Amcrest Forum

Thanks for the update Revo2Maxx. I turned everything off and the time is now correct, except for the inherent drift because of the crystal, which could easily be remedied if the NTP worked! I think Amcrest either need to just get rid of the NTP settings, or get it fixed, NTP is a well trodden path. ...

Thanks for the reply. The reason I have the time overlay enabled is using the time overlay feature built-in to BIueIris has a significant CPU hit for the server, so I have BlueIris to to only time-stamp the recordings and not the live view. I don't understand that even if you set to a NTP server/ser...

I have several ip2m-841 (5 in total) and several and I cannot figure out why the time overlay keeps going exactly an hour out, and corrects itself when I log into the webUI. I have DST disable, and set via NTP enabled. Example, I look at live feed via BlueIris, realtime is say 12pm, BlueIris the cam...

Thanks for the info. If you do not set up your Amcrest Cloud within 2 hours, the signal will stop. So, they have been up for more than 2 hrs (at least 4 days), so why are they still trying? P2P is disabled, i.e. I disabled it after reboot. So should I try unblocking for a little while, and then bloc...

Have you touched? Does it get warmer than the others? I had one several years ago that did the same thing (I have 5) and I noticed it was getting much warmer than the others, so suspected some internal failure. I pulled it apart, nothing obvious looking, no scorch marks etc, in the end I put it in t...

I have 12 Amcrest, mixed bunch, and all seem to be doing excessive DNS queries to amcrest IP2M-841B, seem to be the worse, but the IP5M-T11179EW and the AD110 also do it. The big query is config.amcrestcloud.com, in 4 days I have nearly 40,000 queries, which seems crazy high. P2P is disabled, as is ...