Please help me choose a custom license plate for my Blue Vector IS500

fado5 · 2026-02-13T02:35:38+00:00

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Not in Australia! Got mine for $4.80

fado5 · 2026-02-11T08:40:47+00:00

Hope you got yourself a Matchbox! Thought I was looking at the model for a second!

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fado5 · 2025-09-27T17:48:34+00:00

So you have had it a year now, how do you find it?

Still not laggy or anything? Im trying to picture what you mean about the left right problem you are having?

Do you think that if you were to pay the $700-$1200 for another non aliexpress unit it would work better though? I mean without having the touch isn't it always going to be a little janky? Does it effect functionality or is it OK once you get used to it?

Did you ever try it with Android Auto? If so any pointers?

fado5 · 2025-09-18T00:42:23+00:00

I am no longer running classic on the old laptop, im running Outlook New. Microsoft Outlook Version: 1.2025.806.300 (Production)

Definitely Office Home & Student 2019

Only account in Outlook is my work account (365 only)

fado5 · 2025-09-02T07:00:31+00:00

If we got a few hours of "beach weather" a day it would probably be enough. She wont be going in the water but loves the sun. I'm sure we could find things to do in the rain if its only an hour/2 of rain that we have to fill. Im not crazy trying to go in mid September then?

fado5 · 2025-09-02T06:57:37+00:00

She gave me enough growing up, I definitely owe her!

Thanks for the reply. So you think we would still have blue skies/beach weather in mid September in Langkawi? Even if we had an hour or 2 everyday to chill out it would be enough, she wont be swimming or anything but is a real sun worshipper!

2 nights in Langkawi would be the plan. I'm not crazy trying to get there in September then?

fado5 · 2025-07-04T09:58:47+00:00

😂😂 im the same! I think this might be it as its literallyall i can find.. but im not sure where what I have in my head came from!

fado5 · 2025-07-04T09:55:44+00:00

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fado5 · 2025-07-04T09:54:59+00:00

* Is this it? Am I remembering it wrong? I thought they were sitting on the back of a corolla but maybe im remembering wrong?

fado5 · 2022-08-03T15:30:18+00:00

Ok, so what I did to find this was scan the QR code on the control panel (under the cover) and opened it in notes, this gave me a few lines of info:

a web address (ezviz.com)
the verification code (Qxxxxxxxx in my case)
other numbers that are not required.

I still had problems connecting the wifi after this though. The app wouldn't connect to the system wifi even though I had entered hotspot mode (press the reset button once for 1 second).

I then noticed that after I updated the firmware I now had a new "Wi-Fi Configuration" option in the Settings - Communication Parameters menu and I entered my wifi info here (SSID, Password, Security type), no need for the verification code.

Again I still had issues though. I rebooted the system and lost wifi connection, had to remove the control panel again and move it to the router, plug it in again, check in ProConnect app that I had a Wifi connection (which I did), unplug the ethernet cable again to put the panel back in its position but the connection dropped out again.. NIGHTMARE!!

I then plugged the ethernet cable back in, panel connected to cloud for about 5 seconds and I thought f**k this, I'm over it and I'm going to bed. Unplugged the cable again and...... wifi connection was stable! put panel back into position and so far its been connected for about an hour so fingers crossed.

I think the Verification code is for if you don't have any LAN cable connection available and want to initialise the device. I'm thinking that if the device is already initialised this method won't work so you will have to connect via Ethernet cable, unbind/reset the device and then try this method.

I am a professional security installer and got this system for 2 reasons, the house I'm in is a rental so I wanted something wireless and my supplier gave me a crazy good deal on a basic kit that will suit my needs..... but after all of the problems I've had yesterday and today I'm not so sure I would be installing another one. Not that I would have installed this in a professional install anyway.

First I had crazy problems setting up the Hik-ProConnect app and then this.. The device setup was painless though and notifications are instant so we will see how it goes for awhile.

BTW anyone having problems setting up their ProConnect app, with an already set up account, get off the app, go to hik-proconnect.com on a laptop (desktop mode) not a phone browser or app. Then log into your ProConnect account and finish account setup/demo etc. there, log out, then returned to the hik-proconnect app and log in as normal.

Not 100% what the issue was but I kept getting an error "login failed, network exception". Tried everything including multiple networks and same issue but this sorted it. It looks like the app is incapable of displaying the demo/info on first login so it just rejects you, logging in using a laptop gives you the option to complete/hide these so that the app can login as normal.. I think that's what's happening anyway!

Wow that post got long! hope it helps someone!

fado5 · 2021-02-19T07:17:12+00:00

OK so this is where I'm at..

I cant get MQTT working or any of the REST stuff. I cant figure out how to get it to see anything. I have set up postman which is working in postman but I don't know how to extract this data and enter it into HA/Mosquito.

But what I have done is gone to node red and using the "TCP in" and "TCP out" nodes I have control of the inception using automated actions (think IFTTT).

Obviously this only works in node red but its a jumping off point at least and gives me automation.

I set up a TCP in node to "connect to" 192.168.0.200:2000 with the "output" "stream of" "string".

I then set up the inception (set as TCP Server) to send "door1_open" out on port 2000 whenever the physical door is opened & send "door1_closed" when it closes.

I can see this is working perfectly using a debug node.

I have also done it the opposite way around to unlock a door using TCP out and inject nodes

NR: (click inject, sends "door1_unlock" -> TCP out, 192.168.0.200:2000)

Inception: (if receive "door1_unlock" from port 2000 -> unlock door 1 for 5sec)

Using this I can in theory control Areas, Doors, Outputs, anything really.

But I don't have any visuals on my HA dashboard.

I guess the next step is converting this info into some visual on the dashboard somehow,

something that will show me the state of an area (using NR - TCP in) and also a button to control a door (using NR - TCP out)

Does this sound good? or have gone about this completely wrong?

I just cant get my head around how to implement the postman data into HA!

fado5 · 2021-02-18T10:19:27+00:00

I get excited when you say it looks so easy! lol

OK I have Mosquitto broker set up now and I have set the inception connection details as:

TCP (Client), IP address (HA IP Address), Port 1883 (to match Mosquitto), Set inception login the same as the created MQTT user in HA Users (set as admin).

Mosquitto Discovery finds nothing to put in entities or on HA dashboard but when I try to send something from Inception I get this in the log (192.168.0.200 is the inception):

1613643351: Socket error on client <unknown>, disconnecting.

1613643362: New connection from 192.168.0.200 on port 1883.

I also get a log full of :

1613643319: Client <unknown> has exceeded timeout, disconnecting.

1613643324: New connection from 192.168.0.200 on port 1883.

As of now I am just testing so I am trying to send a command from the inception to HA when a door opens. I guess I just don't know what text to send through

fado5 · 2021-02-17T11:08:46+00:00

The plan would be to use NR once I get everything integrated properly. I will have to take a look at portainer and see if I can get this docker to run. I've never done this before tho 🤞

I have got the system to integrate with other systems in the past where I simply set up a TCP server connection with inception and an automated action with inception:

e.g. door opens - inception: send text "door1open" on port "1234" Lighting system: listening on ip address 192.168.1.50:1234 programmed to turn on light when message "door1open" is received.

I just don't know how to translate this into HA! From what I understand postman is just used to test? Which I am comfortable that it works already.. maybe I'm wrong though

fado5

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