Amcrest Forum

anybody?

I've submitted two separate requests to amcrest support and not heard anything back.... very frustrating.

Won't that disable the DVR recording on the internal hard drive? I don't want to do that. I just want to stop the FTP.DAV files

It looks like if you enable FTP, the Amcrest DVR begins to use it as some sort of video backup. There are multiple ways to use the FTP, including just to push periodic still images, which Is what I want to enable without the large .DAV uploads, and apparently setting the "upload file size"...

any info?

I've read through the manual and it's confusing and ambiguous in this respect. I need some clarification. When FTP is enabled, it appears to do two different things. It will upload JPG files that are supposedly of motion or "regular"/periodic still images. But it also uploads these massive...

I've got the 16 ch Amcrest DVR HD TVI etc

When I enable the ftp, the DVR uploads massive .DAV files that are crashing my server's hard drive space.

What are these files? And how can I disable their upload and just have .jpg uploads?

I see this item:

"Alarm Upload: This checkbox allows the user to enable the system to upload alarm information when motion triggered/video loss/etc."

Is the "alarm upload" the ftp enable function? It's unclear.

Some items I can't find in the manual...

Can the periodic ftp be set on a per-camera/channel basis? If so, how?

Not enough info, but you won't be able to login unless you are on the local network.. if you're on the outside you have to set up NAT on your router. If you are on the local network, make sure you're specifying the same port the camera is on.