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

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 1:24:34 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
> I spent some time late yesterday playing with a HIK Vision NVR and some H=
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> Vision cameras.  At first it went very nicely.  The first cameras picked =
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> fairly quickly, and the resolution of a the 3MP camera was very nice.  Th=
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> I ran some wire and threw four more cameras on the system.  Of those only=
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> one picked up plug-n-play as it was supposed to.  In fact out nine still=
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> sealed NIB cameras four of them failed to be picked up properly.  The sys=
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> would see them, but not as PNP.  They all came up as .1.64.
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> I set up a separate isolated network to make sure everything was clean.=
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> Defaulted the cameras, and reprogrammed them several different ways.  Wit=
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> different IPs and gateway that made sense.  I tried them as DHCP as well.=
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> They would get an IP from the NVR, but not one that made any sense.  It=
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> still did not PNP.  Then I would unplug them from independent power and=
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> switch them over to the NVR.  The NVR would show them, but would not disp=
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> them or allow me to add them manually.
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> It was getting late when I decided to shelve the project.  The only other=
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> thing I could think of was maybe to upgrade the firmware on the cameras.
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> I would note that on my test network I was able to communicate with the=
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> cameras from my laptop, and I was able to view video from the cameras aft=
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> installing the ActiveX plug-in on my browser.
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> Any suggestions?
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> Perhaps this is why ADI has them on special right now.
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> Bob La Londe

Hi Bob,

I set up only 3 cameras on the workbench and then had other work to do. The=
 customer is in no rush so I did some other more pressing work first. I'll =
be heading over to the job tomorrow to start wiring but it's a HUGE house. =
Has a 50 X 30 swimming pool inside attached to the house. I'm only working =
tomorrow and half day Friday and won't be back again until next week ... (m=
aybe) So it's going to be awhile before I can give you any feedback on my r=
esults. I've got to snake wires up outside insulated walls. (fun,fun,fun)=
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I'm also doing some TV and alarm system updating to .... so ......=20

I'll let you know the results when I get to the point of setting up the cam=
eras. Hope I fair better than you have so far.

Was it the same cameras and NVR that I got or different?

I was told by ADI that there is a local HIKvision tech support guy and gave=
 me a number to call when/if I had tech problems. We'll see how THAT works =
out too.

I tried to call the main tech support number to ask some preliminary questi=
ons about the cameras and was on hold for almost an hour and finally hung u=
p.

If it works the same way with the local guy .... it'll be the last time I u=
se their products... Can't handle that shit. By the time someone finally pi=
cks up I'm already ballistic and I obviously don't get any cooperation with=
 sarcasm in every question I ask.

I'll see what happens.=20