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macOS Local Network permission: why camera apps can't find your NVR, from HikGrid, a native Mac app for viewing Hikvision and HiLook cameras
9 November 2026

macOS Local Network permission: why camera apps can't find your NVR, and how to fix it

Since macOS 15 Sequoia, every app that talks to devices on your home network needs Local Network permission. Here is how it breaks camera apps, where the setting...

Read more → Hikvision on macOS 27 Golden Gate: what still works and what stops in macOS 28, from HikGrid, a native Mac app for viewing Hikvision and HiLook cameras
9 November 2026

Hikvision on macOS 27 Golden Gate: what still works, and what stops in macOS 28

macOS 27 Golden Gate runs only on Apple silicon and is the last macOS with full Rosetta 2. Here is how Hikvision's Intel-only Mac tools behave on it,...

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