Recording to FTP

[mikes1919]

I have 4 x IP2M 841 cameras. They are all set up on my wifi network and are set to record to FTP, under storage destination. They can all be viewed on my phone as well as through Amcrest Surveillance Pro on my laptop, so they are seemed to be set up OK. 2 of them work perfect creating a sub directory, that happens to be the camera serial number, where the appropriate motion activated recordings populate. A third one actually created a similar serial number sub directory (FTP destination), but creates no recordings. The fourth camera, set up the same way, fails to generate any sub directory and records nothing. These cameras are all set up with the same parameters and FTP login to the destination NAS where FTP is enabled. The third camera is baffling me more than the fourth in that it created the appropriate camera generated sub directory, indicating that it knows the storage location to FTP the recordings to, on my NAS shared directory.

Sorry for the lengthy (maybe convoluted?) description, but I'm new to these cameras and could use any help I can get. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Mike

[Melvin]

Hello mikes1919 ,

It is worth checking if the camera Ip addresses are being blocked by the NAS device for FTP connection. You can check that from the settings of the NAS.

Other than that it could be a be a bandwidth issue where 4 cams are attempting to write to the same NAS.
Do you have motion detection recording only or full time? Try motion detection only to see if that helps.

[mikes1919]

Thanks, that's exactly what it was. Have no idea how these IP's got blocked,but once unblocked everything is fine. Recording on motion during certain time periods, no problems with that.

thanks again,
Mike

[mikes1919]

That is exactly what it was, IP's blocked in the NAS FTP configuration. Once those 2 camera IP's were unblocked everything recorded fine. Not sure how they got blocked, as i don't remember going that deep into the FTP setup for the first 2 camera. I'm recording, all four, on motion during certain time periods and that seems to work fine.
thanks,
Mike

[mikes1919]

sorry for the duplicate post, new to this stuff.
Mike

[jimbo]

Are you ab and watch those videos that were ftp'd to your nas? I can't find any app or program that will play them.