Unfortunately, most people, if given the chance, will do only as much work as is necessary not to be fired. There has to be a balance somewhere between "Chinese sweat shop" and "person who was fired for on-premise illicit drug use gets their job back after a six-month fight with the union, with back-pay."

This is on /. why?

ONVIF attempts to make it so that you can use any camera with any VMS, and they do an alright job of it. You can be mostly certain you'll at least get video from the camera, but good luck with camera-side motion detection/video analytics, onboard storage, or any other "advanced" features.

Hashtags on Slashdot? Truly these are dark days.

+1 Depressing Because It's True

Could you go into more detail about that failure? Sounds quite interesting.

Wow, you mean basic features are similar to one another? I hear that Android phones also have touch screens and apps! Hmmmmmmm.

Vote third-party, dawg.

Alright, I'm a Google fanboy, so I typically give them the benefit of the doubt, but seriously? What happened to Hangouts being their unified messaging app??

I think you're missing the pretty blatant sarcasm, homie.

This was an extremely informative conversation to read. Kudos to you both.

So, gamers?

"There is no relation between a woman's genitals and a coward. The meaning of "coward" comes from something else."

It's more likely "professionally" installed systems that are the problem. Most physical security companies have no freaking idea what they're doing on a network, even 10+ years after IP cameras were introduced. I should know, I clean up after them all the time at my own physical security company. Add that to all the problems that "Hackvision" (Hikvision) has had, and it's a recipe for disaster.

Minor correction: the card would very likely not be a Wiegand card, as that's an old swipe technology. (The dude loved naming things after himself.) It'd more than likely be prox in the USA, since our adoption of smart cards is a decade behind the rest of the world.