HikVision NVR "Install Plugin" & "Live View Failed" - SOLVED

[CmdrBond]

So this has been bugging me for a while, as many of you will know (and some won't), HikVison's web-based user interface requires the NPAPI plugin, which is no longer supported by many browser manufacturers.

There are workarounds though.

2 of these (for Windows at least) are the IE Tab Extension for Google Chrome or plain old Internet Explorer in compatibility mode.

So I tried both. I installed the extension, and I fired up IE, turned on compatibility mode, added all the correctIP address, changed the security settings to allow AxtiveX and make the NVR IP a trusted site.

Fired up the browser and logged into the NVR.

The dreaded plugin message had gone - Yippee

Only to be replaced with a pop up saying "Live View Failed"

This was annoying.

I tried everything I could think of - uninstalled and reinstalled "WebComponents", disabled Firewalls, &c...

Live view is working fine in iVMS and EZViz

I googled and eventually found the solution buried in another post.

I went to the NVR configuration >>> Local Configuration >>> Protocol

and changed it from TCP to UDP.

Reset everything and BANG - Live View is workinf through my browser.

 

[asela_sk]

How to do the above config for Hilook NVR that has NO local menue

 

[MacMan]

Great! How about Macintosh users? How can they use a browser now? Sea Monkey used to work, not now.

Also, which is the best Mac application to live view and configure the Hikvision 2CD2442FWD ?