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    IoS App for Ip Cameras

    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...
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    Low Cost Camera with Blue Iris for Bird Box

    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...
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    IP Camera Recommendation for UK

    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...
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    What the hell!!

    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...
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    HIKVISION DS-2CD2042WD-I 4MP Lost settings now email broken!

    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...
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    Hikvision DS-2CD2042WD-I WDR Intermittent email alerts

    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...
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    HIKVISION DS-2CD2042WD-I 4MP Cloud Storage

    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...
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    HIKVISION DS-2CD2042WD-I 4MP Sends emails with No Attachment

    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...
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