cant put dahua camera on dahua nvr except in onvif?????

[wozzzzza]

i have a NVR4216-16p-4ks2 i got from andy many years ago along with a bunch of 5442 cameras, they all go on as private manufacturer no problem, one failed and i got a new 5442 S3 and putting it on took forever to get it working as it wont recognise the camera, had to put it on as ONVIF, anyone know the reason for this?
now i cant do half the stuff in settings that i want to and cant rename the camera in the NVR, it just sits there as IPC, i can change it and save it and says successful but when i goto another page and come back it is back to IPC again. whats up with this??

 

[jeremyx]

When a new 5442 only lands as ONVIF, try a manual Private add instead of relying on Auto Add.

On the NVR: Camera / Remote Device, Manual Add (or edit the existing entry). Set manufacturer/protocol to Private (not ONVIF), TCP port 37777, and the camera admin user/password. Auto search on newer firmwares often grabs ONVIF first even for Dahua cams.

Also confirm the S3 was initialized (Config Tool on the same subnet) and that the NVR is using the password you set on the camera, not only the NVR admin password.

The channel name sticking on "IPC" and reverting after a rename is a common ONVIF-path limitation on these NVRs. Once it is on Private you usually get the full settings menus back and a name that sticks.