NVR Help!

[newcamguy222]

Hello!

Last year i bought a house that came with a bunch of Loryta IPC-T5442TM cameras already installed..

I paid an AV guy i know to reset them and hook them up to my blue iris system

I bought a blue iris subscription, a PC off ebay, and bought the harddrive. It worked well.. untill....

i hooked the PC up to my 4k Frame TV to be able to flip to the camera feed in the living room and watch the pool when i have a party for safety.. and the computer just froze a couple of times and i think just got fried. doesn't turn on anymore...

So i decided instead of trying to trouble shoot the computer i'm just gona go the NVR route because i was way in over my head trying to do this whole thing with lbue iris. just too complicated and i could never even figure out the app situation.

so my cams are connected to ubiquity power switch...

any tips and advice on picking an NVR, getting it set up? i paid a guy i know like $500 to reset everything and set it up. i felt he overcharged by a lot and i just wanna figure it out myself this time.
any help is appreciated.

thank you

 

[bigredfish]

You didnt say how many cameras you had? I'll assume less than 16
If you're running them all off of an external switch, this is the go to tried and tested NVR

https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Network-Recorders/WizSense-Series/NVR-5-EI-Series/2HDD/NVR5216-EI

If you need or prefer built-in PoE switch this is the same unit with 16PoE ports
(You dont have to use them or use all of them. You can have some cameras on an external switch and others on the PoE ports of the NVR, or have them all on either. Very flexible)

NVR5216-16P-EI - Dahua International

NVR5216-16P-EI

www.dahuasecurity.com

There is a brand new version with some added bells and whistles that has not yet been seen in the wild, so I'd hold off unless you just want to be our guinea pig

NVR5216-16P-EI - Dahua International

NVR5216-16P-EI

www.dahuasecurity.com

 

[newcamguy222]

You didnt say how many cameras you had? I'll assume less than 16
If you're running them all off of an external switch, this is the go to tried and tested NVR

https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Network-Recorders/WizSense-Series/NVR-5-EI-Series/2HDD/NVR5216-EI

If you need or prefer built-in PoE switch this is the same unit with 16PoE ports
(You dont have to use them or use all of them. You can have some cameras on an external switch and others on the PoE ports of the NVR, or have them all on either. Very flexible)

NVR5216-16P-EI - Dahua International

NVR5216-16P-EI

www.dahuasecurity.com

There is a brand new version with some added bells and whistles that has not yet been seen in the wild, so I'd hold off unless you just want to be our guinea pig

NVR5216-16P-EI - Dahua International

NVR5216-16P-EI

www.dahuasecurity.com

i have i tihnk around 8 or 10.

any tips on set up?

i have a massive ubiquity POE switch giving power to all the cameras.. ideally this NVR can connect to my network via ethernet and detect all my cameras.

 

[TonyR]

If the BI setup was using a POE switch then it's likely the guy assigned unique, static IP's to all the cams in the same subnet as the BI server's LAN.

If using the POE switch and a non-POE NVR you should be able to assign the NVR's LAN the same IP that the BI server used (or if unknown assign a unique static IP in the same subnet as the cameras), connect the NVR's LAN to the POE switch and connect the cameras one at a time to the POE switch and allow the NVR to detect them.

 

[bigredfish]

^^^^
THIS

Buy the

https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Network-Recorders/WizSense-Series/NVR-5-EI-Series/2HDD/NVR5216-EI

Run a cable form its LAN port to the switch your cameras are on, or another switch on your LAN, wait and let the NVR find the cameras or use the search feature to find them.
Likely they are all assigned IP's on your LAN something like 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.101, etc

Once they appear in the top panel of the camera registration page, manually add them and they will move to the bottom.

It will be a HUGE benefit to your time and sanity if you knew and used the Admin login credentials to your old BI setup for the NVR, matching likely the cameras credentials.