D-Link Forums
The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: garyhgaryh on July 24, 2010, 01:50:43 AM
-
Is there software to allow recording of IP cameras onto the DNS NAS?
Synology NAS has a software camera manager that allows up to 5 IP cameras to be accessed by
it's nas. It comes with 1 free license and you can buy up to 4 more.
It would be great if the DNS-321/323/343 has software for IP Cameras.
Any aftermarket ones for our NAS?
Thanks,
Gary
-
Yes, i search for something me too..... Please help me.....
-
I don't know much about IP cameras, but don't some of them have their own web interface where you can configure things such as where the images/videos are saved? In which case can't you just save the images/videos to the NAS?
Then the issue would be allowing access to the NAS to view these images/videos. If you was in to hacking the NAS you could go a step further and make them available in a web page...
-
Ok, the camera d-link dcs-950g allow to write video directly to the nas, but the new one like dcs-920 need a software on the computer to write on a nas. the dcs-920 can write write directly to the nas by ftp, but only a still picture not a video.
i need a software looks like the dcam-view software by d-link to run directly to the nas.
thanks.
-
Unfortunately, I do not believe there is software that would install on the DNS-323 and then take over as your Network Video Recorder (NVR)... Usually when using a NAS box you'll need a computer running software 24/7 like the DViewCAM free software (only works with D-Link cameras) to point to your storage device..
However D-Link did come out with awhile back an actual NVR -- the DNS-726-4 which looks just like
the DNS-323 but has the intelligence built in it to control up to 8 different cameras.. (not just D-Link cameras but also Sony, Axis, Panasonic, Cisco, etc.. 8 different Mfg.)..
The device supports 2 SATA drives and even 2TB drives.. Once you setup this guy and point your cameras to it that's all you need.. no computer running all the time... it also has web interface to it to view 8 camera's live or if a Multi-NVR viewer software that allows you to view up to 16 live cams if you are using multiple 726-4 NVRs.
Hope this helps.
Storm
-
I can suggest that you save frames of the video instead of saving the video stream. This saves you a lot of diskspace and does the job.
Steps of making the DNS 323 as a cheap IP camera recorder.
1. You need to configure the DNS 323 as an FTP server.
2. Define a specific folder in the NAS and label it e.g. Cam1.
3. Define a user account in the NAS and call it Cam1.
4. Allow user account Cam1 to access Folder Cam1.
5. Configure the IP camera's FTP settings. It should be pointing to the 323's IP address.
6. You can configure the IP camera to send X number of video frames to the 323 based on the IP camera's capability to record based on a either of the triggers (i.e. detect audio, motion, or continuous recording).
if you want to view the video frames from Cam1, you can login to the FTP server from your windows PC.
1. Open your Windows explorer.
2. Type ftp://<ip address of your NAS>:21
3. Type your username and password for user account Cam1 when prompted.
4. And viola, video frames in the form of individual photo frames. There is no video per se but you can scan the photo frames. If you know the time frame that you are looking for, just check the time stamps on the file and you'll find specific segments of the video.
If you want to add more IP cameras, just define more Cam folders and Cam user accounts per camera. With some fancy settings in the DDNS, you can access your recorded video frames through the internet or you can also configure the IP camera to send the the video frames to a remote 323 FTP server anywhere in the Internet.
If you need more assistance on this, you can write to noneeno@tahoom.com. I can assist you configure your set-up for a minimal fee or even do the whole configuration remotely.
-
Just to add to Noneeno's idea. With a little work you could get a PHP/Lighttpd web server running on the NAS and have it serve the thumbnails/photos for your in a nice display.