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Thank you for your reply wittaj. I have egg on my face. I bought a repeater a long while back and routed all the cameras through it and left the other wifi devices connect directly to my router. We must have had a power glitch that scrambled the repeater and I only rebooted the ISP modem and...

I have 2 different model Amcrest IP cameras. They have been working fine for a long time. Today, all of a sudden, none of them can login to the router. These cameras have worked through good and bad weather as well as hot an cold weather. I deleted one camera and tried to add it back but it is...

Thanks Jack7, Yes, I have 5 cameras, all wifi. Only 4 are for surveillance. I have pondered the idea of the hidden hard-wired NVR so that remains a strong possibility. The biggest drawback is hard work to get power and network cable to the hidden location. :secret: One of my cameras is...

I may have the wrong idea but I really don't have any video content to 'hide' so there are no privacy issues for me. I totally believe that off site (well outside of the home in my case) is the ONLY answer. If someone did "bad things" to my home, like rob it or some malicious mischief, I want...

Jack7 said: "Amcrest P2P is an easy way to set up a connection between an Amcrest camera/NVR and a remote Amcrest device. Amcrest P2P is an easy way to set up a connection between an Amcrest camera/NVR and a remote Amcrest device. The remote Amcrest P2P server used does not receive video data...

Wow, I didn't think that P2P was going through some foreign cloud, I thought it was just a network communications protocol. I doubt that Amcrest is giving me free cloud service without me even signing up for it or paying anything. As far as "reasonable idea". Since I have nothing to hide but...

I installed a camera for maintenance reasons in my crawlspace and found out I can be anywhere, even miles away and still view my crawlspace. I was impressed but confused and concerned. I thought it was only accessible from my personal wifi but I guess not. If I'm in a town 20 miles away and...

Had to give up and do the factory reset. Makes sense now as I think of it. :brainfart:

Update... I was mistaken. I still cannot access the camera from the two software programs where I changed the password manually (by typing it in) but I am still able to access it using the "SmartPSS" software which was installed and configured before the F/W update. Unfortunately I do not...

I installed the latest F/W this morning via the web interface which I accessed through the "Web" option in Amcrest Surveillance Pro software. The camera rebooted and I accessed it from the Amcrest Surveillance Pro software afterwards. I could see that the F/W was updated to the correct version...

Interesting. Are there any tricks to flashing the TM-AC1900 with the RT-AC68U firmware? I ask because some firmware updates check the model they are flashing before writing the new F/W so you don't brick the device.

Hey, where'd you get a pic of me??? Are you snooping my WiFi? :wow:

------------------------------- Looks secure to me, at least for the hardwired interface. I'll be shaping a tinfoil hat for Wifi jamming :lol: !

mat200, J Sigmo, & Southern Yankee, I guess I've been out of the field for too long. I downloaded OpenVPN installed it and immediately got lost. So, for the time being, I have uninstalled it. I looked at the sample server and client config files and they were over my head for now. I will...

------------------------------------------------------- mat200, I actually used the site that you referenced and did not see your link. I was not familiar with how the links show up at this forum and that is my only excuse, albeit a poor one. Mea Culpa. Also, thanks for the Telnet port...

Southern Yankee, & J Sigmo, I see your points. I will shut it down today. As far as the firmware, isn't this part of what the US Government is showing concern over in Huawei and other Chinese branded phones (and other communications technologies)? With all the hacking going on between the...

TonyR and mat200, Thank you both for your efforts and the two cool new (new to me anyway) networks programs FING, and NMAP! I'm done with this Chinese camera. Kudos!

Oh, OK, I'll try that on my Amcrest. Here (attached screenshot) is the output from this version of FING as run on my Amcrest. I edited out the full device name and MAC address... too much information. I think I will be uninstalling the Chinese no-name camera. Others in this forum have...

Oh, I didn't know. Perhaps if you mentioned that or provided a link I would have understood. Here (attached screenshot) is the output of the "NMAP 192.168.1.8" command after installing NMAP V7.70 (the latest stable version). I ran the command with and without the smartphone app running on...

TonyR, I installed FING but it seems like a "catch 22". First of all, there is no "Services" command. The app for the Chinese camera is sneaky, you cannot open FING while it is running. In order to do anything with the phone while running the app (IPC360) you must exit IPC360. So, you can't...

NMAP is not a recognized Win10 command. I will try to find a command to display port information.

Southern Yankee, & J Sigmo, Thank you for your input, I was getting the feeling that you spelled out clearly. For me, it was truly "security cameras 101" as J Sigmo suggested. I would never "depend" on these cameras for home security, I was just playing with it and I guess I learned a lot...

I may not be able to continue using my "no-name" Chinese camera unless I can find a work-around for a problem which just cropped up. After registering with the Chinese manufacturer everything was working fine and I wanted to just keep recording to the uSD card I put in the unit. I logged into...

Hi mat200, I'm going to need a little more guidance to get the information you require. I have been out of the field for a decade and networks were not my main specialty. I believe NMAP is a Linux command. I'm running Win10 here. I don't recall how to display TCP/IP port or service...

I just received a no-name Chinese surveillance camera as a gift. I am attaching pictures of the camera and the box it came in for reference. It "looks like" a Meisort IP20 360 but, as I said, it has no name. It looks like this (follow link)- Meisort IP20 1080P HD Wifi IP Camera wi-fi 360 Degree...

Point taken. It's a situation where the camera is needed sometimes and mostly just sits there. I use it for troubleshooting the machines in my crawlspace because I'm just too old to go down there to check on the function of things down there. I used the camera many, many times while...

OK, I found references to the WebGUI for Amcrest... I'll play with that for a while as another means to access the camera. Thanks Ssayer. How To Access Your Web UI

Ssayer and TonyR, Let me start by saying the unit is now working like when it was new. Yes, it is connected via WiFi, and it would be very difficult to get it hardwired to RJ45. As I mentioned in my previous reply, I rebooted it and it was still sluggish. Since then I found the circuit...

Well, thanks for the info. It is a bit different for me since I'm using Amcrest Surveillance Pro to control/monitor the camera so the commands are slightly different. I call the camera "Crawlspace9C". I started the Amcrest Surveillance Pro interface and selected "Device". In the device list I...

I have an Amcrest IP2M-841B installed in a tough to reach location. It was working fine and I haven't accessed it in a few weeks. Now it is VERY sluggish. It is updating but it is taking 30 seconds to a minute to complete commands and the clock is only moving sorta when it wants to. At a quick...