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  1. John Williamson

    HIK camera toggles between night mode and non night mode every 10 seconds

    Two things to try: In Image > Display Settings make sure you have the 'Light Brightness Control set to Auto and not Manual at 100%. TBH as it's internal, when it's dark you could just force the camera to Night from Auto, then lower the value of the IR to get a correctly exposed image (in which...
  2. John Williamson

    Hikvision camera settings

    15 metres? The standard works cherry picker only used to do about 10 or 12... Are the cameras connected to a Hikvision NVR? If so just logon to the NVR at its IP address. You then want to go into Settings, Network, Advanced, Other Settings where you can turn on Virtual Host. Once that's...
  3. John Williamson

    Pyronix enforcer alarm bell warning

    Yeah while it's in fault like that you'll only see 0. When you relearn at the panel you should see 100. Once it's back in its final position you want to leave that diagnostic running for 5 minutes and note the lowest and highest figures. On the basic display it just gives you 0, 1, 2, 3 so...
  4. John Williamson

    Pyronix enforcer alarm bell warning

    Pop the module out, delete it and relearn it at the control panel before reinstalling it. Once reinstalled run the signal strength test in diagnostics over several minutes to get the lowest reading. If you get a crap reading it might be failing. At that point Pyronix would advise to learn any...
  5. John Williamson

    Pyronix enforcer alarm bell warning

    It's the battery. I've seen this happen on a few of my sites. No low battery warning, just a poll fail or supervision fault. If you happen to Wireless Bell Supervision enabled in System Options (default is off for ungraded but on for grade 2 clean start) you'll get to a point where it cannot...
  6. John Williamson

    Britain is Lost

    I've had a brief look through some of the tweets and posts linked. Most of it is complete crap, lies and misinformation. I'm astounded that anyone believes it.
  7. John Williamson

    New 2CD2387G2-LISU/SL not auto switching to supplement light

    It's likely your cameras are staying in colour as the shutter speed is set too slow and there's sufficient light. I think (not tried) if they're in colour at night already, setting Supplement Light Mode to Smart will have no effect on the normal LED light. Set a faster exposure time in...
  8. John Williamson

    DS-2CD2387G2P-LSU/SL - Power Supply?

    LSU/SL has internal mic and speaker. As already mentioned: For main stream set to Video and Audio For sub stream set to Video and audio If using a Hikvision NVR in recording schedule click advanced and select the checkbox to record the audio
  9. John Williamson

    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    They're fine.
  10. John Williamson

    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    Network wise, no so long as you've set the IP, Gateway and DNS
  11. John Williamson

    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    You can change the default range on the VM Hubs but it's best to leave it. What you might want to do now is to change the IP address of the NVR. You don't want it changing, which it can if set to DHCP. You can either set a reservation on the VM Hub so that the NVR always gets its current...
  12. John Williamson

    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    As others have said this is simply caused by the NVR IP address being on a different subnet: Just alter the IP address of the MacBook to 192.168.1.100 temporarily plug it directly into the NVR LAN port in place of its network connection browse to 192.168.1.108, log in (I assume you'll need to...
  13. John Williamson

    Cams / NVR Arrived - Have I Made a Mistake :-/

    Only 5 days total to the UK? That's great service. I was going to order a couple of these cameras myself but have been put off by the thought of how long I'd be waiting. I'm an installer and use Hikvision but wanting to try Dahua for comparison. Although I can get Dahua from my trade...
  14. John Williamson

    Most HikVision sensors 1/3 for 4MP but the reccomendation for 4MP seems to be 1/1.8 or larger?

    L - White Light I - Infra red light S - Alarm input/output U - Microphone SL - Strobe Light Basically that's a hybrid light model with 2 way audio, speaker and strobe
  15. John Williamson

    Hikvision turret with IR

    Just check the product code. If it ends I(U) it's Infra red, L(U) is white light, LI(U) has both. The latest ColorVu models containing G2H are Hybrid light models containing both White Light and IR. The mode can be switched directly from the app between ColorVu, Infra-Red or Smart (where the...
  16. John Williamson

    Hikvision - Clearing Passwords and/or Loading Firmware via TTL Serial

    Here is the output from putty: U-Boot 2010.06-svn (Dec 28 2015 - 10:42:45)[V1.2.1] Protected at offset: 0x0, size:0x40000 Protection status:[0x22f]=>[0x22f]. Hit ctrl+u to stop autoboot: 0 This program will upgrade software. *** ATTENTION!! PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY! * Don't...
  17. John Williamson

    Hikvision - Clearing Passwords and/or Loading Firmware via TTL Serial

    I've just tried the latest V3 (3.4.109) for the model but just get the same result - frozen at 'booting the kernel'. I've installed so many Hik NVRs in the last 10 years and never had a failure (other than PSUs) so this is the first time I've had to resort to flashing the firmware this way.
  18. John Williamson

    Hikvision - Clearing Passwords and/or Loading Firmware via TTL Serial

    I've gone straight to the latest for that model which is 4.74.205_230712.dav. I can't be sure what firmware was on it previously as it's been sat unused for some time. At a guess it may have been an early V4 but could even have been back on the old V3. Is it worth trying an older version...
  19. John Williamson

    Hikvision - Clearing Passwords and/or Loading Firmware via TTL Serial

    I'm struggling to recover a DS-7608NI-K2/8P. After some initial issues being unable to get the firmware on via TFTP (I'm using a Mac with parallels), I finally managed to get the transfer to complete and got the prompt to reboot. However the recorder still does not boot. It's not pingable and...
  20. John Williamson

    Hikvision to Dahua - Equivalent Models [confused]

    Thanks @steve1225 - I'll take a look through those links. Yeah I found that surprising. The Hikvision ColorVu 4MP/8MP have 1/1.8" and 1/1.2" sensors respectively. Their G2H ColorVu hybrid share the same 1/1.8" sensor for both 4 and 8MP models. I was surprised to see that the 8MP Dahua...
  21. John Williamson

    Hikvision to Dahua - Equivalent Models [confused]

    Yeah I've been through that already and it looks as though some models discussed on this forum re not available in the UK. I'm waiting on a couple of official suppliers to approve trade accounts. I could probably do with a model number decoder document if such a thing exists. For Hik I can...
  22. John Williamson

    Hikvision to Dahua - Equivalent Models [confused]

    I've been an installer of Hikvision cameras for around 10 years now. Hikvision is far more popular than Dahua in the UK and therefore there are more approved suppliers for installers. I'm thinking of trying out Dahua models that would be considered the nearest equivalent to what I use...
  23. John Williamson

    Upgrading Hikvision NVR system help

    You're locked out of the cameras because they were using plug and play on the previous NVR and when you've replaced the NVR you've possibly used a different NVR admin or channel default password. When switching cameras or NVR I prefer to manually assign addresses to the cameras. In your case...
  24. John Williamson

    New hybrid light cam improves IR night image quality?

    My guess is that it's a current technical limitation. The Hybrid light models use a new lens design with 'super confocal' technology. The focus point for visible light and infra red light are different and the lens has been designed to counter this focus shift by reducing optical light...
  25. John Williamson

    New hybrid light cam improves IR night image quality?

    For the 4MP Hybrid light vs 4MP Colorvu, I'd choose the Hybrid light version as both 4MP versions share the 1/1.8" sensor (except if strobe light/speaker were needed as the Hybrid light model doesn't have a Live Guard variant (at least not yet in the UK) A more difficult choice for the 8MP...
  26. John Williamson

    New hybrid light cam improves IR night image quality?

    I've had one installed for a couple of months (DS-2CD2387G2H-LIU). I only became aware of the smaller sensor size (1/1.8" as opposed to 1/1.2" on the 8MP ColorVu) after I installed it. I find the image much sharper in IR mode than the camera it replaced (an old Ultra series DS-2CD5A46G0-IZHS)...
  27. John Williamson

    iVMS-4200 Playback Failed: Calling Order Error

    Try updating to the latest version of iVMS-4200 (3.10.0.6) as the release notes mention the following in the bugs fixed: "When dragging the timeline bar for playback, the playback image disappears, and the prompt pops up: Incorrect calling order"
  28. John Williamson

    benefits on DS-2CD3027G2E-LUF Ultra Series

    Yeah that's my comment. That slide comes from Hikvisions HCSA course and was out of date already when the course was presented 1 line: DS-2CD1xxxx are value series 2 line: DS2CD2xxxx are pro series 3 line: DS2CD3xxxx are ultra series (Hikvision were previously calling these 'core solutions'...
  29. John Williamson

    Automatic SCENE change

    Yeah I already had node-red set up to link my alarm system zones to my Hubitat hub using MQTT. Last night after a long time messing I found the 'Hikvision Ultimate' palette and added that to node-red. That has an xml node and once you've configured the authentication you can just paste the xml...
  30. John Williamson

    Automatic SCENE change

    Yes I've got the scene switching back and forth using postman and now have to figure out how to implement that in node-red. When I'm sending using postman, I can see (using Proxyman) that initially the camera sends a 401 connection refused, then postman is resubmitting using this setting: "By...
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