1) you can add the wireless cam manually...just input its ipaddress and credentials in the NVR...
2) Can do it this way, however, you will be losing one of your poe ports on the NVR...alternativly you can simply hook the poe switch up to any port on the same network the NVR is attached to - for example the router, or another switch in your network..the result will be the same without loosing your poe port on the NVR.
3)no
Thanks to all for the prompt response.
Hi corkangel76,
According to the spec, my Hikvision DS-7608NI-SE/P NVR is a 4-port but 8 channels NVR. Hence, it is supposedly able to support up to 8 cameras. Like what Fenderman said, they assume we will use a switch somewhere else on the network.
Hi Fenderman,
My wireless router is issuing the DHCP range 192.168.1.xxx. Therefore my wireless camera is also getting 192.168.1.xxx range. My NVR LAN port is also getting 192.168.1.xxx. However, the NVR itself is issuing the DHCP range of 192.168.254.xxx (by default) to the cameras connected to the 4 POE ports. This resulted in the wired and wireless cameras having different range. I'd tried manually adding the IP address of the wireless camera to the NVR as a 5th camera in the NVR setting but failed.
I even tried changing the DHCP issuing range of my NVR to be 192.168.1.xxx (was planning to assign static IP to some of my network devices to avoid conflict) but the NVR does not allow it's LAN port and POE ports to be the same range.
So far, only my NVR LAN port is 192.168.1.xxx which allows it to reach my internet gateway at 192.168.1.1. All my wired cameras are not able to reach my gateway and therefore time clock cannot be synced to external time servers, SMTP alerts cannot be sent out directly from the wired cameras and
DDNS directly from the wired cameras will also fail.
In my previous diagram B , my daisy-chain connection was from the NVR's POE port to the LAN port of the POE switch. Can I re-wire it from NVR's POE port to one of the 8 POE ports of the POE switch? This should effectively increase my NVR's ports availability to 10 ports right (after minusing 2 for interconnection)? Will it fry the ports if both POE ports are carrying DC voltages?
Is there any 8-port POE switch known or proven to work well with Hikvision's NVR?
Thanks.