Jeroen1000
Young grasshopper
- Sep 26, 2016
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is the router shows you a list of all attached devices. The only downside would be the cam has to request a new IP periodically which might cause a second or 2 of down time periodically, but no biggie as it gets the same address each time. I use dhcp reservation
unfortunately that has not worked for me (EDIT: IT HAS HALF WORKED!!). To recap on what i have done
- Physical reset of both cameras
- Manually sett ip address of one, but the second one would not allow me in (after I had changed pass), and it stated "account locked"!
- In order to continue to see if I could get the NVR to recognice at least one of the cameras, I manually assigned the NVR an IP. In this case it was 192.168.1.26, and I changed the default gateway to 192.168.1.1. One of my IP cameras is manually assinged to 192.168.1.60.
- I have checked my router, and it is 192.168.1.1.
- I have my NVR plugged into the POE switch.
- I also have my router plugged into my POE switch.
- When I access my NVR, the two cameras appear, the one which IP I successfully manually assigned (to 192.168.1.60) and also the camera that locked me out (which still has the IP assigned to it ater the physical reset i.e. 192,168.1.108).
- I try to add both cameras, however they move down to the "added device" box, but both show red status radio buttons (EDIT: NOW THE .108 CAMERA SHOWS GREEN AND I CAN VIEW, BUT THIS WAS THE CAMERA THAT I DIDNT MANUALLY RE-ASSIGN AN IP ADDRESS TO!!!). THE .60 CAMERA (MANUALLY RE-ASSIGNED) STILL SHOWS RED STATUS
I am going to need to medical attention soon, these cameras have my mind cracked!!!!
If I'm not mistaken, you have changed the camera password (for the one that does not work)? Dahua forces you to I believe. When you add the cams in the NVR, you have to provide the new password you chose. It may be as simple as that. All your gear is in the same subnet so it should work. Even without the default gateway.
That would explain why the fresly reset ones works: it has the default password.
Also I do not agree that DHCP is equally good. If the power goes out in his house, both router and cams will be down. It is likely they will then not receive the same address as they previously had. That will result in you having to have to add them again as the NVR will be knocking on the wrong door.