Just bought Dahua IPC-T5442T-ZE cams from EmpireTech, but they are not connecting with BI5. Help with the set up pls

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Now I just tried to get the first one working before adding in more.
The ipcam connect to a POE+ switch via Cat5e cable; the BI5 PC and the cam are connected into the same POE+ switch.
Asus router RT-RC68U can identify the ip 192.168.1.108 as "Dahua Tech" being the client name.
BI5 installed on a HP EliteDesk i7-6700 Windows 10 Pro PC, its ip 192.168.1.71
The cam and the BI5 PC are in the same network - SUBNET 255.255.255.0 GATEWAY 255.255.255.1
I can ping 1.108 successfully
When adding camera 1, I just typed in the static Ip of the cam (192.168.1.108), then find/inspect, use the default values for anything else.

Got the following error:
Cam1: no signal
Error:80002746 (socket error: 10054) 0

Please help as i am a newbie here.
 
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It's a network issue.

The default IP for these cameras are 1292.168.1.108, so you need to manually change it to the IP range that is in your network topology. What is the IP address range of your home network?

Plus if you plug them all in and do not change the IP address, then you have IP address conflicts because they are all the same.

But you shouldn't have the camera going thru the router at all - that wifi router isn't designed to deal with the constant video stream - these do not buffer like Netflix.

You should either dual NIC your BI computer and have an IP address range just for your cameras, but if not that, at the very least hook all the cameras and BI computer to one switch and then a cable from that switch to the router.
 
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Thanks wittaj for your response. I just edited my original post by giving more details.

How do I change the default IP for the camera?

Right now I am just testing to make sure all the cameras are actually working. I will probably find a better PC than this one, use cat6 cables and set up a separate LAN.
 
That computer is more than capable.

OK, your IP address range is the same as the camera range, so you need to initialize the camera and setup a username and password.

Use Internet Explorer, not Edge, not Chrome with IE tab, but plain ole explorer and type in the IP address of the camera and begin the initiation process.

All of the setting up of the camera is done within the camera GUI, not Blue Iris. You have to do that first before you can load it into BI.
 
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Thanks! That is really helpful. I am following the steps to initialize the dahua cam now.

Q: Do I uncheck the P2P box and uncheck "auto-check for updates:? It would ask to scan the code and download the app.

I'd like to remotely check the cam (outside of LAN), but I do not want China involved.

Can I just disable P2P, and set up VPN to get into my LAN to check instead?
 
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Thanks for your help wittaj. I changed IPs for three cams. And they seem working fine now. Now I just have to learn all the details about blueiris.

One last question for all who did this: Can I ran a plex server and blueiris the same time on this PC (HP EliteDesk 800 G2 i7-6700)?

The plex serve will serve mostly one client such as an AppleTV (occasionally two).
Blueiris: probably just monitor four ipcams (4K).

Or, adding a plex server will NOT be a good idea?
 
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you said...gateway is 255.255.255.1 ?
didn't know that was possible.

adding plex server to a windows based Blue Iris machine.... not a good idea. During active events, your CPU will rev up (depending on how many cameras you have and if you start to use Deepstack AI). During playback or transcoding, also many be an issue. Only one way to find out :)
 
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Holbs said:
you said...gateway is 255.255.255.1 ?
didn't know that was possible.

adding plex server to a windows based Blue Iris machine.... not a good idea. During active events, your CPU will rev up (depending on how many cameras you have and if you start to use Deepstack AI). During playback or transcoding, also many be an issue. Only one way to find out :)
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Sorry, already corrected the typo. GATEWAY 192.168.1.1
Thanks for the comment on plex. I just feel do not want to have two PCs runing 24x7. So maybe a more powerful one such as i5-8700?
 
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