Hi guys Hik Guru here in todays video I'm going to be showing you how to configure your HikVision NVR
from start to finish. Before we get started this NVR here has already got a surveillance hard drive
pre fitted we fitted this in our previous video if you are unsure of how to fit your
hard drive just click over here or over here and we'll show you how its done.
So lets get started, in your HikVision box you'll have a mouse, power cable,
and our transformer. So firstly lets undo our power cable
take off the plastic cap you're then going to plug this end of the kettle lead into the transformer
plug that into a mains 240v socket. And then lets spin our NVR around so this is a DS-7604NI-K1/4P
so our power cable is going to go into here so we're going to grab the
end of this cable and pop that in there and we'll quickly just undo our mouse aswell.
So this is a usb mouse you've got a port on the back here
or a port on the front I'm going to pop ours into the back like so.
Undo that power cable a bit, right then, so now you're going to want to plug your HDMI source in
or you've got a VGA source so this will be to your monitor or to your TV
so in my case I'm going to plug in a HDMI cable so I'm going to grab this
and pop that in there and the other end goes to your screen
so next we'll get our IP cameras CAT5 cable again this has been prewired
this is in one of our previous videos how to put an end on a CAT5 cable if you are unsure
of how to do that see that link there I'm going to pop this cable into port 1 on my POE ports
I've only got 1 camera but you can have up to 4 cameras on this
NVR next we've got our LAN port so that's for our network so that'll go to your router or you could
use a TP-Link PowerLine adapter so I'm just going to grab our network cable got this out of the
HikVision box itself its a grey cable standard CAT5 ethernet into the network port
and that goes to my router so that's everything at the back of the NVR you
can of course neaten it up afterwards do some cable tidying etc. So now we're just
going to turn the power onto the NVR just here you'll hear it start to beep start to bootup.
Should make a beeping sound so that's your post beep
and eventually when it does fully bootup if you've got a brand new hard drive fitted
it'll constantly beep every few seconds this is just to show that the hard drive isn't initialized
yet and is not ready for use so now I'm going to flip the screen over and we'll head over to our
monitor. Right guys now our NVR is powered up this is the first screen that we can see
we need to select our language so in our case English click on apply,
set the resolution to 1080P yes please if your monitor or TV is 4K I'll show you how to change
that later on in the video. Right so now all we need to do is create a password for your NVR
preferably as you can see we need at least 8 characters
and try to use a capital letter number symbol for this demonstration I'm just going to create a
random password try to make it as difficult as possible
as you can see that has come up strong.
Camera activation password will use the password that we just created so we don't need to type
anything in there however if you do want to make it different untick this and type in a different
password and then reserved email I'm going to leave that blank that's just in case you forget
your password you can have an email address and email sent to your email address. So now activate
so now unlock pattern this will be what you use to unlock the NVR whenever you want to play something
back for example so I'm just going to set that to U U for unlock and just draw it again to confirm.
So now we need to set the time zone so we are UK so I'm going to set it to GMT+00:00 date format
is correct date is fine time is an hour out and then NTP time sync we're going to enable that
so what that will do is it will check with the internet to make sure the time is correct
so it's never ever a minute out or potentially 20 minutes out because a long time over a long
period of time what you'll find is the minutes will start to drag behind, so then just click
on next. If you are connected to the internet correctly you should get an IPv4 address we're
going to change the DNS to something a little different so google's DNS servers are 8.8.8.8
and then your alternate will be 8.8.4.4 and then next.
Now this is your Hik-Connect settings so we are going to enable that
going to tick the box to agree click ok now your verification code
is fairly complex probably keep it something difficult you'll need to type that in once
you've set your NVR to your Hik-Connect app just to further verify it is you who's
added the device but for this example I'm just going to set it to something basic like qwerty
and confirm and then next so here you'll have a list of your IP cameras that are connected
we'll come back to that later on next, here is your hard drive so we've got a 1TB drive installed
if it's not already been initialized you're going to want to tick here and just click on initialize
up here so here it should say uninitialized and you're just going to initialize it click on ok and
you'll see here your percentage will literally only take a few seconds
you're going to click on next or finish.
So now we're going to right click exit full screen click
on configuration at the top that's this symbol here and then click on expert mode at the bottom
so now here you can see HDMI resolution you can change it from your 1080 to 4K if your
screen supports 4K I'm going to leave mine at 1080. Lets just correct that system time
click apply next lets look on DST Settings at the top enable DST set it to auto click apply so what
that will do in the summer and the winter it'll change your clock back and forward by the hour
for us UK people lets double check that our platform access is online
as you can see here connection status online so that's ready to go for the Hik-Connect app.
Right so next up camera lets make sure our camera is online as you can see
that one camera that I plugged in earlier is online and we're going to go over to display
so here's one thing that so many so called professional companies fail to do and it
really grinds my gears. So basic - camera name. Setup your camera name, so if you've
got a camera at the front call it front if you've got a camera at the side call it side etc etc.
So lets just say Front for this one and then the next thing is the date
format so in the UK it's day month year but everybody seems to leave it as month day year
it's such a little thing but it makes all the difference you cannot call yourself a
professional installer if you're leaving the date format as a foreign format so here date format
I'm going to change that to day month year and after doing all that we're going to click on apply
and that's that done so next up we'll go to record
this camera here has got a built in microphone so we're going to want to make sure the record
parameters are set to actually record the audio so for this camera we're going to go to advanced here
and then just tick record audio and then ok followed by apply.
This is obviously set to record 24/7 aswell as you can see here next up we'll go to parameter
if you want the audio to play on your Hik-Connect app you're going to want to change the stream type
to video and audio otherwise you're not going to hear anything and then just click on apply.
And then next up that's pretty much all finished for on the screen so as you can see here
you've got your camera just one quick thing if you had lets say camera 1 camera 2 and then it's
no link underneath on these 2 that are blank you can remove these 2 screens here so it's not as
messy. To do that just go to configuration live view view and then literally just cross off the
cameras that don't have anything on them and click on apply and I'll show you what that looks like
so that'll look like that instead I just think it looks a bit neater
having the brand there rather than just having no link
so now we're ready for Hik-Connect so what I would do first before setting up any motion zones
I'd get the cameras on your Hik-Connect app and then go out with your phone and then adjust the
angle of the camera just so you make it perfect and then after doing that we can then setup the
intrusion zones so lets exit full screen for now go back to system/configuration go to network
platform access leave this here until we've downloaded the Hik-Connect app. So you're
going to want to go onto your web browser if you've got an android not the playstore
on this occasion you're going to search for HikVision App Store you're going to download
Hik-Connect for End User from their app store if you're on iOS you'll just go onto the normal app
store and search for Hik-Connect and it'll show up straight away that's why you buy Apple products!
After downloading Hik-Connect simply register an account that's in blue it should say register
follow it through you can either register with an email address or mobile phone number
after you've followed through all of the on screen instructions
you're then going to be presented with a screen with a refresh button and a plus/add button you're
going to click on that plus/add button and scan this QR code that's on the screen at the moment.
So I'll see you over on my phone in just a moment. Right so now lets scan our QR code
that's on our screen with our app brings up your NVR straight away click on add
adding completed lets click on next now this is your alias for your NVR I'm just
going to delete that and name it Home CCTV you can call it whatever you like
click on save and now as you can see it's shown up all 4 cameras even though I've got 1.
I think it looks a bit messy having those 3 other ones saying offline so lets go onto the
settings icon that's a little hexagon on the right hand side then click on linked camera
and lets press the eye symbol on camera 2 camera 3 and camera 4 and lets go
back back again so now you can see it's just the 1 camera so lets tap on that front camera
and that's loaded live now normally in the bottom left corner it'll say basic not HD so
let me just show you in basic mode what that does is it reduces the overall quality of the image
but it loads a lot quicker so this is especially useful when you're on 3G or 4G but if you're on
wifi (or got good signal) lets just change it to HD it'll be a lot sharper and also if you've
got audio you'll hear it in HD mode not in basic mode. If you put your phone into landscape mode
it'll fill the screen nicely you can pinch to zoom just like a photograph excuse the plastering work
so lets go back if you want motion detection to ping to your phone lets just go onto that settings
page again click on notification and normally it'll be off by default like this so obviously
if you want it on just press on and that's that lets go back if you want to do a manual playback
in the top left corner you've got a playback icon just tap on that it then selects a date
select a time and then choose what camera you want and then just tap on playback at the bottom
but yeah that is pretty much it guys for Hik-Connect setup I'll see you back on the NVR.
Right so now back on the NVR I'm just going to give you a quick tour of how
to use it how to playback so if you've got 1 camera you're
probably going to want that as full screen so to do that just double tap on the camera
you may need to type in your unlock pattern in my case it was a U double tap and now it's just
1 screen in the bottom right corner you've got your full screen button so it'll display like this
if you wanted to setup intrusion detection you're going to right click tap on exit full screen
go to configuration go to event disable the normal motion detection click on apply
and now smart event and now select which camera you need to set it up on click on intrusion
now what I would recommend if you've got a laptop or a desktop computer
windows I'd setup intrusion detection from there not on the NVR itself as you're rather limited as
to what you can actually setup. If you do have a laptop click on this video right over here
and that'll guide you through a very detailed process of how to setup intrusion detection
however if you don't have a laptop or computer whatsoever and this is your last resort then
you'll have to set it up on the NVR so to do this lets tap on enable now you want to click
on draw area so lets say I just wanted this area over here you're going to tap
there click again you're going to need 4 points so that will create your zone so that is your
perimeter so anybody who walks into that perimeter will trigger once you're happy with the area
just click on stop drawing and on the right hand side we've got time threshold so that
is the amount of time in seconds the object has got to be in your perimeter before it triggers
so I'm going to leave it at 0 you've got sensitivity just leave it at 50 if you find
it triggers too often at things that shouldn't be triggering try reducing the sensitivity
if you find it's not triggering enough increase it and then on this one because it's an AcuSense
camera we've got target detection so we can either have human detection or vehicle detection
or both and we've got linkage action up here if you want it to trigger to your Hik-Connect app
click on here and just make sure that notify surveillance centre is enabled and click on apply
but yeah that is pretty much it again just go outside test the zones make sure it is triggering
to your phone if not maybe have a fiddle with these settings but as I said it is a lot better
to configure it from a laptop or computer as there's much more configuration aspect you can
do on there, so now on the NVR if you wanted to lets say playback you've got a playback button up
here on the top menu tap on that you've got your list of cameras on the left hand side
so here you tick which one you want so that's my front camera then you've got the calendar below
so all the dates that have a dot beneath them are dates that have been recorded so
you're just going to tap on the date you want and that'll start to play from midnight on that day
and then you've simply got your timebar at the bottom here
the time in blue is the time that's been recorded obviously it's only just started recording now
but normally you would just scroll like that
you've also got your fast forward button down here so you can 2 times it
4 times 8 times just in case you wanted to look through footage a lot quicker and
then back to your live view click on the live view button back to full screen bottom right button
and that is everything guys. If you need any further help whatsoever
just drop me a comment down below and I'll get back to you if you've got any more suggestions
for videos let me know and I'll get those made for you but yeah take care guys bye bye