Hi, I just got a Hikvision DS-TCG405-E, and I managed to set it up half successfully. I have no idea if I have configured it correctly or not because it's not working as I hoped it would be.
What I would like is to write a nodejs app that will listen for events, save the relevant information and an image of the capture to the server. Failing that, if the camera could save plates into an FTP drive that would be great as well so I can run opencv through it.
First of all, the interface of the DS-TCG405-E is different from what I expected, I looked through everything I could find on google and most of time the http post setting is configured under Network > Advanced Settings > HTTP, and I would be able to put a URI there.
Screenshot of a different Hikvision camera from youtube.
It seems that DS-TCG405-E's interface only allows me to enable ISAPI/SDK:
1. Enable ISAPI Listening via Network > Data Connection.
2. Capture > Entrance/Exit/Vehicle Information Management > Alarm operation, check upload via SDK, check upload to alarm host.
I have set up the camera and ran Network Assistant to test it, it seems to be mostly working fine except that:
1. I have no idea what the "heartbeat" means in this context, and how it is applicable.
2. I'm not sure what I need to do to enable the camera (or nvr?) to upload a picture. In the youtube video, the post actually contains the image itself with the vehicle properties in the url parameters.
3. There is also a cloud storage option that looks like this, which I am not sure what kind of configuration is required, or what it does. What is "cloud storage" in this context?
4. If the features are not what I imagine it to be, would it be possible to send the captured images to an FTP server so that I can just use another app to process the images?
5. Sometimes I get "unknown" plate but I don't have a fast way to figure out what's wrong because there's no interface on the camera to see what it recorded (or at least none I could find).
It's not working fine because:
Most of the time, it works out and it sends the expected JSON (vehicleMatchResult.json). The json file doesn't seem to contain a direction, but I'm wondering if it it's because my country is not in the list under Capture > Capture Parameters > License Parameters.
So I figure there's some configuration that I've done wrong. It would be great if someone who had some experience with this could tell me what I'm doing wrongly.
What I would like is to write a nodejs app that will listen for events, save the relevant information and an image of the capture to the server. Failing that, if the camera could save plates into an FTP drive that would be great as well so I can run opencv through it.
First of all, the interface of the DS-TCG405-E is different from what I expected, I looked through everything I could find on google and most of time the http post setting is configured under Network > Advanced Settings > HTTP, and I would be able to put a URI there.
Screenshot of a different Hikvision camera from youtube.
It seems that DS-TCG405-E's interface only allows me to enable ISAPI/SDK:
1. Enable ISAPI Listening via Network > Data Connection.
2. Capture > Entrance/Exit/Vehicle Information Management > Alarm operation, check upload via SDK, check upload to alarm host.
I have set up the camera and ran Network Assistant to test it, it seems to be mostly working fine except that:
1. I have no idea what the "heartbeat" means in this context, and how it is applicable.
2. I'm not sure what I need to do to enable the camera (or nvr?) to upload a picture. In the youtube video, the post actually contains the image itself with the vehicle properties in the url parameters.
3. There is also a cloud storage option that looks like this, which I am not sure what kind of configuration is required, or what it does. What is "cloud storage" in this context?
4. If the features are not what I imagine it to be, would it be possible to send the captured images to an FTP server so that I can just use another app to process the images?
5. Sometimes I get "unknown" plate but I don't have a fast way to figure out what's wrong because there's no interface on the camera to see what it recorded (or at least none I could find).
It's not working fine because:
Most of the time, it works out and it sends the expected JSON (vehicleMatchResult.json). The json file doesn't seem to contain a direction, but I'm wondering if it it's because my country is not in the list under Capture > Capture Parameters > License Parameters.
So I figure there's some configuration that I've done wrong. It would be great if someone who had some experience with this could tell me what I'm doing wrongly.
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