ive about had it with hikvision, being able to use a browser is one of the reasons i bought my system, saying that they do record reliably, i will not be upgrading to acusense, as their end user support and nvr firmware upgrades are patchy at best, so im not entrusting more money to hikvsion for NVR's- as the whole machine learning / AI industry is moving so fast, they will lag behind on updates, and also inbuilt obsolescence . No issues with their cameras
So rather than throw out my NVR , im going to be dabbling with some open source software using a google coral compute stick, and an application called Blackshear Frigate ( fine if u are a geek) , it uses Googles AI coral TPU & Tensorflow, and pulls rtsp streams from the NVR, or IP camera, tags it as human , car, animal etc, takes a clip, and drops it onto a folder- very geeky. it can also do zones and masking. There's other opensource apps that do this, u just need to be able to dabble, with a RPI4 and understand docker, but they are all being actively developed. will still use my hik nvr for recording, but its finding events reliably is what i bought it for..
it simply not good , when u need to upgrade an NVR's firmware, and lose functionality ...