Camera IPs need changed

[rbc1225]

Hey Andy, I had to switch out my network router and all of my IPs on the cameras of course need to be changed. I was able to get to my NVR because of course it has a keyboard, mouse and monitor but I can't remember how to get to my cameras. Do
I have to log into them with a hardwire directly to a laptop? Sorry, Its been about 4 years since I have set this thing up.

Thanks

 

[wittaj]

Why not just change your router to the IP address of the previous router and it fixes everything?

Are your cameras connected to the POE ports of the NVR? If so, the NVR already isolated and gave the cameras their own IP that won't need to be changed when routers are changed.

 

[rbc1225]

Why not just change your router to the IP address of the previous router and it fixes everything?

Are your cameras connected to the POE ports of the NVR? If so, the NVR already isolated and gave the cameras their own IP that won't need to be changed when routers are changed.

Because it was behind a subnet and now it's not. No, the cameras are not connected directly to the NVR. They go through a separate POE switch. My guess is, I set them up as static and not DHCP so each has to be changed individually.

 

[wittaj]

So no way to recreate the prior IP topology?

If not, then yeah you will need to connect a computer on the same IP subnet as the cameras to the POE switch or another switch connected to the cameras and open a browser (preferably Internet Explorer) and log into each camera and change their IP to the new IP subnet.

 

[rbc1225]

So no way to recreate the prior IP topology?

If not, then yeah you will need to connect a computer on the same IP subnet as the cameras to the POE switch or another switch connected to the cameras and open a browser (preferably Internet Explorer) and log into each camera and change their IP to the new IP subnet.

Okay, got it. I was hoping you could do it through the NVR but no luck. I imagine if I was actually connected directly to the NVR then maybe. I got it switched over.

Thanks

 

[tigerwillow1]

If not, then yeah you will need to connect a computer on the same IP subnet as the cameras to the POE switch or another switch connected to the cameras and open a browser (preferably Internet Explorer) and log into each camera and change their IP to the new IP subnet.

Beating a dead horse I know. Would be a lot easier/faster with configTool. No need to mess with the computer IP address, or log into the cameras. It is even able to assign sequential IPs to multiple cameras with one command. I've never tried this feature.

 

[wittaj]

Yeah, but some of us don't want to install yet another program on our system, and we do have instances here where ConfigTool didn't work correctly. IE has always worked for me.

And this cheap ethernet to USB adapter makes it easy to just assign it the IP address of my cams!

 

[tigerwillow1]

we do have instances here where ConfigTool didn't work correctly

Pardon my grouchiness, but I think this is a lame argument. There are lots of reports of BI not working correctly and yet you recommend it. How many NVR bugs have been reported vs. BI bugs? Maybe 100x times or less? Are these instances where IE didn't work correctly? Have you used any configTool versions from the last few years? With the version I run now, it always works for me.

 

[wittaj]

To each their own. I prefer to minimize what I put on a computer and the IE web browser is already on it and it works for all my cameras.

ConfigTool is for Dahua. What about my Hik and Axis cams and Sunba? I would need to install their equivalent.

I don't want to think about what "tool" to use for which cam.

With the web browser, I can change anything on any of my cameras regardless of who makes it.

If Windows came with a surveillance camera software program I would just use it instead of adding BI LOL.

But in reality, you set the IP once in the camera, you should never have to change it again.

 

[TonyR]

Would be a lot easier/faster with configTool.

Actually it would be a lot easier/faster, IMO...if the OP took wittaj's suggestion and changed just ONE IP address...the router's LAN. The bonus? No ConfigTool needed either.

But this concept is another one of those Coke/Pepsi, Ford/Chevy type of arguments.

 

[tigerwillow1]

To each their own.

I totally agree with that. I just have a hard time understanding why something that works so well for me is considered junk to avoid.

 

[wittaj]

For me it comes down to simplicity.

I don't want to have to download some camera manufacturer equivalent "ConfigTool" for every different brand of camera and then have to remember which camera is which program.

I can access every camera I own and plan to buy via the Windows built in Internet Explorer. It literally takes seconds after the camera boots up to go to the network setting and change it from the default IP to my camera IP subnet. I am sure I can do that faster than with some manufacturer tool.

Plus I also point it back to itself and give it fake gateways and DNS, which ConfigTool won't let you do, so I would have to access that tab via a browser anyway.

Any changes to the camera settings has to be done within a browser, so I prefer the all in one stop ease of just using the browser for anything camera related.

And since the configtool is only used for that function, seems like a waste of hard drive space and remembering how to use it since I only change the IP address once from the default to my camera IP subnet and I may go years between purchases given the consumer type cams hitting the market at the moment.

And everyone screams about the cameras phoning home and stuff, so I would prefer to not have a program on my computer developed by the manufacturer that can find cameras across subnets and give it access somehow. Maybe it isn't possible, but why chance it.

It is bad enough we have to do the download of the plugins, which is why that is all done on an old Win7 laptop that is off except for when I change a setting on a camera and need to see the image. This laptop doesn't have internet access and does not touch my regular home network, only the camera network. Heck I even unplug the ethernet from it when it is not in use LOL.

 

[tigerwillow1]

But configTool does work to change IP addresses, doesn't it.? And the ease of using it might be in the eye of the beholder, and could be biased by what the user already has experience with, no? And for somebody with only dahua cameras, it doesn't matter that it's not usable on other brands, does it?

Config tool WILL let you point to a fake gateway, just not to itself. What you see as simplicity I see as complexity. configTool can change multiple IP address with a single login. Is it really simpler and faster to log into multiple cameras? Or to juggle the different plugins? As for the all-in-one stop, configTool allows changing more than IP addresses. It gives full access for the following: Encode, Image, Profile management, Time/Date, Password, Reboot, Firmware upgrade. You change set all nth week of nth month DST settings for all your cameras with a single command. There have been a couple of times I couldn't change the encode settings for a camera after going through IE, Firefox, Pale Moon, and Brave. configTool worked. Sometime in the past, maybe 10 years ago, it wasn't as powerful. Whatever your opinion, I say configTool is reliable and faster/easier to use when having to make changes on multiple cameras, and at least as easy when bringing up a new camera.

 

[wittaj]

Well, like I said, I have never had to mass change IP addresses and have/see no reason to ever have to, so I don't need to add yet more software to my system.

But if you have to mass change IP addresses, then go for it.

My cameras are on a completely different IP subnet than my router and don't go thru my router, so no need to change anything when I change routers.

So you NEVER have to get into the camera with a web browser and can do it all from ConfigTool?

If I have to get into the web browser anyway, it is simple enough to change network, time, DST, reboot, etc. all in the browser that I need to get into anyway.