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As a precaution I switched all of my CCTV stuff over to sending via GMail accounts using an app password just prior to the 16th. Although Google have made it harder to find the page to set app passwords, but it is still there. Also you only need one which you can use on all CCTV equipment...

Thanks for the suggestion. However, I don't think that is the same as "modern authentication". Microsoft aren't awfully clear, but as far as I can tell, "basic authentication" is just your basic username and password. In the bits I have found about "modern authentication" they talk about stuff...

Hi, Anyone have any idea about the impact on sending SMTP event notification emails via Outlook.com when Microsoft switch off basic authentication on 16th September 2024 (this year!)? Does the email client in HikVision cameras and NVRs support Microsoft's "modern authentication"? I use...

I've found it. For some reason I have to use "Run as Administrator" when launching VS Player otherwise the converter bombs with that error.

Hi JB1970, That is a great suggestion - I can now download and play video files WITH sound. You mentioned that VS Player can be used to convert files to other formats. Have you ever got that to work? Every time I try it and try adding a "task" all I get is this: The buttons don't work to...

Hi, I've a number of these cameras on two sites. Most are the G3 platform, some are the newer G5. They are recording audio fine to their SD cards - video is also recorded via a seperate NVR on one site with no audio, but with audio on a second site using a Hikvision NVR. I can happily...

Hi. Many thanks for the suggestion. However that is one of the first things I tried with no effect. The excellent support guys at Use-IP have subsequently found out direct from Hikvision that resolution of pics attached to email notifications is hard coded on this model camera. It used to...

I fully appreciate the purpose of channel zero. Looking at the RTSP stream in VLC, it would suggest that resolution is 704 x 576. Do you know anywhere that resolution is specified? Just out of interest.

Hi JB, You're right. At least I can set the aspect ratio within VLC, even if it doesn't remember it each time. This is borne out, I think, by the fact when doing live viewing of the NVR via web browser over the private VPN directly to the Draytek, Channel Zero shows up in the correct aspect...

JB1970 - you are a bloody genius! I was on site at the weekend with a monitor - a not very good one but a monitor none the less - and went through the local menu settings: And the result: And live view using the NVR web GUI via the VPN: Channel Zero now clearly showing in the position...

That is a REALLY interesting suggestion. Very much appreciated JB! ;) I'm definitely going to find a way to get a monitor of some sort up to the site for next weekend when I am next there. That would sort of tie in with that other thread I found about Channel Zero being blank if no monitor...

It is strange is it not LOL. I wonder if there are options in the local menu - when you are using a physically attached monitor and mouse - that are not fully replicated in the web GUI? The one time I do remember it seeming to work it was sitting on my table at home on the VGA input to one of...

I definitely think I have a problem - but no idea what. Connected to the remote LAN via VPN I can sign into the web interface and do the normal live view on the NVR. I can enable Channel Zero and the Live View switches to 9-up. If I shrink and expand the right hand panel I can see Channel Zero...

Thanks! Really appreciated! Just out of interest - with Channel Zero enabled does it appear as an "11th" camera feed on your 9-up live view? The reason I ask is I'm sure that when I first tried Channel Zero - and it seemed to work - with the NVR at home. I recall it appearing as a 3rd live...

Thanks for trying that JB - really appreciated. So something must not be going right on my NVR setup for Channel Zero to not be working as yours does. Following the old rule of 99% of the time the fault lies beyond the keyboard, that means I'm probably not doing something quite right but...