Best IP Camera APP

Looking for the best app to view your IP cameras on you phone or tablet? So I have tried a lot of IP Camera APP's for mobile device's and I am writing this to tell you which one is the BEST. Now some of the APP's have niche's or their own speciality but the most user friendly and professional is tinyCam Monitor.

tinyCam Monitor

http://tinycammonitor.com/

tinyCam Monitor is by far the best mobile application out there and I would highly recommend it. There is a FREE version so you can try and a paid version with more features is available. If you try the free version and like it buy the PRO version, its cheap and Awesome!!! I have recommend this APP to numerous friends, family and colleagues, as I am the Go-To person for security camera's. The all loved it, funny thing is I only told them about the free version and they bought the PRO version all on their own and came back to tell me about that version!

Plus this APP supports so many cameras, some of the camera's include:

• Hikvision
• D-Link
• Foscam
• Dahua
• Geovision
• Acti
• ONVIF
• Many more...

For a full list of supported cameras, see here.

The creator of this application is a genius, has the best APP of its kind on the marketplace. His free version is not terribly crippled either, really appreciate this.

Its available on Google Play, Amazon APP store, Blackberry World, Samsung Apps and the Chrome Web Store.







I am not affiliated with the creator at all, I just used this APP for the last 5 years and wanted to share my experience and satisfaction with the product. If the creator wants to send me a APK install file of the PRO version for my personal use, I would not object though. ;) Here's hoping, ha ha ha. As I only have the free versions installed, due to personal reason. However I have used the PRO version numerous times on other peoples devices.

SkyLink Home Control Android APK

Here is a copy of SkyLink Home Control Android APK I downloaded from google play before they removed it from the store.

Skylink Remote Android Application

www.ecthk.net.skylinkremote.apk

Date: N/A Size: 6.9MB  Creator: SkyLink Home Source: Google Play Store

Hikvision iVMS Linux

Hikvision iVMS4200 software for linux systems. This was hosted on the Hikvision website as a BETA copy. I downloaded a copy before it was removed and I am posting a copy here for my archival purposes.

Download Link:  iVMS4200-Linux.tar.gz

Hikvision iVMS Mac OS X

Hikvision iVMS4200 software for Mac OS X systems. This was hosted on the Hikvision website. I downloaded a copy and I am posting a copy here for my archival purposes.

Download Link:  iVMS-4200.pkg

HIkvision NVR Embed RTSP Stream

Embedding Live Hikvision NVR RTSP Stream into custom Website

Here is how to embed the Hikvision RTSP stream into a web page.

Copy the following HTML code and save it in a .html file and you can view the Hikvision NVR streams using it. Change the IP, Username and Password to match your setup. Change the subtream by changing the ending of if the URL from 2 to 1 (such as 101 instead of 102).

HTML CODE:

<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Hikvision NVR Live View</title>
<center>
</head>
<body border="0" bgcolor="black">
<h1 style="color:white;">Hikvision NVR Live View</h>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p style="color:white;" align="center">Camera 1 Substream</p>
</td>
<td>
<p style="color:white;" align="center">Camera 2 Substream</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<object ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab">
<embed TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/Streaming/Channels/102" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" autostart="1" showcontrols="0"></embed></object>
</td>
<td>
<object ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab">
<embed TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/Streaming/Channels/202" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" autostart="1" showcontrols="0"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p style="color:white;" align="center">Camera 3 Substream</p>
</td>
<td>
<p style="color:white;" align="center">Camera 4 Substream</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<object ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab">
<embed TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/Streaming/Channels/302" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" autostart="1" showcontrols="0"></embed></object>
</td>
<td>
<object ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab">
<embed TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/Streaming/Channels/402" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" autostart="1" showcontrols="0"></embed></object>
</td>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</center>
</body></html>

Excuse the bad code and formatting, I am not a web developer. But it works!

It works on both Linux and Windows, I find it works best when you have VLC plugin installed.

Hikvision FTP Sites

List of Hikvision FTP Sites or HTTP Download Sites, to get firmware and documentation.

Hikvision China FTP Site Note: Hikvision FTP Site is no longer active, link is to Hikvision downloads page.

Hikvision EU FTP Site Note: Hikvision FTP Site is no longer active, link is to Hikvision downloads page.

Hikvision USA FTP Site

Corrupt Datastore.edb

Windows Server 2003 Fix Corrupt Datastore.edb
 
Error Received: wuauclt (2096) The database page read from the file "C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb" at offset 4882432 (0x00000000004a8000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes failed verification due to a page checksum mismatch.  The expected checksum was 2374805580 (0x8d8ca84c) and the actual checksum was 2375854156 (0x8d9ca84c).  The read operation will fail with error -1018 (0xfffffc06

Fix: 1) In command prompt, type: net stop WUAUSVC
         2) In command prompt, type: net stop BITS
         3) Rename C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution.old
         4) In command prompt, type: net start WUAUSVC
         5) In command prompt, type: net start BITS
         6) Reboot and Done!


This post may be outdated as it was for Windows Server 2003, I am placing it here to keep it for my records.