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The delay tends to be in the notification as this is pushed to your phone via Hik Connect. It's a free service, so that time delay (for me at least) can vary. "Most" of the time I find the notifications work great, but sometimes I've had them delayed nearly a minute.Hi, does anyone use the alarms on the acusense cameras to control security lighting? There seems to be a delay before I receive notification on the app. I'm not sure whether it is quick enough to be used in this way. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Thanks for the message. I have a home automation system that resides on the same network as the NVR. The app I have for the home automation system works locally and there is also a delay. The system connects to the NVR locally and across the network so I was hoping it would be quicker but it's not. I'll have to see if I can wire a relay directly to the camera and see if that triggers instantly as you say.The delay tends to be in the notification as this is pushed to your phone via Hik Connect. It's a free service, so that time delay (for me at least) can vary. "Most" of the time I find the notifications work great, but sometimes I've had them delayed nearly a minute.
For your security lights you would be setting your linkage action to also "trigger alarm output" and using that output to drive a relay acting as a switch for your lights. As that is handled locally by the NVR (if using the NVR alarm output) or camera (if using a camera with input/output terminals) it will be near instant with no delay so you'll have no issue there.
Understood. I've been dabbling with home automation for about a year now (Hubitat) and have seen one or two integrations for Hikvision but haven't tried any yet as I've always had a dedicated multi zone security lighting system. Also, the integrations I've seen use the http data transmission/alarm server in the camera so I'd need to take my cameras off the NVR and put them on a PoE switch for those messages to get to their destination. It is something I'll set up at some point as I'd like to get my front door camera line crossing switching the TV input when someone arrives.Thanks for the message. I have a home automation system that resides on the same network as the NVR. The app I have for the home automation system works locally and there is also a delay. The system connects to the NVR locally and across the network so I was hoping it would be quicker but it's not. I'll have to see if I can wire a relay directly to the camera and see if that triggers instantly as you say.
The camera alarms are all setup on home assistant and use an integration as part of HA. I use the same principle for a telecom alarm system and it works instantly. I'll try wiring a relay direct to the camera alarm output and see if that speeds things up. As we've said above it should be much more intelligent than a cheap PIR.Understood. I've been dabbling with home automation for about a year now (Hubitat) and have seen one or two integrations for Hikvision but haven't tried any yet as I've always had a dedicated multi zone security lighting system. Also, the integrations I've seen use the http data transmission/alarm server in the camera so I'd need to take my cameras off the NVR and put them on a PoE switch for those messages to get to their destination. It is something I'll set up at some point as I'd like to get my front door camera line crossing switching the TV input when someone arrives.