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    VPN and DDWRT setup

    Thanks for that I may look at that. The problem is that what got me into this whole mess was buying a camera on Amazon. I dont want to buy anything on amazon, but might be forced to. I do however really like the ddwrt software. I have used it before several times but never for VPN. I may have...
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    VPN and DDWRT setup

    Thanks I have seen that. I'm not really happy about it, and am unclear how much of a threat it is. However I have tried and tried and tried to re flash my router with ddwrt VPN version from their DB that support openvpn but with no success. They also say OpenVPN is harder to set up, and Ive had...
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    VPN and DDWRT setup

    Not sure how I solved it but I did. I flashed it again, the router and set up again. One important thing that I seem to have found out. For the pptp chap password you cannot use special characters. Use only AlphaNumaric Upper and Lower. I think my experiments show that things like #$! dont...
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    VPN and DDWRT setup

    Ok I seem to have figured out what my problem was. It is that when you use windows 10 for example to vpn make sure that you in the set up of the vpn select pptp as the VPN type. It was set to automatic, but when I specifically told it what to use pptp it worked. So Now I have a second...
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    VPN and DDWRT setup

    I have done pretty well setting up my flashed DDWRT router. It is the second router behind a dlink. I can ping upstream cameras on different network when I login to the wifi network of the ddwrt router. Eventually I will try to make it so I can access it from the world. I just want to get it to...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    mm thanks. Does it help that it clearly has chinese writing on the box that it came in? It seem's to be clearly designed for a chinese audience and shipped from Hong Kong??
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    VPN Primer for Noobs

    Yes well Im not sure it fits. I read here if I had a vpn router upstream (as I do) and it has VPN do I just port forward to that router and then set up VPN on that router, since I cant change my wan router?
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    VPN Primer for Noobs

    mm rats. So you would port forward to another router that has VPN ?? What about IPTunnel. ? asume that is the same. Between two networks, there is no client for phone .
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    VPN Primer for Noobs

    I have a router from my Service provider. It has IPSec settings but I don't know how to set up. I'm hoping to use it to view my cameras from my phone and tablet when away , I assume I can install software todo this on these devices? I have called the service provider and they do not provide...
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    Thank you for your response. This camera does not have CCCH in the the serial number but it does have "CH". By the way I was mistaken about the camera I was confusing with another. The proper product code is DS-2CD3145F-IS. Is this fixable.
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    R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

    I'm new to this after learning that my camera which I thought was broken has probably flawed software. I turned off upnp and port forwarding and now the camera seems to be not loosing its settings every hour or so. Its been up for a day or more, when it was resetting every hour or so. My...
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    Upgrade gray market camera

    Well I have pretty much disabled everything so I'm waiting to see what happens. So far it's working for 7hours. Recently it only lasted only few hours. I thought about plugging in and disconnecting from net work to see if it held settings but since its Poe with a switch I will have to dig...
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    Upgrade gray market camera

    I have stopped all port forwarding of port 8000 and turned off pump. So far it has not lost my settings yet. Although I have had it last a few days. But if this fixes the problem then it indicates that the flaw has been used. Thus an upgrade would fix it . How can I tell if DS 2CD3145F -IS. Is...
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    Upgrade gray market camera

    Yes that's true. It was actually the first thing I bought on amazon. I'll never do it again. Thus trying to close the security hole can anyone answer the original question I posted ?
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    Upgrade gray market camera

    Thank you for your comments. I have at the moment installed a new camera in the same location and brought the failing camera in and plugged it in. It will be interesting to see if it looses its settings now after i have set it up again. While your points are well taken, however a couple of...
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    Upgrade gray market camera

    The camera is several years old and has worked well. It has started resetting over the last month or so. The camera is not visible to the WWW. The 8000 port is forwarded but I went into he web interface of the camera and changed it to a different port. I have subsequently bought Hikvision...
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    Upgrade gray market camera

    I did not know at the time when I bought the camera from amazon that my camera was going to be such a pain. I even called Hikvision and they told me my camera was gray market. A term I knew nothing about. Anyway I do now. I have the problem where my camera keeps loosing its settings and...
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    Stop light not working for new camera

    You may be right. However I saw many posts at the time with people having upgrade issues. Sometimes I like to not tinker with what is working, for the thought that new is better. Perhaps I should revisit?
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    Stop light not working for new camera

    Perhaps my search and reading skills fail, but I tried searching for the answers and could not find them at all and got no hits. The software is great but the helps are a bit thin and some cases seem to have little answers, some more or less. I find loging on and posting questions time...
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    Keyframe Interval (GOP) ??

    I have tried to read up on Keyframe Interval which I think ? is the I-frame I'm confused despite reading many posts and web sites. It appears the setting is somewhat based on needs and equipment. The question I have in part is does a low number like 30 use less cpu. The default seems to be 300...
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    Stop light not working for new camera

    Ok Well I have resolved the two issues I had. 1. The red box around the camera when recording is normal. Not sure how to turn off or if I want to BUT, the reason I didnt see it on my other cameras is because there was no activity on those cameras. I discovered that when there was activity they...
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    Stop light not working for new camera

    I have a purchased a new Hikvision camera from dealer. Dome DS-2CD2145FWD-IS. Im having some issues with it. For some reason it seems to be a real hog on CPU. While I'm trying to fix that, I have noticed a few things. Its probably just some button some where I have not checked or unchecked. 1...
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    Where does time come from on Bi ??

    So in saying this I infer that there is no specific time settings for this. But rather most likely I need to go to the bios in the computer to either pick up the time from a time server or from the clock in the bios. Thanks.
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    Where does time come from on Bi ??

    I have an older version of BI which works great. (4.8.6.3. w32) I want to know here does the time that BI uses come from. Is there a setting for this. I cant find it. To be clear, I'm not talking about the Camera Properties / Configuration/System settings/time Settings. This is for the...
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    Web ui and watchguard firewall block

    Has anyone used bi Web ui and watchguard. My local region uses watchguard and I know watchguard blocks certain types of files and I need to tell them what types to allow for the watch guard. The Web UI logs in and then immediately logs out when I'm using the regions internet however when I do it...
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    Web UI showing skewed videos and thumbnails

    You may have hit upon something. I looked at the Video settings for both cameras in BI and indeed the 360 setting was set to Ceiling. I have changed them to NO. I will have to wait to see if this fixes it. Perhaps I don't understand 360. I set it to Ceiling originally because, well the...
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    Web UI showing skewed videos and thumbnails

    Thanks I will look into the suggestions and get back to you. BTW here is a bigger screen shot just to show the problem. I wondered to my self if it was just the computer its self. The tests I had been doing were on the BI Web Server its self which are a win 7 computer. I tested it on a windows...
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    Web UI showing skewed videos and thumbnails

    I have to go away now. It appears no one has had this problem because I assume someone would have said OH yes here is the answer. So I really don't know how to resolve. It is happening more frequently. I have tested the clips on the BI software server and the videos are recorded nicely. Also it...
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    Web UI showing skewed videos and thumbnails

    Thanks for your reply. You're right it does look like a 360 picture. But No cameras are set to 360. And it is only a few videos from the same cameras. I think the videos are there. The one in particular that I looked at and it was there in tact. It's an erratic thing.
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    Web UI showing skewed videos and thumbnails

    When I log on to my BlueIris web site to look at videos and pictures remotely there is an odd issue that I dont understand. Some of the pictures and videos show a split thumbnail where the videos/pictures show the picture skewed. I'm submitting a picture to show you. Here is what gets me to that...
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