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title: "How to Setup Email Notifications via Gmail"
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updated: 2022-07-18T22:15:39Z
published: 2022-07-18T22:15:39Z
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# How to Setup Email Notifications via Gmail

### Prerequisites

* A Gmail account
* An email address to send the notifications to
* A Dahua NVR

### Step by Step Instructions
1. Log into the web interface of the NVR then select **Setting** at the top left. Select **Network** from the drop-down

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2. Select Email from the list on the left

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3. Check the box next to **Enable**. Input the following information into these fields:

* **SMTP Server**: smtp.gmail.com
* **Port**: 587
* Username: [Your Gmail email address]
* **Sender**: [Your Gmail email address]

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4. Open a web browser and log into your Gmail account. Click the Account icon at the top right
Select **Manage your Google Account**

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5. Select **Security** from the list on the left
    If 2-Step Verification is already setup on your account, you will see it listed as "On". If that is the case, skip to Step 7.
    If 2-Step Verification is off, click the arrow to the right of **2-Step Verification** under "Signing in to Google"

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6. Select **Get Started** and then follow through all the steps to setup 2-Step Verification for your Gmail account

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7. 2-Step Verification should now show "On" under "Signing in to Google". Select the arrow to the right of **App passwords**

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8. Click on **Select app**
   Then select Mail from the drop-down

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9. Click on **Select device**
Then select **Other (Custom name)** from the drop-down

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10. Click on the field and type in "Dahua NVR" or another name that will help you associate this password with your NVR then select **Generate**

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11. You will see a unique password that was generated for use with your NVR.
Note this password for use in the next step

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12. Go back to your NVR's web interface, where you left off in Step 3. Enter the **password** that you got from Step 11 in the Password field

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13. Make sure **TLS** is selected for **Encryption Type** if it is not already


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14. Enter the email address you want to send these notifications to next to **Receiver** and then press the + button to the right (The reciever email address(es) can be the same as the sending address or different). Repeat this process for all email addresses you want notifications sent to

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15. Enter the amount of seconds you want between each email notification in the field next to **Sending Interval**
If you want to recieve emails to verify the email notification system is still working, check the box next to **Health Mail** and enter how often you want those emails in the field next to **Sending Interval**

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16. Click **Apply** at the bottom right to save your changes
Press the **Test** button on the bottom left to test notifications with the information you entered above
If the test is successful you will see a message at the top that says "Test succeded" and you will recieve a test email
If it says "Test Failed", check all the information you entered above

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