Struggling to add new camera IPC-T24IR

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dockdoc

Young grasshopper
Dec 27, 2021
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Charlotte NC
I have had Blue Iris with 8 POE and 1 wireless cameras, running in a stable configuration for a couple years now.

I went to add a new POE cam, an IPC-T24IR. I wired it up and added it to my POE switch as I've done before. I configured the camera's IP address, made sure there were no conflicts, etc. The camera web UI shows up right away, configuration was easy, and I can see the live feed on the camera web UI no problem. So far so good.

For some reason I cannot get a signal when I add the camera to BI. The camera shows up when I click "Find/inspect", and I have it set to Generic/ONVIF as all my other cameras are. But the Stream profiles don't autopopulate like the other cameras did, and when I save the configuration I get a "No Signal" sign and blank screen. I've tried rebooting the camera. I rebooted the computer. BI is on the most recent stable/critical update. I made sure the password was entered correctly. I changed the IP address of the camera to a random new one. Nothing seems to work. I actually didn't realize this but it's a different model of camera, same manufacturer, as the other ones on my network... but I doubt that matters, does it?

Any suggestions?

Configuration for the new camera
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Configuration for a similar camera on the system that works well:
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The config utility showing all of the cams on the network (highlighted cam is the new one)
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Sometimes it doesn't populate in everything. Simply copy/past the /cam/monitor... stuff into the mainstream and substream and you will be good to go.

Many of us have also seen that the newer GUI (white) really benefits from a factory reset before putting into BI. Don't know if that would resolve it, but none of my new GUI cams have had issues in BI doing that.
 
wittaj said:
Sometimes it doesn't populate in everything. Simply copy/past the /cam/monitor... stuff into the mainstream and substream and you will be good to go.

Many of us have also seen that the newer GUI (white) really benefits from a factory reset before putting into BI. Don't know if that would resolve it, but none of my new GUI cams have had issues in BI doing that.
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Assuming you mean copy the main / substream info from one cam into the new one... I just tried that, no go.

You think I should do a factory reset even though it's a brand new camera? I'll try it just want to make sure I understand.
 
Wow. That has worked for others that had the issue where it didn't auto-populate it.

But yes, standard practice for many of us is to factory reset a brand new camera before we even bench test it. Before I connect a new camera to my system, I simply provide power to it and hold the factory reset and then start the procedure of setting it up.
 
Figured it out! Super random but I was just messing with settings in the WebUI and discovered the ONVIF login credentials. I made a unique password for that (Separate from the admin password) and then used that in BI and bam, popped right up. Super weird because I didn't have to do that with my other cameras... just dumb luck I stumbled on that setting (although I wonder if a factory reset might have worked too, who knows). Hope this helps someone else in the future.
 
dockdoc said:
Figured it out! Super random but I was just messing with settings in the WebUI and discovered the ONVIF login credentials. I made a unique password for that (Separate from the admin password) and then used that in BI and bam, popped right up. Super weird because I didn't have to do that with my other cameras... just dumb luck I stumbled on that setting (although I wonder if a factory reset might have worked too, who knows). Hope this helps someone else in the future.
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OMG thank you -- I had the same issue and totally missed that there is a separate ONVIF login credential to set up. I also didn't have to do this for any other cameras, but did for IPC-T24IR.
 
ekimreap said:
OMG thank you -- I had the same issue and totally missed that there is a separate ONVIF login credential to set up. I also didn't have to do this for any other cameras, but did for IPC-T24IR.
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Nice! Glad this was helpful. My camera has been working well since originally posting this.
 
Just some extra info for anyone searching for answers.
Settings related to onvif account and access:

WebUI under Settings/Network/Access Platform/[ONVIF] tab: "Authentication" ON / OFF
WebUI under Settings/System/Account/[ACCOUNT] tab: "Anonymous Login" ON / OFF
WebUI under Settings/System/Account/[ONVIF USER] tab: Admin user should be here by default.

Personally, I would suggest Authentication ON, Anonymous Login OFF, and a ONVIF User be created with just permissions you need.
Use this limited onvif account in Blue Iris and it should pull all the parameters successfully.
 
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