Hikvision – Send emails through Gmail

The article explains how to create the application password to be able to send emails.

Within the account settings, select “security” and then the option “Application Passwords”.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Two-step verification must be activated, if this option is not enabled, it is necessary to carry out the activation process before proceeding.

Once the “Application passwords” option is selected, it will ask to enter the email password to continue

It is necessary to select the type of application for which it will be used, in this case “Other (custom name)” is selected.

In this way you can place the name of the application, for example, issues in this case the name “DVR” is used, you can use whatever the user wants, it is just an identifier.

When you press the next button, the application password to be used will appear, the 16-character password that is in yellow are the ones to be used.

Once these characters have been registered, enter the recorder configuration to configure the mail and place the corresponding data

Sender: Sender alias
Sender’s address: email that will be used to send the email
SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP port: 587
Username: email that will be used to send the email
Password: previously created application password

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