Re: HIKVISION - Plug N Play - 4 Out of 9 Fail

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On 8/5/2015 1:25 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> I spent some time late yesterday playing with a HIK Vision NVR and some
> HIK Vision cameras.  At first it went very nicely.  The first cameras
> picked up fairly quickly, and the resolution of a the 3MP camera was
> very nice.  Then I ran some wire and threw four more cameras on the
> system.  Of those only one picked up plug-n-play as it was supposed to.
> In fact out nine still sealed NIB cameras four of them failed to be
> picked up properly.  The system would see them, but not as PNP.  They
> all came up as .1.64.
>
> I set up a separate isolated network to make sure everything was clean.
> Defaulted the cameras, and reprogrammed them several different ways.
> With different IPs and gateway that made sense.  I tried them as DHCP as
> well. They would get an IP from the NVR, but not one that made any
> sense.  It still did not PNP.  Then I would unplug them from independent
> power and switch them over to the NVR.  The NVR would show them, but
> would not display them or allow me to add them manually.
>
> It was getting late when I decided to shelve the project.  The only
> other thing I could think of was maybe to upgrade the firmware on the
> cameras.
>
> I would note that on my test network I was able to communicate with the
> cameras from my laptop, and I was able to view video from the cameras
> after installing the ActiveX plug-in on my browser.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Perhaps this is why ADI has them on special right now.
>
>
>


Bob, I only did one of these HikVision systems so I don't know if I can
help much.

You did not mention if these cameras were HikVision cameras or not??

If not, then that could be some kind of issue.

The only other thought would be to hook connect all cameras and then
power up the NVR.  Or call tech support and hope you get lucky.

Let me know what you find.  Very interested here.

Les