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Hello Everyone,
I am new to CCTV and I wonder if someone can help me. I have gone through a fair amount of reading (including posts from this forum) and experimentation with the objective of setting up and manage my system but there are several areas that I still have to understand. Should this be the wrong place to post this message, could you please point me in the right direction?
The system consists of DS-2DE4425IW-DE and DS-2CD2386G2-ISU/SL cameras linked to a DS-7608NI-I2/8P NVR; the issues I am trying to resolve relate to Smart Events and iVMS 4200, however I will leave the latter for later as I think resolving the hardware related issues may help with iVMS 4200 too. When I started configuring Intrusion Detection via the NVR's web interface I couldn't get it to work - more specifically it only worked on one 2386 camera. Many attempts on both types of cameras failed to generate the notifications I was trying to receive on my mobile devices, so I cleared all the Event settings (one by one as there seems to be no multiple deletion facility) and set the same events up on each unit (via virtual host, camera management, etc.). This configuration worked on some of the cameras but not on others and the problem eventually turned out to be that some of the cameras didn't keep the configuration, i.e. when I logged in the cameras again after leaving the system to work for a while the "Enable" box was unticked, despite me having saved the configuration correctly and double-checking before logging off or closing the tab (the browser is Edge Chromium 89 and this OS is Windows 10).
In general, the configuration I use for Intrusion Detection is: tick "Enable", draw one or more areas, tried both setting and not setting Min/Max Size, select Human and Vehicle as and where required, set arming schedule as needed, select Notify Surveillance Centre, Trigger Recording. This process was applied to both my failed NVR configuration attempts and the direct camera's configuration.
I took the intermediate step, before discovering that the cameras could be set individually, of setting Basic Motion Detection in the NVR, which worked as intended (not to my satisfaction, but that's more down to the nature and limitations of Motion Detection, which I am aware of).
My conclusion from the above scenario is that everything likely works as intended and the problem is with the user (me), so here are a few questions which I hope someone can help me to answer.
1. Why in your opinion I can't get Intrusion Detection to work as desired when I configure it in the NVR?
2. What is best general practice with this configuration? Is it better to configure the NVR or the cameras one by one?
3. Given that both the NVR and the cameras are configured, either to do something or to not do it, at any given time, which one overrides the other? What happens if, say, both the camera and the NVR are configured to do something?
4. What reason can you think of for the cameras to lose the configuration?
5. Is there a better way to configure the system than the method I am using, e.g. using another software, etc.?
Thank you all for taking the time to read and respond.
Ivan
I am new to CCTV and I wonder if someone can help me. I have gone through a fair amount of reading (including posts from this forum) and experimentation with the objective of setting up and manage my system but there are several areas that I still have to understand. Should this be the wrong place to post this message, could you please point me in the right direction?
The system consists of DS-2DE4425IW-DE and DS-2CD2386G2-ISU/SL cameras linked to a DS-7608NI-I2/8P NVR; the issues I am trying to resolve relate to Smart Events and iVMS 4200, however I will leave the latter for later as I think resolving the hardware related issues may help with iVMS 4200 too. When I started configuring Intrusion Detection via the NVR's web interface I couldn't get it to work - more specifically it only worked on one 2386 camera. Many attempts on both types of cameras failed to generate the notifications I was trying to receive on my mobile devices, so I cleared all the Event settings (one by one as there seems to be no multiple deletion facility) and set the same events up on each unit (via virtual host, camera management, etc.). This configuration worked on some of the cameras but not on others and the problem eventually turned out to be that some of the cameras didn't keep the configuration, i.e. when I logged in the cameras again after leaving the system to work for a while the "Enable" box was unticked, despite me having saved the configuration correctly and double-checking before logging off or closing the tab (the browser is Edge Chromium 89 and this OS is Windows 10).
In general, the configuration I use for Intrusion Detection is: tick "Enable", draw one or more areas, tried both setting and not setting Min/Max Size, select Human and Vehicle as and where required, set arming schedule as needed, select Notify Surveillance Centre, Trigger Recording. This process was applied to both my failed NVR configuration attempts and the direct camera's configuration.
I took the intermediate step, before discovering that the cameras could be set individually, of setting Basic Motion Detection in the NVR, which worked as intended (not to my satisfaction, but that's more down to the nature and limitations of Motion Detection, which I am aware of).
My conclusion from the above scenario is that everything likely works as intended and the problem is with the user (me), so here are a few questions which I hope someone can help me to answer.
1. Why in your opinion I can't get Intrusion Detection to work as desired when I configure it in the NVR?
2. What is best general practice with this configuration? Is it better to configure the NVR or the cameras one by one?
3. Given that both the NVR and the cameras are configured, either to do something or to not do it, at any given time, which one overrides the other? What happens if, say, both the camera and the NVR are configured to do something?
4. What reason can you think of for the cameras to lose the configuration?
5. Is there a better way to configure the system than the method I am using, e.g. using another software, etc.?
Thank you all for taking the time to read and respond.
Ivan