Hikvision Ds-78 and ivms4200 system

[Albert P]

I am new here and starting looking around to build a system for my home. I am running into a few issues and I am not sure what is possible and what is not.

First, I plan on using the 2CD2132 cameras around the house and the DS-78 or the DS-76 NVR with 8 POE ports for expandability.

I read the manual for this NVR and I am aware that I can set it up to record based on events and based on motion etc.

My main concern is Remote Access. I want to access my ip cameras from outside the home. Am I accurate in assuming that can't be done with the NVR and I need to set up IVMS4200 (on a mac) on a computer and leave it on? Are both the NVR and the IVMS used at the same time then?

Can some help reconcile these two?

Second, I plan on viewing my cameras in a browser on an iPad. I am using iRule to control my home and I want to embed a web browser into the program that points at the IP address of the cameras. Do I point the IP address at the NVR or the individual camera? Can I get around this without inputting a username or password? Or can I send a string with the username and password through an HTTP url (example: http://192.168.1.300/user?=admin;password?=12345/)?

 

[olli]

You can choose either to have separate NVR or your computer can act as NVR with the program.
And in your case I think separate NVR is a good choice. Then you don't need to keep your computer on all the time.

You can access your cameras (remote access) :
iVMS iPhone
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivms-4500-lite/id441697527?mt=8

iVMS iPad
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivms-4500-hd/id444917386?mt=8

Also, you can use
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camviewer-for-ip-webcams-audio/id416551665?mt=8

All those apps are free. And you can just input your cameras to them.

I am not sure if you can view cameras with iPad browser (there may be some plugins required, and Safari does probably not support those plugins).

If you want to direct URL to the camera stream, please have a look here
https://www.google.fi/search?q=hikvision+stream+url

 

[Albert P]

I dug in a bit further and I found that there is a camera module for iRule. I connect it through a url adminassword@ip/channel/stream1 or something similar.

I was under the impression that it's either NVR or the IVMS, but did not know IVMS can be used only as a client to set up the NVR. This is great news for me and makes things significantly easier.