Amcrest Dahua NVR Control4 Camera Driver

Motion detection events from the camera can trigger events in Control4®
Loads basic camera meta-data into Control4® Composer
Allows automated reboots of the camera
Home is set to preset1
Supports full range PTZ controls (assuming your camera does)
Supports jumping to 6 presets

Driver Properties Explained

Version – Version # of the driver

Store – The store you purchased the driver from.  All new purchases in 2019 will be Blackwire Designs

License Key – Enter the License Key generated by Blackwire

License Status – Will tell you if the license is activated, trial mode or expired

Director MAC – Will display the MAC address of the Director

Debug Level – The different debug levels.  Trace is the most verbose

Debug Mode – Print will display the debug information in the LUA tab

Channel # – the Channel of the camera you which the driver to display

Snapshot Channel – Should be the same as the camera channel, but on some Analog or Hybrid NVRs the channel number is the video channel – 1 for the snapshot.  Example: Video Channel 8 is snapshot channel 7

PanSpeed – A value from 1 – 8 on how fast the pan motion should be for pan/tilt cameras

PTZTime – How long the PTZ will run for in milliseconds each time it is pressed

StreamMethod – There are 2 different stream methods.  If you aren’t having luck getting a video to stream with the default of 1, change to 2.

subType – the video stream for the driver to pull.  0, 1, 2 based on the number of streams the camera supports

Camera Name – will auto load from the meta data

Serial # – the camera’s serial number

Software Version – the version of software on the NVR