.....and I don't know the make/model of "H.264 NVR".I don't know how to add the camera
Thanks It's Visual Security Model VS-NVR6608-L.....and I don't know the make/model of "H.264 NVR".![]()
No, I had to buy a PoE switch to go with itAccording to most info I could find, the camera is initially set to get an IP via DHCP and its video decoder is defaulted to H.265 so I'd address those 2 things first.
I'd power up the camera and connect to your router so the router's DHCP server can assign it an IP.
Discover that assigned IP either by looking into the router's webGUI under "devices" or the like or by using a network sniffer.
When you find that IP, from a PC on that same LAN, open a browser to that IP so you can access the cam's webGUI.
In the cam's webGUI under video settings change the default video decode from H.265 to H.264
Is that NVR a POE NVR?
OK, so you can assign the camera a static IP in the same subnet as the NVR's LAN (I'd make the NVR's LAN IP static also) and stream it to the NVR in that manner.No, I had to buy a PoE switch to go with it
Many connected devices with dhcp ip's greater than ...100 but none bring up a page at the http://<ip> web address Do I need to use https ? Should I start looking at devices with ip's less than *..*.100 ?No, I had to buy a PoE switch to go with it
Does this mean you don't know the camera's IP address?Many connected devices with dhcp ip's greater than ..*.100 but none bring up a page at the http://<ip> web address
NoDo I need to use https ?
Right I don't know the camera's IP address although at some point I thought I'd found it to be .105Does this mean you don't know the camera's IP address?
No
What if I connect the camera directly to my laptop's ethernet port, then a Linux command to see what's on the eth0 adapter?Right I don't know the camera's IP address although at some point I thought I'd found it to be .105
If the camera is configured as DHCP and not static then it will assign itself an IP address in the 169.254.0.0/16 subnet when no DHCP server can be found (like a router); if so then that won't really help you.What if I connect the camera directly to my laptop's ethernet port, then a Linux command to see what's on the eth0 adapter?