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I'm finding many occasions where I would like to place a camera temporarily, so I'd like to find a generic wifi camera that I can use with my existing LTS (Hikvision OEM) NVR. 1080p wide-angle would be fine, it doesn't need tons of megapixels. It should have good IR illumination built in. It...

I have 2 Huisun 10x PTZs, one V1 and one V2. They have both lasted years in Seattle weather. The only problem is that I think the long distance IR illuminator on the V2 bit the dust. They have been a lot of fun and I would like to figure out a replacement/upgrade path as I know they won't last...

I can access a video feed from my LTS NVR with VLC and this kind of URL: rtsp:/admin: PASSWORD@192.168.1.15:8554/Streaming/Channels/502 Note the last digit: 2 is the substream and 1 would be the main stream: rtsp:/admin: PASSWORD@192.168.1.15:8554/Streaming/Channels/501 Unfortunately, after...

Been having trouble viewing RTSP streams from my LTS/Hik gear and I finally figured out the key variable: video resolution. I can view the sub-stream as configured below; if I increase the resolution to the next option up, 640x360, VLC connects but gives me a black screen. The main stream...

This is the format of an RTSP URL for my NVR: rtsp:/admin:*******@192.168.1.15:8554/Streaming/Channels/50x ... where x is 1 or 2 for main or sub stream. (LTS uses 8554 as the RTSP port on the NVRs.) 502 works fine but obviously I would like higher quality. When I try 501, I get a black...

I'm looking for ideas on a PTZ camera for indoor use. It's about 20 feet from the camera's ceiling location to a cluster of kennels on the wall of the clinic, and the desired use is to peek at each kennel to see how the patient is doing. People will use the camera 24/7 so it probably needs...

I need a cheap, portable camera for monitoring various things around the house on a temporary basis. Since I have a Hik/LTS NVR, naturally I would like it to handle the camera so I don't have to use some proprietary app. It would be ideal if the camera can focus on objects that are just a few...

I have the LTS LTN8916 NVR, and finally figured out how to pull still images off the connected cameras. The manual shows this format: However, that's for direct IP access, and my cameras are behind the NVR, and on a different subnet. They can supposedly be directly reached with the "virtual...

I live in the suburbs near Seattle. We have lots of critters, but even my neighbors who have been here for 30 years never saw a bear... Until today, when one showed up and pillaged my bird feeders! It spent about 10 minutes wrecking the feeders and having a snack, then waddled off. I got the...

I'm hoping to find a camera with these features, so that I can easily monitor things like a fish tank, or my laser cutter, or what's on a gadget screen somewhere. Wifi Onvif compatible so I can use it with my LTS NVR Can focus as close as a few inches FOV: anything wide-ish Inexpensive! This...

I have put in my IP, login, etc but TinyCam won't log in and retrieve a list of cameras on the NVR. This is all on the LAN btw, and the LTS app works fine. My NVR is the LTN8916-P16. Maybe it's just not supported? I can't get RTSP streams to work either. My NVR presents the cameras to the...

I have an old Nexus 7 that I want to dedicate to showing a camera view. My cameras are LTS/Hikvision. I've installed the official LTS Android app, but it has a problem... the video feed lags behind realtime. After running overnight, the camera view is behind realtime by a couple of minutes...

I have an old iPad that I want to dedicate to showing a camera view. My cameras are LTS/Hikvision. I've installed an old version of the official Hikvision app, but it has two problems. One, it won't show a high def stream without the screen turning green or a low memory warning. The iPad is...

Yesterday I learned that my bird feeder was also feeding the neighborhood Cooper's Hawk. I saw him pluck a dark-eyed junco out of the air right in front of my window, all the way under my patio cover! I checked the cameras and saw that he had been chasing that little bird for a minute. The...

I have an LTS 4MP camera at my front door set up to do line-crossing alarms, including emailing pictures. This is done via an LTS NVR. Today I started receiving the alarm emails without a picture attachment. My other cameras with similar setups still send pictures so it isn't an email issue...

EDIT: Fixed! See below. Today I updated the firmware in my LTS/Hik NVR, after which I had connection problems with my 2 Huisin PTZs. I have a v1 and a v2. I plugged a laptop into a spare port on the back of the NVR and fired up SADP. It saw the 2 cameras, but they had an unexpected IP...

Final edit: Cameras are back up! Resolution here. Short version: Put the camera on a LAN with DHCP active to recover. A camera in DHCP mode which can't talk to a DHCP server will not do the self-test, and will remain invisible to arp, SADP and Huisun's tool. I updated my LTS NVR firmware to...

My LTS 4k NVR (LTN8916-P16) came with firmware v3.3.6 build 151026. LTS offers build 160608, but they do not make available any patch notes. I've emailed their tech support to ask for a changelist, but don't expect a reply since I've never gotten one for any other question. :) Any other LTS...

I could use a wifi camera for use in temporary locations, indoor or sheltered outdoor. 2.8 mm or 4.0 mm lens would probably be fine. I can get one from LTS but before I do, does anyone have an alternative they have been happy with?

When you go through the setup wizard in iVMS-4200, you have the opportunity to rename cameras. After you exit the wizard, I can't find a way to do that... so I have a list of cameras named "IP Camera01," etc. Those are the names used in every context in iVMS-4200. If you look in the main...

If I look in MENU>MAINTENANCE>NET DETECT>NETWORK STAT, my Hik/LTS NVR shows me about 56 Mbps incoming from the cameras... but if I add up the values seen in MENU>MAINTENANCE>SYSTEM INFO>RECORD, it seems like it should be less. So, which number should I believe? In what may be a related...

Finally got all my cameras mounted, and most of them are the LTS 4 MP turrets (CMIP3042W-28). Now it's time to monkey with all the settings. If you have the same or similar camera, what quality/bit rate/frame rate did you land on for a good quality/storage compromise?

I'm currently using a Dakota Alert PIR sensor to get a chime indoors when a car or person comes down my driveways or across the lawn in between the driveways. Unfortunately, it hasn't been very reliable. It's prone to false positives in the brighter months even though light never falls on the...

I have the LTS LTN8916-P16, and I'm wondering if anyone has set up a similar NVR for clean shutdown during a power outage--assuming you have a UPS with a contact closure signal.

With both my Huisun v1 10x PTZ and my LTS 4 MP turrets, basic motion detection seems to be overly sensitive. Even looking at a fixed indoor scene with no lighting changes, basic motion detection seems to work like this: If set to 2 or higher, it goes off constantly If set to 1 or lower, it...

I haven't been able to find any indication that the lens is replaceable by the user, but if anyone knows otherwise, they probably read this forum. http://www.ltsecurityinc.com/ip-camera/ip-dome/ip-network-turret-camera-cmip3042w-28.html

The more I dig the more confused I get about schedule setup on my Hik NVR. I set up a Motion Record schedule 24/7... no sweat. You can see that Enable is checked. When I wave at the camera, the NVR shows a red dot/running man and records a video clip that I can view in MENU>PLAYBACK>EVENT...

Since there wasn't an official thread for this unit yet I thought I'd start one. I have had one for a few days, and posted some unboxing and GUI images the other day. The unit is really nice so far, though it's my first NVR and so I don't have a point of comparison... but every time I think...

Final edit: I think this is actually a bug, or at best a poorly explained feature. By default, on first boot, the NVR will record from attached cameras, even if the master Continuous or Motion Activated record switches have not been activated... and the setup wizard lets you skip that step! If...

EDIT: Yep I am a dummy, it's because I changed the default admin password from 12345 to something more secure. I changed it back by putting a computer on the same 192.168.254.* network as the camera and logging in to the camera directly. Put it back on the NVR and everything is groovy. I'm...