MacOS – The latest version of Hikvision’s iVMS-4200 software for Mac users V2.0.0.5 – 21st March 2019

I have to comment that Hik are getting there sloooowly.

4.21.005 firmware on the I-Series does enable Safari to view images plug-in free BUT they have a bit of an issue. Live view and configuration will only stream the main stream NOT the sub stream. If you select sub stream you get a blank screen. So on an iSeries with 8x 3Mpixel or greater cameras, you will get the first 3 cameras, sometimes on a good day 4 camera, never more. It (the iSeries) cannot send more to a browser. This is not a Mac issue as I have a 4 week old MacBook Pro with the fastest CPU that Apple sell, it is sitting idle.

At the IFSEC show in London Excel last week I asked this exact question on the Hik standard and after consultation with more senior experts Hik confirmed that my testing was accurate and although there is a button to toggle between main stream and sub stream, the sub stream setting in this the latest release does NOT do anything. You can select it but if you do you will never get a picture. Who does that? Writes software with GUI elements that they know do not do anything but still present them for you sit and press.