Thank you what you have written here, it was very helpful to me personally. I have 3 Hikvision cameras and I used those with the Hikvision iVMS-4200 software. I had previously Amcrest cameras. With those it was easy to record a video triggered by motion.
With the iVMS-4200 I managed to record pictures recorded by motion, but no video recording triggered by motion.The only device which supports this which I could find where Hikvision NVR recorders. I did a search on eBay for Hikvision recorders, found one and bought one.
When the recorder arrived and I opened it, I was suprices. The UK seller did not send me a Hikvison recorder but a HiLook recorder. Did he send me the wrong product? I googled for it and found the information that Hilook is by Hikvison, so the seller was not wrong. But then I found the information here in the forum which says:
Forum administrator Dan:
«The information we have had from Hikvision before is that HiLook cameras will work on a Hikvision NVR, but Hikvision cameras will not work on a HiLook NVR»
What I have read here gave me some hope. The recorder I bough on eBay was:
«Hiwatch of Hikvision 6TB MAX 4 channel 1080P HD 2MP TVI/AHD/CVI/CVBS CCTV DVR-204G-F1»
The Hikvision camera I made tests with was from eBay as well:
«Hikvision 2MP PoE EXIR2.0 WDR H.265+ motion detectin IP-camera DS-2CD1123G0E-I
I bought both products from UK sellers and I live in Switzerland.
I used the SADP tool installed on my PC to activate it. And then I was able to use the web interface of the camera with a chrome browser and saw, that the camera was working. Then i tried to pair the camera to my Hiwatch of Hikvision recorder. The user interface is difficult. I managed to pair the camera to the Hiwatch recorder, but the live view was always black.
I was near to sell this recorder and buy a new one according to the above information. Then I have read closely this thread. From the information I found I made a hard reset of both camera and recorder and tried to pair it directly but it did not work. So I activiated it once more with the web user interface.I was able to pair it again to the recorder. But again only a black screen in the live view of the camera.
Suddenly, the recoder recorded motion but did not show a picture. And suddently from the preview I saw the picture from the camera, but not in the live view. Then I saw that there is a drop-down menu from where I had to choose the camera. Then the live view was there. I do not what exactly works and what not, but motion detection seemed to work spontenously.
I really suffered when I wanted to buy a Hikvision recorder on eBay and the seller sent me a Hilook recorder by Hikvision instead. With the information which can be found here in the forum:
«The information we have had from Hikvision before is that HiLook cameras will work on a Hikvision NVR, but Hikvision cameras will not work on a HiLook NVR»
I really miss a proper declaration of this fact from Hikvision with all HiLook products, as well as a proper declaration from sellers.
This missing information caused me a lot of work, and I still do not know what exactly works and what does not work. I never whould have bought a HiLook NVR if I had the information which is written here in this thread.
