Having spoken to Dahua tech support they helped make the following changes. First I should add that the poe switch I have in the diagram is a poe injector and I now understand that it's a very different thing. To get this to work we changed the camera network network settings to DHCP...
Empire Candy, thanks very much for your reply.
The NVR2104 is a none poe one and so it's powered with a poe switch. I don't understand what the connection is between the power system and the password that you mention.
I have tried re-setting the camera with the reset button, then removing...
I can view the dahua hdw554 camera stream ok by connecting directly to the cameras static ip address, therefore the camera's working ok.
I can see the camera in the NVR2104 camera list and can add it to the Added device section ok, green tick shows. Once added however the Status column has a...