Recent content by Wilbur

I upgraded to 4.7.12 from Hikvision's appstore and downgraded to 4.5.0 but the problem persisted. Had no choice but to use fixed ip addresses for DVR and Cameras.

Just an idea because I dabble with Raspberry Pis myself. Is the camera recording to the pi or an internal SD card, perhaps redundant record to the pi? The size of the redundant record area can be much smaller than any SD card in the camera. If the recordings are on the pi could you script it to...

Hi, I have had a Hikvision 7208HQHI dvr for over 4 years. I have 6 old analog cameras and 2 ip cameras attached. I have been using iVMS-4500 on an even older iPhone4s to access it. It has always worked fine for live view but it fails when trying Remote Playback recordings with the classic...

A few years ago I replaced an old PC based CCTV for a DVR (Not BI on the PC). The reason was nothing to do with specs, features or BI vs some other solution. The DVR simply records 9 channel 24x7 for a month and is enough to for me. No motion detection, no ANPR, no line crossing, etc required...

I use VLC (3.0.9.2) on Lububtu to look at cams (direct IP to cam or via a DVR) real time but only for a minute or two at a time and VLC quite often has problem but my PCs are quite old and slow by modern standards. Sometimes VLC fails to close properly and I have to kill -9 the task. Your best...

Its a while since I switched from using Samba to NFS. Samba is designed to allow sharing Linux volumes with Windows systems. If you use Samba I think you also have to set up Quotas for each user. It gets messy. Just set up an NFS share and give the ip address of the camera access. My Hikvision...

It is good to see Hikvision making it easier for users to do their own thing. I will stick with my old camera for now but if I get another I'll certain make use of the information provided so thank you. When you say your new camera exports over NFS are you saying the camera is recording to an...

Hi, I am looking for beta testers for a Perl program (jpegs_from_hic_pic.pl). It extracts images from a hikvision IP camera stored on a NAS. It allows selection of images created in the last n days, hours or minutes. The primary purpose is to create an archive where the file structure is...

Yes. I have the same model. I originally set up to use samba shares on different PCs. Now the main recording goes straight to a DVR and my NAS is a redundatant copy. I use NFS on the NAS for the copy. The redundant drive NFS copy does not have to be the same capacity as the primary copy (a 6TB...

The .PIC files each contain multiple jpeg images. The file simply needs to be broken down into seperate jpeg images. Each image starts on a 256 byte boundary. This perl program will split the file for you. I can remenber where I got thse original code but thank you to the author! I made some...

I have written a bash script for my Ubuntu computers that runs vlc to look directly at my IP Camera (DS-2CD2342WD-I) OR one off 6 analogue cameras connected to a Hikvison DVR (DS-7208HQHI). I can also access my IP Camera via the DVR and the DVRs channel 0. Both streams are accessible. It is just...

Hi Alistair, They were interesting reading but unfortunately I cannot see anything in these utilities or programs that helps to identify the source camera. Thank you, Wilbur.

Thanks, I can just about read C but that will certainly help.

Hi, I am using an 8 channel Hikvision DVR with internal HDD plus a small NFS dive on a synology NAS as a redundant drive. I run a script on the NAS that copies modified hivnnnnn.mp4 files to another partition on the NAS as my own backups using path/filename=year/month/hour/...