![]() In the meantime I've settled on the Luxriot Evo running on my trusty old AMD unit that lives in the barn. So I've given up and I'm about to order a Hikvision NVR to play with. Real shame, software that's a sod to install/use - loads of verbose documentation that's really tedious to read. Success! - short lived, as I couldn't log in using the management client.Ģnd attempt (re loaded clean OS image) failed to install as before, but third time lucky - server ran and I could log in and set the cameras up - but then noticed it didn't support 'on camera motion detection' and wouldn't record continuously unless I enabled it's own motion detection. It wouldn't install on anything, kept throwing up SQL or 'Server failed to start' errors until I tried it on an AMD FX-6300 PC running Windows 10 Pro 圆4 (fresh clean install and imaged using Acronis) with a couple of 500GB HDD's and 8GB ram. I struggled for a week with Milestone XProtect Essential+ The free Luxriot Evo fits my bill (sort of) - it ran on all the test PC's/Laptops and recognised the Hikvision's and used their motion detection.Īnd a nice article on it: Viewing multiple Sharx Security cameras with free Luxriot EVO software – Sharx Security Blog ![]() Perhaps I didn't try them for long enough, as by then I'd found Luxriot Evo.Īlthough all the above installed and ran OK, I strugged with most trying to get my cameras recognised and working - I trawled many forums. The Milesight VMS lite and Pro didn't fit the bill, neither did Xeoma (couldn't get that to work at all) iSpy64 worked well, but didn't support camera based motion detection - it's own motion detection was very CPU intensive. I'm fortunate in that I have a few 'spare' Desktop PC'sand laptops lying around to experiment on, ranging from elderly AMD Athlon X2's to an i5-6600K Desktop. My goal was to try and find a system that would record continuously but allow me to quickly navigate to motion detected events. Well I've had a fun couple of weeks trying and evaluating 'free' and trial software from various vendors and ended up back at square one. I've scoured this forum (and others) to get some hints, but so far to no avail - can anybody advise? Oh, all the Hikvision software in use is the the latest revision and I upgraded all the cameras firmware to the current 5.4.5 release. ![]() One option would be to buy a Hikvision NVR - say the DS-7608NI-K2-8P (which looks OK for my needs) - but reading through the user manual doesn't give me much hope it will do what I want either.Īs with most modern kit, there are so many options, the terminology is confusing and as it varies between manufacturers it's difficult to pin down. I understand that 'you get what you pay for' and as the iVMS-4200 is free - am I expecting too much functionality? When I shut down the iVMS-4200 client on the laptop, all the alarm events disappear - as I suppose the camera/server only 'notifies the running client'. I can see motion detection events on the Alarm Event tab in the client - but can't find a way of combining both things in the Remote Playback tab/screen. That works too, I can record the camera output and setup motion detection (done in the camera?) and view the recordings - but as it's remote from the house I have to view it using the iVMS-4200 client software on a house laptop.Īs long as the laptop client is running, I can view the recorded timeline - but not see any 'event' markers. So to try and replace the AvTech I've installed iVMS-4200 Client and Storage server on a 'retired' Windows 10 PC/file server located in the Barn - which is where most of the cameras are/will be - to keep an eye on livestock etc. I can view the IpCam using IE, iVMS-4500 (Android Tablet) and the iVMS-4200 Client software. This works well - I'm very impressed with the picture quality (over the analogue cameras) - even though its only 720p. I just want to try and recreate what AvTech DVR gave me:Ĭontinuous real time capture + motion detector 'events' logging, so I can look at the recorded timeline and see motion events flagged (shown in red) and skip easily and quickly to see what triggered the event.Ī few years back I purchased 4 Hikvison DS-2CD2012-I cameras - but didn't get round to fitting or positioning them, apart from one over the front door. I'm 'transitioning' from an elderly AvTech analogue DVR/camera setup that has run without hitch for several years - to an IpCam system.
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