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Hi all Just another fool here who upgraded the f/w on (what I now realise is a) grey market import camera. It was running 5.2.5 but behaved like an english camera. I used the batch upgrader to flash it with 5.3.0 from the Hikvision Europe portal. (I can never use the web UI on any of my...

Thanks @erkme73, good advice - and a very impressive system you have there! Do you use CBR or VBR? Still waiting for my next 2 cameras which will take me to 4 in total and be the point at which I can really get stuck into experimenting. They're due in a couple of days.

I do take your point, and appreciate your advice. My early priority is to establish stable operation of the core system capability. The outage, and the fact that it broke the recording, is therefore a problem - one which a UPS would have hidden from me in this case. I'll report back on progress...

Thanks very much for the input. I hope I don't regret choosing the NUC! I will try all your suggestions and report back. In the meantime, I've hit (I think) a bug... Last night I had a short power cut. The NUC and NAS are powered from a UPS, but the network switch is not. Reason being that I...

New BI user and forum member here. I worked with CCTV 15-20 years ago when everything was based on composite video. I’m back into it now and learning about IP cameras, NVRs and so forth because I want to build a reasonably powerful system with 8-9 HD (2-3Mpixel) cameras and plenty of storage. I...