Hikvision Remote Access: Cloud Configuration for Cameras Worldwide (No Public IP/Router/DDNS)

You are supposed to have 51 free addresses on this network. One for NVR, the rest for cameras. These are the basics of the web.

Hello.
I bought a monitoring kit: IP 2xIPCAM-B4 4MPx IR 30m Hikvision.
As long as the recorder will be connected to the monitor to have a direct view, I would also like to have a view from anywhere on the phone where I have the Internet.
I’ve read about setting up a cloud account - but I’d like to do it more "securely".
Currently, my supplier is ORANGE - now I have no way to check the model of the router, because the whole thing will be assembled at the family’s.
Is it possible to preview in this way? - if so, I would like to point out step by step what settings need to be made, I guess in the recorder software. I suspect that entering the Orange router will also be needed.
The connection from the Orange router to the Hikvision recorder will be made via a twisted pair, the camera from the recorder’s ports (PoE), also connected via a twisted pair.

Greetings Marcin.

If you want to be safe, all clouds fall away.
You need to get a permanent public IP address from the ISP, install your own router on which you can run the l2tp/ipsec server for VPN tunnels and cut off access to the entire internet for the recorder, you can only leave access to the time server.
You configure a new VPN connection with your router on your phone and enter the local address of the recorder in the camera application. And that's it.

From what I've read, it is possible in the original ORANGE router-modem (this is Sagemcom Funbox 2.0) to configure VPN - is that it? Or do I have to buy another router after it?

I doubt that there is a VPN server in such equipment, the client would still understand. But if you want to be safe, it should be managed only by you, not Orange or who knows who else. So yes, you need to insert your router, move the equipment from the provider into a bridge so that you have a public address on the interface of your equipment. In the case of fiber optics, it is best to order the service with the ONT itself without a router from the provider.

So it's supposed to look like this:
Orange Modem ----> My Router ----> Hikvision DVR.
Can a computer connected via a cable together with a TV set still be connected to the Orange modem? Should they be reconnected to my new router? ?
And how is the WiFi still work as it works so far from the Orange modem?

After moving the Orange equipment into a bridge, Wifi is automatically turned off and you can use only one ethernet port to connect your router. And the entire local network is covered by your router to which you plug everything that was previously under the orange modem router.

Hello,
I bought a house with a Hikvision monitoring set up, it was set up 5 maybe 7 years ago on the sellers account, from which I did not get the access details. The CCTV is not connected to the internet, it's just hooked up permanently to the monitor and it runs all the time.

Is it possible for me to "reset" it myself or connect it to the Hik app to have a view on my phone of the monitoring?
If I am unable to do this myself, is there perhaps someone who can help with this subject from the Piaseczno, Grojec / Kozienice / Radom area?

Thank you,
Krystian

gabberek wrote:

can I manage to "reset" it myself or hook it up to the hik app to have a view on my phone of the monitoring?

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Since it was not connected to the "cloud" there is a chance that you can connect to your account.
Create an account, connect the hardware to the net and see what pops up when you scan the qr code.

cichy koksik wrote:

Create an account,connect the hardware to the net and see what pops up when you scan the qr code.

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Everything will then be visible from the recorder....

sosarek wrote:

Everything will then be visible from the recorder...

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All,meaning what?
Because as the previous owner added the registrar to his account it's either asking him to remove it from his account or writing to hik.
You won't do anything from the registrar level hence the above question.

cichy koksik wrote:

Because as the previous owner added the registrar to his account it's either asking him to remove it from his account or writing to hik.
You won't do anything from the registrar level hence the above question.

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You can just see if it is linked and on some old models it was possible to unlink....

@sosarek
Yes, here I would agree.

>>21213772 .
Hi, this is what I did, I created an account for myself on the app and scanned the QR code,
unfortunately it sends an acceptance request to the previous owner to the email address used probably during registration (I suspect that these emails are not read by anyone because it looks like the company email of a company that no longer exists)

Is there any way around this?

gabberek wrote:

can this be circumvented somehow ?

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I don't know how it is now, but it used to be done by companies for a fee.
I also had such a case, so I wrote to hikvision (some branch outside europe) and they did it for free, but I had to send them also a picture of the box from the DVR.
Give the model of the DVR and it will be easier.

sosarek wrote:

You can see if it is linked and in some old models it was possible to unlink...

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In newer ones too - I recently did such an operation on a model still available on the market.

Another way is to unplug using SADP.

niebieskipolo wrote:

Another way is to unplug using SADP

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This doesn't seem to have worked for a long time now-at least on the IP recorders I had.

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was set up 5 maybe 7 years ago on the sellers account

Before adding to any clouds check if you by any chance have a public fixed IP address, if not ask your ISP how much it costs, well unless you like traffic from your registrar going half way around the world and don't know whose equipment and who else has access to it. Another thing is that you need to update the firmware in your DVR, but a lot has changed there over the years.

>>21214121 .
I have internet from Orange (fibre I think) with FunBox 6 - I'm not sure how it's standard there, can I check it myself without asking Orange?

dktr wrote:

Before adding to any clouds check if you by any chance have a public fixed IP address, if not ask your ISP how much it costs, unless you like traffic from your DVR going half way around the world and don't know whose equipment and who else has access to it

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It is known that hikvision equipment.
On the other hand, no offence, but I find such posts funny.
More information from life is people themselves on fey😉.

AND I don't want the cloud, I would just like to be able to view from the live camera app. I have a HikVision Digital Video Recorder, DS-7116HQHI-F1/N with 5 cameras

gabberek wrote:

I would just like to have a preview from the live camera app

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That's what the cloud is.
Well, unless you only want local access, i.e. at home and not also outside the home.
I also know that it is possible to connect it somehow, probably via vpn, but it certainly won't be free.

>>21214724 And let them, but not everyone likes it. In general, these are strange times, most people don't give a shit about their privacy, they install whatever they want without cutting off access to the whole world, after all, even a stupid "wifi bulb" is just an ordinary computer that can set up a tunnel with anyone and use the Internet, not necessarily for good purposes, only to wonder why there are so many botnets for DDOS. Would you put a glass door in your toilet? Do you have curtains on your windows at home?

Without clouds and a public address, you'll only be able to browse in an app within your local network. And if you have a public address but a variable one - and you probably have one because Orange mainly sells such services: "Neostrada" after the light with a variable public IP and Businesspack with 5 fixed public IP addresses.

The safest option - Fixed public IP address received on your equipment (not ISP) then issued e.g. wireguard to which you will connect from outside the local network and only then you will have access to the local network including the DVR.

dktr wrote:

Even a stupid "wifi bulb" is just an ordinary computer which can establish a tunnel with anyone and use the internet for not necessarily good purposes,

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This is what I am writing about.You have focused on the DVR and are forgetting about other "innovations" that we have at home from light bulbs,thermostats,controllers to cameras or even laptops,phones.
And as I wrote earlier, some people don't need to hack into someone's account etc. because all the information is laid out on a tray from Facebook.
And as for

dktr wrote:

You have curtains on your windows at home

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I don't have😉.
I live in a country where this is not practiced.