Recent content by Jim W

OK I'll have a look at the NVR later but in the meantime I found a HIK camera and plugged it into the network without adding it to the NVR ,typed in the Gmail settings that work on both Tenvis cameras and it says "cannot connect to server" Not sure these ports are relevant ? HTTP...

I need to take one of the HIK cameras off the NVR and try it direct with Gmail in case the NVR is causing problems maybe there is some port settings that need a change. I think my hosting company have screwed things up as they were taken over recently and everything worked fine before. This...

Just bought a cheap Tenvis IP camera and tested the email sending with a Gmail account and it works fine once I turned off the "less secure apps" settings in Gmail account. Put the exact same settings in the HIK camera and it won't connect to the test server so this is a HIK issue. I tried the...

It's the email sever on my website which is an SMTP server I believe. Thunderbird email client connects just fine which is doing pretty much the same thing as a camera

OK so everything was working fine and all the HIK cameras were sending email pictures. Then I got an HIK NVR which works fine but shortly after my site host was taken over and upgraded the servers and now email does not work and I tried every combination of ports usernames and server name etc...

I personally don't like domes much due to poor night vision and I have the ones with a foam lens gasket

Looking at ways to safely log in to my router and change settings like tempory activated port forwarding and found this way of connecting with built in HTTPS.I have static IP How to enable HTTPS and create a certification by using ASUS Let’s Encrypt? | Official Support | ASUS Global

So I bought a used ASUS router and set it up and apart from the ability to have openVPN it's no better than the Linksys 320N. Wireless signal seems slightly better but keeps dropping out and I can't get the USB drive to set up with the camera NAS. Linksys sets up easy and allows you to partition...

I bought a used ASUS router Is there a way to only allow access to the cameras or router from a specific device using the MAC address ?

Apparently Merlin won't work with any DSL router

I gotta avoid extra complications around here but I watched the video along with lots of other tutorial youtube vids. I'll upgrade my main house router to the Asus and add a large capacity USB harddrive too it. The feature I like about the Hikvision cameras is the ability to record/retain a few...

I looked at the ASUS router which seems the only one that you can run the OpenVPN software others require 3rd party firmware which I can't be bothered with.My main router acts as the DHCP server all the others are set to bridge mode and once in bridgemode lot's of featues are unavailable so I...

It's an older Linksys which I'm thinking about changing to a better one which works with OpenVPN but not sure whether they work with phone line DSL

Yes I figured the port forwarding was an issue but is there any other way to view the cameras whilst away ? I looked into the VPN thing but not got my head around it yet

I have a about 9 cameras covering several buildings and due to the distances involved about 200 metres from the main internet router I have about 8 Linksys WAG320N set to bridge mode. These routers act as wireless access points and have a USB port that you plug in a hard drive for recording...