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Set the cameras on static IP outside the range of the DHCP IPa your router provides. Set the Gateway address to an IP not your router. Your cameras can't find the Internet. These cameras are rather chatty but I haven't seen anything from them that could compromise a router.

All you need to do is set the camera's IP, gateway, and DNS addresses manually on the camera. Set the gateway address to an unused address on your subnet that's not your router and the camera won't be able to send anything outside your LAN. If the cameras get their address via DHCP set the gateway a...

The simplest solution is set the camera's gateway address to something other than your real gateway. If you need external access you want log into a secure NVR, not individual cameras. No IoT device should have access to the Internet on its own.

Thanks for the encouragement. I poked around in Tools -> Manage Add ons and saw the Amcrest plug in. Highlight the Amcrest plug in and there's a button in the bottom left called "More Information." Click that and apparently the plug in is tied to to an IP address. I changed that to allow a...

You can configure most things in the camera without the plugins. You can't config motion detect or set pan and zoom.

Is there an app out there that will configure motion detect? I bought my 5th Amcrest camera, For some reason it couldn't use the Amcrest IE plugins already installed. After installing its plugin IE failed on the other 4 cameras. Needless to say I'm kind of mad. This is a serious problem when you hav...

It's difficult to filter this out. False alarms for some people may be real alarms for others. I do a secondary filtering at the server where the video and snaps go. By comparing the snapshot trigger images in a shell script using the convert command from ImageMagick you can filter them out yourself.

I'm running three Amcrest cameras now and each one required some IE plug in installation. Two of the cameras are the same exact model. I'm not sure if I keep adding cameras that one of these days a new plug in will wipe out my ability to configure all the other cameras. I don't do Windows 10 updates...

If the camera doesn't know the gateway address it won't hit your firewall. You could put a bogus subnet address in the gateway but it will ARP a lot. The gateway and dns fields on my cameras won't let you put 127.0.0.1 so I just entered the static IP of the camera for both dns and gateway and that s...

Around 10% of motion detect .dav files that get sent to an ftp server are corrupt and cannot be read. It sends all trigger snapshots so the camera is still usable. The ethernet is wired. I adjusted all kinds of settings but they all result in corrupted files. I can't find a pattern as to what causes...