HIKVISION - Plug N Play - 4 Out of 9 Fail

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.



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