The major updates of the VioStor NVR series firmware v4.1.1 are as below:

[Important Notice]
  1. For optimized system performance, please use minimum five hard drives for RAID 5 or minimum six hard drives for RAID 6 on VS-12100U-RP Pro(+), VS-8100U-RP Pro(+) and VS-8100 Pro+ series NVR.
  2. Strongly suggest to select 5% available storage capacity or above to overwrite the oldest recordings on Camera Settings -> Advanced Settings.
  3. To view the live video and export video by Internet Explorer, please add the NVR IP address to the list of trusted sites. While accessing NVR via IE, it will be prompted to install the ActiveX add-on at first time.
  4. To view the live video or playback recording files from VioStor NVR by Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or QNAP Surveillance Client on Windows PC, please visit http://eu1.qnap.com/Surveillance/Utility/QNewMon.zip to download and install QNAP Surveillance Client for Windows first.
[New Features Supported]
  1. (New) Edge Recording is now officially supported.
    The camera can save the recording files on its local storage (such as a SD card) even when the connection to the NVR suddenly becomes unavailable. After the connection is resumed, the NVR will check its recording files and compare the recording schedule set by users. If the NVR detects that recording files aremissing, it will request the camera to upload the missing part.
    Applied models : AXIS P1343, P1344, P3343, P5534, M5013, Q1602.
    Limitation:
    1. Edge recording setting is not supported on local display interface. Please use web browser on Windows PC to visit NVR for edge recording settings.
    2. Only support vfat File system on SD card for stable operation.
    3. The codec setting of videos recovered from edge recording is fixed as H.264.
    4. Edge Recording will only check and recover recording files in the period of scheduled recording.
    5. Alarm stream of smart recording will be the recording stream on camera edge. So when you enable both smart recording and edge recording, the stream recovered from camera will be the stream you set for alarm recording.
    6. Audio recording is not supported on edge recording now.
    7. Edge recording works after NVR has connected to camera successfully.
  2. (New) Recovery Manamement (for edge recording) is now officially supported.
    Limitation:
    Turn Internet Explorer Compatibility View Off for NVR IP address.
  3. Surveillance storage expansion, VioStor NVR + Turbo NAS for storage expansion, is updated.
    Applied NVR series: Pro(+) series with FW v4.1.1
    Applied NAS series: TS-x69, x79, x70 series with FW v4.0.2
    1. Install StorageExpansion App (QPKG) on NAS (x69, x70, x79 series) with FW v4.0.2.
      http://eu1.qnap.com/Surveillance/Utility/StorageExpansion_1.0.1_x86_20130912.zip
    2. Upgrade NVR firmware to v4.1.1, NAS firmware to v4.0.2.
    3. Make sure all your NVR and NAS servers are using fixed IP address and same subnet mask.
    4. Follow the user manual to confifure your NVR and NAS.
  4. User defined multi-stream has more camera supported.
    Applied model: SONY G6 series SNC-VB600/SNC-VB600B/SNC-VB630/SNC-VM600/SNC-VM600B/SNC-VM630/SNC-VM601/SNC-VM601B/SNC-VM631
  5. Smart recording has more camera supported.
    Applied model: SONY G6 series SNC-VB600/SNC-VB600B/SNC-VB630/SNC-VM600/SNC-VM600B/SNC-VM630/SNC-VM601/SNC-VM601B/SNC-VM631
  6. Two-way audio has more camera supported.
    Applied models : AXIS 212/ 214/ M1033/ M1034/ M1054/ P1343/ P1344/ P1346/ P1347/ P1353/ P1354/ P1355/ P1357/ P3301/ P3304/ P3346/ P3363/ P3364/ P3367/ P3384/ P5512/ P5534/ P5544/ P8221/ Q1602/ Q1604/ Q1755/ Q1902/ Q1910/ Q1921/ Q1922/ Q6032 / Q6034/ Q6035
[New Cameras Supported]
  1. (New) ZERO ONE brand is newly supported.
    IP2193PV2
  2. AVTECH IP cameras AVN284, AVM459, AVM500 are added.
  3. Brickcom IP cameras CB500Ap-360, FD-131AF, FD-132Np, MD-300Ap, VD-131Af, VD-301Af, MB-300Ap, WMB-300Ap, CB-300Ap, WCB-300Ap, CB-302Ap, WCB-302Ap, FD-302Ap, VD-302Ap, VD-300Ap, FD-300Ap, OB-300Ap, FB-300Ap, MD-300Ap, OB-302Ap, OB-300Af, VD-300Af are added.
  4. CP PLUS IP cameras CP-UNC-TY30FL2, CP-RNC-TP20FL3C, CP-NC9W-K , CP-RNC-DV10, CP-UNC-BY20C, CP-UNC-DP10, CP-RNP-1820 are added.
  5. D-Link IP cameras DCS-2310L, DSC-5010L, DSC-5020L are added.
  6. Dynacolor IP camera W3A2(fisheye) is added.
  7. Foscam IP camera FI9826 is added.
  8. Hikvision IP camera DS-2DF7284-A is added.
  9. IQinVision IP camera IQeye IQA31NI-B5 is added.
  10. Panasonic IP cameras WV- SF438, WV-SW458 are added.
  11. Planet IP camera IVS-H125 is added.
  12. TOA IP cameras N-CC2650M, N-CC2420MR are added.
  13. VIVOTEK IP cameras FD8131V, FD8151V, FD8163, FD8166, FE8173, FD8363, IP8152-F4, IP8332-C, IP8371-E, SD8363E are added.
  14. WISION IP camera WS-A5P31-A is added.
  15. ZAVIO IP camera D3110, D5114 is added.
  16. Supports monitoring, recording, and playback from more ONVIF conformant products.
    * To use ONVIF conformant products with QNAP VioStor NVR, ONVIF specification must be fully implemented by camera vendors. The following IP camera and video server models have been tested by QNAP.
    • BOSCH IP camera NBN-932V-IP is tested.
    • LILIN IP camera IPR6122ES is tested.
      Note: For other ONVIF conformant products, please execute the compatibility test before any further usage.
For more information of camera compatibility list, please visit http://www.qnapsecurity.com/pro_compatibility_camera.asp.

[Bug Fixed]
  1. In playback page, system will be hanging up when you use Storage Expansion and search the recording file in NAS.
[Known Issues]
  1. In playback mode of  local display, there is a possiblility that user could not search recording files after changing date and time configuration.
[Limitation]
  1. Edge recording:
    1. Edge recording setting is not supported on local display interface. Please use web browser on Windows PC to configure edge recording settings.
    2. Only support vfat File system on SD card for stable operation.
    3. The codec setting of videos recovered from edge recording is fixed as H.264.
    4. Edge Recording will only check and recover recording files in the period of scheduled recording.
    5. Alarm stream of smart recording will be the recording stream on camera edge. So when you enable both smart recording and edge recording, the stream recovered from camera will be the stream you set for alarm recording.
    6. Audio recording is not supported on edge recording now.
    7. Edge recording works after NVR has connected to camera successfully.
    8. Turn Internet Explorer Compatibility View Off for NVR IP address.
  2. Storage Expansion
    For NVR and NAS servers located on the same subnet, please always use static IP addresses and the same subnet mask.