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Probably not relevant but I recently had a problem with another make of camera which wouldn't show up on the network until I took the SD card out. It went back and their engineers are studying it.

Hikvision cameras probably don't do this but when I used a Reolink wireless camera for 2-way "live" audio, it was a nightmare with wifi lag combining with never-ending echoes and screeching feedback. If I forgot to turn my PC audio level down, even a camera with no background noise would play...

Have you checked the strength of your wifi signal in all the places you want to install a camera? You may have to boost it if you have a large garden. My own experience with outdoor wifi cameras, albeit not with Arlo products, drove me to dig trenches and install ethernet cable instead. Imho...

@Dan, several G0 models at least claim to have SD card encryption. Example.

Well, it's buggy for me too and I don't use an NVR. I set up line crossing on my DS-2CD2543G0-IS [V5.6.3 build 190923] in IE running under emulation on my Mac and it records events in the opposite direction from that which I set up. That said, all of the motion and smart event settings on this...

Based on my one and only NVR purchase (I won't name it), I decided to eliminate any such device from my future CCTV system. Like many, it claimed to record and deliver 4MP video but when I examined the "4MP" live video I was watching on my PC over the LAN, I discovered that it was actually an...

I'm no expert and I don't know the DS-7608NI-I2 but when I last researched NVRs I was struck by how silent most of their data sheets were on UHD output to ethernet. They can obviously receive and record UHD video but outputting them is a different kettle of fish. I suspect that the only way to...

Just to be clear, are you using a tested (and not over-long) premium high speed HDMI cable to connect your NVR directly to your 4K viewing device? Is your 4K viewing rig up to the task? Can it play 4K Youtube videos at full resolution? Are your CCTV ethernet cables Cat6 and capable of...

That's what I wanted to do but, for some reason, it wouldn't save. I will try again.

My 8003 door station doesn't appear to offer me any option to record continuously. I checked in iVMS-4200 under both MacOs and Windows. Could that be because I'm not using an NVR?

I'm trying to figure out why my DS-2CD2543G0-IS records more Intrusion footage to my SD card than I specify. I set pre-record to 5secs with a post-record of 10secs but I get over two minutes of static pre-event footage on a calm, evenly lit, critter-free, motionless day. Can anyone tell me why...

A further update: disabling the camera's Security->Enable Illegal Login Lock function seems to have stabilised the frame rate at 25fps. This doesn't sound logical but no other changes were made.

Sadly, setting the sub stream to MJPEG makes my cameras lose connection to my 2nd gen video intercom [DS-KD8003-IME1]. It shows a black screen with the message: "Live view failed - encoding type not supported". It obviously uses the sub stream to display the video on the systems little indoor...

Just to follow up on this, I was labouring under the misapprehension that I needed to enable 'Lite Storage' in order to record to the SD card and I was happy to find out yesterday that I don't. It's a separate feature which saves space on SD cards by only recording movement at full frame rate -...

Funnily enough, I was talking to a senior techie at Hikvision UK yesterday about this camera and he asked me to upgrade it to v5.6.15. I pointed out that 5.6.15 doesn't claim to support the DS-2DE2A404IW-DE3 but he told me to go ahead and do it anyway. Not that it fixed anything but it seems you...

@Phil, you have a knack for finding exceptional people.

My 2nd generation master Indoor Station [a 10in DS-KH8520-WTE1 hardwired to the DS-KD8003-IME1 Door Station] also displays the live feed from six other Hikvision cameras, all of which bar one display correctly. But the feed from my IPC-D640-Z shows the bottom few rows of pixels [approx 5% of the...

I'm disappointed to discover that my DS-2CD2543G0-IS [v5.6.3] throws off an error when I try to configure a concave quadrilateral as an intrusion detection zone (allowing me to avoid some heavy foliage) since it apparently can't cope with reflex angles. Since I can't configure multiple intrusion...

I didn't use any of the earlier versions long enough to make a judgement. I think the main thing was fixing security holes.

Yes, Dan should look a lot older by now.