Accessing cams with BI on NVR POE ports

[cutterman]

Started setting a new Hik system with 7716 NVR and Hik cameras. I have a POE switch so my original intention was to connect all the cams to the switch and then provision them in the Hik NVR. I also use BI so wanted to have the cam IP addresses on the same subnet. Turns out I couldn't figure out how to configure these cams on D1, D2, etc on the NVR. They show up but I couldn't configure them. Short on time and patience I just plugged them into the POE ports on the NVR.

My initial research suggests I can't access the cams to use in Blue Iris if they are behind the NVR POE ports. I did configure the virtual host so can open the cams web configurator.

2 questions- am I missing something- can I access the cams with BI? Is there a way to set up the NVR to use cams on the subnet and not connected to POE switch?

Thanks

 

[alastairstevenson]

If the cameras have the NVR PoE interface IP address (usually 192.168.254.1) set as the default gateway, and there is a static route set in your LAN gateway (presumably your router) that specifies the NVR lan interface IP address as the gateway for the 192.168.254.x address range, the cameras on the NVR PoE ports will be directly accessible at their native 192.168.254.x addresses.

 

[Holbs]

I know I have Blue Iris at home, VPN tunnel to my work office.
At my work office, we have some Dahua IP cameras plugged into POE switch + Dahua NVR. These IP cameras feed both NVR + Blue Iris fine & dandy.
As for accessing cameras behind a NVR? Dunno's.

 

[wittaj]

You can absolutely pull the video from an NVR into BI.

In BI, you select add camera and put the IP address of the NVR into the IP address location. Put in username and password and hit find/inspect and let BI do its thing.

Then on that same screen about halfway down is a pull down for Camera number and pick camera 1 and then hit ok. The camera should show up. Then add camera and the select copy and copy this camera and then change the number 1 to a 2 and then repeat for your cameras by selecting add camera and add IP address of NVR and selecting next camera number. So if you have 8 cameras on the NVR, you repeat this process 8 times in BI.

OR depending on your NVR, in BI it may populate all the cameras in the main and substream pulldown boxes and you just select a camera number and then add another camera and select the next pulldown.