Camera IPs need changed

[rbc1225]

Hey Andy, I had to switch out my network router and all of my IPs on the cameras of course need to be changed. I was able to get to my NVR because of course it has a keyboard, mouse and monitor but I can't remember how to get to my cameras. Do
I have to log into them with a hardwire directly to a laptop? Sorry, Its been about 4 years since I have set this thing up.

Thanks

 

[wittaj]

Why not just change your router to the IP address of the previous router and it fixes everything?

Are your cameras connected to the POE ports of the NVR? If so, the NVR already isolated and gave the cameras their own IP that won't need to be changed when routers are changed.

 

[rbc1225]

Why not just change your router to the IP address of the previous router and it fixes everything?

Are your cameras connected to the POE ports of the NVR? If so, the NVR already isolated and gave the cameras their own IP that won't need to be changed when routers are changed.

Because it was behind a subnet and now it's not. No, the cameras are not connected directly to the NVR. They go through a separate POE switch. My guess is, I set them up as static and not DHCP so each has to be changed individually.

 

[wittaj]

So no way to recreate the prior IP topology?

If not, then yeah you will need to connect a computer on the same IP subnet as the cameras to the POE switch or another switch connected to the cameras and open a browser (preferably Internet Explorer) and log into each camera and change their IP to the new IP subnet.

 

[rbc1225]

So no way to recreate the prior IP topology?

If not, then yeah you will need to connect a computer on the same IP subnet as the cameras to the POE switch or another switch connected to the cameras and open a browser (preferably Internet Explorer) and log into each camera and change their IP to the new IP subnet.

Okay, got it. I was hoping you could do it through the NVR but no luck. I imagine if I was actually connected directly to the NVR then maybe. I got it switched over.

Thanks

 

[tigerwillow1]

If not, then yeah you will need to connect a computer on the same IP subnet as the cameras to the POE switch or another switch connected to the cameras and open a browser (preferably Internet Explorer) and log into each camera and change their IP to the new IP subnet.

Beating a dead horse I know. Would be a lot easier/faster with configTool. No need to mess with the computer IP address, or log into the cameras. It is even able to assign sequential IPs to multiple cameras with one command. I've never tried this feature.

 

[wittaj]

Yeah, but some of us don't want to install yet another program on our system, and we do have instances here where ConfigTool didn't work correctly. IE has always worked for me.

And this cheap ethernet to USB adapter makes it easy to just assign it the IP address of my cams!

 

[tigerwillow1]

we do have instances here where ConfigTool didn't work correctly

Pardon my grouchiness, but I think this is a lame argument. There are lots of reports of BI not working correctly and yet you recommend it. How many NVR bugs have been reported vs. BI bugs? Maybe 100x times or less? Are these instances where IE didn't work correctly? Have you used any configTool versions from the last few years? With the version I run now, it always works for me.

 

[wittaj]

To each their own. I prefer to minimize what I put on a computer and the IE web browser is already on it and it works for all my cameras.

ConfigTool is for Dahua. What about my Hik and Axis cams and Sunba? I would need to install their equivalent.

I don't want to think about what "tool" to use for which cam.

With the web browser, I can change anything on any of my cameras regardless of who makes it.

If Windows came with a surveillance camera software program I would just use it instead of adding BI LOL.

But in reality, you set the IP once in the camera, you should never have to change it again.