Sweet! LTS is releasing an ONVIF compatible doorbell with SD card slot and 940nm IR

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This morning I am not receiving button press 8-(
I tried HikConnect, LTSConnect, and RCA Connect apps...
My unit is LTS with the latest firmware from Nelly's...
I deleted the unit from each of the apps and re-added to each app as I tried each one...
I power cycled my phone and tried each app again. I did not power cycle the doorbell but probably should have...
Viewing and motion works perfectly but no button press...
Anyone else having this issue ??
I am having a similar issue. I have used the Hik-Connect and the Uniden apps. It seems to work pretty consistently on my Android. With IOS I find it unreliable. I can only get the ring when i have the app active (i.e. open and viewing it on the phone).

@wbe What OS are you using? I also noticed that if I was running apps on two devices that typically only the Android one would ring.
 

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I have the only access and it is on my android ver. 7, Samsung S6,

Earlier UPS came to the door, I was away from the house across town. I got the motion as he walked up the sidewalk. I did the playback and could see/hear him press the button. I did not get the button press notification.

I will reboot the doorbell when I get home and see if that helps. If it does, I may initiate a reboot every night at midnight just to see how that goes...
 

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Thanks for the Nelly's link, I'll look through when I get home.

At one point this morning, I had the app open, viewing my hand as I press the button. I tried it with the app minimized, completely off, on in the connect screen....

Last thing I did last night, after it worked yesterday afternoon, I added a bunch of cameras through manual ip add... I didn't try the doorbell after that until this morning but can't imagine that being an issue...
 
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@theredmoose

I got home, pushed the button on the way in with no result, fired up the laptop, swished a shot of Dobel tequila (got to have Dobel while working on the doorbell), went into the webui and hit reboot... Did a couple things come back, hit the dobel doorbell, and it worked...

dobel dobel, it works :cool:

going to power the transformer through one of those digital timers so that it is on 23.75 hrs and off for .25 hr (whatever the minimum off time) and see what happens...
 

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Any cheap places to purchase this from which will deliver to Uk?
 

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I haven't installed a timer yet, but I am checking my button press a couple times each day...
This evening it did not notify my phone. I reboot through the webui, pressed the button again and it notified my phone...
I think for the next occasion, I am going to flip the breaker off for a couple of minutes, and then turn it back on to simulate what the timer will do...
For a couple of days, I may turn the breaker off once a day for a couple of minutes just to see what happens...
Try something similar and let me know if it helps...
 
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Hi, I'm new to the forum. I just bought the LTS branded doorbell and have 12 FPS set in the configuration. I'm curious what FPS those who are using BI are seeing. I've been playing around with the RTSP streams from VLC and iSpy. VLC is seeing ~10 FPS and in the latter is averaging ~5 FPS. Can someone please post the frame rates you are seeing in BI and the URI you used? I found some posts describing the BI configuration, but the resulting FPS doesn't seem to be mentioned.

Similar FPS results obtained from:
MAIN STREAM (full quality) rtsp://ip_addr/mpeg4/ch01/main/av_stream
SUB STREAM (app, low quality) rtsp://ip_addr/mpeg4/ch01/sub/av_stream
rtsp://ip_addr:554/Streaming/Channels/101
 

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Sorry guys I was after the doorbell seems like no one in UK is selling the rebranded ones
 

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I was looking through older posts in this thread and did not really see a good answer to this so I thought I'd chime in here.

This is what I am using and it works very well. I use this connected to a spare wired zone on my DSC panel and programmed the zone as a 24H Non-alarm zone (for home automation). ELK-930.
ELK-930 Doorbell and Telephone Ring Detector
Can you please explain/show how you wired up the ELK-930? I've been trying to get a reliable notification to my zwave setup for weeks and haven't had any luck. I've tried the ELK-390, the RIBU1C, with and without a resistor, in series, in parallel, with and without the mechanical chime, etc.

The best working version I had was this one:

With F being the Doorbell, RTF being the Chime, RIBU1C (relay) W/Y being Common Coil, W/Blu Being 10-30 Vac Coil, Y and O being Common and N/O end of the relay going to a zwave door sensor. This method mostly works, but the light on the relay sort of surges and eventually stops responding to button presses. Can you or anyone help me figure out how to get this working reliably?
 

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@Ibu How do you check the frame rate (FPS) ??

I have my LTS doorbell recording off-site to my Hikvision NVR. I cut a section out of the playback and played it in 3 different versions of VLC checking codec.... This screen shot is from version 2.0.8, was similar to what I saw from 2.0.0 and 3.0.4...

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is this something I can't do in win7 ie11 ??
You can download one of the curl standalone binaries if your platform doesn't have it from curl - Download (Windows 32/64 bit binaries are at the bottom of the page, if want a standalone version try curl for Windows). On Win7, I suggest using "Task Scheduler" to create a daily task at a specified time which invokes the command.

On the FPS, I was able to obtain 12 FPS in VLC and iSpy by tuning wifi channels in my environment and adjusting "Max CPU Target" for iSpy. Newer versions of VLC have dropped the FPS display, so you'd have to manually calculate from the "Statistics" tab or use another tool (like ffprobe)

$ ffprobe -i rtsp://admin:password@ip_addr/mpeg4/ch01/main/av_stream
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main), yuv420p, 1920x1080, 12 fps, 12 tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_mulaw, 8000 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 64 kb/s

I am still curious if the camera is stable at 12 FPS for Blue Iris users.
 

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At this point I'm not convinced the issue is keeping the camera active... I currently believe it is an issue with waking up my phone... Or a combination of both 8-(

There has been an occasion that my phone was open and viewing the app and the notification did not come through. I soft reboot the doorbell, press the button and it would come through.

Also, there has been an occasion that my phone was locked and when I unlock my phone, the notification come through...

This is starting to become frustrating...
 

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Any idea if there is a way to disable the "ding dong" upon cold boot? We had some bad storms last night and I had to put some cardboard on the chime to stop it from waking me up. The rest of my camera setup runs on POE and has UPS.
 

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Anyone have this working 100% with Blue iris? I got Video and listen only audio working. Still working on blue iris to speaker to the person outside. Also want to know if there is a external flag that can trigger an alert when someone presses the doorbell button? I am on the latest firmware from nellyssecurity guide.
 

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Just want to share, maybe it helps someone else. I have the LaView version of the camera, flashed with Hikvision version of the firmware. Sometimes my camera would go offline and only a reset or re-enroll would get it online. Today I decided to log on to Hik-connect.com and check out the settings. There is an option to manually map the ports instead of uPnP. The rest of my cameras do not have access to the internet, I have blocked them at the firewall. Since this camera relies on the internet connection to notify via their app and to get the call.

What I did was:

1. DHCP static mapping for the doorbell camera.
2. NAT rule on my firewall to map the "Server Port" and "HTTP" port
3. On Hik-connect.com change from uPnP Mode to "Manual"

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The camera showed up online right away, hopefully this keeps it from going "offline".
 

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Can you please explain/show how you wired up the ELK-930? I've been trying to get a reliable notification to my zwave setup for weeks and haven't had any luck. I've tried the ELK-390, the RIBU1C, with and without a resistor, in series, in parallel, with and without the mechanical chime, etc.

The best working version I had was this one:

With F being the Doorbell, RTF being the Chime, RIBU1C (relay) W/Y being Common Coil, W/Blu Being 10-30 Vac Coil, Y and O being Common and N/O end of the relay going to a zwave door sensor. This method mostly works, but the light on the relay sort of surges and eventually stops responding to button presses. Can you or anyone help me figure out how to get this working reliably?
Here is my approach. Note that I had the Elk in the circuit IN SERIES prior to the adding the camera. This was just fine because the only loop current was for the backlight on the doorbell button. Only when the button is pressed would the full current of the doorbell chime coil be present on the loop.

This camera gets pretty hot. I was not comfortable using the Elk in the series circuit with a camera load of a few amps. Also my wiring between the alarm panel to the doorbell area was StationZ-22ga, not 18ga. I could have used 2 conductors for each leg but the panel is quite far from the doorbell so there would be a substantial voltage drop on the run.

The timer alone might work but a resistor and diode should be added to the circuit as the timer relay is a 12VDC unit. I would wire the timer relay trigger across the chime so that the only time the relay is energized is when the button is pressed. The chimes coil behaves as very low value resistor until the cameras load is shorted out by the button.

So the way I rewired the Elk-930 was to use it in parallel instead of in series. Note that the timer is a pretty common cheap 12VDC timer with an adjustable timing and Form C relay, something similar should be available on sites like Amazon, Ebay or Ali.

On my diagram note that the Red/Black wiring is internal to the alarm panel. The Elk930 provides isolation from the 24VAC line. This can be wired for single, double or no end of line resistors on the alarm zone.DB-1 + ELK-930.png
 
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Mine has been running pretty steady since I installed it at least 6 months ago (might have been longer, I can't remember). However, I don't have it connected to the Hikvision cloud and only use it with the BI notifications. I can stream it with the BI app fine. Because of its placement on my walkway, I have been using an overview camera to set the triggers for the camera. It also stays in color mode all night because of my porch lights. If the lights go off, it doesn't get a clear picture at all.
I guess my conclusion is that as a cam that is low enough to get some faces, and be powered by my doorbell transformer, it does the trick. I'm glad that my setup allows me to not rely on the Hikvision cloud, as that seems to introduce a few headaches.
have you been able to get 2-way audio working?
 
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