Hikvision NVR App(iVMS-4500)

Connecting to your Hikvision NVR using your phone or tablet with the Hikvision Application called iVMS-4500 and iVMS-4500 HD. This will help you remotely connect to your Hikvision NVR or DVR from the internet on your phone or tablet. If your iVMS application is crashing on your device or you cannot connect to your NVR using the application, please try the following.

Forward the following ports on your router:
Web Port         : 80
Data Port         : 8000
3G RTSP Port : 1024
RTSP Port       : 554

***Please note that forwarding ports on your router opens these ports to the world, so make sure you have a good password on your NVR and do not leave the default password. My regular disclaimer always applies; I take no responsiblity for anything.

Hikvision 3MP Bullet DS-2CD2032-I CD

I Must say I quite like the Hikvision 3MP Bullet DS-2CD2032-I, quality is amazing. I have uploaded the CD that came with mine for my own archival purposes. For those who have lost/damaged you CD's, well I guess you have a copy too now ;).

Download DS-2CD2032-I CD

IP Camera Firmware Updates

On this page I will post IP Camera firmware updates for cameras I have or had. I do NOT take responsibility for bricking of device or any result of using these images. This posts will host multiple IP Camera Firmware Versions for MY archival purposes. This page will be updated when possible.

Hikvision Raptor Series Firmware Files:

Raptor_2xxx_Series_IP_Camera_Firmware_v5.1.0_131202
Raptor_2xxx_Series_IP_Camera_Firmware_v5.1.2_140116
Raptor_2xx2_Series_IP_Camera_Firmware_v5.2.0 140721
Baseline Firmware_IPC_Raptor series_En_V5.1.6 140412 (Euro Hikvision Site)
Raptor_2xxx_Series_IP_Camera_Firmware_v5.1.6 140411 (Chinese Camera Version)

Geovision CAW-220 Firmware Files:

Firmware_IPCAMBX220_V201_2012-11-19
Firmware_IPCAMBX220_V207_2013-06-13
GV-BX220_V209_131107.zip
GV-BX220_V211_140214.zip

 

D-Link DCS-2230 Firmware Files:

DCS-2230_FW_V1.00.00
DCS-2230_FW_V1.00.02
DCS-2230_A1_FW_V1.20.00

 

Dahua IPC-HDB3200CN Firmware Files:

General_IPC-HX3XXX_Eng_N_V2.103.0000.0.R.20120724
General_IPC-HX3XXX_Eng_N_V2.103.0001.0.R.20120914
General_IPC-HX3(2)XXX_Eng_N_V2.210.0001.0.R.20130517
NetVison General_IPC-HX3XXX_Eng_N_V2.103.0000.1.R.20121123.zip

 

Wanscam Firmware AJ-C2WA-B118 :

WebIU 18.0.18.23 & Embedded FW 47.37.2.49

SMC SMCWIPCFN-G2 Firmware Files: 

FW_SMCWIPCFN-G2_1.1.0-6_20100303_r202

 

***Note: I do not take any resposibility for using any of the files posted above. This is for MY archival purposes. Use At Your OWN Risk!!

GV-CAW220 with Zoneminder Working

This is how I got my Geovision GV-CAW220 IP Camera working in Zoneminder.

Step 1) Follow instructions here to install H264 for Zoneminder if you don't already have RTSP streams working in Zoneminder.

Step 2) Add the camera to Zoneminder:
          i) Create a new monitor and choose source as ffmpeg
         ii) Click on source tab, add rtsp://username:password@192.168.1.120:8554/CH001.sdp?tcp to  the source(change your IP as neccessary on your network, and your username and password.
         iii) Colours is 24 bit, Width is 1920, Height is 1080, Click save and it should now work. Please note if you want to use the Sub stream change the CH001 from 001 to 000.

Please note, with motion detection recording to SD card of the camera and zoneminder streaming ON simultaneously I get RTSP drop outs. I had to disable Audio and change monitoring mode to scheduled. If you have found a way to avoid video dropouts in ZM when using RTSP please let me know. Or at-least an auto reconnect feature.

This should also work with GV-CB120, GV-CB120W, GV-CB220, GV-CBW220 and other Geovision IP Cameras in Zoneminder. Please leave a comment if it worked for other cameras so I can list them here.

Dahua IPC-HDB3200C CD

I have uploaded the ISO file of the CD that comes with the IPC-HDB3200C IP Camera for my backup/archival purposes and linked it in case you would like a backup or have damaged/lost your CD.

IPC-HDB3200C(WEB3.0)_20120802.iso


CD Contents:
User's Manual:
IPC Web3.0 Operation Manual V3.5.1  201207.pdf
Mini IP Dome Camera User_s Manual V3.5.0  201204.pdf

Tools/Player:
General_Player_Eng_IS_V2.13.0.R.20111110.exe
Player Operation User's Manual Version 2.1.0.1.pdf

Config Tool:
ConfigTool Instructions.pdf  General_ConfigTool_Eng_V1.06.0.R.120628.7z

ATS:
Absolute Time Server.exe

PSS:
General_PSS_Eng_IS_V4.06.2.R.120711.zip

BlackBerry:
General_DMSS-BlackBerry-Direct_Eng_IS_V2.00.0.R.110610.rar

Quick Guide:
Mini IP Dome Camera Quick Start Guide V1.1.0 201202.pdf

If you have a newer CD or Firmware update please message me with a link. Thanks.

Dahua IP Camera Micro SD Error

I had a problem with my micro SD card in the Dahua IPC-HDB3200C IP Camera, It would not read it, kept saying error even after a format.

To resolve this issue I formatted the MicroSD card on my windows machine using the SD Formatter 3.1 Tool which can be found here. Once formatted I popped it back in the camera and all is well.

My pfSense Alix 6B2 Passive Cooling

So I bought a Alix 6B2 embedded system kit to install pfSense and use it as a standalone OpenVPN server. Before I set it up I decided to add some heat sinks to it to keep all the chipsets nice cool and hopefully prolong the life of the board and reduce errors(run more stable and cool). Heat kills components quickly so by adding these I have essential reduced the temperatures that these chips would normally be under.

Here is what it looks like:

I put copper heat-sinks on all ram chips(4 chips on the left) and on a small chip(possibly a bridge) on the right. I put a big aluminum heat-sink on the main CPU and 2 small aluminum heat-sinks on the two VIA chips for the NIC's.

I purchased all heat-sinks from Dealextreme with the exception of the CPU heat-sink which was from an old motherboard. However there are heat-sinks the same size of the CPU on ebay sold as Linksys heat sinks.

I just thought I'd share what I did and what it looks like, this was an upgrade from my WRAP 1E2. I will make a post of my VPN throughput increase by upgrading to this board when I get some time.