It's not that - I can get to the camera through the router OK. I use a synology NAS and that has 'surveillance station' built in). If I try and view the camera it says 'Chrome no longer supports NPAPI plug-in' and won't show the image. I need to get a stream out of it that not active-X
alastairstevenson
Staff member
If Synology's Surveillance Station is anything like QNAP's Surveillance Station - QNAP removed the Active-X/NPAPI requirement and replaced it with a stand-alone client 'QVRmon' that is launched when Playback or Monitor is used.
It sounds like that's something to look into on the Synology NAS - though it should be an automatic prompted install if it exists.
alastairstevenson
Staff member
That was only a temporary possibility on one specific version of Chrome as they progressed to stopping it completely.
That possibility is not available on the current version.
But the question was about a similar but different (not webcomponents) problem on a Synology NAS.
Riiight... so am I right in thinking that's not got me any further forward? There WAS a way of re-enabling NPAPI in Chrome but it's now been removed, so UNLESS I can somehow configure the Synology NAS to do something clever then I have a bunch of cameras that you can't see over the web (which is the whole point of them in the first place)?
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
alastairstevenson
Staff member
From the Synology SS page: "Web plugins are available for Windows users on Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer, and for Mac users on Safari."
Chrome not mentioned.
But I couldn't see anything that was a stand-alone viewer - or even the browser plugin download.
Only this which mentions the prompted install : https://www.synology.com/en-global/...ion_to_the_trusted_sites_of_Internet_Explorer
Chrome not mentioned.
But I couldn't see anything that was a stand-alone viewer - or even the browser plugin download.
Only this which mentions the prompted install : https://www.synology.com/en-global/...ion_to_the_trusted_sites_of_Internet_Explorer
What does any other Hikvision owners do? That might be a good way to tackle this. There seem to be enough of them for sale, there must be some other owners out there!
I think I have discovered the problem and the (lack of) solution
https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=88528
That sorry tail seems to tell it all. There is no solution. Possibly Operas MIGHT work but it seems that everybody is running away from NPAPI (Like Flash). It seems that people first started to have these problems some 2 years ago and pretty much nothing has been done about it. It's not possible to view your network camera over the internet? I suspend disbelief but it seems so!
https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=88528
That sorry tail seems to tell it all. There is no solution. Possibly Operas MIGHT work but it seems that everybody is running away from NPAPI (Like Flash). It seems that people first started to have these problems some 2 years ago and pretty much nothing has been done about it. It's not possible to view your network camera over the internet? I suspend disbelief but it seems so!