Amcrest Forum

ok, thanks for all the input. Spoke with Houston Amcrest. Tier 1 was wrong. you can't use orion to connect with P2P or auto registration. You can use IP. Steps. 1. get IP off of the out of network location 2. setup port forwarding rules on the router at the other location for ports corresponding to ...

noone has added an off-sight camera? A little progress, you can add the IP address of your off-sight network and port forward the http port in the router. But I would like the Amcrest server to use serial number for this.

when I add p2p cameras in orion via auto registration, I get a network exception. I have no problem adding them to the iphone app and the old surveillance station. I have p2p enabled on the three I need to add. Manual says: "Auto Registration: We recommend this method when the IP address of a d...

I agree with this. Surveillance pro times out and goes offline. Side by side when I use Surveillance station on my Synology NAS live view, there is no time out. Should be on both if it's the camera. When I do get a timeout, I can ping the IP of the camera and there is 4 replies with no data packet l...

I called a second time to tech support and they were not willing to help. Said the camera case got escalated to their houston team. No one has called. so I printed out a label and sent it back. This is not ready out of the box to run with surveillance pro (at least not on a PC). I can ping the camer...

I am also having problems getting this camera to connect wirelessly to the surveillance pro app. It will not connect no matter what I try. It will connect if I plug in the ethernet connection. It registers with login and password and I can see and control it in the app. If I unplug the eithernet, it...