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Yes, it's Cat6 cable from Amazon... link Maybe it's cheap rubbish?! I'll try a patch cable as you suggest, thanks Phil.

I too had this problem. I find Hikvision's software very unhelpful with its error messages. It would be better if it could say 'click here to enter the verification code' and take you to the right menu (often a sub-menu!) rather than leaving you to figure it out. Or provide more explicit...

I had this problem as well... it was very frustrating. I'm trying to remember what I did to fix it! I think it may have been to switch on UPnP rather than port forwarding in the router and NVR?

Thanks for your help... I only have one camera for now, a DS-2CD2185FWD-I 8MP connected to a DS-7608NI-I2-8P NVR. The camera's IP is 192.168.254.5 - it doesn't appear to be duplicated, the 8 channels under Settings > Camera Management are all unique. Everything else connected to the router has...

Hi When I try and view Live View through the iVMS-4200 client or Internet Explorer (on the same network as the NVR, not remotely), the feed comes up but freezes after 2 seconds, then gets going again after 5-8 seconds, but freezes again. If I change to a sub-stream (in IE, I can't see how to...

Yes, it's: "No device is found. Make sure that the serial No. is correct and the device is connected properly." I have now sorted it, very easily, just by clicking the DHCP option in the NVR config menu. This enabled me to add the NVR in the Hik-Connect webpage / portal using the serial number...

Hi Phil I'm having trouble with Hik-Connect... hopefully you can help. Thanks for the links above - google searches had initially led me to your old mega guide which takes you through HiDDNS which I discovered is dead. Hik-Connect looks much simpler but I cannot get it to work remotely. I...