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Despite the 76xx series NVRs being moved to discontinued status Hikvision has released a new firmware dated 21 Jan 2024. Find the firmware here: DS-7608NI-I2/8P No release note available however, since its only a minor point release don't expect to see any significant changes. Likely only a...

Finally, had some success. Camera Model: 2CD2386G2-LSU/LU Camera firmware: 5.5.801 Scenario: Camera connected directly to a Hikvision NVR. Virtual host enabled. Results comment: 1. The alarm server was only reachable from the camera when port was set to "80". All other port numbers failed...

I set the IP address of the server app in the alarm centre of the IP camera. That did not appear to work. I then wondered if I should try setting the IP address for the server app in the NVR instead. That also did not work. Virtual Host is enabled on the NVR. The camera is directly...

I decided to give it a try however, the app didn't appear to see the line crossing trigger events from my camera. Probably something I've missed. I opened the firewall to the app. Any reason the app might not work for a camera located behind an NVR? I have a Hikvision NVR with the...

@Mike_Du I look forward to receiving my golden ticket! If you've recently changed out your HDD and started to see this problem or maybe it' never worked, its more likely than not the HDD. Some of the new crop of SMA (Shingled Magnetic Recording) hard drives now on the market don't have...

I'm on my phone so I'll keep it brief. The HDD is not fast enough to store the vca data. I learned the hard way too that not all Hdd are equal. Replace it with one of the recommended HDD. I'll post more when I'm back on my desktop.

To access the third stream setting you need to place the VCA resources setting into “Monitoring” mode. Only then will you get access to 3rd stream In the video/audio menu.

No issues with my 2cd2387g2 from AliExpress. Firmware upgradeable. I don’t think the shenanigans with hacked firmware has been as issue for a long time.

If it looks like the lens body could be rotated and fixed in a different position, is it possible that its been installed in the wrong orientation and that there is a clearance hole in the lens base that should have lined up with the screw that appears to be fouling? I'll need to take apart my...

That image showing lens base being at an angle to the CCD bracket would definitely explain the focus shift from left to right of frame on your camera. Seeing some of these issues such as poorly focused lenses and what I can only describe as a manufacturing fault with the lens not being exactly...

That's great you managed to refocus the cam. Shame the glue didn't come away as easily as it did in my case. It really did just peel off in one continuous piece after I broke the bond with a knife. There was no grub screws installed in the lens barrel. Only the threaded holes were present...

I recently purchased a 2CD2387G2 8MP ColorVu to replace a 2386G2 monitoring the driveway and front yard of my home. After conducting some side-by-side testing with the existing 2CD2386G2 I came to the conclusion the new 2CD2387G2 was not as well focused. Images from the 2CD2387G2 were...

I think you will find that if you grab the blue time line bar with two fingers and stretch it, the time line resolution will increase from hours down to minutes and seconds as it is stretched.

Yes. connected to a 7608NI-I2/8P NVR. Never had issues with H265+. I have G1, G3 and now G5 platform 8MP cams connected to the unit and not had issues (touch wood). I deliberately stay away from H264 since it consumes too much bandwidth/storage for my liking. I will give the higher bitrate a...

I did try plain H265 and it made no difference to image quality so bumped it back to H265+ The purpose of the images was to gauge the clarity of the image against a known benchmark to see if it was as least as good, same or worse. I deliberately used the same settings in both cams to rule out...

Just to be clear,both images have been cropped from a full frame. What you see in the samples are only 5% or less of the full scene. It was intended to show the level of detail discernible of objects at a distance. Both samples were taken using the same video settings of full 4K, 15fps, h265+...

I've managed to do some side by side testing with my 2CD2386G2. Whilst the 2387G2 focus does look consistent across the entire image, the 2386G2 gives a much sharper image with more detail. See attached images which have been cropped from the full image frame and zoomed. The cams are at...

Just picked up a 2CD2387G2-LSU/LU with 4mm lens last week. Its not installed yet for lack of time but on the bench for testing. Let me know if you have any tests you want performed to compare images. A standard test image is going to give the best comparison.

From memory you may need to change the camera VCA resource setting operation to "monitoring". Once set, reboot the camera and the third stream will become available. The drawback is that you will lose some smart events since the camera's processor shifts its workload to other functions.

I watched the video but the functions he describes are pretty well the standard functions available in any G3 or G5 platform camera. The 2CD2347G2 is likely the G5 platform since they stopped making G3 platform cameras 12 months ago. If I understand correctly, the Live Guard feature needs...

Looks like there has been no further development by Hikvision. At least for the G2 series cameras. I tried the beta firmware last year but it had some issues so I reverted back to the standard firmware while I waited for a newer release which never came.

The experiment was to test how the 2CD2347G2 performed against a 2CD2335FWD-I under that same conditions. The 2CD2335FWD-I did a reasonable job under the circumstances and based on the claimed specs, the 2CD2347G2 would perform markedly better. The two cameras were tested side by side and...

Ok. I've just tested my NVR to make sure I'm not giving you bad information. Happy to confirm that it's working exactly as I described. In the Playback menu on the NVR, select "SMART" playback mode. Once the camera you want to search is selected and playing back in continuous mode the...

Definitely works with Line Crossing and Intrusion detection...I've done it myself on the NVR but I prefer to use iVMS4200 since the NVR is too difficult to access in my case. Using the same process as iVMS4200 draw over the playback footage the region of interest and it will highlight only...

I'm 90% sure when I play back directly on the NVR interface using "Smart Playback" setting only the search results are played, skipping over the continuous video where appropriate.

I think the NVR and iVMS4200 search functions have improved markedly over the last few years. The best feature, which I stumbled across by accident, is the ability to do retrospective ad-hoc smart event searches on the recorded video By drawing a line-crossing, intrusion detection or motion...

@James022 what are the chances of posting a few day / night snaps from your 2CD2387G2 and a bit of a review? You appear to be one of the few that have managed to get their hands on this new model camera. In Australia we are still waiting for Hikvision suppliers to stock this model and it's...

I recently installed a new Seagate ST4000VX013 4TB SkyHawk HDD in my 7608NI/I2-8P NVR alongside the original Seagate 2TB SV2000 drive and after recommissioning the unit found that I could no longer carry out VCA Smart Event searches using iVMS4200. When trying to retrospectively review VCA...

Try this link.... https://us.hikvision.com/en/products/video-recorders/network-video-recorder/plug-and-play-nvr/embedded-plug-play-nvr-ds-7608ni

@allypally that's what Hikvision Australia will tell their customers to avoid having to provide support for newer firmware releases. AFAIK it's not true. Except for the China region vs World Region products that were available on Aliexpress and other sites you can load firmware sourced from...