Recent content by Tolting Colt Acres

Curious if the newer Hikvision models are still using webcomponents.exe active/x controls. With Windows deprecation of Internet Explorer, I'm considering upgrading all my cameras (2CD2385G1's) to something newer that uses newer technology in the browser interface. However, there's no...

Invest in a Raspberry PI (even an older one is ok) and run your own internal SMTP mail server. Then you can configure postfix or sendmail to be compliant outbound with google's needs. Have all your cameras send alerts to your pi, and have the pi forward them to gmail.

I find the pdfs are less frequently up-to-date than the firmware.

http://ftp.hikvision.ru/01.%20Firmware/01.%20Hikvision/01.%20IP%20Camera/ Is where I always find the latest version of firmware for my cameras. It is always wise to keep cameras up to date with the latest firmware to patch any security vulnerabilities which may have been uncovered.

http://ftp.hikvision.ru/01.%20Firmware/01.%20Hikvision/01.%20IP%20Camera/01.%202%20series%20-%202XXX/G1%20platform%20%282XX5%202XX3%202XX7G1%29/IPC_G1_EN_STD_5.6.6_210827.zip The Russia Hikvision FTP site seems to be ahead of the times when it comes to firmware releases. On many occasions over...

The output from my cameras has been used in several court cases, including criminal cases. An accurate timestamp is essential. Originally when they were configured, I wasn't using an internal ntp server, they were just set to resolve against the public ntp pool. It was only after setting up...

Well, the reason for hammering DNS is the damn cameras make an NTP request every 10 seconds... so if you use dns resolution, you're going to not only get a dns request every 10 seconds but a ntp request every 10 seconds.... Oct 12 14:43:01 gateway kernel: NTP:IN=enp2s0 OUT=...

did that too. At the moment I'm logging NTP requests via iptables to see exactly how much NTP traffic I'm getting. For folks who have NTP set up on their cameras, they may likewise be slamming their DNS server with requests and simply not know it.

yeah... already did that. Reconfigured chronyd on my linux router to act as an ntp server. added a CNAME entry to my internal dns server to point ntp.toltingcolt.local to my router (gateway.toltingcolt.local) @ 192.168.254.254. the cameras still spam the hell out of the dns server trying to...

I recently set up PiHole on my network. Reviewing the logs, I noticed my cameras, which were configured to use ntp (pool.ntp.org) were spamming the dns server every few seconds. going to one of the cameras, I pull up the Time Settings page and verified my settings: I had set this up years ago...

Hikvision's web sites are like that. For the life of me I can't figure out why their web presence is so disorganized. It seems every "region" has a separate web site, rather than 1 centralized website with language-specific pages. For example, if I go look for firmware for my DS-2CD2385G1-I, I...

Given Microsoft has indicated they intend to remove IE from Windows distributions at some point in the future, I would hope Hikvision would get their thumb out of their ass and make their software work 100% unhindered in modern browsers.

depends on your requirements. are you going to use the higher optical zoom due to placement of the camera? If you're not likely to get anything out of the higher zoom (and reduced field of vision) then IMO the larger sensor is better as you will get better night images. i've never been able to...

I pretty much tried every combination of everything over the course of several months. I got excellent nighttime pictures of cars... just the license plates were one large rectangular block of bright white.

My 2385's completely wash out license plates at night. I get one large white block where the license plate is.