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An all too common refrain from KD8003 owners and I may join the club. I can live with the bugs and the awful UI but I won't tolerate for much longer the inability to record motion events to a connected SD card. I'll give Hikvision until Xmas to fix their video intercom before I sell mine and my...

I couldn't work out if you are complaining about the lack of SD card recording functionality in the indoor station or the bullet cameras but even the latest "2nd generation" video intercom from Hikvision, the DS-KD8003-IME1, is a useless surveillance device. And Hikvision take great care not to...

@Ken, I suspect it was a Safari upgrade that torpedoed your web access. You may have better luck if you upgrade your Os to Catalina - even though Apple state that Safari supports only one plugin (Flash Player).

It seems to depend on which camera and which firmware. I have eight cameras, all updated as far as possible, and only one of them - the DS-2CD2543G0-IS with FW V5.6.3 build 190923 - works online in Safari (v13.1.2) or any browser under High Sierra. Maybe it would be an over-simplification to say...

I feel your pain. Maybe this thread will help. I am reduced to running Windows in emulation on my High Sierra Mac, via Parallels Desktop. Therein, I can access my cameras online using Internet Explorer (not the default Windows browser).

Is this any help?

Ah thanks. I got over-excited: I thought you had a DS-KD8003-IME1 door station, the alleged second generation which doesn't record video AFAICT.

@mattcandy, if you are able to record motion events from your 8350 door station, I would be grateful to hear how you managed it.

I believe they are two sides of the same coin. Smart covers diverse config options - including manual tracking a selected object in live view for example - while Auto is what you get when you set it up to automatically track motion-triggered (or smart event-triggered) movement without any human...

100Mbps out of the camera is the norm - and more than enough to deliver 4MP video at 25fps. It's good that your problem is cured but I suspect the cause lay elsewhere. You lost me when you said you were viewing two 4MP streams over 100Mbps. That suggests that your switch or some other hub was...

@Kyle, in High Sierra (Os 10.13.6), this installer appears to place the web plugin in /library/internet plug-ins but Safari seems unable to find it there as it isn't listed in Safari's website settings (and certainly isn't working). Safari seems to expect it to be in...

More money than sense, us macheads ;)

@talby101, you might take a look at the free trial version of SecuritySpy which is a Mac-specific VMS that runs sweetly on my Macs but I've never explored all the config/alert options. It's not free, nor even cheap, if you have more than a couple of cameras but it's rock solid and very actively...

Hikvision's support for Mac Os is shocking; but there aren't many browser options under Windows either, ie Internet Explorer which is clunky and ugly. Best choice of a bad bunch is to run Windows in emulation via Parallels Desktop. Given that Apple has just announced that it is migrating its...

You can get a direct rtsp feed from the camera to any IP device which can run VLC. You would have to find a way to keep the device powered on/charged up though.

If the cameras aren't too far away, you could run a temporary ethernet cable from each one in turn to a POE switch and then directly into your LAN/PC. If that's ok, run it into your NVR and test again. I keep a spare 100m cable for such tests. Alternatively, you could temporarily lash up a...

You may be out of luck. The ONVIF "S" rating is the one which gives you motion capture and only one Reolink camera (RLC-410WS) has it, according to the ONVIF website. ONVIF 2.1 support, which Reolink claim, may give you a live feed but it's unlikely to afford full functionality.

You'll have trouble finding a wires-free battery operated camera which works with an NVR. You might have to settle for cameras with SD card slots from a company such as Reolink which includes a good free software VMS. But I wouldn't recommend wi-fi for mission critical security applications...

Something like this perhaps?

If your TV supports it, you can also view your live feed in a picture-in-picture window in the corner of your screen which detracts somewhat from Ant & Dec but saves you from switching AV channels.