Recent content by Tim Veer

Spookiepower, I spoke too soon. After spending the night installing, uninstalling, restarting, trying different versions, etc, etc, I can without doubt state that HIKvision's iVMS software is a clusterf@ck! HIK does nothing to support it's products. The site offers "New" downloads that are...

Spookiepower, I have 2 bald spots on my head from pulling my hair all day. I had Wireshark and WinPcap installed and, just like you this USED to work. Tonight I installed the updated version and it failed, every other reinstall of older versions failed as well. Digging into it, I found that...

Hey Alastair, Thanks for the help, cam is back up and alive. It seems there was some issue in the pigtail where the ethernet & 12v come together. When the cable transitioned from solid core to stranded, I think there was a break that was joining/separating when the camera was moved. The break...

Hey Alastair, Thanks for the info. I *sheepishly grinning* did not disconnect the molex when I was testing it, but seeing as two of the cables failed to continuity test anyhow, it must be an issue somewhere in the cable. Let's hope it was just a screw up and the RJ45 end. Once I get it done...

Here is an image representing how the wires are connected from the Hik camera's pigtail and the molex plug inside the camera. Dropbox - Hik plug.jpg (I couldn't figure out how to upload an image, so here's a link to dropbox) Hope this helps. Cheers Note: wire colors on the image mean nothing...

Thanks Alastair, My cables are always done to the T568B standard. I was actually trying to find out on the Hik camera which pin on the RJ45 plug was wired to which pin on the molex. It seems odd that the blue & blue-white are power lines, but the blue-white doesn't connect to anything. In fact...

Hey Alastair, Thanks for tge input. The CAT5 cables are good, i always crimp & test my own. The cables work fine on the other dome & bullets, it's just this one. My earlier message didn't format like I hoped, but the connected wires from the RJ45 plug to the molex seemed strange. I wondered...

Hello all, Having some trouble with a DS-2CD3335-i Dome camera (this is a Chinese version) Initially the camera worked when testing and once the 100' of cable was run, camera connected and plugged in - nothing! Actually the Cisco Catalyst PoE switch locked it down and disabled the port. Next...

**EDIT** The rest of the post might be interesting for those interested, but.... Anyhow, figuring I had nothing else to lose, I opened the camera. The **bleeping** ribbon cable had come unseated! How?? No idea, but I plugged it back in and Tada works again. So, as long as it works, the NVR sees...

Actually, I was trying on a separate network, just the camera, switch, pc and a router (to handle the DHCP IP needs) this network is connected to nothing else (intra or inter). The password was set when a friend was helping to get things setup. He setup that camera with a different password (as...

I was able to timestamp pings using hrPing and it looks like we're losing the camera for 30 - 40 seconds. Tomorrow I'll try pinging 192.0.0.64 and see what happens. Thanks

That's what I did with the IP address already, otherwise it kept incrementing every reboot. Still though it seems every reboot changes the xml expecyed response. As for the bootlop, I am wondering if that isbthe problem with the xml reset file. My seller can't get me the xml fast enough...

So, here's the report, it's just weird. More and more I am wondering if the camera is just hooped! So, I logged the pings to a notepad and them looked at them in Excel. Interesting is that the device will return 360 pings before doing one of two things. Here's a little snippet, bear in mind...

Hey, good thought on the continuous pinging, never thought of that. I'll give it a whirl tomorrow and report back. Don't you just love helpful hardware..... Cheers

Just to follow up, I did a small export.xml test and even if the camera is not reset, every time I export the xml (whether it be 5 seconds or 5 minutes apart) they are always different). So I am left wondering (and for the benefit of others in this position), does the camera issue a new xml...