OceanDad Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 I'm interested in what people are doing for the best integration of Hikvision DVR's right now. I actually use an LTS (Hikvision Rebadged) LTD8424T-FA, which is a 32 channel hybrid TVI-DVR. This has 24 analog TVI channels, of which I am using 6, and up to an additional 8 IP cameras of which I am using 5 at present. The IP cameras are plugged into a POE switch, and the DVR discovers them on the network. I've been playing around with the various Hikvision and LTS C4 drivers out there (including the latest Blackwire DVR driver), but integration is minimal. The new Blackwire driver is good in so far as it allows me to view the sub stream within C4 OSD and iOS app without having to downgrade the main stream that I use for event recording. You get to choose between the main stream and the sub stream in System Design properties, which is a step on from the older Hikvision drivers that I have been using. However, what I was hoping to do was to use the motion detection that is enabled within the DVR for a given channel as the trigger event to automatically turn on a TV and view that channel, or to turn on some lights etc. The problem is that there are no events to program from in Programming. Am I missing something ? Even a simple IR driver might be worth having, as I currently use the HDMI output via my video matrix to send a camera view to various TV's. Would be nice to be able to click on that display, and use the SR-250 in the same way that I would otherwise have to use a mouse to go full screen on a camera feed etc. While on the subject, if anyone has the secret sauce to get email notifications working from the DVR, I'd be grateful. I've read reams online about setting up gmail/yahoo accounts and people seem to have mixed results with the SMTP servers. I get 'Test Failed' every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanDad Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 Bumping this. I know that Chowmain released a new driver for Hikvision cameras, with the promise that an NVR driver was 'coming soon'. That was a while back. Anyone heard anything on this recently ? JMcNaught427 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebt2921 Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 He mentioned the NVR driver was delayed a bit due to some more priority paid work and it could be out in March.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azkid Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Also looking to do this, it seems the LTS and Hik allow you to trigger a "dummy" motion sensor with an alarm output but I cannot get it to work.... if anyone has any other ideas to get cameras to trigger programs I'd love to hear it! OceanDad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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