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For years, I ran a hodgepodge of 14 mixed brand ONVIF cams on an Amcrest NV4116 with the only Dahua firmware version that preserved motion detection on all the cams. Several months ago, I swapped it out for an Amcrest NV5232 and updated that with again… the only Dahua firmware version that...

Tonight my usually bulletproof FiOS service was interrupted when a firmware update was pushed to my router. After twice restarting the router, I finally had to power cycle the ONT to restore internet access after the event. That aside, I noticed something I can't reconcile. Both times that...

When I bought my Dahua oem'd Amcrest-branded 4-series NVR, the specs said the largest single drive it could support was 6TB. Recently, Dahua updated the spec for the old model NVR4116-HS on which my NV4116-HS is based, to specify that it supports 10TB drives. Tonight, I installed a single...

Just discovered that there's a DMSS Alexa skill. I have DMSS installed on my iPhone and two compatible Alexa devices (an Echo Show and a Firestick 4K), so I'd like to try it. Every time I try to enable the skill, I'm asked to provide my DMSS login, and then I'm told the login ID and password...

After many frustrations with my AD110, which only works with Alexa show & firestick in the hours following a restart, but otherwise works OK... I tried a $49 2k wired doorbell cam from Amazon which promised to check all the boxes. There are three such doorbell cams there currently. By all...

I use a Dahua 4116 4k NVR to record multiple cams continuously, with motion enabled. Playing back multiple NVR recorded streams simultaneously and in sync works beautifully via Smart PSS on my desktop. (Smart PSS is playing from the NVR, there are no local recordings or PC-NVR in use.) Each...

Anyone have any experience with the Hikvision DS-HD1 doorbell cam? I'm tempted to try one and tired of fighting with my AD110 which only works with Alexa immediately following a restart. It seems feature-for-feature compatible and ups the ante with 5ghz wifi. My main asks are: powers from...

The screen shot above reflects 13 POE cams (12 H.265, 1 H.264) pushing 682MP/s. I can get that down to 500MP/s by reducing resolution and framerate on 3 cams. All the "optimizing BI" steps have been employed (direct to disk, Intel+VPP decoding, etc.). I'm relying on the cams for motion...

Trying out BI for the first time... My Amcrest cams’ two way audio feature has only ever worked for me in any application when the app is connected directly to the cam. Going through my NVR allows me to listen only. I was hoping BI would be more successful at passing the audio from my mic to...

Dahua/Amcrest NV4116-HS issue... With the 2020 NVR firmwares, I find that the names given to my ONVIF cameras all revert back to the value of "IPC" after any single camera has been momentarily offline due to rebooting, or any time a camera is added or subtracted. The channel names within the...