Hi Folks,
I recently picked up an Annke C800, which I believe is a rebadged Hikvision, with the plan for a simple setup which would record motion events to an SD card and then back them up to my NAS.
The camera is an I91BL, and is running Hikvision firmware V5.7.3 build 211222.
So the situation is this; I have the SD card and a drive in the NAS both formatted and the drive shared via NFS. I had originally planned to use SMB as research indicated it is more stable, but the camera would only authenticate if I enabled NTLMv1 authentication, which I was not very comfortable with.
I then configured the motion capture, which seems to be working for the most part, it is just set up inside the house at the moment while I get everything working.
This was where I encountered my first issue, in that there seems to be no way to specify where things should be saved, you have one option for events which is "Upload to FTP/Memory Card/NAS". I can see that it is using the NAS, but it appears to be saving video chunked into 256MB blocks which I am assuming is how the camera processes its video and these files will contain the event clips which you can load through the web interface.
The problem is that I have absolutely no idea whether it is saving them to the SD card, and would really like the NAS to be a backup.
My next thought was to just remove the NAS direct connection and upload the clips to it via FTP, however it seems that only picture uploads are supported, I found this strange and this was when I updated the firmware, as some information suggested that this may work with a firmware upgrade, however it seems that this camera just does not support video over FTP even though there should be no technical reason why pictures work but video does not that I can tell (Perhaps that is just my inexperience with camera technology though?).
I then tried various methods to connect to the cameras SD card directly, but had no success at all, the SSH root user appears not to be something that the end user is supposed to have access to I would guess as none of the suggested defaults I could found would authenticate (The root user was accepted, just none of the passwords).
I also had a look at the SDK and iVMS-4200 software to see whether it gave me any more configuration options, which they did not.
As a lot of the information I found seemed to lead me back to this forum, I thought I would come here and see whether anyone could point out something which I have missed, whether in how the camera stores its data, or how I may be able to access the SD card over the network?
Apologies for the length this came out at, guess I may have needed to vent a little as well!
Appreciate any input.
Regards,
A.
I recently picked up an Annke C800, which I believe is a rebadged Hikvision, with the plan for a simple setup which would record motion events to an SD card and then back them up to my NAS.
The camera is an I91BL, and is running Hikvision firmware V5.7.3 build 211222.
So the situation is this; I have the SD card and a drive in the NAS both formatted and the drive shared via NFS. I had originally planned to use SMB as research indicated it is more stable, but the camera would only authenticate if I enabled NTLMv1 authentication, which I was not very comfortable with.
I then configured the motion capture, which seems to be working for the most part, it is just set up inside the house at the moment while I get everything working.
This was where I encountered my first issue, in that there seems to be no way to specify where things should be saved, you have one option for events which is "Upload to FTP/Memory Card/NAS". I can see that it is using the NAS, but it appears to be saving video chunked into 256MB blocks which I am assuming is how the camera processes its video and these files will contain the event clips which you can load through the web interface.
The problem is that I have absolutely no idea whether it is saving them to the SD card, and would really like the NAS to be a backup.
My next thought was to just remove the NAS direct connection and upload the clips to it via FTP, however it seems that only picture uploads are supported, I found this strange and this was when I updated the firmware, as some information suggested that this may work with a firmware upgrade, however it seems that this camera just does not support video over FTP even though there should be no technical reason why pictures work but video does not that I can tell (Perhaps that is just my inexperience with camera technology though?).
I then tried various methods to connect to the cameras SD card directly, but had no success at all, the SSH root user appears not to be something that the end user is supposed to have access to I would guess as none of the suggested defaults I could found would authenticate (The root user was accepted, just none of the passwords).
I also had a look at the SDK and iVMS-4200 software to see whether it gave me any more configuration options, which they did not.
As a lot of the information I found seemed to lead me back to this forum, I thought I would come here and see whether anyone could point out something which I have missed, whether in how the camera stores its data, or how I may be able to access the SD card over the network?
Apologies for the length this came out at, guess I may have needed to vent a little as well!
Appreciate any input.
Regards,
A.