Hello everybody and good day. This is Fred with Tech Talk and I'm coming at
you today with a quick video on what to do in the event you have a Hikvision,
or Dahua security surveillance system and you are trying to activate the motion activated alerts.
All of these systems have built-in capabilities that will allow the camera or the NVR or DVR
to email you a still shot of a motion event on your property. This works relatively well with
most email exchange servers however, Gmail gives people fits! The reason for this is there are a
couple of extra steps that you have to take in your google account to allow your email server,
Gmail's email server, to communicate with the NVR. Two-way authentication has to be shut off and
some other settings have to be adjusted. It is a simple process we're going to cover it right now.
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getting emails to the Gmail account from their dahua NVR. Okay, so that's what we're going to do.
The first thing we're going to do is log into our camera. Of course at this point the camera
has already been activated it is networked and it is live on a network. If you have not
watched my previous videos on how to complete that process with Dahua, there's a video going
across the top of your screen right now that you can click on and get caught up to this point,
again the Hikvision or Dahua camera has to be networked and it has to be activated before you
can log into it. This is a capture camera that is manufactured by Dahua. Once we log in the
operating system is exactly the same as Dahua cameras so we're going to go ahead and log in
once we log in we are going to go to the network settings. In the network settings,
this is exactly the same with a Hikvision camera, most all of these operating systems are pretty
much identical. They all have a section labeled email in the network tab. When you click on email
for a Gmail account you will enter the following for SMTP server. you want to enter smtp.gmail.com
just like that. For port, your recorder or camera is going to have a port,
here you want to erase that default setting and you want to type 465. Trust me that is the
only SSL port that will work with Gmail and the SSL mode that we're using. Okay, your username
that is going to be the email address of the Gmail account. This is WentworthTechnologies@Gmail.com
for me. The password is simply the password to your email account.
The sender is going to be the sending email account. I'm using the same email
as the Gmail account. For authentication we want to pick SSL, okay that's what this is.
We want to have attachment clicked off okay. This allows the recorder to attach a picture
of the motion movement to the IPC message or email. Okay and we're going to save
Now what we want to do is we want to log into your Gmail account. This is setting up
the Dahua or Hikvision camera to communicate with the Gmail account. Now we need to set up the Gmail
account to work with the Dahua or Hikvision camera or recorder. When you go into your Gmail account,
you're just going to pick this little icon in the top right corner, and we are going to pick
manage account. Once we're in here, we want to go over to the security tab and when we're in
the security tab there are a couple of things that we need to do to allow your Gmail account
to communicate with your Dahua or Hikvision NVR. The first thing we have to do, we have to turn
off two-step verification. We have to turn it off. Right now it's on. It is on by default.
So to turn it off we're going to hit this arrow we're going to enter our password
and we're going to turn it off. Just hit turn off it's going to send a text message
to your verification device, mine is my cell phone allowing us to turn off this feature
and right now, as you can see, we've turned the two-way two-step verification off. Remember
this is a recorder sending a message to your phone to set up the account. The recorder,
it does not have the ability to enter two-step verification. A Dahua or Hikvision recorder or
camera's not that smart. It can only send the email. That is why the two-step verification
has to be shut off. You could say well Fred that gives me an uneasy feeling. Is my email
communication going to be confidential? What I tell clients, that is you should have a
Gmail account or an email set up strictly for your recorder. All of these devices are made overseas
and you want an email that is used just for Dahua or Hikvision NVR and DVR communication. You do
not want this hooked to a work email or even a personal email. You want to set up a Gmail account
just for your surveillance system. And a good thing with that is you can also change the tone
right. At least for me, when my work email goes off or personal email goes off during
non-business hours it goes off a lot and I don't even pay attention to it most of the time because
it's not business hours. If you have this account set up with a different beep on your phone when an
email message comes through, you'll pay attention to it a lot of people do like a police siren,
or some type of siren and it catches your attention. You know oh shoot that's my security
cameras I need to look at that. So just a word of caution on that. You want to use this account
just for your surveillance system. The other thing we want to do down at the bottom there is a less
secure app access. It says account is vulnerable because you allow apps and devices that use less
secure sign on technology to access your account. Thats the Dahua or Hikvision recorder. By default,
this is off. So most likely when you log into your machine, and we go down to less secure app access
it's going to be off because that's how it is by default. If it is shut off I'm telling you
right now it will not work with the Dahua or Hikvision recorder. This has to be on so we're
going to do turn on access and it tells you it's not recommended, and we've already talked about
the reasons why. This will allow your Dahua or Hikvision NVR to communicate with Gmail exchange
server. okay and again if you're worried about security if there's confidential stuff going
through email you want to set up a separate Gmail account just for your Dahua or Hikvision recorder.
Now that we've done those two things right we've disabled two-step verification and now we're
allowing less secure apps to access our Gmail account. When we test this okay if i can find
my camera here we are if we test this it'll work okay so let's go ahead and hit test
and it succeeded okay that's telling us that the Dahua NVR is communicating perfectly with
the email. If it was not, it would say fail. Okay let's just let's go into here for giggles
and shut this off let's secure apps off now when I do a test it should fail right
if what I'm telling you is right it should fail because that's blocked so let's test
hey it failed what do you know okay so let's turn this back on
um the one other thing i did want to show you
while we're into the camera is you want to make sure that your event notification area right here
is actually turned on because when the camera is shipped event notifications will actually be
disabled okay so right here it says motion detection we want to enable that okay we want to
enable it and we want the send email tab checked and we want it to send a snapshot as well okay
so we'll go ahead and save that and what i will do i have this camera kind of haphazardly set
up stairs and again i'll move it in the window frame a little bit just to trigger a motion
and we will verify via email that we receive that alert all right you guys i am out of breath i
just ran up into the den area and triggered this camera i i moved the camera it's just
haphazardly set up in the den so we should have a notification in our in our email and right
there we see an alarm event along with a picture and that is me moving the camera okay beautiful
can zoom in zoom out but the motion
operation is working and that is how you open up gmail to allow your ip surveillance
equipment to communicate via email hopefully you enjoyed the video we'll see in the field