Recent content by Magic919

I can’t see any problem with it, provided you get enough power from the NVR. An unmanaged switch doesn’t become part of any network as it doesn’t care about IP addressing.

Face recognition has a pretty low success rate in general. The Police claim a very low hit rate. We’ve used it at work with AWS doing the actual work. For CCTV I’d be surprised if the technology was ready now. Face detection would be something I’d look at.

There are a few Wi-fi cameras, but I expect most of us are running network cables. Partly for reliability, it also to get the power to the camera over the network cable. There are some cameras that record ‘to the cloud’ and those are at risk if the Internet connection drops. They could...

The Internet connection being down doesn’t stop the NVR recording.

Tin foil hat time.

Just your external IP and the port. It may only work when you are not on the LAN, depends on the router.

I am saying don’t use that.

Can you use iVMS-4500 instead? Cut out the cloud aspect.

Can you put your external IP address in a Hikvision App away from home and see pictures?

It’ll largely depend on the connectivity needed. If the fingerprint reader made an outbound TCP connection it might work. If you need to initiate a TCP to the fingerprint reader from the LAN then it gets interesting. Create a static route to get you to the network subnet of the NVR (what Phil...

You can’t.

Yes, unless something is stopping you reaching that port.

The angle of view, which is being discussed in this thread is 180 degrees. Mounting on a ceiling provides what they call a 360 degree viewing experience. Two different things.

That’s 180 degrees rather than 360.

It plays the video :-) Read this - Exporting footage from a HikVision DS-7708NI