HikVision Network Analysis

Published 2023-04-11

All Comments (21)
  • @hoggrobinson
    You need to do the packet capture for 24/7 24hrs 7days, sometimes the devices only phone "home" at odd hours of the morning eg 2-3am when most are not probably monitoring
  • Mate - new desk and new camera. Great vid. The camera looks awesome on your screen.
  • Heya, I found it's not the cameras that connect out it's the nvr that connects back to China. When using the nvr it doesn't redirect the plugin to the nvr it goes External.
  • @CamStansell
    Love that night vision colour... Great video .
  • @kgottsman
    Where did you source the camera from? Local distributor or from direct from vendor? I would be concerned about about firmware if coming directly from vendor. I would flash firmware from their website before testing for more real world likeness.
  • yet another great video, thanks😀 Any plans on enlighten us about Home Assistant and its call home feature at setup and mayby your use of HA?
  • @mykhailod4596
    Years ago, discovered that Hikvision could bypass any admin lost password by simply having your serial number. They’d supply a password for admin that could be used once to get in.😮
  • @Fabsenet
    I have a similiar color-nightvision camera and concrete and grass looks amazing at night, but try to identify the face of a normal walking person. that is the interesting part and that is at most avarage, at least on my camera compared to an old style camera with infrared light.
  • @TradieTrev
    Sweet score on the camera! Quite happy to send you a few legit dodgy ip cams that have hardcored admin rights built into the firmware! It's mostly HiSilicon devices though aka Huawei.
  • @TravisPickle
    do you know how i could setup my edgerouter to do dnat for time and dns? btw, thank you for videos
  • @Pro1er
    I have (kind of) the previous version of that camera, a Hikvision ColorVu with a 2.8mm lens. A Norwegian security company found I think it was 18 vulnerabilities in the firmware which is why starting in 2018 Hikvision cameras, along with Dahua and Huawei were banned from all USA federal agencies, so use Chinese cameras at your own risk.
  • @PileofKyle
    I usually zero out the DNS settings in the camera, do you think that would be effective if they were phoning home?
  • Debian11 no longer supports RTSP in VLC apparently. Any work arounds? Been trying to compile it from source but no luck always coming into errors.
  • You're clearly using Hik's export market cameras. Pull in a few of the Chinese Hik's from TaoBao and maybe you'll get different results. I use the Chinese versions because they're a lot cheaper (save the shipping costs!).
  • @ebaystars
    very interesting, ive just bought a modern Hik NVR to go on my CCTV network, I am amazed at the level of in-NVR functionality, and the new PTZ cameras also have this functionality "ai" face recog, car plates, anti animal, warning bells and whistles, etc etc, however yes points taken regarding remote access by the Shadowy or Chinese guys... Shame you guys cannot get it in australia? does that mean domestic sales and imports banned ?
  • @MrBakick
    I have a Hikvision domecamera and it always try to connect some server. It is about 6k queries a day. I did post a comment with that URL but it seems that is was removed.