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To follow up with this: I can't really explain what I think was strange in the log files. I did check the saved image folder and look at the images. There was only one picture of the event that it missed. That pic seemed clear enough but who knows why it didn't register. Since I have a lot...

Thanks. I didn't have the log "save to file" box checked so there isn't any file to open. I've fixed that and will have to wait to see if the problem repeats. Deepstack run times at other points in the log are on the 100-200ms order with a couple on the high side at 400ms. Not quite. I do...

For the most part I've been very happy with deepstack and how it's been working. But I'm never sure it really captures everything and this morning I had a great example. My wife went for an early walk and triggered 2 out of the 3 cameras she passed through. But one camera showed no alerts this...

After the last update, the preview animations (which are fantastic BTW) initially show up large, then reduce in size and start playing. I like to rapidly go through the alerts by looking at the previews and this size change makes it a harder to do that. Is this something that was introduced on...

FYI I use an Ubuntu server and have two cameras writing to SMB shares that are just folders on a single disk. I created a SMB user for each camera and gave that user write permissions to the folder. Then I added a disk quota to the folder for whatever size I wanted to limit the camera to. Then...

Mine works fine running Ubuntu 14.04. Here's what I did: Setup directories, user account, and quota. I used 30 GB which needs to be converted to blocks to enter in the edquota command: python -c "print 30*1024**2" adduser seccam01 mkdir /media/disk2/cams mkdir /media/disk2/cams/cam01 chown...

No idea. I just bought my first camera a month ago so I don't have much history. You can use NFS as well but I prefer SMB because it has user and password authentication and NFS does not. I'm not sure if there are any size limitations w/ NFS since I haven't tried it. There are a few...

Yes, but there is a limit to the size (bug in the hikvision firmware). The SMB share must be less than ~250 MB (or maybe 300? I forget) or it won't work. On my linux box, I created a user for each camera and set the diskquota for that user to be the size I would allow and it works fine. I had...

Thanks. I was able to get smaller resolution videos to play find on Ubuntu but for some reason vlc dies on the full 3 MP videos. I haven't had time to go back and see if it's resolution, bit rate, or what yet. So it's not really a codec problem at all - just something wrong w/ the...

I just checked my two cameras (DS-2CD2432F-IW and DS-2CD2132F-IS) connected to my Ubuntu server via CFS. The 2132 is doing line crossing detection on the camera and the 2432 is doing PIR detection on the camera. They're both hovering around ~0.5kB/sec traffic when no motion is found and spike...

It would be a great help to the community if you would open source your solutions. These problems are only going to continue and people need help with them. Since you've clearly done some great work in this area and helped a lot of people, it's important that this knowledge isn't lost.

I doubt there is anything already built that will do that. However, many camera support the ONVIF standard camera interface which I think can be used to do all of that. I've never actually done that but it shouldn't be too hard to script up a set of move commands and snapshots to do what you...

You know - I just went outside and looked at my camera and the alarm indicator on mine (5.2.5 hacked Chinese firmware) is always red too. I used the audio alarm feature to make sure the PIR was working and that only came on when there was actual motion and my recordings show that as well.

Try going to the configuration section Basic Event->Exception and click each item in the drop down menu. Uncheck all the boxes for each item, hit save, and then go to the next drop down item and repeat. My alarm kept going off because one of those was set so that might be your problem as well.

That's what I figured. I checked all the other alarm conditions and they're all off so it has to be the PIR. I guess I'll try some pieces of electrical tape and see if I can't mask that one area off.

I just finished installing a DS-2CD2432F-IW above my front door. I went w/ this cam even though it's an indoor model because the location is completely sheltered and I wanted to use the PIR motion detector instead of using image detection (too many false alarms) or buying an external PIR. The...

FYI - I did get two different firmwares from the seller - both were 5.2.5 and labelled for use w/ cameras from different build dates. Both files updated successfully using tftp to my camera but neither fixed the problem. I'm guessing this is going to be a return or I'm just going to deal with...

More detail on my problem: If I reset the camera and clear all cookies, the menus will show up in English but day of week is still in Chinese. Looking at the cookies set by the camera, the language cookie is "en". If I close my browser and re-open it, everything is in Chinese with no other...

Will do. Hopefully the turn around on messages is a faster tomorrow when the normal work week starts in China. They said their engineers would work with me so I'm hoping they'll just send me the firmware to use.

More specifically: rtsp://IP:554//Streaming/Channels/1 for the main stream or /2 for the sub stream. There are really 2 separate issues that I need to resolve: streaming and playing saved videos. Streaming of the substream works on windows, linux, and android with vlc with mpeg or mp4 codec...

I know. At least in my case, this is the way they came from the seller. I'm guessing it was a bad firmware-hack on their end. I'm in communication w/ my seller and hope to get whatever firmware they think should be on the camera sent to me but the US->China time difference is making it slow...

I just received a new DS-2CD2432F advertised as a multi-language 5.2.5 firmware. When I connected to it the first time, I had cookies disabled and got a message saying that and I swear the menus were in English. When I turned cookies on and reconnected, everything is in Chinese with no option...

I've purchased a few Hikvision cameras now and there are things that I really like about them (build quality, picture quality, firmware features like NFS and CIFS sharing, and especially price) but now I'm running into a few things that I really hate about them. I can sort of ignore the...

Same here - though mine says 5.2.8 on the box and is 5.2.3 in actuality. My guess is that's because 5.2.8 is the actual Chinese firmware what would have been installed but the dealer hacked a 5.2.3 version to be multi-language and installed that instead.

Thanks for this. I just did this on my Linux server and it worked perfectly. This is a lot nicer than partitioning since it will be much easier to change the storage size for each camera by adjusting the quota and re-initializing the camera.

Check here: Hikvision CGI URL API Commands There might be an http command you can send to trigger that but I'm not sure. If there is a way to do it, it should be in that document.