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Hi, I'm being a cheapskate and trialling iSpy instead of buying Blue Iris for two Bird Box cameras. Onces an old HIKVision DS-2CD2042 and the others a 4MP HQCam from China (both IP Cams). I can do most of what I want with iSpy but my question is - is there a free iOS App that I can use to look...

Would I go for the lowest focal length possible? Some of these Aliexpress cameras go down to 1.6mm. The camera would be around 6" away from the birds and the style of bird box looks at the botton of the box at an angle (rather than straight down from above) and would take in the entrance hole.

Would I go for the lowest focal length possible with these? Some of them go as low as 1.6mm. With the box I want to use Hi Tony, actually the Aliexpress camera is more suitable as its much smaller and would fit into the bird box I want to use. Thanks so much for your kind offer though,it...

Hi TonyR, Thats a real shame as it was exactly the kind of thing I was after. Shipping costs to the UK far exceed the camera cost! Thanks anyway. Interesting reading about your experiences with your camera.

Hi, I want to setup a bird box camera. I'm in the UK and there are some off the shelf offerings available here but they are expensive for what they are and none of them do everything I want (apart from the ones with cloud storage at cost!). I've played with BI before on the trial version and...

Hi, Apologies that this may be a very 'general' question but just looking for some pointers for a new IP camera to cover the front of my house. I've got a Hikvision Bullet IP camera mounted on 1st floor eaves which is a few years old and its pretty hopeless. It''s triggered at the slightest...

Hi, can anyone tell me what th hell is going on here? I see this from time to time. It wasn't snowing or raining, it was a cold night. My best guess is that it's warm air coming from around our poorly fitted windows. I have a couple of the usualk spider webs which trigger my camera every...

Port 80 was Stealth too. Backup completed! Many thanks for you help Alastair, it's much appreciated.

This is the system maintenance page in the Web GUI:

8000 Does go to Stealth now. Does that mean I can't access the camera remotely any more? One thing I have found is that the updated HIKVISION app doesnt seem to have Export Config File any more even though it still has Import. Is it doing something clever like an autobackup whenever I change a...

8000 was Closed

It's not a chinese model so I'll upgrade the Firmware. The ShieldsUp! UPnP Internet Exposure Test gave: THE EQUIPMENT AT THE TARGET IP ADDRESS DID NOT RESPOND TO OUR UPnP PROBES! Does that mean there's any point in disabling UPnP? That would suggest it's safe to me. All service ports' scan...

Yes to all and only V5.3.3. Whats the best action? Disable UPnP or upgrade firmware?

Fixed it. I describe fix for any others coming across this post. As mentioned above ISP (123Reg) doesnt like SSL so I disabled it BUT the Port needs to be 25 for this to work. I'll backup this configuration ready for the next time it loses it's configuration!

Hi, I've had the above camera for a while and its worked fine. Yesterday it stopped sending emails and showing live feed. I used SADP and it showed as inactive so I made it active and live feeds came back but it had lost all of its settings so email wasnt working. I'm trying to re-enter the...

Hi, I have the above camera and the email alerts only seem to work when they feel like it. The Test email is fine and I get some alerts but nothing like the alerts I get when running iVMS 4500 (iPhone) and iVMS4200 Client software. Does anyone have any ideas whats going on here? I've run Cat5...

Hi, I have email alerts setup with the above camera but I want to use the cloud to store more information around each alert (before, after event) if possible and maybe constant data if this could be configured in a loop so after a certain amount of time it begins to overwrite. Are there any...

Hi, thanks for coming back. Just solved it. It seems for my ISP it doesnt want 'Enable SSL' which is odd as the prev. camera had this. Unchecked it and working fine now.

Hi, I had a Foscam IP camera which worked OK for years with the odd drop out. Recently refused to stay up and saw a whole load of stuff online about flashing the firmware due to a know issue. er - no thanks, bye bye Foscam and lets just buy a new camera. Hence the above camera, Ive connected it...