New Blog Post: How to Setup Hikvision Surveillance with Blue Iris on Windows 7

[motion2082]

Hey guys,

I would like to share with you my new blog post about How to Setup Hikvision Surveillance with Blue Iris on Windows 7

Please let me know what you think.

Note: I will be adding some more video tutorials in a couple of weeks when my new microphone arrives

 

[fenderman]

Very nice work..

 

[ldglad]

Excellent post! Could not have been more appropriate for my situation. I have 2 foscams, run Blue Iris (very poorly) and will be ordering a couple Hikvisions soon. You've no doubt made things easier for me. Thanks

 

[motion2082]

Thanks guys, happy to help! Still waiting on mic for video tuts, looking like Jan now

 

[TonyR]

What a great job, man. And so much of it is applicable to installation of most manufacturers. One comment, not a criticism: if you're like me, I'm anal about detail and when I find a typo later in my work that relates to a technical, non-grammatical issue, I freak. In the description of your i3-based PC build, you list the non-OS drive that I assume is for video clip storage as a 'WD' with '70GB' capacity. Did you mean '750'? That's it! A terrific job you did.

P.S. - I use 'Fing' all the time on my iPhone. When someone calls me for help setting up one of those little Chinese cams with some IP detection software I just fire up the cam, 99% time it's on DHCP and it gets an IP, I run Fing and voila! the cam shows up (usually 'Shenzhen'), I log into that IP with my browser and set it up.

Again, good stuff, man...keep up the fantastic work!

 

[motion2082]

Hi Tony,

Thank you for your comments.

Funny enough I am using a 70GB HDD as my archive HDD. It's a really old WD Blue from my Pentium 4 days. I don't tend to keep footage older than 6 months. I will definitely make a mention of adding more space so that people can keep more archives.

Fing is awesome!

Thanks again

 

[TonyR]

Yes, it is. It's a great tool for anyone monkeying with networks, IP cams, etc. A VERY valid point I forgot to make: when Fing finds that cam you can 'Scan services' to find the port it's on, as many of those cheap cams are on :99, not :80 and ya gotta know that to 'talk' to it with your browser and finish the config, as you know.

 

[fenderman]

Yes, it is. It's a great tool for anyone monkeying with networks, IP cams, etc. A VERY valid point I forgot to make: when Fing finds that cam you can 'Scan services' to find the port it's on, as many of those cheap cams are on :99, not :80 and ya gotta know that to 'talk' to it with your browser and finish the config, as you know.

Thanks for pointing this out! I downloaded fing a while ago, but never really messed with it...This function is priceless..this is really useful when trying to figure out the nonstandard rtsp or media ports..
Just tested this on a hikvision i have laying around and it picked up http (80), https (443), rtsp (554), callback (7001) and httpalt/media (8000)