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Hello!

Last year i bought a house that came with a bunch of Loryta IPC-T5442TM cameras already installed..

I paid an AV guy i know to reset them and hook them up to my blue iris system

I bought a blue iris subscription, a PC off ebay, and bought the harddrive. It worked well.. untill....

i hooked the PC up to my 4k Frame TV to be able to flip to the camera feed in the living room and watch the pool when i have a party for safety.. and the computer just froze a couple of times and i think just got fried. doesn't turn on anymore...

So i decided instead of trying to trouble shoot the computer i'm just gona go the NVR route because i was way in over my head trying to do this whole thing with lbue iris. just too complicated and i could never even figure out the app situation.

so my cams are connected to ubiquity power switch...

any tips and advice on picking an NVR, getting it set up? i paid a guy i know like $500 to reset everything and set it up. i felt he overcharged by a lot and i just wanna figure it out myself this time.
any help is appreciated.

thank you
 
You didnt say how many cameras you had? I'll assume less than 16
If you're running them all off of an external switch, this is the go to tried and tested NVR

If you need or prefer built-in PoE switch this is the same unit with 16PoE ports
(You dont have to use them or use all of them. You can have some cameras on an external switch and others on the PoE ports of the NVR, or have them all on either. Very flexible)
www.dahuasecurity.com

NVR5216-16P-EI - Dahua International

NVR5216-16P-EI
www.dahuasecurity.com www.dahuasecurity.com

There is a brand new version with some added bells and whistles that has not yet been seen in the wild, so I'd hold off unless you just want to be our guinea pig
www.dahuasecurity.com

NVR5216-16P-EI - Dahua International

NVR5216-16P-EI
www.dahuasecurity.com www.dahuasecurity.com
 
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bigredfish said:
You didnt say how many cameras you had? I'll assume less than 16
If you're running them all off of an external switch, this is the go to tried and tested NVR

If you need or prefer built-in PoE switch this is the same unit with 16PoE ports
(You dont have to use them or use all of them. You can have some cameras on an external switch and others on the PoE ports of the NVR, or have them all on either. Very flexible)
www.dahuasecurity.com

NVR5216-16P-EI - Dahua International

NVR5216-16P-EI
www.dahuasecurity.com www.dahuasecurity.com

There is a brand new version with some added bells and whistles that has not yet been seen in the wild, so I'd hold off unless you just want to be our guinea pig
www.dahuasecurity.com

NVR5216-16P-EI - Dahua International

NVR5216-16P-EI
www.dahuasecurity.com www.dahuasecurity.com
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i have i tihnk around 8 or 10.

any tips on set up?

i have a massive ubiquity POE switch giving power to all the cameras.. ideally this NVR can connect to my network via ethernet and detect all my cameras.
 
If the BI setup was using a POE switch then it's likely the guy assigned unique, static IP's to all the cams in the same subnet as the BI server's LAN.

If using the POE switch and a non-POE NVR you should be able to assign the NVR's LAN the same IP that the BI server used (or if unknown assign a unique static IP in the same subnet as the cameras), connect the NVR's LAN to the POE switch and connect the cameras one at a time to the POE switch and allow the NVR to detect them.
 
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^^^^
THIS

Buy the

Run a cable form its LAN port to the switch your cameras are on, or another switch on your LAN, wait and let the NVR find the cameras or use the search feature to find them.
Likely they are all assigned IP's on your LAN something like 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.101, etc

Once they appear in the top panel of the camera registration page, manually add them and they will move to the bottom.

It will be a HUGE benefit to your time and sanity if you knew and used the Admin login credentials to your old BI setup for the NVR, matching likely the cameras credentials.
 
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bigredfish said:
^^^^
THIS

Buy the

Run a cable form its LAN port to the switch your cameras are on, or another switch on your LAN, wait and let the NVR find the cameras or use the search feature to find them.
Likely they are all assigned IP's on your LAN something like 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.101, etc

Once they appear in the top panel of the camera registration page, manually add them and they will move to the bottom.

It will be a HUGE benefit to your time and sanity if you knew and used the Admin login credentials to your old BI setup for the NVR, matching likely the cameras credentials.
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also does this come with a companion app to easily access remotely?
bigredfish said:
^^^^
THIS

Buy the

Run a cable form its LAN port to the switch your cameras are on, or another switch on your LAN, wait and let the NVR find the cameras or use the search feature to find them.
Likely they are all assigned IP's on your LAN something like 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.101, etc

Once they appear in the top panel of the camera registration page, manually add them and they will move to the bottom.

It will be a HUGE benefit to your time and sanity if you knew and used the Admin login credentials to your old BI setup for the NVR, matching likely the cameras credentia
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bigredfish said:
^^^^
THIS

Buy the

Run a cable form its LAN port to the switch your cameras are on, or another switch on your LAN, wait and let the NVR find the cameras or use the search feature to find them.
Likely they are all assigned IP's on your LAN something like 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.101, etc

Once they appear in the top panel of the camera registration page, manually add them and they will move to the bottom.

It will be a HUGE benefit to your time and sanity if you knew and used the Admin login credentials to your old BI setup for the NVR, matching likely the cameras credentials.
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Hello

I wanted to update you and get your advice.

I bought the NVR you recommended. I finally put a pw and login etc to set it up. it's detecting all of my cameras but the status is red.. and it also keeps beeping very loudly. I sitll have blue iris logged into my other computer and can see my cameras working (10 cameras).. my main pc that i bought for the purpose of running blue iris crashed/stopped working after hooking up to a 4k tv.

Questions:

1. How do i get my cameras to start showing up on here?
2. I dont' know for sure if i know my password/admin setup for blueiris anymore. i thought i wrote it somewhere but i can't find it. i don't know how to check if i still know my login without logging out of blueiris and losing my access completely
3. How do i stop the beeping? is that because there's no harddrive installed on the NVR? can i use the harddrive i bought for my now defunct blueiris computer? i bought one of the harddrives everyone recommended on ths thread for that. .that purple one.

thank you for your help!
 
3- no hard drive

2- if the NVR sees them but they are red, it’s likely the pw. You need to go into the NVR camera registration screen and use the little pencil edit icon and tell the NVR what the pw is to the camera. So you need to know the camera password..

1- fix #2 and they will
 
bigredfish said:
3- no hard drive

2- if the NVR sees them but they are red, it’s likely the pw. You need to go into the NVR camera registration screen and use the little pencil edit icon and tell the NVR what the pw is to the camera. So you need to know the camera password..

1- fix #2 and they will
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is there a guide somewhere on how to install the harddrive? will that harddrive i mentioend work in this guy?

and what options to i have to reset the pw if i don't have it or can't figure it out?
 
Yes a WD purple HD will work

Its not hard, open the NVR with the tiny screws and there will be two cables for each HD, they only fit one way.

If you dont know the pw's you would need to start over and reset each camera one at a time with the button in the SD card access door., then login to each at 192.168.1.108 (default) and set a password for each camera. One at a time. You also need to change the IP address on each camera to something other than 192.168.1.108 because each camera will default to that same IP
I assume your cameras are all plugged into a switch?

Had we known this I would have recommend you buy the NVR with built in PoE ports and use it and do away with BI

 
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bigredfish said:
Yes a WD purple HD will work

Its not hard, open the NVR with the tiny screws and there will be two cables for each HD, they only fit one way.

If you dont know the pw's you would need to start over and reset each camera one at a time with the button in the SD card access door., then login to each at 192.168.1.108 (default) and set a password for each camera. One at a time. You also need to change the IP address on each camera to something other than 192.168.1.108 because each camera will default to that same IP
I assume your cameras are all plugged into a switch?

Had we known this I would have recommend you buy the NVR with built in PoE ports and use it and do away with BI

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i already have a POE switch that all the ethernet cords in my house run through.. it's like a 20 port ubiquity switch. so i think that's fine. i just have to figure out a way to test out the potential passwords. the button thing was a royal pain in the ass and i hired a guy to do it and he ended up charging me like 500 bucks to do it all which i don't want to do again.
 
If you still have access to the BI console you can go into each camera and see the user/pw for each camera.
 
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