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Wow, ask and I shall receive! The info you guys have posted is a wealth of information, well for me anyways, lol. This is exactly what I needed, a noobs guide for better camera performance, it says what is what and which settings to start with. It's nice knowing there's still people out there...

Yes, I already have the manuals for both systems but what I really need is advice on which settings are best for optimal camera performance. If the factory default settings are as good as it gets then LOREX gets an "F" in performance for their super duper 8mp LRNV, CNV, HDR & HEVC 4k ultra...

I recently posted a tread about a missing camera on my new 2021 $3000 LOREX Nocturnal 4K 16-Channel 4TB Wired NVR with Smart CNV IP Dome Cameras, 30FPS Recording, Listen-in Audio and Motorized Varifocal Zoom Lenses system but that issue was resolved, thank you guys for helping me troubleshoot...

I believe they all had unique static IPs but I moved the cameras around on the switch to see if I had a bad channel so I'm not 100% sure they ended up in the original locations so I'm assuming when I deleted channel 12, well I say deleted because I cleared the IP, mask & gateway of that channel...

Well, I finally figured it out, thanks to all of you. After getting the error message...."Please remove a device first, there is no free digital channel now".... every time I did a "Device Search" I unplugged the switch from the router, plugged it back in and it only found the 3 cameras so I...

Excellent advice, now when I plug the switch back in will the router automatically assign all new IP addresses to the 4 cameras, (10 - 13) or will I need to assign new ones manually?

Cameras 1 - 9 and 14 - 16 are plugged into the NVR, cameras 10 - 13 are plugged into the switch then the switch is plugged into the router so there's actually 4 free channels on the back of the NVR but the camera that is down is camera 12 that's plugged into the switch. Now can I delete channel...

That makes perfect since but out of 16 channels on the NVR I only have 12 cameras physically plugged into it, the other 4 are on the switch which includes the down camera.. It's an 8 channel switch but not sure how to delete a switch channel or if that's even possible?

Yeah sorry, I just get impatient sometimes waiting on responses, lol. But now it's raining and cold here so it all makes it that much more difficult. Wait, no, what? I'm just glad it's not 118 degrees outside, lol.

I'm sure that's possible but I'm leaning towards it being a bad channel on the switch or a bad camera. That's more of a guess than anything, lol. When I tried to do another "Device Search" it came up with no results, no matter how many times I hit the button or how long I waited it came up with...

I think I posted this in the wrong forum before so I decided to post it here. First of all I didn't realized LOREX and Dahua were the same thing so here's my predicament. I installed a LOREX Nocturnal 4K 16-Channel 4TB Wired NVR System with 12 Smart IP Dome Cameras wired directly to the NVR and...

No IT admin. So if I change the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 and the gateway to 192.168.0.1 but leave the IP address at 239.255.42.42 then it should work?

I just did a device search and it came up with one camera, I'm assuming that's the down camera. When I tried to add it to the system it said, "Please remove a device first, there is no free digital channel now!". It says that if I click the Add button or the Manual Add button. I also noticed the...

That's what I was wondering. If the NVR POE ports were even designed to handle a switch?

No kidding? I only have the one uplink cable running from the switch to one of the 16 channels on the back of the NVR then one cable from the NVR network plug to the router. Your modification says I need to unplug the uplink cable that's plugged into one of the 16 channels and plug it into the...

Yes, this is the system I bought, I didn't realize Lorex and Dahua was the same thing. So how do I manually add the cam thats plugged into the switch? I attached a schematic of the system.

Thats where I'm having issues, manually adding the cam. I did a search, not sure if I did it correctly but none of the cams plugged into the switch came up on the search but 3 of the cams are working. I'm not at the site right now to see if the IRs are glowing, actually I'm never there at night...

No, I have 4 cams plugged into a switch (POE) I guess and I have the one data cable from the switch plugged into the NVR along with 12 other cams plugged directly into the NVR, so I have 3 unused ports on the back of the NVR.

I plugged the camera into another port and nothing. Doesn't the NVR need to assign an IP address to which ever port a cam is plugged into? For instance, if I took the cam thats plugged into port 3 and plugged it into port 4 the NVR wouldnt recognize the cam because port 4 doesn't have a IP...

That is true, good idea, I will look into that since this system is in an apartment complex.

I do and I will try that shortly. When I checked the POE switch the amber light was on all the ports, two cams had the green light on but 3 cams worked, if that made any sense?

My Lorex Nocturnal 4K 16-Channel 4TB Wired NVR System with Smart IP Dome Cameras encountered a problem after a "power surge". I have power surge in quotation marks because I'm not 100% sure that's what caused the problem but that's what I was told from a not so reliable source, lol. The problem...

Lol, yeah, not planning on moving any cables on the NVR, it does seem like a waste though having 4 open ports on the NVR. now I'm wondering if those open ports can be used for anything else?

Another dumb and pointless question, I have some cables tangled up going into the metal can that houses the POE switch and I can't close door to the can. If I unplug one of the camera cables to reroute it, untangle it, will I have to do a Device Search on the NVR and assign a new IP address for...

Ahhhh, simple as that. I'm sure a managed POE switch would show the info, mine is unmanaged and that info is not something I need to know on a regular basis anyways. Thank you for answering my question so fast, I appreciate it.

Ok, all 16 of my cameras work on the monitor and look great. On the Channel Status page of the NVR I have all green lights on all 16 cameras in the status column, all looking good, but in the POE Manager page of the NVR it shows the cameras hooked up to the POE switch, cameras 10, 11, 12 & 13...

Both of my cheap cable testers told me the cable running to the router from the POE switch was open or the cable length was to long but the continuity test on both testers said the cable was good. The specs on the cheap testers say they accurately read up to 360' but the cable run isn't more...

Same topic, different questions. I'm not on forums all the time so not well versed in forum etiquette so if I'm out of line don't hesitate to speak up. Below is a simplified drawing of my system.

Yeah, I apologize Sir Steve.L , not crazy. I joined this forum to gain knowledge from members and get their opinions on technical issues I'm having with an I.P. camera system I'm installing. Just like millions of other people around the world who join thousands of other forums for the same...

I've been installing a LOREX NVR with 16 cameras (check my other threads to get caught up on the installation) and I've been having issues with a POE switch. After researching online for days I came across a site saying common everyday routers are not POE compatible? If so then I think I just...