Recent content by LilAbner

Well, finally bit the bullet and purchased the Windows version of BlueIris, if only for the reason of finding what the IP address of the new PTZ camera was. Unplugged the camera from the NVR and plugged it into its own standalone router that also produced WiFi. Logged off the house's usual WiFi...

Nope. I've had most of this system for a while. An Amcrest PoE NVR, five Amcrest PoE fixed-lens cameras, and this new Yucheng Hikvision PTZ camera that is not PoE. So I ran 110VAC to the garage location near the Yucheng camera, fastened its power supply to the wall there, and ran its 12VDC to...

I've been gone for a while, sorry. How do i find the IP address of the camera? No IP address written on any tags on the body of the camera. There is a MAC address listed on a sticker on the side of the camera. Not the same thing, I know, but will that help?

Hmm. I don't recall logging in as you describe. After I was playing with presets (described above), I disconnected the camera from the NVR, and plugged it into a router only. On my desktop computer I can see the name of the small WiFi net the router broadcasts. It's still that way now. Would...

Hi, TonyR, thanks for replying! Actually while the camera was plugged into the Amcrest NVR, the NVR had a function for creating Presets. I created several, and later was able to tell it, "Go to Preset 1", followed by "Go to Preset 2", and "Go to Preset 3". With each command, it did exactly as I...

Ouch, $58??? I thought it was just a $10 phone app. Hmm. All I really wanted it for, was to set up a sequence of places for the PTZ camera to point, and start it automatically running through them over and over. Once it gets going, I may never use that software again. And I'll just use the...

Got a non-PoE camera from AliExpress. Ran 12V to it, plugged it into an Amcrest NVR, got a great picture, and was able to use the Amcrest interface to manually pivot the camera left/right, up/down, and zoom in/out. So those functions are working well, so far so good. But I couldn't get the...

Called Amcrest. Their helpful advice: "That camera is a 3rd party camera (i.e. not from Amcrest). We don't recommend using 3rd party cameras, because sometime not all functions work."

Here is the ad for the PTZ camera, including descriptions, videos etc.: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_dYtZqyb

Leafing through the menus on the Amcrest NVR itself, I've found places where I can set up "Presets", which evidently can be used as places where the camera goes while scanning around the area. And where (apparently) I can designate Preset 1, Preset 2 etc. which sounds a lot like setting up a...

Hmm, that's fifty-plus pages. I'll do my best. ;)

Hi, all. I'm a newbie here, in San Diego CA. Title kind of says it all. I have an all-Amcrest system of five security cameras, four 4MP and one 8MP, none of them PTZ) built around an Amcrest NV4108E-HS hard-disk recorder (6TB). I just bought a new Yucheng (Hikvision) P02Z3514T20 PTZ camera...

I just joined the forum. Have a security system around the house, five Amcrest cameras and an 8-camera NVR. Trying to plus a new Yucheng PTZ 5MP camera into it. So far so good, got a good picture and can pant, tilt, and zoom it with autofocus. But a few problems... Can I run a few Q's by you...