Recent content by Ron C

That sound like a cool couple of projects, I like doing those kind of things too. I have an RPI that turns on/off outlets and light switches. and it does that by adjusting to the times of sunset/sunrise. So I am not using these timers that constantly need to be adjusted. So the purpose of...

Ah, I have been coding in C for a long while, since school, almost 40 years. Data logging I do (I built a seismograph doing that), event tracking, motion events from cameras and IR sensors, playing with that. Besides that.. I have always been involved in computing. What do you mean by...

thanks, I have actually been ding that for a good long while. I never tried to do anything with an Arduino, Are you building a camera yourself? I tried to use a raspberry pi, it sort of worked on the rpi, but bandwidth is an issue (I think). The interface I have is web based, which is easy...

Hello, is there a forum that discusses "custom applications", and how to write code, use OnVIF soap/xml etc etc? I am writing my own application, yeah it's crazy, but just because I can. The interface is web based, but the codes running are C programs that captures images, records...

I agree. I am using Cisco 2960-s (1Gb) switches, they are PoE, and you can get them between $50-$100 for a 24 port one. they are EOL, but it's Cisco. with VLANs etc it is pretty easy to set things up that you can use the full bandwidth instead of moving everything through a little service...

Hello, I bought a few cheap/inexpensive tonton cameras to play with and they seem to be onvif compatible. What I like to do, through onvif, with XML and some code access the SD storage and the also see if I can do some motion detection. Is there a forum, or some examples, on how to do that...

btw: does it even connect to your wifi? I am using a wifi-repeater, just for the doorbell

Well, for one you can power it off, and back on again?

Hello, I am trying to put a relay into the doorbell circuit, using the hikvision (type) doorbell. I bought an Elk 930 doorbell detector and that "mostly" works. The problem is that when the doorbell is doing "other things" like connect to something, or I pull an image from it, or when it...

If I remember it correctly, it's 30 Ohms, but I think you'd need a "power resistor", although I used a regular resistor and that works. Ron

uid: admin, passwd is the verification code I believe. After you set it up with a phone, it's what you choose. You can update the firmware, by putting it on a blanl fat32 SD card, that way you don't have to mess with the uid/passwd stuff when changing frmware.

Hello, I am using ds-kb6003-wip doorbell with a Elk-930 doorbll ring detector, I use it to 'trigger' a relay so it works with an electronic chime, and also so the doorbell ring can be detected with a computer. The problem I have, it seems, that when the doorbell "does something" it trips the...

You can always power cycle it?

Make sure the SD card is formatted FAT32/MSDOS, not ntfs or some windows format, it won't recognize that. Then when you hold the reset button for 15-20 seconds, it should start installing the firmware from the card. I have 2 of these doorbells, (the 6003 though) and it worked for me.

Did anyone ever use the hikvision doorbell with an elk-930 doorbell ring detector? If so, except for the detection part, how does one use the output? connect a relay to it? (does ayone have any examples? thanks, Ron