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I doubt they were the first to do that and they probably won't be the last. Forums and marketplaces are peppered with fake reviews. It's endemic. It would be heartening to hear that Blue Iris is the only software/service vendor which has never posted a fake review about itself. I'm not...

Most companies lie. Hikvision claims to support MacOs. All NVRs are sold deceptively imo. "Special offers" are often discontinued stock or stock with dubious provenance. Amazon is full of lies. Meanwhile, Reolink are opening up the entry level market from which others, including Blue Iris, will...

There are plenty of cheap cameras around and most deliver an adequate image quality for my needs. But I don't know of any other which includes an integral spotlight, 2-way audio, continuous 24/7 recording, alarms/notifications, decent support/warranty and software which runs properly on a Mac.

FWIW, I have been impressed by the new Reolink Lumus 2MP wi-fi cam with integral spotlight. It's not as good a camera as Hikvision or Dahua of course and being wi-fi, I wouldn't recommend it for critical security applications; but for a lot of home owners it will prove very useful indeed -...

Mine works OK for 2/4MP cams but I've heard that the gigabit uplink can struggle to cope with 8MP cams.

I wanted white outdoor Cat6 but couldn't find any in the UK. I ended up having to paint black cable - but used white cable indoors.

It's a feature intended to facilitate continuous recording to the internal SD card by only recording at full frame rate when a motion event occurs, reducing to 1fps at other times. But when activated in the config, the live view is compromised and only delivers 1-3fps at all times, even when a...

The only raccoons here are in zoos. My cat accepts your apology.

Cats don't carry nearly as many diseases as you or I do.

Btw, my LAN and cameras are connected together with lots of ethernet hubs and I have no problems at all [apart from a dunce for a s on]. My four Linksys Velop mesh nodes are linked together with Cat6 and each node connects to a POE switch and a cheap unmanaged hub [all gigabit]. So instead of...

According to this, you set only the tracking duration in the PTZ Smart Tracking config, without even enabling Smart Tracking and the rest of the settings are done in Event->Smart Event:

I wouldn't use wi-fi. Can't you run an ethernet cable out there?

It's alive! You prompted me to get out the long spare cable and connect the POE switch directly to a different hub and that brought the camera back. Upon further investigation, the TP-Link switch, which is in my son's bedroom, had been inadvertently powered down for a couple of days because he...

I did say in my OP that I haven't yet tested the cable from the camera. I have tested all the indoor/accessible cables. This camera connects to a Ubiquiti POE switch which displays a power light. This switch connects to a TP-Link TL-SG1005D 5-Port Desktop Gigabit Ethernet Switch/Hub but the...

The switch light is on but the hub port light isn't. The cables are tested and good. It has been dry and warm for a fortnight. The camera was professionally installed. Next step is to get up there and check the camera connections and then bring it down and bench test, which is tiresome.

One of two DS-2DE2A404IWDE3 cams (and 8 Hikvision cams in total) has suddenly gone "offline" and nothing I have tried will bring it back. What have I missed - or is it looking like a camera fault? The others all continue to work normally. It's about 6 months old and was working fine until it...

I hope there will be further reports - albeit I doubt that any solution will work on Mac Os because most of the basic Hikvision stuff doesn't. What really, really annoys me is that the Alarm Event tab in iVMS-4200 lists all my Door Station motion events and invites me to click on its little...

They may well have made v2.0.8_build200409 for others too but it is dated 20 April and came in response to my bug report of 18 April. I can't find it listed anywhere in the world so I don't think it has [yet] been made available publicly.

All accessible by anyone around the world but not necessarily approved by Hikvision for use in every region. The latest UK-approved firmware for the KD8003 is V2.0.8_build191029. Whether they are just slow to test other, later releases or there are incompatibilities between different regional...

I can assure you that I will be following your progress in the hope of being led to the promised land. I have wasted three months on the quest for this holy grail but I am new to all things Hikvision so may have missed the secret path. Hope dims when I search in Remote Playback for the door...

I have a similar setup and would have demanded a refund on day 1 if it weren't such a PITA to take down and replace. It is just LUDICROUS that the KD8003 doesn't record motion events to the SD card in the master indoor station, or have its own SD card slot. And nor can it record motion events...

In case you're a Mac user, Hikvision's .mp4 video files are not very compatible. They won't play in Quicktime Player but will open in VLC or Hikvision's proprietary player, VSPlayer - but with no option to convert to a Quicktime-compatible format, and no way to edit them without jumping through...

Joyoshare [free trial] is worth a try.

Great detective work - but can't the triggers be configured to record pre- and post the event?

This thread in another place may be worth a read.

Could someone persuade me that I need continuous recording vs properly set up motion/event/alarm recording? I'm thinking that if I were to switch to 24/7 recording, 99% of it would contain nothing of interest while costing plenty in terms of resource, storage, time and power.

…and especially when you fall into an alcoholic coma leaving doors and windows open. [Recorded on a Hikvision 4MP DS-2DE2A404IW-DE3 at 25fps]

There's wi-fi and there's wires-free. Hikvision and others make some excellent wi-fi cams but they don't make wires-free, ie battery powered. If that's what you want or need then Reolink has something to offer, albeit their cams are a compromise. Because of the inevitable lag issues with wi-fi...

Have you got the panels correctly numbered? You should have only one "Indoor Station" [the Master Station] with any further panels designated as Indoor Extension 1, 2 etc. And the extensions need to be IP-linked to the Master Station, not the Door Station.

May not be relevant in your case but I had exactly this issue with a couple of Hikvision DS-2DE2A404IW-DE3 PTZ cams while my other PTZs maintained the set frame rate. Turned out to be an obscure setting I had enabled called Storage Lite which saves space when recording to SD cards by reducing...