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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...

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 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...

New firmware has appeared on the Hikvision Download Portal for the G3 platform cams with revision 5.5.800_210628 This seems to go against Hikvision's advice that v5.5.160 would be the last release for G3 platform devices. link here...

I came across a security products supplier selling Hikvision systems having a link to instructions and firmware for setting up Hikvision "Live Guard" using a 2CD23xxG2 camera and 76XXNI/I2-XP NVR. The instructions seem to show additional functions in the Hi-Connect mobile app that are exposed...

I just installed my first Acusense turret camera which replaces a 2CD2385FWD-I (8MP) at the front of my property. The reason for the update from the very capable 2CD2385FWD-I was primarily for better night time vision. The 2CD2385FWD-I has a wonderful image in good light but this deteriorates...

New firmware out on the Hikvision US and RU sites and possibly others for the I-series NVR's dated 2020/04/30. Version is 4.40.010 up from 4.22.005. No release notes available at this time. Installed successfully on my 7608NI/I2-8P using the web interface. Not able to make out any notable...

Hi Guys, Need some advice on whether it may be possible to recover my Chinese region 2CD3332-i cam which become unresponsive after an attempt to apply the Brick Fix. I broke the cardinal rule when curiosity got the better of me when I decided to try converting my chinese region 3MP 2CD3332...

I want to count passing traffic on a busy road to build up some statistics on when traffic is busiest and how many vehicles use the road during each day over the course of a few weeks. I have at my disposal a Hikvision 7608NI-I2 NVR and a 2CD2385FWD-I camera. I see that IVMS4200 V3 has a...

From time to time I need to completely rebuild the motion event mask on all the IP cams connected to my Hikvision 7608NI/I2-8P NVR. The problem seem to occur if the NVR has been reboot. After startup the NVR seems to be resetting the motion detection mask back to include the full image which...

A new update for those with Hikvision 76 77 96 NI-I series NVR's I saw this originally appear as a beta on the Hikvision RU download portal some time ago at 4.20 but dissappeared shortly after and has now reappeared as a final release at version 4.21. I've updated my western region 7608NI-I/P...

EDIT: My mistake. Only shows on the G1 (5.5.61) firmware. Not the R6 (5.5.53). I loaded the latest firmware on my G1 and R6 series cams this evening. The only change I noted was the appearance of a new tab under Advanced Network Settings titled "Network Service" In the tab are two...

Hikvision have quietly introduced iVMS4200 Lite V1.0.0.4. iVMS4200 Lite is intended to be a lightweight version of its full blown iVMS4200 client software for people that don't want or need all the bells and whistles. The software has basic functionality including, Live View, Playback and...

I thought I'd share my recent experience where I had to disassemble and clean the internal face of the glass lens covers on a number of my Hikvision turret cams. I recently put a 2CD2332-I back into service after having it stored away for over a year. The first night it was running I noticed...

Version 4.1.60 is now showing up on Hikvison Europe site among others. I've previously tried this version and found that I could no longer see live view or playback of my 8MP 2CD2385FWD-I but the lower resoultion cams worked fine. Interestingly, black window when view live footage on 8MP cam...

Does anyone have a Hikvision camera working with camera side motion detection triggering recordings in Xprotect Essentials + 2018R2? I've set up the obvious. Enabled both motion Start / Stop events in the camera settings on Milestone. Then set up a RULE which starts recordings 10 Seconds...

UPDATE 1: After rebooting the Milestone Server I am now seeing the Mobile Server use the GPU for transcoding the H.264 streams with about 30% GPU usage. Still need to try switching back to H.265 streams to see if GPU/CPU loadings differ. I have recently started using Milestone's Xprotect...

Today I found that Hikvision's Europe download portal has a changed directory structure that includes a "Product Firmware 2018" with currently only a single "Front End" subdirectory. DOWNLOAD PORTAL Seems to be a couple of updated firmwares for the R6 and G1 series and maybe more. As...

I need some advice on the best PCNVR software to replace the completely out of date Hikvision PCNVR 4200. I’ve been happily using PCNVR4200 on my home server for monitoring 4 Hikvision cameras. Over time the cameras have been slowly upgraded from the original 3MP Turrets to now having a mix if...

Unless I missed an earlier post I just discovered that Hikvision has recently released firmware 5.5.0 for a number of its IPC camera including the G1 and R6 series which includes the popular 2342WD and the 2335FWD-I. It's been a long time between firmware releases for these cams so I thought I...

I've found a nasty little bug in the 5.4.4. release of the firmware related to the Scheduled Day/Night switch. On 5.3.8 I had my 2CD2342 set up so that during the day WDR was ON and Noise Reduction OFF and then at night WDR was OFF and Noise Reduction was ON. This worked well as the WDR is not...

I don't know if I'm breaking any posting rules here but I wanted to ask if anyone might have used an app posted on another well known forum that allows current weather conditions to be overlay on the real time image of a Hikvision camera? Unfortunately, the forum where the app was posted is no...

I see on Hikvision's download portal that firmware version 5.4.4 has been released as of today for the R6 series IP cameras which includes the 2CD2342. Sorry can't seem to paste the in link here. Is this finally the firmware release that fixes many of the image issues discussed in this post...