SouthernYankee
IPCT Contributor
The address of the BI PC on the second NIC and the address of the cameras must be on the same subnet 192.168.0.xxx . Provide a diagram of your network with manufacture, model and IP addresses.
going back and double checking all the steps now.The address of the BI PC on the second NIC and the address of the cameras must be on the same subnet 192.168.0.xxx . Provide a diagram of your network with manufacture, model and IP addresses.
Just put one of THESE on your camera LAN
Or you could install the NetTime software on your BI server for free. It works well.Just put one of THESE on your camera LAN
Or you could install the NetTime software on your BI server for free. It works well.
I'll look into it thanks. It's weird how I have 2 cameras setup the same and only the one with the latest firmware gives me issues and the other doesn't. They are both IPC-HDW5231R-ZE.
I unchecked DST and it looked like it worked but I will keep this option in mind it it happens again.Firmware updates can sometimes scramble your TCP/IP settings without you realizing it. One symptom will be that camera time will no longer sync to a network time server.
Check the TCP/IP settings for both cameras under the Network menu, as opposed to the Time&Date settings under the General menu. The two cameras should have the same network settings with the exception of different IP addresses. Does the malfunctioning camera have different Default Gateway or DNS settings compared to the one that correctly syncs?
View attachment 70615
Unless your cameras drift seriously badly, it would be fine to just let your personal PC be the NTP server. Or if you are savvy with linux at all, you could use a raspberry pi as a cheaper NTP server. The device from ebay has the neat feature of not requiring internet access to get the time though
Yes, BI is intended to run 24/7.My pc specs
Acer Aspire TC-885-UA91 Desktop, 9th Gen Intel Core i3-9100, 8GB DDR4, 512GB SSD,
I'll consider Blue Iris if I can use my personal pc but doesn't it have to be on 24/7 ? Or would the clips just save on the camera SD card when the pc isn't on?
The firmware update feature in the cameras setup gui, never has worked. Forget it exists.I just checked the time and once again it's back to the wrong time off by an hour as usual. I checked the TCP/IP settings are everything is the same accept the IP and MAC address. What isn't the same is the firmware version. The camera that keeps the correct time has firmware 2.622.0000000.23.R, Build Date: 2018-03-30.
The camera that can't keep the correct time has firmware 2.800.0000008.0.R, Build Date: 2019-06-19. What I don't understand is why both cameras say each version is up to date. I'm thinking about loading the version 2.622 on the camera with the issues to see if that will fix it.
The firmware update feature in the cameras setup gui, never has worked. Forget it exists.
Find the latest firmware on Dahua's website or from your vendor you purchased the cam from.
GMT and UTC are not technically the same things HOWEVER they are interchangeable for these purposes. G is a time zone; U is a time standard.... but since they actually use the same 'zero' they work equally in this case. It's the number that's important, here.I noticed that the time zone on the good camera is GMT 07:00 and the problem camera is (UTC 8:00) Pacific Daylight. I don't see the GMT option available on the problem camera.