Guys,
I have a problem. It appears that 7 of 11 cameras went bad within a day. They are all different (brand, models) and have been purchased over various time periods. They are all Dahua and HikVision. The oldest is a cheap Dahua, 10 years old and as I got more and more into this I did spend more money - so some are higher quality than the first ones. I can provide a list if this helps troubleshooting.
I did recently upgrade to UNIFI UDM and monitored switches 4 weeks ago. The first three weeks all was flawless. Then I was notified by UNIFI about an intrusion that came through my daughters laptop that went after a handful of cameras (some NVR command was recognized). I am not sure anymore if at that time I had just thread monitoring on or the thread prevention. The attack went after some cameras but not all of them.
From there on we noticed occasional drop offs in BlueIris but I am not sure if this was related.
A few days ago all 7 cameras are now constantly cycling on/off. BlueIris reports this and it is up to 100 times in one hour.
What is strange is that some of the cameras that were touched by the intrusion attempt are not the cycling on/off. So I do not believe this was the problem. The only common thing I can see is that these 7 were all on one POE (TP Link Switch 8 60W). One could assume that something happened through that POE which caused this. The only strange thing is that one HikVision that was on the same POE and this one is not affected. So 7 of the 8 POE ports were affected.
I also see high network traffic now and everything slows down.
My trouble shooting steps so far:
My questions:
I have a problem. It appears that 7 of 11 cameras went bad within a day. They are all different (brand, models) and have been purchased over various time periods. They are all Dahua and HikVision. The oldest is a cheap Dahua, 10 years old and as I got more and more into this I did spend more money - so some are higher quality than the first ones. I can provide a list if this helps troubleshooting.
I did recently upgrade to UNIFI UDM and monitored switches 4 weeks ago. The first three weeks all was flawless. Then I was notified by UNIFI about an intrusion that came through my daughters laptop that went after a handful of cameras (some NVR command was recognized). I am not sure anymore if at that time I had just thread monitoring on or the thread prevention. The attack went after some cameras but not all of them.
From there on we noticed occasional drop offs in BlueIris but I am not sure if this was related.
A few days ago all 7 cameras are now constantly cycling on/off. BlueIris reports this and it is up to 100 times in one hour.
What is strange is that some of the cameras that were touched by the intrusion attempt are not the cycling on/off. So I do not believe this was the problem. The only common thing I can see is that these 7 were all on one POE (TP Link Switch 8 60W). One could assume that something happened through that POE which caused this. The only strange thing is that one HikVision that was on the same POE and this one is not affected. So 7 of the 8 POE ports were affected.
I also see high network traffic now and everything slows down.
My trouble shooting steps so far:
- tried two different POEs for these cameras - no difference
- I tried disconnecting all of them except one at the time - no difference, still high network traffic
- brought cameras closer to the router (from workshop to house) - no difference
- placed the old router back into the network to see if UNIFI Thread management (IPS) made a difference - no difference
- I factory reset two cameras but no difference
My questions:
- Is there a way to test the POE to see its stability before I connect new cameras to it?
- Is there a way to test the camera separately in a small network setup? Any suggestions? I still have my old router that I can setup but I have to drag the other components (i.e. BlueIris) from the house to the workshop as I have only one Lan line between the two.
- Has anyone experience with UNIFI? I read that you should not put the cameras on a virtual network due to UDM having issues with high traffic across Virtual Network. So I had all cameras on the main LAN but firewall protected to only talk to BlueIris IP, also no internet access for any camera either way. Is there someone that may guide me with the best setup as I start building this again. I am thinking of complete factory reset my UDM and start from scratch.
- Also - I need to start buying cameras again. You can imagine that buying 7 will strain everyone budget. I dont need the latest and greatest,
- two for the horse barn (indoor but very dusty, no need for high end),
- two for the workshop (indoor, no need for expensive ones),
- two high quality outdoor watching the house,
- one outdoor (not high quality needed). Any recommendations?
- Any thing that I should test before I embark on a complete reset & purchase spree?