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Hi, I have been writing a bash script that would read image snapshots periodically from CCTV cameras. So far Hikvision has been the easier one. This url and this wget command seem to work nice. I activated a self signed HTTPS certificate that needed an extra option for wget. wget...

Very strange things happened with my UI-1009-PA NVR during the past week. It started by occasional crashes and rebootings. Later I found that the video frame rate didn't stay constant and varied between 2...11 fps and there were dropped frames in two important recorded events. (I had set the...

Hi, has anyone else seen Hikvision NVR changing connected camera IP address and therefore losing that camera? This has happened twice in a year in a system that I am taking care of. This time everything else seemed to be ok. The firmware was a couple of releases old and I upgraded the whole...

Hi, I have made some experiments and found CCTV cameras very practical in creating still image sequences for time lapse videos. The first experiments were made by recording to the internal memory cards of Hikvision DS-2CD4A25 and DS-2CD4526 cameras. One year ago, after recording many nights...

Hi, Is there a guideline or other information on how many VCA functions can be activated at the same time? Are all Milesight models equal in terms of CPU capacity? Today I set up a standalone ProBullet camera recording to the SD card. Continuous recording was activated + advanced motion...

How does the interaction between a Milesight camera and higher layers of the system work for the advanced VCA functions (Camera <- -> NVR and VMS)? The camera has various options for VCA actions, e.g. local recording to SD card etc. There is also the HTTP notification that is so far the only...