Recent content by kelhus

David, thanks for posting your follow up! My experience mirrored yours, I could not get it to find the camera without a router assigning an IP first. Then once IP was assigned in the network, I could detect it in the app and setup a new static IP for the other LAN. I'm hooked up and on BI and...

I have a POE injector ordered and will try a direct connect wednesday.

I'm glad you were able to do it without internet access. My PC has a physical network device connected to the internet and another separate physical nic#2 connected to the POE switch so perhaps that's causing issues with the Reolink client only looking down NIC #1 and not finding it? I tried...

Thanks David, I've done that to no avail. It detects no devices. I'm connected to 3 other POE devices on that switch but I cannot find the Reolink doorbell. I'm not sure what else to do unless it needs internet connection directly as that is on a separate LAN.

Does everyone use a router in their camera network? I have the doorbell on my POE switch, un-managed, segregated from the internet and I cannot find the device in network sweeps, nor through the reolink app. Anyone else have issues? I hit the ring button and it rings just fine. Is there a...

Doh! Thank you very much! I'm still a network newbie so I didn't even think about my PC. I've got myself sorted for now. Camera is up and connected via blue iris.

Hey everyone. I've been lurking for a few months and I've learned much from this forum and am looking for some more advice. I placed an order from Andy for a few IPC-HDW5231R-ZE cameras and am having a difficult time connecting to the first one. I purchased the new BV-Tech POE switch model...