Guides
Guides to running cameras on a PC.
Eighteen guides written to answer one question each. They are useful whether or not you ever install VISEC, and most of them are the questions people ask after the cameras are already on the wall.
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Choosing
Before you buy anything.
The decisions that are expensive to reverse: the recorder, the disk and whether free software is really free.
How much disk will my cameras need?
How many cameras will one PC run?
Where to put the cameras
What ONVIF actually is
Free camera software: where's the catch?
Getting it working
Setting up.
From finding a camera on the network to recording it and being told when something moves.
Free CCTV software for Windows 10 and 11
How to view an IP camera on your PC — no NVR needed
How to record an IP camera to your PC
Get an email when your camera sees motion
Finding your camera's RTSP address
Watching your cameras from somewhere else
When something is wrong
Fixing it.
The three problems that account for most support questions, and the two jobs people want next.
ONVIF camera not found? Seven fixes
Free license plate recognition software for Windows
A camera that keeps dropping out
Too many motion alerts
Keeping the analog cameras you already have
Letting a camera open the gate
Try it on one camera.
The free license is the complete program, including plate recognition, QR reading and access control. It does not expire.