Can anyone recommend a free or cheap email account that will work with my IP5M-B1276EW-AI and IP5M-T1277EW-AI cameras? I have tried my Google, Apple, and Outlook accounts and none of them will work. My ISP does not provide an email account. I can get the configuration to save via the web interface, but the test fails. I knew this would be the case with Google as it wants secondary authorization that the cameras cannot provide, and I assume that is what is going on with the other accounts as well.
Alternatively, if anyone has a gotten an icloud.com email to work, can you please share your settings?
I would love to see a firmware update for these cameras to help out with this, but I am not holding my breath.
Email That Will Work With IP5M-B1276EW-AI & IP5M-T1277EW-AI
Re: Email That Will Work With IP5M-B1276EW-AI & IP5M-T1277EW-AI
So first are you looking for storage retention? or you looking to be notified for an event?
For storage retention I would look at setting up an FTP, Could be on or offsite.. On site is easier.
If you are looking for Notice of an event, I would then setup your Amcrest app for Push notices. Setup for Images and make sure images on event is set in the camera, Then when the event happens you get a notice right away. There is only 1 down side to this method. If you are using ATT or T-Mobile scratch that idea. The server for them seems to have issues and everyone blames Amcrest for the outage, However if that was an Amcrest issue it wouldn't be location driven and would affect everyone not just a Provider. P2P setup only thing amcrest is doing is keeping a hand off point open for when your app calls for a connection. There is no other server use between the camera or your phone after you make a connection. If it was a P2P cloud then that would be different because the connection wouldn't be between your camera and the app it would be between the app and the cloud...
Anyway outside of that most systems have stopped letting 3rd party emails be sent because of the abuse of spammers
Even the service I have for my .com changed how it was setup for out going email. Some of my devices both Amcrest and Dahua don't like the new setup for outgoing so I now use my .info email server that I wasn't even using at the time until the .com server change.. now in the .info they have also changed requirements for accessing outgoing mail server and lucky the Cameras and DVR/NVRs for 99% of them anyway use the TLS 1.2 or better so I am still covered so far. But always seems like even personal services are changing things to make it harder to use my IP cameras, DVR/NVRs. But I do have them..
Personally if I was Rich and had my own CCTV line, I would offer not only cloud but an email service that my clients wouldn't have to worry about will my email work for my devices tomorrow..
Push from the camera to the app is instant. As an idea, a car going up the street 25 with a visual distance of about 30 feet I get the notice before the car is even out of frame. This is using Live View or Image. If you setup to use Video, The notice won't get sent until the video is recorded. Image event type plays out like a short video.. In truth it is a place mark for if and when you need that info retained for some mis deeds..
For storage retention I would look at setting up an FTP, Could be on or offsite.. On site is easier.
If you are looking for Notice of an event, I would then setup your Amcrest app for Push notices. Setup for Images and make sure images on event is set in the camera, Then when the event happens you get a notice right away. There is only 1 down side to this method. If you are using ATT or T-Mobile scratch that idea. The server for them seems to have issues and everyone blames Amcrest for the outage, However if that was an Amcrest issue it wouldn't be location driven and would affect everyone not just a Provider. P2P setup only thing amcrest is doing is keeping a hand off point open for when your app calls for a connection. There is no other server use between the camera or your phone after you make a connection. If it was a P2P cloud then that would be different because the connection wouldn't be between your camera and the app it would be between the app and the cloud...
Anyway outside of that most systems have stopped letting 3rd party emails be sent because of the abuse of spammers
Even the service I have for my .com changed how it was setup for out going email. Some of my devices both Amcrest and Dahua don't like the new setup for outgoing so I now use my .info email server that I wasn't even using at the time until the .com server change.. now in the .info they have also changed requirements for accessing outgoing mail server and lucky the Cameras and DVR/NVRs for 99% of them anyway use the TLS 1.2 or better so I am still covered so far. But always seems like even personal services are changing things to make it harder to use my IP cameras, DVR/NVRs. But I do have them..
Personally if I was Rich and had my own CCTV line, I would offer not only cloud but an email service that my clients wouldn't have to worry about will my email work for my devices tomorrow..
Push from the camera to the app is instant. As an idea, a car going up the street 25 with a visual distance of about 30 feet I get the notice before the car is even out of frame. This is using Live View or Image. If you setup to use Video, The notice won't get sent until the video is recorded. Image event type plays out like a short video.. In truth it is a place mark for if and when you need that info retained for some mis deeds..
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Re: Email That Will Work With IP5M-B1276EW-AI & IP5M-T1277EW-AI
I do use the app push for events. There are some other things in the web settings that appear to only be able to send an email (or at least they are not listed as push items in the app). That is too bad about the email providers. I had the same thought you did. Amcrest should provide an email server and the problem would be solved. Thanks!
Re: Email That Will Work With IP5M-B1276EW-AI & IP5M-T1277EW-AI
I have the same problem with email. outlook and yahoo mail does not work.
Re: Email That Will Work With IP5M-B1276EW-AI & IP5M-T1277EW-AI
Last I heard yahoo does work if you setup it up to work with your device.. This is required to make a special password code for your device and it has been a while since I have used it so I can't say anymore why but I think it was that you had to do it every different device or the password was so complex that I couldn't remember it for the other devices lol. So I just have my own email server and ok I have 2 because the first I one I started with changed to some complex long SMTP server setting that wouldn't work in all my devices so I started to use an older one that does, So now I use one only for sending *Don't even look at the incoming email on that only use for outgoing* and use my strange one as the incoming lol..
Use them on 4 different Hikvision OEM recorders and 11 of their cameras, setup on Alibi, Dahua, Amcrest and a few other platforms and all work as expected. I will admit that one of the services in Nov 2023 changed how things needed to be setup and then my other server platform changed in Feb or march to use newer TLS format and gave until July to update so having your own service is great because normally the providers will give enough time to change over without having an outage.. I mean the last Nov was an alert for Feb or might have been by April I can't remember now lol.. But was a good lead time and so I do like that.
To be honest as I have said before there is nothing faster then Push that is able to be setup from all Amcrest devices in the app. Time that I get an alert in the App is about 10x faster then trying to get an Email. Plus using the Alert list I can look over what is what. I mean sure I can in my email as well. Just not as fast as Push. Plue keep in mind that Push is almost instant and with Email there is a Cool off time between each auto email checks. I mean sure you can press the refresh to get a newer alert in email but before I could do that I have it on my phone in a push alert..
Also need to make sure your devices are in A Vlan or a connection on your local lan that has access to the internet for push or email to even work..
Use them on 4 different Hikvision OEM recorders and 11 of their cameras, setup on Alibi, Dahua, Amcrest and a few other platforms and all work as expected. I will admit that one of the services in Nov 2023 changed how things needed to be setup and then my other server platform changed in Feb or march to use newer TLS format and gave until July to update so having your own service is great because normally the providers will give enough time to change over without having an outage.. I mean the last Nov was an alert for Feb or might have been by April I can't remember now lol.. But was a good lead time and so I do like that.
To be honest as I have said before there is nothing faster then Push that is able to be setup from all Amcrest devices in the app. Time that I get an alert in the App is about 10x faster then trying to get an Email. Plus using the Alert list I can look over what is what. I mean sure I can in my email as well. Just not as fast as Push. Plue keep in mind that Push is almost instant and with Email there is a Cool off time between each auto email checks. I mean sure you can press the refresh to get a newer alert in email but before I could do that I have it on my phone in a push alert..
Also need to make sure your devices are in A Vlan or a connection on your local lan that has access to the internet for push or email to even work..
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