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Does anyone have a driver for the Hikvision NVR 7600 series? I'm trying to be able to view the cameras on a touchscreen and navigator. Can this be done? I've tried the blackwire designs driver and it doesn't really work and also the houselogix hikvision driver disappeared. 

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1 hour ago, poseidonsystems said:

Does anyone have a driver for the Hikvision NVR 7600 series? I'm trying to be able to view the cameras on a touchscreen and navigator. Can this be done? I've tried the blackwire designs driver and it doesn't really work and also the houselogix hikvision driver disappeared. 

how you contact Howard about the blackwire driver? he is really helpful!

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14 hours ago, poseidonsystems said:

Does anyone have a driver for the Hikvision NVR 7600 series? I'm trying to be able to view the cameras on a touchscreen and navigator. Can this be done? I've tried the blackwire designs driver and it doesn't really work and also the houselogix hikvision driver disappeared. 

Hi, the easiest way to get this to work is to power the cameras with a POE switch rather than using the POE on the back of the unit. Then the cameras can be on the same subnet as Control4. You can then add each camera individually to the C4 system as fixed cameras. This also has the advantage that you have access to the camera webpages to adjust them since some of these functions are missing if you do it from the NVR webpages.

Means a little more work connecting the cameras to the NVR, but not rocket science. The NVRs are much better controlled with an IR driver you make yourself so you can restrict which button presses are available. I only allow changing camera view (number buttons), cycling view type (PREV), and up, down OK. I also remove the IR from any number button that has no camera on it to prevent the Camera not available pop-up.

The NVRs are also pants with other IR codes. It reacts to pretty much anything from LG TV remotes to an old Technika TV from Argos! So cover up the bug receiver well.

In my opinion it is a waste of time trying to allow playback and search from a touchscreen or TV. Connect a monitor to the NVR with a mouse, it's fast and will avoid the customer being frustrated. If having the customer in the rack room isn't an option then I locate the monitor in a study or somewhere  and HDMI over twisted pair and mouse over twisted pair, works great.

 

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I was able to chat with Howard at Blackwire to get the driver to work. It works how I'd like it but I think next time I'm going to go with a PoE switch for the cams and just have generic IP drivers to access cameras on the navigators. Howard was definitely helpful! He sent me to these instructions that didn't really come with the driver originally:

https://3olxlp2h4a4u9p5jx4my87ku-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/NVR_DVR_Manfell.pdf

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I have 10 Hik Cameras thru a POE switch. I also have the DS-9632NI-I8 NVR. I can see the cameras individually in C4. I supposedly have the C4 firmware for my NVR. 

I have camera jumps based on programing and live view on TS/OSD and don't want to break this. 

Am I able to upgrade the NVR firmware to the latest Hik firmware. It won't be the c4 specialized one. 

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