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    audio-only devices?

    I would like to supplement a wired camera install managed by BI with some wireless audio-only devices. Has anyone done this and/or can recommend specific hardware that will work with BI?
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    snow, sleet, rain, and IR

    Thanks. Will search better for other resources covering this here. I'm not using AI yet, but is that also a mitigation? Seems like it would be... interested in how well it does in this use case.
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    Working phone alert example?

    I'm interested in this as well. I wouldn't call it insane to get alerts via phone calls--it is just another alerting path--particularly for users who do not have smart phones (yes, there are such people!). Not knowing much about it I would venture to guess there are at least 3 possible...
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    snow, sleet, rain, and IR

    Apologize if this has already been covered but I didn't find anything after a quick search. At night, snow, sleet, and rain combined with IR illumination can make the camera view look like the old Windows starfield screen saver (like this, but vertical...
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    hikvision proof of concept in qemu virtual machine

    I agree that for certain security related analysis (I'm specifically thinking of examining malware running on the device), running on physical hardware would be best since the malware might use detection to see if it is running in a virtual environment as an anti-analysis technique. You are...
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    hikvision proof of concept in qemu virtual machine

    Where did you get with this? Very interested…
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    IPC-T5442T not being detected in BI properly - Bad response

    Amazing, I suspect this may hold the record for quickest time to thread resolution. Very strange how it got out of sync, since I have never touched that setting. In case someone else has this issue, I will add that to reset the password, one should make sure "Modification Mode" is set to...
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    IPC-T5442T not being detected in BI properly - Bad response

    I have 7 IPC-T5442T cams purchased from Andy. All, as far as I can tell, have identical settings in the camera Web UIs. All have been added to BI. However, one of the cams is not being set up like the others. It seems as if the camera in question is returning a "Bad response" when I use...
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    3 cams have "video was being recorded" icon from over an hour ago

    Will try that. Once you mentioned that option, Iooked it up and saw the following about the option in the manual: "For when triggered, un-check this option in order to have one file recorded for each event." This actually seems desirable to me (one file/clip per event). I'm a bit surprised the...
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    3 cams have "video was being recorded" icon from over an hour ago

    The cameras are currently all configured for recording video "When Triggered". The config for each is shown below. I think I probably confused things by posting multiple times. Let me try to explain again. At 11:30, 2 cams caught vehicle (Vehicle 1) motion: "Front Yard", and "Back Door". 2...
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    3 cams have "video was being recorded" icon from over an hour ago

    Just noticed something else, which probably helps explain why I didnt see new clips for 2 of the cameras (but that is still very counter-intuitive to me). So, 2 hours prior (around 11:30) to the motion that I originally mentioned there was OTHER motion that was picked up on 2 of the cameras. If...
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    3 cams have "video was being recorded" icon from over an hour ago

    Sometime between posting the original thread and now, the gray circle icons on all 3 cameras went away. But still only one entry in the clips side-bar.
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    3 cams have "video was being recorded" icon from over an hour ago

    BI release 5.6.3.1 A vehicle drove across the field of view of 3 cams. I see 1 clip from one of the cams in the Clips side bar. Those 3 cams all have the gray circle icon on their camera title bars. The manual indicates this means: "Video was being recorded; the file is still open to receive...
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    Clarification on Windows update warning

    That is a good idea. How do you have it set up? (What software are you using to take the image, and where does it go? To a NAS?)
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    Clarification on Windows update warning

    OK, I feared that might be the case.
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    Clarification on Windows update warning

    The wiki covering some best practices for BI setup (Disable Windows 10's Automatic Driver Updates) has a warning to beware of windows updates because "there is a chance your Intel graphics driver will be uninstalled." and that would result in "hardware acceleration will be broken" The thing I...
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    multiple always-on viewing stations

    LOL, well I am glad I asked! Anyone else doing something similar please post here!
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    multiple always-on viewing stations

    I plan to have a BI host at the site of my install managing the cameras. I'd like to have multiple (2, maybe 3) different remote hosts with the web UI always on the screen. Is this possible / has anyone done this? Any issues / things to look out for in such a configuration would be appreciated.
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    video performance issues in the web UI

    Just an FYI if anyone uses this Sandbox approach, manual recordings you initiate via the camera UI are not stored locally on the camera's SD card, but they are stored on the client computer by the ActiveX plugin running in the browser. (see Manual Record not appearing in Playback) Thus, if you...
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    Manual Record not appearing in Playback

    I see what you mean now. Yes, you are correct that manual recordings appear to be saved directly to the client computer by the plugin. I wasn't seeing this as I was running IE and the camera plugin in a Windows Sandbox as discussed here: video performance issues in the web UI. When you...
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    Manual Record not appearing in Playback

    Hmm, are you sure? The reason I am skeptical is that the Playback tab has checkboxes with the heading "Record type" for the type of record you want to play back. They are; "General", "Event", "Alarm", and "Manual". All are checked. Motion and other things can trigger recording that is saved to...
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    Manual Record not appearing in Playback

    If I click the "Record" icon in the Live view, the icon turns orange. I leave it like this for 10-20 sec, then click it again, and it turns from orange to white/gray. If I then go to Playback view for the day in question, I don't see a manually recorded clip that I (think I) just made. I know...
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    video performance issues in the web UI

    I hit a snag immediately since the laptop I was originally testing on had Windows 10 Home, and Windows Sandbox requires at least Windows 10 Pro. I had another laptop with Windows 10 Pro and was able to install Windows Sandbox without issue. I started the sandbox, was able to run IE in the...
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    SSH won't accept password

    Yeah, I did get the sense that was the case (that Hikvision and Dahua don't want to/don't talk to end users). I wouldn't contact them, anyway since based on what I've seen thus far (still being very new here) one is likely to get better support on this forum. That said, I also go the sense...
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    SSH won't accept password

    Thank you for the clarification. I think most users would assume that if they turn on SSH it would be accessible to them directly, so it would probably be good to get this clarified in the docs and the UI. Of course, it would also be nice if the SSH functionality was user-accessible.
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    video performance issues in the web UI

    Yes, good suggestion. Was aware it existed but haven't had the chance to try it. This may be a good real-world use-case.
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    video performance issues in the web UI

    Yes, you are correct. It does still exist. I loaded the Camera UI in IE and was asked to download and install webplugin.exe. With the (valid) security concerns for cameras, it makes no sense to me to go through all the trouble to isolate them at the network layer with firewalls/VLANs/whatever...
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    video performance issues in the web UI

    I tried Firefox and Chrome on Windows, and Firefox on Linux. I have seen mentions of Internet Explorer here, but I maybe thought those recommendations were out-of-date.., and I am not sure IE exists anymore? I think Edge has an IE mode or something, but I've avoided it thus far since it is...
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    video performance issues in the web UI

    Just for kicks, I tried 2 other computers, including one significantly faster than the laptop. It can play modern games. Anyway, same behavior. i guess what really matters are any issues at the NVR, which is not in place yet and subject to change. We'll see...
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    video performance issues in the web UI

    Thank you for that, Appreciate the response and am happy to be here. Regarding the computer, I thought this might be the case. The laptop I am using to test is an i5-4300U (2 cores, 2.49 Ghz), 12GB RAM, built-in Intel graphics. It is probably 8 years old, so there are certainly faster machines...
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