But I also want to have remote access to monitoring and IVS event alerts pushed to ios devices away from the house.
If you're wanting to use IVS (or motion recording), you might want to check the tail end of this thread:
Dahua NVR5216-4KS2 / NVR5216-16P-4KS2
Some of us are having an issue where if a camera triggers IVS (or motion detect), the result when you to go view back the video is that it's glitchy and usually skips over 1-3 seconds (no matter if you're watching it directly on the NVR, or from one of the remote
tools like SmartPSS or iDMSS).
nayr explained it as when IVS/motion is triggered on the camera, it causes the NVR to start recording to a new file. The specific way this NVR currently does this results in a skipped video (during playback) at the beginning and end of the clip. This doesn't happen for everyone, but there are a handful of folks seeing this.
@nayr has a workaround for exporting the video that seems to work for him (where all of the video is viewable, no skipping), but that workaround didn't help on my system.
@EMPIRETECANDY has been helping with this, but he's been traveling for a bit, so waiting to resume that with him. Hoping a new firmware can fix this issue.
@nayr, did your previous Dahua NVR act the same way?