Dahua NVR not recording Events

davw

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I have a NVR DH-NVR5208 with

IPC-HDW5231R-ZE
IPC-HDW5231R-Z

What am I doing wrong? I am not able to record on the NVR any "events". Have set up motion detect event but it does not seem to be recording these. Just the standard 24/7 recordings.
I have previously had this working fine ( when I only had one camera in operation )
Any ideas
Many thanks
 

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I've been bit by this a few times. There are several things you have to have enabled for the events to record. You need to have the event enabled in the camera. On event/video detection/motion detect, make sure that motion detection is enabled, the period is set up, and record channel checked and set for the correct channel. Then make sure recording is enabled in storage/schedule/record. If it still doesn't work, as a shot in the dark, try something that helps with IVS: Go to event/heat map, pick the correct channel, then press setup. Don't change any settings, just cancel out and see if that helped.
 

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Thanks will check that out. The NVR has no ivs but the cameras do.
 

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Also on NVR under Smart Plan make sure IVS is selected if you want IVS events. I have found the MD and IVS quirky at eims and sometime I find it best to web direct to camera to get it properly configured then make sure the Storage Schedule is set t record MD or IVS as needed. By default I have all cameras set to 7x24 General, IVS and MD whether I have MD or IVS set up.
 

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still can't get this working.
any help much appreciated.
 

davw

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Still need help with this please.
will post some screenshots

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Do you have the region defined? Als try factory reset on camera. I have 11 cameras and 2 of the, every once in a while act up where they lost their motion region and even if try to change or resale them the save fails. A factory reset fixed both and have not seen and issue in some time. I believe the current firmware is a tad buggy in the cams. I have several other cams that in beak sally the same spot the encoding glitches from time to time and another that has bad macro blocking when a car drives by only when going across screen from right to left, it is fine left to right.
 

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thank you
i do have the region defined on the nvr.
only 1 camera has a sd card in - not sure if that should make any difference.
will try the factory reset
 

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The real trick I found even if a region is defined and it is not triggering is to try and change the region and save the config, it may fail that tells me time for a factory reset. I have had it happen a few times now to a few different cams. One even within a few days of setting it up.
 
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