Hikvision NVR event settings override camera settings

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nottooloud

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Feb 27, 2015
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I had various Hikvision cameras running on a QNAP NAS, recording motion triggered events into Surveillance Station. I am moving them to a Hikvision DS-7616NI-E2 / 8P running firmware V3.4.95 build 170626. My primary camera is a DS-2CD2132F-IS, which acts as my doorbell by notifying iVMS-4500 on my phone.

The event settings on the cameras are way better than the event settings in this NVR, which has no expert setting for multiple areas, and no sensitivity between 0 and 20. Unfortunately, the NVR's settings override the cameras' own settings. If I adjust the cameras from their individual pages, it's all good for a while, but eventually the NVR settings replace them and I'm back to getting spurious triggers from headlights and such.

I tried running one of the cameras ONVIF, but the NVR switched to recording it nonstop. I tried turning off motion detection in the NVR, which turned it off in the cameras, and then turning it back on in the cameras, but the NVR didn't record.

How can I get the cameras' motion sensitivity controls to stick?
 
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Answer was simply going through the settings again. When I switch a camera to ONVIF, the NVR sets itself to Continuous Record. Need to clear that in the NVR under Storage/Schedule Settings for each camera, and then set the schedule to Motion. Holding steady for several days now.
 
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Old thread but I have the exact same problem but different hardware. Did this permanently solved your issue?
I don't fully understand your solution, I think. Firstly I don't really know what ONVIF does but I checked that box in advanced network settings in the camera. Then I made sure that the NVR was set to motion in the schedule storage-settings. But I can't see any obvious improvements.

Do you see the expert settings in the NVR after this changes? Is motion detection checked (activated) in the NVR or only in the camera?

MAYBE it works when I save the settings in the camera (haven't been able to test it enough yet but at least it record something) but it seems that if I change any settings (not necessarily related to motion detection) and push save in the NVR it override the cameras settings.
Trial and error take ages with this so I hope to get some advice.
 
ONVIF is another way for the cameras to talk to the NVR, instead of Hikvision native. You do the motion settings on the camera, instead of in the NVR. And yes, if you make changes in the NVR, you may need to go back and redo the camera settings. It's been working for me since that post, though.
 
OK, thanks! There is a chance that I actually have manage to get it right now! I've never had such few false alarms as I had today :)
 
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