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I managed to get it sorted, in trying to get the WiFi router to see the NVR I fiddled with the IP address and forgot to change it in the port forwarding setup of the WiFi router, once corrected everything works as it should. My BIL did have to use Hik-Connect though as iVMS-4500 which I use is...

One step closer, I managed to get the NVR to be seen by the WiFi router, I simply inputted an IP address incorrectly and once corrected I can see the NVR in Net Analyzer and access it via IP address. Next issue, I have setup dynamic DNS on the WiFi router and forwarded port 8000 but still can't...

Hi all I trust that you are well. We recently moved house and my brother-in-law bought our old house, installed his own WiFi router connected to the ONT and setup his own contract with the same ISP. I have been trying to get the Hikvision NVR (DS-7616NI-K2/16P) setup so that he can access the...

Finally got this issue sorted out... ...which turned out to be dodgy RJ45 connection :rolleyes: I had a friend come over with his CAT cable continuity checker as I could see the NVR was powering the camera but not receiving any feed from it. We found one of the cables was not connected so...

And now one of the camera's that didn't come back after the reboot of the NVR last night, is back online with me having done absolutely zero.

This gets stranger and stranger... I unfortunately haven't had a chance to check cabling as my father-in-law is still busy with my connectivity tester and it is an hours drive away but I happened to be on our main garage roof yesterday and unplugged the one camera that hasn't come back online...

I'll check it out, I have unplugged it before with no change in behaviour, and what makes no sense is that there was no issue before the power failure and I can see no sign of physical damage anywhere.

That is what it looks like, the camera is not powering up for some reason, although it had no issue before the power failure. The camera in SADP with ID 03 is the other camera that takes a while to come back online after a power failure but is working perfectly fine at the moment. At the...

I can only see three of the four cameras connected to the NVR PoE's...

Yes, all camera's excluding the Sonoff cameras are plugged in to the NVR PoE ports. I'll plug my laptop on as you suggest and run SADP, at the moment I can see that one of the HikVision cameras (Outside Top) is offline and the IP address looks a bit weird... I also don't understand why only...

The cameras are both offline so how would I do this? And why would firmware issues cause them to work perfectly until there is a power failure?

Hi all I hope that everyone is well. Unfortunately in South Africa we are subject to random and scheduled power failures and the LA batteries of our ESS are failing so even though we have backup our NVR loses power at times. For the most part this isn't an issue, the NVR starts up again but...

Unfortunately, some of our electrical transmission infrastructure in South Africa is either old or poorly maintained, leading to issues like this captured on my CCTv last night. We can't see the pole or electrical cabling as there is a tree in the way but it was still spectacular... P.S...

I updated each camera’s firmware and the issue has been sorted, thanks @DavidR1! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Thanks for the feedback @DavidR1, I checked that a while back but the camera's are setup exactly the same, the only difference I can see is Firmware/Encoding/WebPlugin versions. I'll research how to upgrade them and do it when I am back from our overseas trip which we are off on in a few days.

I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction as I have tried to look at everything I can think of in terms of camera setup. I have four HIKVision IP cameras, all the same model with the exception of focal length, where two are 4mm and two are 2.8mm. The two 4mm camera's display...

Thanks Alastair, Virtual Host worked perfectly to log on to the cameras and change some setting, I still have a bit more to figure out.

Thanks Alastair. I thought that may be the case but couldn't find any explanation for how to access IP cameras directly that are connected to an NVR instead of to a router. I will try the 'Virtual Host' facility on my NVR and go from there.

Hi all I hope that everyone is well. I have been putting off changing a few things with our CCTv system for too long now. I can't remember why, but I only changed one out of four IP camera's passwords when I set them up, so this is number one on my list. I looked at doing this yesterday but...

Thanks for the input @SouthernYankee, I am busy doing a lot of research and coming across some great posts/blogs that yourself and others have referenced. I am learning, slowly...

Hi Sorry to hijack but I thought my questions may help others. I am looking in to using a VPN for home but was told that I may have issues with accessing my cameras when not on my home network? Do you have this issue using a VPN? I am currently using a dynamic DNS service and port...

Thanks again @SouthernYankee, I will look in to OpenVPN or similar as an option. Internet in South Africa is still a bit behind North America and Europe but it is better than a few years ago. My main router is an Asus RT-AC68U, which is connected to my fibre line modem and my NVR and Paradox...

Thanks @SouthernYankee and thanks for the Quick Start guide, I wish I had been on here earlier although I don't think I did too badly with my initial setup... 1 x HIKVision DS-7616NI-K2/16P NVR 2 x HIKVision SE-DS-2CD2055FWD-I Cameras (4mm fixed length) 2 x HIKVision SE-DS-2CD2055FWD-I Cameras...

No problem, I figured it out earlier, instead of adding the new camera to the Live View in the Configuration > Live View of the NVR I was trying to add it directly on the Live View, if that makes sense. Once I figured that out it was easy to add it to the Live View setup of both the VGA and...

Thanks for the feedback @alastairstevenson. Unfortunately it doesn't make any sense to me but perhaps I am using the incorrect terminology. I simply plugged the new camera in to my NVR and it was added to an existing PoE port by the NVR although I need to change the username and password of...

Thanks @gwminor48 and @CV350.

Hi all If this has been discussed before, please point me to the thread, I did search but could not find a thread detailing my specific issue. I added another camera to my home CCTv setup yesterday which consists of the following 1 x HIKVision DS-7616NI-K2/16P NVR 2 x HIKVision...

Hi all I am from Johannesburg in South Africa and a complete CCTv newbie although I did a lot of research in to what was available before buying our HIKVision system for our house. I went with the following so far... 1 x HIKVision DS-7616NI-K2/16P NVR 2 x HIKVision SE-DS-2CD2055FWD-I Cameras...