view camera in VLC, smart TV

[Mazen Hagog]

I have my cameras setup as the photo shows, my question is in order to view a camera from the nvr using a PC-VLC or from smart tv apps do I need to connect the device to the router the nvr connected to? or is it ok that the device is connected to AP and the nvr is connected directly to the router?
Also when I want to view a camera from the nvr using onvif with PC-VLC do I need to type the camera specific IP or nvr IP or my router IP?
I searched a bit online but I didn't know what to fill here:
rtsp:/[rtsp_server]:554/live/[camera_id]/[stream_number]

NOTE: my nvr model is Tenda N6P-4H, and yes it supports onvif.

as I want to view it also using this app: (with smart tv connected to AP)

 

[flynreelow]

just dowload TinyCam pro on an android stick or smart TV.

 

[Mazen Hagog]

just dowload TinyCam pro on an android stick or smart TV.

They told me in order to reach the ip cameras i need to connect it to a switch connected to the router, then connect that switch to the nvr.
As the nvr will create another ip range,
Is the app you sent access the nvr or the camera itself?

 

[TonyR]

You will stream from a specific channel of the NVR using the NVR's LAN IP and the correct URL constructed of a specific path. Ideally that stream type would be RTSP.

Where did you obtain the URL for the Tenda NVR? I see what appears to be a Hikvision HTTP URL which is MJPEG.

EDIT: 2/25 @ 0557 CDT: found the folllowing info on Tenda site at [Camera] Video playback from IP Cam by RTSP_eng_Tenda-All For Better NetWorking "

For NVR rtsp:/IP.address.NVR:554/ch=1&subtype=0; ch=1 means that the camera is connected to the first channel of the NVR; subtype = 0 means the main stream, subtype = 1 means an additional stream.​

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So try the following in VLC, insure a camera is connected to the NVR port 1/channel 1. Be sure to place 2 "/" after "rtsp:" as the forum software will not allow 2 to be displayed consecutively here.

rtsp:/NVR-LAN-IP address:554/ch=1&subtype=0

To include authentication in the URL, try:

rtsp:/NVR-username:NVR-password@NVR-LAN-IP address:554/ch=1&subtype=0