Advice for replacing Foscam NVR

clover5

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I managed to brick my Foscam NVR by doing a firmware update, it stays at "Loading..." forever. The useless support just says I need to buy a new one since my is out of warranty, no options to debug or to try to fix just told to replace. After that experience I am not going to buy another Foscam NVR. I'd like to not replace all the cameras (FI9800XE) and I see that the Amcrest NV4108E-HS supports many camera types and hope that it is compatible with the 8 POE FI9800XE. The support at Foscam first said it supported ONVIF and would be compatible then said I needed to buy another Foscam NVR. A bit confused...
 

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If the FI9800XE are truly ONVIF compliant then a Dahua or Hikvision NVR would be the way to go as you are future proofing for when those cameras go bang and you need to replace those :winktongue:
 

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How are the cloud and mobile apps for the Hikvision? That's part of why I was looking at Amcrest because their apps seem to get ok reviews, am also hoping for decent support.
 

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They are ok, Nothing amazing but do the job.. The best app I've used is the Blueiris mobile app... That only works if you have a Blueiris VMS, basically it's a PC software based equivalent of a NVR just 100% better.
 

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How are the cloud and mobile apps for the Hikvision? That's part of why I was looking at Amcrest because their apps seem to get ok reviews, am also hoping for decent support.
Amcrest just uses a rebranded DMSS app from Dahua. I use a dahua nvr with dmss and a vpn and works really well. They made the pro version free for android.
 

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I managed to brick my Foscam NVR by doing a firmware update, it stays at "Loading..." forever. The useless support just says I need to buy a new one since my is out of warranty, no options to debug or to try to fix just told to replace. After that experience I am not going to buy another Foscam NVR. I'd like to not replace all the cameras (FI9800XE) and I see that the Amcrest NV4108E-HS supports many camera types and hope that it is compatible with the 8 POE FI9800XE. The support at Foscam first said it supported ONVIF and would be compatible then said I needed to buy another Foscam NVR. A bit confused...
Hi @clover5

Perhaps a PC based VMS like Blue Iris and a PoE switch would be a good option at this point.
 
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