Are you wondering how to make your DIY home security camera system and your smart home hub talk to each other? Getting these two important parts of your smart home to communicate effectively is the secret to a truly smart home. So in this article, I am going to show you how I achieved this:...

Got a Hikvision camera because you have heard of its legendary motion detection features? Looking for a quick and easy guide to set it up? You are in the right place - here's the VueVille tutorial on Hikvision motion detection setup.In this tutorial, I assume you are using your Hikvision camera ...

If you are looking into getting an IP camera system for your home or office, you must have come across the term PoE. What does PoE mean? Is it worth paying for? What are the alternatives? Can you use PoE for your existing IP cameras? These are some of the questions I often get from our readers, ...

Hikvision has recently been in the news thanks to revelations about its links to the Chinese government and the Communist Party of China. Naturally fears about whether they are compromised 'by design' have been raging on the Internet ever since. While there is no doubt that Hikvision is part-owned ...

I cut the cord over a year ago, so I don't watch much of 'linear' TV. But back when I used to, there was a British Gas ad that was always on. It had a catchy jingle and went something like "with Hive you can control your heating from your phone". The product being advertised by British Gas was the ...

I have been running my DIY home security camera system with a slew of Hikvison cameras such as the DS-2CD2042WD-I for a couple of years now. The biggest challenge I faced when I set up my system was the incessant false alerts shot off by the cameras whenever leaves moved because of the wind or the ...

If you have read my DIY home security camera system story, you know that I have gone the FullDIY route and created a DIY NAS NVR system. So I have a single box, the QNAP TS-253A running my entire home security system with redundant RAID storage, an OpenVPN server for secure access from outside the ...

How do you access your security cameras remotely when you are away from home? In all likelihood, you are accessing each device using the manufacturer's mobile app because they simply work without having to mess with port forwarding or VPNs. In other words you are relying on the manufacturer's P2P ...