Recent content by dmik

Hi StewartM - many thanks for suggestions. The explanation of 'percentage' and 'sensitivity' is really useful! I have checked all settings you suggested: 1) the SD card shows as "Normal" (I have taken it out and put it back again just in case; it was formatted yesterday too as I thought...

At risk of talking to myself now, I have connected the camera to QNAP (NAS) "Surveilance station" and to my surprise this software will correctly record motion events onto the NAS. So, there is something dodgy with HikVision firmware I would suggest.

Just did factory reset with the only settings now being static IP address (wired connection), motion detection (without area defined, so using 'Normal' settings) and event-based image snapshots and... still no recorded images, and now I don't have snapshots either. FTP tests are successfull...

Looking at the log files I see a lot of 'lstat failed' errors and I wonder if there is there is a bug in the firmware. I assume lstat will be trying to get file status of a firmware file so should not be problematic. The SD card has been successfully formatted few times so given the amount of...

Interestingly, I went to the FTP server to see if there was anything saved there... it turns out the camera has been recording still images but not movies at some point (I had event-triggered capture enabled). Also, I have switched on live object detection in local settings ("rules" option...

Hi, thanks for prompt response! Very useful comment as I hadn't realised I need to set different schedules and at Storage it was 'continuous' 24/7. I have now tried 3 things: 1. Under Storage I have first deleted all schedules and then 2. Under Storage I have put Motion as 24/7 schedule for all...

Hi I got one of Hikvision DS-2CD2442FWD-IW indoors cameras with with PIR sensor as I wanted to see how it's working before getting more and external cameras. I put the camera in the window overlooking a (busy) driveway as I wanted to test motion detection (without PIR and at daylight)...