Amcrest Forum

Well I have been discussing with Amcrest support since my last post. They know it is an issue and it is still not fixed.

Still waiting on firmware fix.

I had my 941 currently connecting to my Qnap server and working under Surveillance Station PERFECTLY. After getting the latest firmware update it no longer works. I went back to the previous firmware and it works flawlessly. Working firmware: Amcrest_IPC-AWXX-V2_Eng_N_V2.420.AC00.17.R.20170322.bin N...

Melvin I appreciate you trying to help. A local drive is inside the computer. A network drive is not. A mounted network drive is not a local drive even if it is mounted with a letter like E:. Smart Play will NOT recognized ANY mounted or network drives. Even if you key in the full path to a file on ...

No you cannot! Smart play will only work with local drive, not network. Also, it seems it only reads mjpg and dav files, as best I can tell.

Would love to know how!

Thanks

I have an Amcrest 941 IP camera and I must say the picture is AWESOME!!! If you only want an IP camera and only use the SD card to save and play back video and snapshots then I HIGHLY recommend. BUT if you have an NAS and want to store files there for playback, forget it...software and firmware basi...