Amcrest or Dahua NVR Control4 Driver

This driver allows integration with Amcrest or Dahua NVR into Control4®.

Features

  • 48 hr trial before purchase (enter “trial” for license key to start trial)
  • Motion detection events from the camera can trigger events in Control4®
  • Loads basic camera meta-data into Control4® Composer
  • Allows automated reboots of the camera
  • Home is set to preset1
  • Supports full range PTZ controls (assuming your camera does)
  • Supports jumping to 6 presets
  • Allows selection stream quality

Amcrest Compatibility

This table lists the Control4 interfaces that are supported by this driver
Control4 InterfaceAmcrest Camera
Flash Navigator
HC Controllers, MyPC App, non-T3 Touchscreens
Android Navigator
EA Controllers & T3 Touchscreens
Mobile Apps
Android & iOS
PTZ
Motion Detection
Presets6
Automated Reboot
Purchase on blackwire designs

Documentation

Documentation

  1. Log into your NVR
  2. Select setup
  3. Under the Camera section select video
  4. Under the main stream configure the following
    1. Code-stream Type: General
    2. Encoding Mode: H.264B
    3. Resolution: 720P
    4. Frame Rate: 10
    5. Bit Rate: VBR
    6. Set a watermark if you would like to
  5. Enable the sub stream and configure it for MJPEG
    1. Code-stream Type: General
    2. Encoding Mode: MJPEG
    3. Resolution: VGA
    4. Frame Rate: 10
    5. Bit Rate Control: CBR
    6. Bit Rate: 1280

Change Log

Change Log

02/10/17 – 1.0.0

  • Initial Release

03/01/17 – 1.0.2

  • Fix url streams and updated documentation

07/07/17 – 1.0.3

  • Fix to snapshot URL

07/13/17 – 1.1.8

  • added support capability
  • improvements to motion detection
  • additional action triggers added

07/14/17 – 1.1.8.1

  • support for 64 channels

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