Swap out CAM on Hikvision NVR

[JMSCA]

Hello All,

I'm getting ready to swap out a cam on my Hikvision NVR which is going bad. It's been 6+ years in service in the hot summers so no surprise. I got a replacement cam, its the same one. I'd like to use the same IP, passwd, etc for the cam as the one I'm removing. Just curious of the right way to do this swap.
Should I connect the new cam to my NVR and configure using SADP? Enter the same IP & other info. as the existing cam? Then power down the NVR, swap cams, then power on the NVR? Or is there a better way to do this change? By the way I'm not interested in keeping the cam I'm swapping out as it is toast at this point.

Thanks in advance.

 

[alastairstevenson]

Just curious of the right way to do this swap.

If the camera as supplied is 'Inactive', as a new camera should be
and
The NVR PoE channel you will connect the camera to is in Plug&Play mode as opposed to manual mode
then
Simply connect the camera to the port and after 2 or 3 minutes the NVR will Activate the camera and establish a connection.

Then you can configure the detailed settings via the camera web GUI using the Virtual Host links in the NVR web GUI Camera Configuration page.
The camera password will either be the same as the NVR, or if you are using current versions of NVR firmware, it will use the camera-specific password as defined in the NVR security settings.

 

[JMSCA]

Hi alastairstevenson,

Thanks for the reply. The camera I'm swapping out is not Plug&Play. It's Manual mode. It has its own password, which I configured. The new cam is a Hikvision camera, brand new out of the box. Can I still configure it via SADP using the old cam's IP, power down the NVR, swap the cam and then power up the NVR? I suspect there may be some configuration to be done post power up of the NVR. Or would it be best to just remove the bad cam from the NVR and add the new one on a different channel? This is a 16 channel NVR. I have plenty of additional channels to use.
Thank you.

 

[alastairstevenson]

You can do either - connect the 'inactive' camera to a channel configured as Plug&Play mode, or 'activate' the camera with the password defined in a channel that's in 'manual' mode and set the camera IP address to match what's defined in that channel.