Day: October 15, 2026

A friend of mine who runs a processing factory hired a technician not long ago to make the factory’s surveillance cameras viewable “on his phone.” The technician walked around, then quoted RMB 3,800: replace all eight cameras and add a new recorder. He showed me the quote and asked whether it was worth it. I said don’t replace anything yet — your existing Hikvision recorder and cameras don’t need to be swapped out at all; the reason you can’t view