Since I haven't used Windows for the last ~15 years now it has been bugging me quite a lot that the Hikvision NVRs have (more or less) been requiring a web browser plugin which is only available for Windows.
Today I am using a DS-7616NI-I2, and while...
Things have been resolved, and it's so stupid that I regret saying it.
I had googled before I went here, and I had found that the time in the camera could be an issue. I thought I had double checked the time in the camera, but after turning on NTP things got resolved. I probably had checked the...
I installed an onvif Android app (Onvier), it has zero issues communicating with the camera.
The onvif-cli still works sometimes. It might be safe to assume that Frigate has borrowed code from that, or use the same library. I haven't investigated that.
I tried downgrading firmware to 5.7.3...
I am not sure to be honest. I created a "real" account first, and that didn't work. I didn't really pay attention to if Hikvision considered it strong. Since it sometimes works I don't really believe it in it either. But regardless, it's a reasonable suggestion and also easy to test, so I did.
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I doubt that it has to do with the versions. I am no expert with Onvif, far from it. But by reading the standard it seems extremely simple in the concept of sending commands and getting information back. Also, I have the issue both from Frigate and from onvif-cli.
I have successfully...
Has anyone else experienced that onvif sometimes (seemingly random) doesn't work due to authentication errors?
I have several cameras, but only my DS-2DE4A425IWG-E seems to act out like this. I am using onvif-cli to debug why Frigate wasn't working, and have realized that it sometimes (almost...