Phil,
Many thanks for pointing me at the download portal. I have upgraded 5.3.6 to 5.3.8 to 5.4.0 and now I have the TLS option and the motion detection email works (two days running so it must be good eh?). I have also got the video streaming in a webpage (internet explorer only), ftp on...
It strikes me that all the email compatibility problems would go away if only hikvision ran their own email server which they could configure to accept mail from their devices since, presumably they know the mac address of all their devices. Then everyone would think hikvision were very fine...
I have a hikvision camera
model: DS-2CD2722FWD-I
Serial: DS-2CD2722FWD-I20151212BBWR561352223
Firmware: V5.3.6 build 151105
encoding version: V7.0 build 151027
web version: V4.0.1 build 150915
plugin version: V3.0.5.42
I have been trying to get motion detection to trigger email. I have tried...