Onvif compatibility for NVR

[tron]

I have tried a VIGI S355 and I'm impressed, so decided to give its NVR a go. (cloud VMS service is nice too)
But current cameras do not have high sensibility, so decided to use a couple of Hikvision DS-2CD2087G3-LI2UY (.0005 lux + new generation detection)
Sadly, the mix seems not to be working that good. The NVR has a menu for basic events and another for smart events, and some logic filters which cameras (channels)
are able to be used for smart event categories (Human/Vehicle/Intrusion/... detection).
These cameras only show in intrusion detection, but even so, when I try to apply a configuration, the apply button is disabled. Even the selection does not work.

I'm looking for ideas to circumvect this issue. Already started the reporting procedure to may be get a fix, but is there a way to have a ws event signaling to triger recording ?
The NVR does have full time or event based recording schedules, the cameras are generating the events, just need a way to link those...

TIA
-Carlos
PS: NVR is NVR2008H-8MP, firmware 1.5.1 Build 251211 Rel.73851n
I have Onvif XML samples of the camera events if that makes a difference.

 

[tron]

Well, TP-Link answer is not what I hoped:
That is correct as the VIGI NVR only supports ONVIF profile S currently with third party cameras, causing the IPC can only use basic features including motion detection and camera tampering.

 

[Dan]

Hi @tron

Thanks for the update.

We thought this would be the case; most of the consumer-focused brands offer very limited ONVIF support.

Hikvision is the same; their NVRs will support adding 3rd-party cameras, but you won't have access to the advanced/smart features supported by those cameras.

 

[tron]

That's a shame... the NVR has no way to do a soft alert either, only dry contacts. So I'm integrating an arduino based bridge, to receive the camera alerts via webhook and close a dry contact in the NVR. Oh well...