New Hikvision NVR 5.0 is a disaster

matthyne

n3wb
Oct 14, 2017
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I recently purchased a new Hikvision 7608 NVR that runs the new 5.0 software as it has been nothing but a disaster.

Web access of this NVR just does not work and is so full of bugs it is effectively useless. Some of the issues I have encountered:

1. I just could not get the Web access to work with encrypted streams. I had to turn off encrypted stream to get anything to work.
2. Live view just will not show up any camera video. It will work when I hit full-screen but wont work with a 2x2 matrix. Tested on multiple PCs and multiple browsers with the same behaviour. Tried both TCP and UDP, different resolutons, sub and main videos all with the same results. (yes I have installed the plugin).
3. Playback just wont work reliably. Keeps showing errors, freezing
4. Numerous other bugs, errors and other messages.

Everything seems to work find on the local NVR (with a monitor plugged in) but I need to use this NVR at the remote site so the local access is not suitable. I wanted to be able to access the video streams and recordings via web access.
 
Some NVR's in the past have been limited to displaying camera feeds based on the total amount of resources the cameras are using.
If you have everything at 30 FPS and and UHD or 4K, some NVR's will not show more than 1 or 2 images on a remote feed.
Not saying this is the case, but
How maxed out is the NVR? If it's like an 8 channel, and you have 8 cameras, sometimes only 1/2 will have AI available, or less than a 1/2 will have 30FPS@4K available