Greetings!
My wife and I just bought a house. The previous owners had a small business thus had installed some security sensors along with a few cameras.
The previous owner used SmartPSS (a windows program to access the cameras through a magic black box in our garage. I call it magic because I know nothing about it. It might be a Dahua DVR (based on info inside SmartPSS) – but I’m not sure. There is no name, number or anything. See pictures (sorry about the bad quality). All cameras are wired into the magic black box, so they don’t have individual IP addresses.
Here comes my problem.
I don’t have a windows server running in my house. However, I do have a Synology server DS218+. It has an application called surveillance center, which solves all my needs. (schedule alarms, events, record 24/7 etc.).
Unfortunately, I can’t see the cameras from the Synology platform. It searches for feeds on an IP address, but when I provide the IP from the black box, it returns empty.
As I don’t know anything about the magic black box, I can’t confirm if it works together with my Synology server. So my options as I see them:
Do any of you have an idea to point me in a direction. Any input is greatly appreciated
Regards
Peter
My wife and I just bought a house. The previous owners had a small business thus had installed some security sensors along with a few cameras.
The previous owner used SmartPSS (a windows program to access the cameras through a magic black box in our garage. I call it magic because I know nothing about it. It might be a Dahua DVR (based on info inside SmartPSS) – but I’m not sure. There is no name, number or anything. See pictures (sorry about the bad quality). All cameras are wired into the magic black box, so they don’t have individual IP addresses.
Here comes my problem.
I don’t have a windows server running in my house. However, I do have a Synology server DS218+. It has an application called surveillance center, which solves all my needs. (schedule alarms, events, record 24/7 etc.).
Unfortunately, I can’t see the cameras from the Synology platform. It searches for feeds on an IP address, but when I provide the IP from the black box, it returns empty.
As I don’t know anything about the magic black box, I can’t confirm if it works together with my Synology server. So my options as I see them:
- Could it be a firewall issue? I would say no, as both server and black box is wired to the home network.
- Get a new magic box, which is supported by Synology.
- Run a virtual machine on my Synology, which then runs Smart PSS
- Get a windows server running – which is stupid as I already have a Synology.
Do any of you have an idea to point me in a direction. Any input is greatly appreciated
Regards
Peter