Connecting to a old DVR with Blue Iris

[iross1932]

My first post. Hope I'm doing this correctly.

Trying to connect a H.264 DVR to Blue Iris version 5. The business has 9 analog cameras and would love to have Blue Iris manage the cameras. I tried connecting the DVR by letting BI Find/inspect located the DVR. It does But I cannot connect to the cameras. Attached images are below.

Thanks

 

[wittaj]

Confirm that the ports on the DVR match what is here. As well as password.

Try changing the camera number on the find/inspect screen - each camera on the DVR will correspond to a different number and they may not match what is on the DVR. Mine were one off and so camera number 1 on the DVR was number 2 in BI. Once you find the sequence, then you just add camera and copy this one and then change the camera number.

 

[iross1932]

Thanks for responding. The DVR does not have port settings. The port it has is the http port, which is port 80. The find/inspect show a Foscam and a Cantonk with port 34567. I guessing that these are the cameras that are connected. I do not know the name of the attached camera. The cameras are attahced around the building. I guess I need to pull out the ladder and take a look.

 

[wittaj]

No you are good - the Find/Inspect usually does a great job of figuring out which settings to use. No need to get a ladder out.

Confirm that the user and PW is correct - you can get that message if it is wrong. Plus some of these units only seem to want to work right with the given admin username, so I suggest you try that and do a find/inspect.

Then go into that middle area of the Find/Inspect screen and start changing camera numbers.

 

[iross1932]

Thanks. I checked and rechecked the user name and password. I tried every camera port and get the same error. Should I purchase a new DVR system?

 

[wittaj]

Who makes the DVR?

Did you try admin?

By camera port you mean camera number?

 

[iross1932]

The name on the DVR is H.264 DVD. Yes I tried admin. Yes camera number.