Adding New IP Cameras

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I just paid to have a local company install 16 new cameras in my home, all 4mp IP cameras and 2 PTZ cameras. They appear to be no-namer Chinese brands and upon lookup on a MAC for the IP and cameras I see their TVT Digital Technology brand NVR & Cameras.

Half the reason for paying 7K for all of this was to upgrade from an older coax system I bought from Costco years ago to nice upgraded cameras but also to be able to use Blue Iris for motion detection

Anyways the cameras are all plugged into the NVR and I'm not able to get Blue Iris to detect any of them. I downloaded Onvif Device Manager and used my user/pass to the NVR in the login page but nothing shows up in the device list (Not sure if Im using it properly and the wiki listed in other threads is password protected)

Here is a screenshot from the NVR showing the cameras online:
https://i.gyazo.com/2e9b4330db38efacd718b3bb67bcba54.png

I'm not able to visit the cameras directly from any of those urls.

Any suggestions?
 

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I just paid to have a local company install 16 new cameras in my home, all 4mp IP cameras and 2 PTZ cameras. They appear to be no-namer Chinese brands and upon lookup on a MAC for the IP and cameras I see their TVT Digital Technology brand NVR & Cameras.

Half the reason for paying 7K for all of this was to upgrade from an older coax system I bought from Costco years ago to nice upgraded cameras but also to be able to use Blue Iris for motion detection

Anyways the cameras are all plugged into the NVR and I'm not able to get Blue Iris to detect any of them. I downloaded Onvif Device Manager and used my user/pass to the NVR in the login page but nothing shows up in the device list (Not sure if Im using it properly and the wiki listed in other threads is password protected)

Here is a screenshot from the NVR showing the cameras online:
https://i.gyazo.com/2e9b4330db38efacd718b3bb67bcba54.png

I'm not able to visit the cameras directly from any of those urls.

Any suggestions?
you will need to stream from the nvr rather than the cameras unless you put them on their own poe switch....in the future choose the cameras yourself and pay someone to simply run new cable and mount them. Tvt is a large manufacture and are the oem many brands...Kerner on Security: Remote Code Execution in CCTV-DVR affecting over 70 different vendors
tvt rtsp is listed...change camera number for each channel...the NVR may have difficulty streaming 16ch at full res...
 

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you will need to stream from the nvr rather than the cameras unless you put them on their own poe switch....in the future choose the cameras yourself and pay someone to simply run new cable and mount them. Tvt is a large manufacture and are the oem many brands...Kerner on Security: Remote Code Execution in CCTV-DVR affecting over 70 different vendors
tvt rtsp is listed...change camera number for each channel...the NVR may have difficulty streaming 16ch at full res...
Thanks for the reply. I'm reading that exploit article you posted but not finding anything to assist with getting the stream from the NVR into Blue Iris.

I put in the NVR IP & login credentials and it says "rtsp port detected" but everything comes back and says "rtsp: 404 stream not found"

https://i.gyazo.com/7d90fafef3f53e377075e5c6d90dc846.png
 

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What happens when you put in a '1' in the red box (below) for 'Camera'?
If it works, create a new cam for each cam and change that number to 2, 3, etc.

NVR-RTSP_1.jpg
 

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Thanks for the reply. I'm reading that exploit article you posted but not finding anything to assist with getting the stream from the NVR into Blue Iris.

I put in the NVR IP & login credentials and it says "rtsp port detected" but everything comes back and says "rtsp: 404 stream not found"

https://i.gyazo.com/7d90fafef3f53e377075e5c6d90dc846.png
The point of the article was two fold. 1- that tvt is not a no name brand and 2- to provide a list of brands that may be on the dropdown list...as I said, tvt is listed on the blue iris drop down list...have you tried it?
 

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The point of the article was two fold. 1- that tvt is not a no name brand and 2- to provide a list of brands that may be on the dropdown list...as I said, tvt is listed on the blue iris drop down list...have you tried it?
Aww gotcha, okay I see what you mean TVT is the manufacture and provides white labeled cameras to many vendors that slap their brand on the cameras. And yes I tried the TVT dropdown, no dice. I even plugged in a camera directly to my switch and Blue Iris was still not detecting it.
 

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Aww gotcha, okay I see what you mean TVT is the manufacture and provides white labeled cameras to many vendors that slap their brand on the cameras. And yes I tried the TVT dropdown, no dice. I even plugged in a camera directly to my switch and Blue Iris was still not detecting it.
you must enter the correct camera ip...are you able to login directly to the camera via browser when connected to the switch? if not blue iris cant either. you need to ensure the camera is on the same subnet as your pc..

How to add camera to BI that is not in the drop down list
 

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When I plug in a camera directly to my Ubiquity switch I'm unable to access the camera by entering the IP that shows up on my managed switch portal.

I tried Wireshark, OnVif Device Manager, Url Snooper 2.... none of them detected anything.

I'm starting to wonder if my IP settings on my desktop are the issue?
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Next step Im gonna try is to connect the camera directly to a laptop to see if Im able to access it that way. I really appreciate your help btw. Been soo frustrated but determined to figure it out.
 

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I found the camera brand....

IP-5IRD4S02VFZ-G/W | 4MP H.265 Network IP Eyeball Dome Security Camera WDR Motorized Lens

I then connected one camera directly to my network switch (instead of the NVR) and installed IP-tool located the camera (Screenshot: https://image.prntscr.com/image/BhPWZGXmTn_CA5hrjIp1pg.png). What was weird is it listed 192.168.1.201 but when I doubled clicked on it, it loaded http://169.254.37.28/Pages/main.htm?v=201706150946 and I have no clue where this IP came from as both my ubiquity switch and ip tool showed the 192.168.1.201 ip. On the direct camera access page going to the TCP/IP page it was set as follows: https://image.prntscr.com/image/SsFhjNuuS8Oc3SkwKaDgog.png and it even had an RTSP page as follows: https://image.prntscr.com/image/DdJ60_5EQqeyZXi-ggdEDw.png . I was able to auto detect the camera on Blue Iris :D and manually add it back to my NVR so it was in both spots. As soon as I plugged the camera back into the nvr it was no longer detected on the ip-tool and not found with blue iris.

I have 16 cameras and my current 18 port poe switch only has like 3 open spots. I'd like to have the cameras connected to the nvr as they currently but just can't seem to figure it out.

When I connected my cam directly to my network poe switch I was able to detect the rtsp link as rtsp://169.254.37.28:554/profile1 and confirmed it worked in blue iris and VLC so when I plugged the camera into the nvr again I tried to replace the IP with the NVR ip...no luck.

Any suggestions here? Im not trying to be a freeloader and expect to be given the the golden answer, Ive honestly spent at least 8+ hours now trying everything I can think of.
 

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Just to add 2 cents to BlueWave above, I have been battling for some time now to get BlueIris to talk to a host or analogue DVR's. The drawback of the DVR's are that they are limited to the number of physical ports and co-ax support. I you use BI you can mix and match IP and Co-Ax.. I have one system running a Techwell card which is great but at another site I have a TVT DVR and for the life of me I could not get it working. I saw a post about using a Q-SEE template in BI but that did not work either even though the port 6036 was a match.
In the end the post above helped me..

I setup BI using a Generic RTSP template

In the Path box just change the chID= to the physical port number on the DVR

Repeat the process for each port until you have added all 8 or 16 cameras.

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