To follow up on this - managed to get the motion snapshot functionality working by using additionally the Hikvision app ([App] Hikvision).
In addition to ONVIF (per above post) to enable “Notify Surveillance Center” option for the motion events in DVR settings. For my DVR the option is available under Configuration->Event->Basic Event->Linkage Method. Once enabled, the Hikvision app will capture these events from DVR, and then they may be used as triggers for motion snapshot updates.
As my cameras are analog (TVI) ones I cannot add them to Homey directly and need to use both Hikvision and ONVIF Camera apps to capture events and snapshot images from DVR. This does not work 100% perfect as you need to play with timings to get a meaningful picture after motion event occurs, but on the upside you may use other event alerts (line crossing, intrusion etc.) available from DVR to trigger snapshots.
Hi, I just got a Reolink RLC-520, it works fine w/ the Reolink app but w/ the ONVIF it doesn’t detect motion anymore. Anymore means I got a pic under Motion from yesterday but I don’t get any new ones.
Is there a particular setting I overlooked or changed w/out realizing it.
Thanks
Update: I did update the firmware y’day 2nd Update: did a restart and set the Motion detection method back to default, now it seems to work
Hello,
I’ve got some difficulties to log to my camera bullet because I don’t know which onvif service port to put.
I have tried 80 and 8000 and 8080 but i still have an answer : Connect Econnrefused…
Thanks for your quick reply.
It means “admin” without any password ? (err: could not find pair session)
or do you think that there is a “standard” local admin login with a “standard” password ?
I have tried with both admin but without password and without service port but I’m not able to log in
Eurêka !
the password is on the sticker of the camera (found with some other posts for HA) .
=> for Imou users
Don’t use your user’s login but
use “admin” instead of your email
and use the safety code putted on the sticker of your camera as password
You will have to complete the IP adress (something like 192.168…)
You don’t have to know the onvif service port (for me, it’s 80)
And you will be able to login
Excellent, glad you found it.
I was trying to remember how I set that one up but I have too many camera types now
In theory it should have automatically detected all the other settings if the correct username and password are used when adding the device. The hard part is knowing what they should be and every make is different.
Hello, i have 3 cameras in my hikvision nvr. When i imported them i did see the 3 channels and different tokens.
The problem is that on the cameras i always have the same camera image from channel 1.
So i neee help to figure it out?
Hi Adrian,
I just sent my log. I got 2 chinese cams, but one loses connection about every other day or so. This one is Wifi connected.
It is the one with IP …41
When I open the CamHi app, it connects to the cam and I can view live footage, this has not failed once, so we can rule out wifi issues I guess…
Restarting the onvif app doesn’t always help, rebooting the cam works every time.
So I don’t know if it’s the cam, or the app, or the combi of them.
I’m not in a hurry or anything, so if you can take a look at it at a boring rainy day, I’ll be happy already
The log is just showing that the camera is not responding to network request (socket hang up).
There could be several causes, such as a network issue or the camera has just stopped replying.
As rebooting the camera fixes it, I would guess there is either an issue with the network registration or the ONVIF stack in the camera is crashing.
Is the camera on a fixed IP or could the IP be changing?
