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Ok do you know what the IP of your Mac is? I don’t know how to find that I’m not a Mac guy.
 
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Just removed the other two ethernet cables from my router (printers), plugged into one of those ports. Tried again, nothing. If there was an incompatibility with my TV, would it be displaying 'NVR' for some time after power-up?
 
So there’s the problem

Your internal network is .0.x and the NVR is .1.x (108)

I know nothing of Mac networking. So the next best thing is to change your internal network to 192.168.1.x which means logging into your router and in the dhcp assignment changing it .
 
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machineage said:
Just removed the other two ethernet cables from my router (printers), plugged into one of those ports. Tried again, nothing. If there was an incompatibility with my TV, would it be displaying 'NVR' for some time after power-up?
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Hard to say, they can be particular on start up to various peripherals
 
Your router hands out dynamic IPs to all your stuff, laptop, printer, tv, etc.
It does so using an internal pool of IPs. Yours is set to dish out IPs in the 192.168.0.x range. So it can’t talk to your NVR at the moment because it’s on 192.168.1.x
 
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This will have to be resolved eventually, may as well do it now and save trouble
 
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I just logged into my router, and attempted to change the IP Address, which it wouldn't allow me to do. This is all getting beyond me. I wasn't expecting these kind of issues, just to get the NVR set up :-/

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And if the NVR isn't compatible with my TV, that's another downer. Would have been nice to have had that functionality.
 
It may be your Mac, I can’t be sure because I haven’t tested brand new NVRs with the 3-4 dozen possible combinations of computers and peripherals.

I’ve had new NVRs do exactly what yours did. Once it was a wireless mouse, usb mouse solved it. Once it was an hdmi tv, using a monitor with rca cable instead solved it.
 
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And if the NVR isn't compatible with my TV, that's another downer. Would have been nice to have had that functionality.
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The issue with your TV is the NVR is probably a resolution than your TV.

Once you get into the NVR via the web browser, you can change the NVR to match the resolution of your TV.

Believe me, people all the time go into the NVR and change the resolution to the highest quality and then blank screen on TV. Thank goodness we can access via a web browser LOL.
 
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machineage said:
I just logged into my router, and attempted to change the IP Address, which it wouldn't allow me to do. This is all getting beyond me. I wasn't expecting these kind of issues, just to get the NVR set up :-/

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Does your router have an app that maybe you can change it there.

And to be clear, you tried to change the 0 to a 1 in the IP address and it throws that conflict?
 
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And your cable modem must be using .1 thus the conflict

Perhaps a Mac person can talk you through how to temporarily set your Mac to .1.x and you can login to the NVR and change it to static 192.168.0.108 for example
 
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Yes, when attempting to change the 0 to 1 it's rejected. There's no app for the router that I'm aware of, but I'll check.

The TV auto-detects resolution AFAIK, it did that on powering up the NVR to show the resolution. And again I'm wondering, why would it have no issue displaying 'NVR' on the screen if there was a compatibility issue?

I'm kinda done with this for now. I'm really seeing why people go for the 'off the shelf' stuff. This is just way too much of a headache to sort out, and way beyond my capabilities :-(
 
The "NVR" flash screen is a low res output that would show up on a 480 resolution TV.

Once the NVR boots up and starts running, it has a resolution it is set to output, and by default it is usually the highest setting.

The TV may auto-detect, but let's say your TV is 1080P or 4K and the NVR is outputting 8K, then the TV won't see it and all the auto-detect in the world on the TV can't resolve the 8K resolution being sent to it.

You got this - someone with a MAC will come on and help with the next step.
 
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For less than $100 you could get a cheap flat screen computer monitor and connect it to the NVR.
 
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As others have said this is simply caused by the NVR IP address being on a different subnet:
  • Just alter the IP address of the MacBook to 192.168.1.100
  • temporarily plug it directly into the NVR LAN port in place of its network connection
  • browse to 192.168.1.108, log in (I assume you'll need to activate it with a password)
  • once logged in find the network settings, enable DHCP and save (you can log back in later and set a static IP)
  • disconnect your Mac and reconnect the network cable. Your route will assign the NVR an IP address in the correct range
Edit: It looks like you've now got it on screen so you can do that from the menu on the monitor.
 
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