Hi guys Hik Guru here, in todays video I'm going to be showing you how to setup Hik-Connect on your
smartphone. First off if you are on iOS you're just going to go onto the app store like normal
you're going to search for Hik-Connect and download this app here. If you are on Android
you're going to have to go onto your web browser go onto google and search for HikVision App Store,
you're then going to click on the top link HikVision App Store and then again download
Hik-Connect for End User just click on download and that will download to your Android device.
Now that's downloaded and installed lets open up Hik-Connect you're going to be prompted with
lots of different notifications so here it says allow Hik-Connect to use your location,
I'll not allow that, allow to use bluetooth again not going to allow that, send notifications I'm
going to allow that because I want my intrusion detection alerts to come through to my phone,
and I'd also like critical alerts so that when my phone is in sleep mode I'll still get an alert.
And finally just agree to their terms and conditions,
now select your country or region followed by tick top right. You're then going to tap on
login or register then tap on register in blue on the left side,
agree again to the terms and conditions you can read those if you want to,
tick top right, you're then going to type in your email address for the account or alternatively you
can register by mobile phone number as it says at the bottom if you prefer to do it that way.
Now you'll either get a code sent to your email or mobile phone number so
let's head on over to my emails as you can see there the code is 7226
so lets type that back into the app and click on finish.
I'm not going to allow touch ID or Face ID I find that it slows down the process
of opening the app I've already got it on the device itself so I don't need to have it again
on the app, I'm going to cancel that. You're then just going to tap on add device in red
and then you're just going to point your camera to a QR code on your NVR screen
so lets just jump onto the NVR screen now and I'll show you where to go from there.
If you're on the latest firmware this is what the interface will look like
you're going to go to system or configuration, on older firmware you'll have to right click
menu configuration network platform access fairly similar but just a different layout.
So for us its a little settings symbol we're then going to go to network on the left hand side
go down to advanced then click on Platform Access and now here you're going to want to make sure
enabled is ticked stream encryption tick create a verification code if it's not already done that
for you and then simply click on apply at the bottom the status should change from offline to
online and then we're simply just going to scan this QR code here back over on the app.
Would you like to allow access to the camera ok and you're simply going to scan it
so now you're going to tap on add
you're then going to click on next you can then change that alias
so instead of it being all gibberish like it is there I like to change it to Home CCTV
you can call it whatever you like, then tap on save.
Here's my system here, the black box is your DVR or NVR, if you tap on that it'll load all
of your cameras at once if not click on more just below it and that will show up
your cameras individually and from there you can tap on each individual camera as you like.
As you can see at the bottom there you've got 2 cameras offline they are not being used at the
moment if you wanted to get rid of those 2 blank cameras there you're just going to click on the
settings icon that's the hexagon button up at the very top on the right hand side
you're then going to click on Linked Camera you're then going to scroll down to whichever
camera you want to turn off and then tap on the open eye to change it to a closed eye so
that will literally turn off the camera once you've done that go back top left back again
and as you can see there we've just got the 6 cameras now rather than 8. If you
wanted to playback you've got the top left manual playback button from here you can select your date
your time and then which camera or cameras that you want to playback
once you've done that just click on start playback
from here you can scroll through your time bar at the bottom
on this little menu here you can see there is a little camera icon and a little video camera
icon if you press the camera icon it will take a screenshot of your screen if you press the video
camera icon it will start to record the screen so if you wanted to save a bit of footage directly
to your phone so you could forward it via WhatsApp or via email you just tap on that button once that
indicates its started to record the screen once you've finished recording the clip tap on it again
and that will have saved lets go back back again click on bottom right more pictures and videos
and there is that clip that we just saved we've then got the option to share which is the little 3
dots in the bottom right corner or you can save with the floppy disk directly to your
camera roll. In the bottom middle you've got notifications so if you've got events like
intrusion detection enabled on the NVR you can see all of the notifications here always remember to
actually enable the intrusion notifications on the device itself so go back to that settings
button the hexagon, notification you can see here that my events are enabled lets go back back again
and that is pretty much it guys if you need any further advice just drop me a comment down below
remember to like share and subscribe and I'll see you all in the next video take care guys bye bye.