Re firmware, nice! Ive grown used to 6 digits, but good to know.
Re door1 v 2, im using it to control two entrances: main door and, side gate. So each are configurable independently.
Cool,
I read now that with firmware updates , you need to upgrade each firmware in ascending order? So if there are 5 newer, you need to update one by one
See here https://us.hikvision.com/en/support-resources/firmware/access-control-and-intercom
Edit: probably only for NVR
No , i mean with door 1 and door 2 , in that “IO input/output” , there is also an option to configure seconds… What seconds are those? You define the seconds on the “access and elevator” menu
EDIT: nm, got the hardware , all good 
@keiran.harris , still struggling with one thing, to add pincodes for the key access
i know the submodule works, because if i create that permission password, you can define max 3 , i can open the door with code like #123456#
but normally this can be done by access groups, so i can create more people then 3
so i create a user, i give it a correct expiration year 2049 , i give an code like 654321 , none of the checkbox are applyed there like super user …, access group enabled here
on resident config bind device , i enable it with indoor station floor 1 , no 1 , also tried here with outdoor station , or leave it blanc completely, not sure what i need to enter here …
then i create access group i add the person in it, also below i enable the outdoor station on the accesspoint available
i apply all
but if then enter like #654321# it gives a error : incorrect code
i am missing something , no idea what
Sorry, 3x 6-digit codes (known inside iVMS as “public passwords”) are fine for us, so i stick with that, so unsure about how to help here. Perhaps that firmware upgrade you spoke of to bring it down to 4, then a two digit apartment code in front of those? That would open it up to hundreds of thousands of entry codes!
Hikvsion support can be worth a shot. They helped me a few times on this unit. If your first email to them has this table format you will save a day or two of lost time in email back/forth ive found.
Ok, will do
Are you doing uk or eu firmware updates?
Last thing I am figuring out, seems my indoor device also have a NO1/com relay, so want to my door connected to that output relay instead of outside, because if someones screws out the outdoor station, they can easily open the door by holding to 2 cables to each other…
Just not sure how to setup to use the relay from the inside intercom as default
Re indoor station NO1/COM - yeah that was apparent to me also when i messing with it on my desk. It influenced my wiring design (only one leg needs to come back to outdoor station, the other to the 12V DC transformer, which for me is in the roof, so this wire path is inaccessible at the outdoor station).
Re firmware - im still on the version that factory shipped.
Ok, gonna ask my supplier how to setup this in ivms, need to be possible…
I am using POE, but only 4 wires from UTP, not all 8 , so I can do stuff with the other 2 pairs… One for door and one for maybe future stuff… Maybe an output trigger , to connect to my ESP…
Also at the outdoor station i have 2 pairs left, only using 2 pairs there also for POE… It works
All is offcourse on 10/100, more then enough for a doorbell…
Impressed now much better then the more expensive doorbird
great to hear! (im v.happy too). I like your thinking getting more ‘bang’ out of a cat6 lead to these units. Keep us posted how you get on. Esp if you manage to trap the button press event.
Will do, have a nice evening
@keiran.harris , for info, with this new firmware, see rls notes, you can now have 16 public passwords instead of 3 , so I can solve my problem 
Oh and then you can use also 4 digits instead of 6
Ah, amazing! Will upgrade tomorrow. Is it done via iVMS?
Yeah, but I lost all settings, and got calling failed
So did a factory reset , and ,as working again
The software is changed, it’s completely web-based now
Just read the upgrade pdf in the link you sent above. Looks like there is a http server now too! Hooray! (This would invalidate the need for my ffmpeg hack). And interesting note RE SSH - perhaps thats a hook we can use to enable door unlock inside of HASS. Will upgrade today.
Yeah but seems only available from ivms
What are you doing with the ffmeg hack?
I have now configured both outdoor and indoor on POE, with 4 wires on UTP, so I have 4 wires left for other stuff…
I have now configured relay 2 of my indoor station with the option"call linkage" in ivms… So I have a dry contact when someone pressed the doorbell , gonna hook it to my esphome, that way I can trigger notifications and record the motion on my synology on doorpress event…
It would be nice indeed to also have a door open trigger from HA , maybe with ISAPI ? Did you try that?
Edit: interesting… https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/hikvision-ds-kd8003-ime-new-video-doorbell.36673/post-505421
My ffmpeg ‘hack’ is just to get a still image in lovelace.
all other ‘full’ cams i have have a HTTP interface, so when you set them up, you do: 
… but the doorstation doesnt have a http webserver in it (at least on my firmware) over which a still image snapshot could be served - so i have to do this (note the dummy URL which does nothing, and the local file platform duplicate:
… so, i have an automation that does this: 
… which calls this:
… and finally my lovelace card (note the two different entities, so that if i click into the still, i get the streaming video)
quite long winded just to get a still image on my homepage! (basically as the video feed over RTSP works, use FFMPEG to open that stream, and snap a still frame from that video, in the absence of the camera doing it for me and serving that image up over a http webpage)
when you say HTTP only inside of iVMS,… are you saying with the new firmware, you cant hit the IP address of the doorstation directly using http:// ?
let us know how you get on with the ESPhome linkage.
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Hi, the esphome will work, it’s just a dry contact, the same for the electrical lock, its closed for x second, gonna hook in into an input pin… Did it also before to make my old doorbell smart…
Thnx for sharing the ffmeg hack, gonna use it too, allthough i am not 100% sure if it’s needed? If you put “live view” enabled in Lovelace , it doesn’t need s still image i believe…?
It’s indeed a new layout in ivms, but I think you still need ivms to open that http interface. Some kind of security to not access it from a classis browser…
Do you think you can manage to get the electrical lock open with ISAPI? See my previous reply with link to that forum… I think it must be possible
If you want streaming live view of video, you can do that yup (i think), but, all day every day (i have like 12 cams) is too much incoming video for me hence stills much better for me and you click into any of them if you want a live feed.
RE ISAPI - id be surprised, ref back to the fact there is no HTTP listener on the outside station. API’s (mostly) happen over HTTP(s) - i.e. REST.
Ok, but it must be possible, not? Maybe indeed with http… with ivms we can open door, so it must be possible
Another road is maybe the sip protocol, then I don’t need the extra wire for doorpress event hooked up to esp, and maybe with the command #1 we can open door