZVIZ app on my Samsung tablet A. I do not have an account with Hikvision, I just use it by connecting to the network and searching for the Hikvision camera. This...
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    Dont completely understand what timeline is indicating on BI

    I have never really understood the time line in the bottom of the main screen of BI. This is the part that is below the Main picture, below the line that has the Date and hour. eg Ok what don't I understand? I get the aspect that the little walking man indicates that there was motion at this...
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    Can I see pixels of camera in BI ?

    I have had BI for quite a while. I started reading a bit on detection always trying to improve things. I did not realize that a pixel is different depending on the resolution of the camera. Is there any way in BI to see what a it considers is a pixel in each camera. I have a couple of cameras...
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    Operation Failed Live view using iVMS-4500

    I have two Hikvision Dome cameras. One is Gray market ( DS-2CD31145F-IS) (I have no idea if this can be updated via methods on this NG.) Other is North American model. (DS-2CD2145FWD-IS) When I use the iVMS-4500 software on my Samsung tab the Gray Market Camera connects up easily. However with...
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    Network Card Name change from Dell

    When I go into my asus router (DDWRT may be the same) for example and look up the connected computers my dell computers just show up as DELL with the Mac address. Sure I can find computers just using mac address but is there some place, maybe in the registry that I can change this default "DELL"...
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    Static address ?

    I have read a lot about setting up static addresses but still cant seem to get it to work. Can someone tell me what numbers to put in which router? I have a Triangle configuration, in other words at the top of the triangle I have the ISP's router that I can get into and can set up static...
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    OpenVPN Server or Client

    I'm trying to get OVPN going on my home network to see my cameras. I assume that I just need to get the OVPN Server going on my DDWRT router, and that the Client goes on the, device connecting to the home network from outside. I know this may be a stupid question but some tutorials that talk...
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    VPN and DDWRT setup

    I have done pretty well setting up my flashed DDWRT router. It is the second router behind a dlink. I can ping upstream cameras on different network when I login to the wifi network of the ddwrt router. Eventually I will try to make it so I can access it from the world. I just want to get it to...
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    Upgrade gray market camera

    I did not know at the time when I bought the camera from amazon that my camera was going to be such a pain. I even called Hikvision and they told me my camera was gray market. A term I knew nothing about. Anyway I do now. I have the problem where my camera keeps loosing its settings and...
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    Keyframe Interval (GOP) ??

    I have tried to read up on Keyframe Interval which I think ? is the I-frame I'm confused despite reading many posts and web sites. It appears the setting is somewhat based on needs and equipment. The question I have in part is does a low number like 30 use less cpu. The default seems to be 300...
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    Stop light not working for new camera

    I have a purchased a new Hikvision camera from dealer. Dome DS-2CD2145FWD-IS. Im having some issues with it. For some reason it seems to be a real hog on CPU. While I'm trying to fix that, I have noticed a few things. Its probably just some button some where I have not checked or unchecked. 1...
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    Where does time come from on Bi ??

    I have an older version of BI which works great. (4.8.6.3. w32) I want to know here does the time that BI uses come from. Is there a setting for this. I cant find it. To be clear, I'm not talking about the Camera Properties / Configuration/System settings/time Settings. This is for the...
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    Web ui and watchguard firewall block

    Has anyone used bi Web ui and watchguard. My local region uses watchguard and I know watchguard blocks certain types of files and I need to tell them what types to allow for the watch guard. The Web UI logs in and then immediately logs out when I'm using the regions internet however when I do it...
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    Web UI showing skewed videos and thumbnails

    When I log on to my BlueIris web site to look at videos and pictures remotely there is an odd issue that I dont understand. Some of the pictures and videos show a split thumbnail where the videos/pictures show the picture skewed. I'm submitting a picture to show you. Here is what gets me to that...
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    I dont understand camera time line??

    I just bought BI and find it much easier to use and more reliable than for example Hikvisions software or Geovision software. There are several things however that I dont understand. The first is the camera time line (I think it is called) That is the blue line just below the date and time...
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    Hikvision Flakie Playback of Fast Playback

    I have one DS-2CD3145F-IS (Dome Camera). I have One computer recording the video. Intel Core2 CPU 4300 1.8GHz . 2 Gig Ram. Win7. This comptuer only does recording. I have installed iVMS-4200 Software Version 2.5.0.5 Build 160512. After considerable work. I have this working recording...
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