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Credit cards have never been a free transaction to traders. It’s tighter margins in the race to the bottom that have caused costs to be passed on.
Cheques are a total pain in the butt, as is cash. I buy the goods I need over the internet and it’s all electronic. My groceries arrive from a nice man in an Ocado van when I want them (from 6am to 10pm 7 days a week). Yesterday was particularly fraught for us both so a kid on a moped delivered a pizza whilst the Mrs watched Strictly and I got some paperwork done on the laptop. Money that isn’t electronic I cannot spend in these places.
I do not wish to return to driving to the distributor to pick up and man handle boxes (or to find that we ain’t got any guv). Or waste over an hour picking over the crap in Tesco and trying to work out just what is included in the 3 for a tenner offer. Sometimes it is nice for someone else to sort out the evening meal and bring it to the door.
Our Christmas will be sorted by the online (local) butcher (already ordered) and Amazon. We did buy some paper decorations in Hema in Amsterdam (like you used to see here when I was a kid) and I can’t remember but we may have used folding stuff. However the evening drinks were settled in a civilized fashion by a bill at the end and not pay as you go. That was via a Euro debit card topped up electronically from my UK bank via a phone app.
Cash? Increasingly irrelevant to how I live my life.
Or you could use a contactless card…
I found it a PITA in Amsterdam when my contactless UK VISA card wouldn’t do the contactless bit. Worked fine any other way.
A pocket full of small Euro coins, now that is annoying.
Happy Birthday John.
See if you can use Hik-Connect (network / platform access). It is the easiest way to connect to cameras.
I can see nearly 100 customer cameras on my phone (not at the same time!) and also access the recordings. No port forwarding required. On one site the cameras are behind 2 routers, which is also the case if you use a Hikvision NVR with PoE ports.
Time to do a reset.
I’m not sure how far you can login, if you can get to the Configuration tab go to Maintenance and try Restore all parameters to default settings.
If you can’t login you’ll need to use the reset button on the camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=She6vbZYtbY&vl=en
It depends on how far the firmware update got. You may now have to activate the camera or it could still be on the old default password system. SADP will let you do either, you’ll need V3 if you need activation. Get it here
If the firmware update was a step too far you can get the intermediary ones from here
In the Network / Basic Settings / NAT uPnP may be enabled. This could well be changing the port so turn it off.
Things have changed dramatically when it comes to remote access with the introduction of Hik-Connect, it does away with Port Forwarding entirely. After you’ve upgraded the firmware see if you can use it. Network / Advanced Settings / Platform Access. Google “setup hik connect”if you can indeed use it.
I’ve just been to a Hikvision roadshow this morning. Fake noos, they do not have a backdoor problem.
“At Hikvision, we always stand up and take responsibility and we always will. While some do a lot of talking, we’re taking action every day to make Hikvision products as secure as possible. Constant improvement is built into our product development processes. In addition to our Network and Information Security Lab, The Hikvision Security Response Centre (ISO/IEC 27001 certification), and Hikvision Security Centre. We are working with CISCO and other top-notch companies to benchmark product security requirements, security design and security testing.
We regularly invite international organisations, such as Ernst & Young, to further evaluate and advise on our security system. We have also worked closely with renowned security companies such as Symantec, Synopsys and IBM. We are willing to cooperate on enhancing product safety with companies from all over the world.”
However vulnerabilities are found in products all the time, see the recent posts on WPA being compromised, and that’s why you need to keep your firmware up to date. Keeping the default password is also a huge vulnerability, indeed you cannot do this anymore with Hikvision kit. Anything new has to be activated and as part of that tou are compelled to choose a strong password. There is no such thing as a default password any more.
The camera is in the R0 family, the latest firmware is V5.4.5 170123 and you can download it from here
Also get the latest version of iVMS4200, if yours is old it may not work properly with the newer camera firmware. Get it from here
There should be no problem with Port Forwarding and security, just make sure you have a strong password on the camera. The port needs to be open or you can’t connect to it! A VPN needs to be terminated somewhere so you’d need a router (or PC) capable of doing that.
But reading your post I’m not even sure your cameras are even on a different site to the PC with iVMS4200? If you’re on the same LAN, Port Forwarding is not required.
I really wouldn’t worry too much about it. These things have a way of finding a life of their own whatever you do.
You can’t plan for everything, just let it run and tweak it later if necessary.
- Why not? people can have differing views on the same thing. But I can see it would be useful to have that as a thread and not separate posts. I wouldn’t get too worried about it.
- May be a thumbs up or down? i.e. fit for purpose or pants. A J1800 soc motherboard could only realistically get 1 or 2 stars as a motherboard but a big thumbs up as fit for a cheap and cheerful email and social media PC.
No problem.
Same as Boris – we’re not that far away. Been working inside all morning setting up CCTV cameras, went outside about 11am to find a weird orange world.
The Ubiquiti fix is in beta.
EDIT – it looks like the main problem has been fixed in an earlier firmware update. It’s the latest additional information received that’s in beta.
From a Ubiquiti employee on their forums @8:45 today:
Yes, this is partially patched in current releases. Partially, because we have recently received additional information and haven’t acted on it yet. Don’t panic, WPA2 is not broken and airMAX makes it more difficult to exploit. Planning to post more later today/early tomorrow, after the details are fully public.
I think it’s a great idea. It doesn’t have to be a detailed piece.
It’s hard to go wrong these days. Just stay away from the real cheap stuff and you get something decent where they’ve thought about the cabling too.
Same goes for the PSU, somewhere around £35 does the trick. I see a lot of moans about the Corsairs being noisy but I’ve never had that problem. The Aerocool has too many connectors! ? But that’s what the DVD bay is for these days, storing excess cable.
Various. Last one was the Aerocool QS182 Mini Micro ATX Computer Case with USB 3.0 Amazon £30 and Aerocool Integrator 500W Amazon £34
I’ve also used various Corsair PSUs of 400+ watt and the £30 ZALMAN T4 Mini M-ATX/M-ITX case and the Thermaltake Versa H15 M-ATX Case, but that’s up to £40.
I was skeptical at first but decided to take a chance and haven’t looked back since. I had all but stopped building due to the cost of Windows.
I always use an SSD, these days it’ll be a 240GB, but low end prebuilt PCs are still the realm of the HDD. I think it’s because Joe Public hasn’t a clue what they’re buying and think big numbers are better. Look at the PC World adverts for cheap laptops, shit CPU with a “massive” 1TB HDD.
Just built a general office & accounts PC for the local British Legion. 3.3Ghz Pentium, 240GB SSD, 4GB ram, W10 Pro, O2016 for £275. Goes like stink.
Read this review If you like Samsung and want to spend that sort of money I think you’ll love it.
I don’t know about Chi Phones, but the Motorola G 4 / 5 family do all me and my family want.
Just activated them both, no problems. Not had a problem with these types of E-Bay purchases at all.
I love it, it’s made my system building competitive again. People can now have what they need not the closest approximation. HDDs still rule at the bottom end of pre-built PCs which is mad.
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