Hikvision setup

Configuration
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My Automation:

- alias: Doorbell
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    to: 'on'
    entity_id: binary_sensor.porch_sensor_line_crossing
  action:
  - service: notify.pushbullet
    data_template:
      title: Front Door Alert!
      message: Someone is at the front door.
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I did try notify but i need to move the cameras some first, and get the sensativity to work better.
I have some 4MP and some 2MP cameras, the 4MP is alot better i think.

How well does line crossing works for u? Alot off false alarms?

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Line Crossing works great, 0 false alarms, except for the ocasional stray cat.

This would be the next project to keep them away hehehe.

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I’m using the regular motion setup in the camera too. Lots of false alarms even with the sensitivity set to 20%. Seems to be when the sun go down or comes up. Think I will try out line crossing today and see how that goes. Do you know if you can do more then one line crossing?

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I don’t see any option to add a second line, even though it shows Line 1 above the settings area.

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Ya same here. Just playing around with the intrusion detection. I wonder how that works.

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Works similar, but with more defined parameters.

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Thnx for the automation script. Could you tell how this script should look like with Hikvision screenshot jpg?

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See the following discussion.

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You can only get an higher resolution sub stream if you lower the main stream resolution, its a bit of a trade off unfortnuatly. The higher end hik cameras have enough cpu power to enable both streams as high res, but then you’re paying more.

hope that helps

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https://community.home-assistant.io/t/hikvision-setup/196/21?u=trinityeon

Hikvision cameras have two way audio capabilities. It would be awesome to receive the audio on your device through HA. I had another thought of using the mic input from the camera for Voice control. Eg “Hey Google
 turn on this light”

Some useful info:

http://download.viakom.cz/HIKVISION/Manualy/Navod%20Hikvision%20URL%20streaming%20EN.pdf

https://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=Hikvision

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I’m new with home assistant, but one of the things that made me want to try it was this. I have a NVR, the IP cameras, are plugged directly into the NVR. I believe I’ve set everything up correctly.

Home Assistant found 4 motion sensors, and 4 line cross detector devices. But I never get any alerts. I don’t get alerts on my app either. But I do see them if I log into my NVR directly, so I know they are happening.

They are all on the same network, so I don’t think I need any port forwarding, etc.

Any tips, places to check? Anyone else have issues getting their alerts?

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Not sure if it works from the NVR, as I’m connecting directly to the Cameras connected to my LAN.

Did you try enabling "Notify Surveillance Center on the NVR / Cameras?

image

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Yes, Actually when the notify surveillance center is unchecked, home assistant does not add them as sensors. I found that out because they were not checked at first.

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Try using the Virtual Host Address for the Cameras, which should read the data directly from the Camera.

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How do I do that? Sound promising.

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Enable Virtual Host on the NVR, and then you can access the Cameras directly at http://nvr_ip_address:65001 for Camera_01, 65002 Camera_02, etc


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Hi all
I want to add hikvision camera to my HA. I have camera connected to my HikVision NVR and i have enable Virtual host for camera. Example camera is on ip NVR and port 65002.

I add this configuration to my HA but i dont see image from camera:
camera:
platform: mjpeg
mjpeg_url: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/Streaming/Channels/2/preview
port: 65002
username: admin
password: xxxxxxxxxx

Please help me.

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did you ever find a solution for the Hikvision NVR feeds?

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I also need this info