Hello everybody and good day this is Fred with both Wentworth CCTV and Tech Talk our
new platform. I'm coming at you today with an awesome video on the new Danale CMS software for
a desktop or PC. You might have heard the story before, but about 10 years ago maybe 11 years ago
I did a big installation in a casino. Up until that point we had only used Hikvision
hardware but the casino operator wanted Danale because they've used it in the
past. They had it at other locations and they really wanted Danale so we put in the system.
I will tell you that when it came time to installing both the phone app and the pc software
it was a nightmare. It was disastrous and it took a long time to get that worked out. So after that
I stayed away from Danale. I stayed with Hikvision and Dahua for many many years for....... a decade.
Recently Danale came out with a PTZ that I really love. It's a good PTZ.
Quality 5 megapixel PTZ IP PoE the whole works. It works with their cloud service and it was
cost effective. So I gave it a try and I got to tell you, it knocked my socks off. I much prefer
this over Hikvisions IVMS platforms as well as the Hik-Connect App which is quirky at best.
I also prefer it over Dahua and I believe that the Dahua Smart PSS and the phone app that Dahua
has DMSS....those are bad ass products. Those are some good products. But this Danale is the first
one I've seen that allows you to connect to the cloud for storage with an IP camera without an NVR
with the click of a phone. And it is inexpensive, $5 per month which isn't too bad at all
for high-definition cloud storage. So we're going to get into this let's get into the video
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Alright kids let's get into it! The first thing we're going to do is download the software. So
there are two versions of the CMS. it's version 5.1.8. There is one for Windows which is what I
have and there's also a download for a Mac. In the description portion of this video, you will find
downloads for both of those. Just click on that link and you can download this stuff all right.
So, we will start the download. Unlike Hikvision's IVMS, this will not take a year to download, it
is a very quick installation. I usually don't keep people on video for this part, but because
it's so quick, I wanted to show you. Again one of the things I like is user friendly right...
okay it is done just like that it should automatically open.
It did put an icon on the desktop over here but I believe the app should automatically
open. And there it is now. Another cool function about this desktop CMS,
is it is linked to the phone app to the Danale phone app. There is a video on registering
with Danale through the phone app and connecting and attaching your P2P IP camera
to that account and also activating cloud storage to view that video and basically get caught up to
where we are now there's a link above right now above. That is good stuff so that's how you create
and register your account it's free to register account so we're going to log into it now...
and it should instantly connect to the camera.
That PTZ that we have networked with the Danale account
again that that was done in the video above. It's kind of just on a sliding door right now.
it's not actually Old Orchard Beach, but that's what it says so that's live view. The time stamp
needs to be adjusted but that is another issue. What we can do now is we can play back. This is
live view....what is going on right now. You can see live this little guy here at this icon is your
motion playback. If we click on that and then we click on our demo camera it will que up
all of our motion events. As you see over here so to play a motion event and again this
isn't blank or one of those deals where you only get still shots this is true video
determined to find something for you here
ah it's a reflection oh it's a dog what are you doing buddy guarding the place.
That is how the motion detection works. It's pretty cool. Obviously during playback if we
wanted to take a picture of the dog you can take a snapshot here okay and then you could
email that to the authorities. You can take a video clip of those types of things okay
then you're going to ask okay if you take a video clip where does it put it
right here local file right. So we saved it and there's a picture of the dog and obviously that
is what you could send as an attachment right. So yeah this is a pretty good tool. I do from what
I have seen find it favorable. I have got to be honest with Hikvision and Dahua, Danale has made
progress whereas Hikvision really hasn't. There are a lot of bugs and problems and issues with
Hik-Connect particularly with playback when you use Hik-Connect on a desktop like this. I have not
experienced any of those kinks with this Danale. The only real issue that I just had with you all
doing the playback is the sensitivity for the motion looks like it's still a little bit high so
that could be turned down and again the settings for the camera were covered in the previous video.
Hopefully you enjoyed the content. I highly recommend this. It is a cost-effective product.
I love the phone app. I love the way you can sign up for the cloud with the phone app. I
have not yet seen another phone app where you can sign up for the cloud with commercial equipment
with the click of a phone to me that is great. It's a great value at five dollars for 30 days.
I hope you enjoyed the video we'll see you in the field!!