Lightning may have damaged my cameras!

TheWhiteKnight · 2018-10-13T22:53:02+00:00

Hey guys! Lightning struck my place and I did not have my components in a surge protector at the moment it happened which was also by chance because normally it is protected. The timing sucks but initially it looked as if the only component that fried was the modem. The other parts being the router, switch and poe injector all which power on fine. After upgrading the modem the network is back up but the switch is not showing a camera for either of the two connected on the indicator light. My SADP tool cannot find any and none seem to be powering on when looking at it from the outside. I'm worried foreign voltage may have also entered the ethernet cable and terminated at the cameras which are installed about 20ft up. Any advice on other troubleshooting I can do to quickly identify if this is the case would be much appreciated. As far as I remember they were working after the lightning strike and only the modem had failed but it's 50/50 at this point. Is it possible the unmanaged switch or POE injector is faulty even though it still powers on? I thought perhaps the modem changed the ip of the network but SADP should still find it as far as I know and I confirmed it is still on the same ip range as well. Port forwarding wouldn't need to be setup for it to register in BI which is simply reporting a 8000274c (timeout; check IP address and port) 0 & 80002751 (Socket error: 10065) 0 No Signal Errors which must be because they simply aren't powering on. Weird that it shows 2 slightly different errors for what should be the same issue is that a clue? :idk: PSA: Protect your equipment at all times! Especially during hurricane season!!!