Dahua NVR8CH-8P-2AI & IPC-T54IR-ZE S3 setup

[river100]

I recently bought the Dahua NVR8CH-8P-2AI and 5 IPC-T54IR-ZE S3 cameras from Andy on Amazon. This system is going to California and won't have any technical people there so my plan is to set it up and send it there and have my maint' guy install it. He can run the wiring and mount the cameras but can't program the NVR. He'll have the app on his cell to aim the cameras.

I went with the built in POE so that it would be plug and play for him no matter what internet service they end up with. I'll be honest I haven't played with the newer Dahua NVRs or used their newer features on the cameras.

From what I've read so far the AI features need to be setup on the cameras and not the NVR. So how do yall do this when using a POE NVR? My guess is to set the cameras to DHCP, put them on my network, make the changes and then connect them back to the NVR. But, the cams won't be on their final location so I won't be able to change any settings that need to be set once they're aimed.

I have been trying to use the settings in the NVR but it's not going well.

Any advice on how to move forward with this ?

 

[wittaj]

Nope that will just cause even bigger issues.

Simply go to Edge with IE tab on and type in the IP address of the NVR and username and password.

Then navigate to this page and click on the Explorer "e" and that will take you to the login screen for the camera.




And while it shouldn't matter, make sure you label the camera which POE port it goes to. There have been instances where the NVR assigns the POE port to the camera and then when they get all mixed up they all don't show.

 

[bigredfish]

If you have already been plugging in cameras, unplugging,m logging in, messing around, you've probably already made a mess

1- Get NVR up and running without cameras plugged in. Sounds like you already have. I would set a fixed IP for it, (you'll have to discover that from the destination) because if you do DHCP on it, every time power is lost or it reboots, you're apt to not be able to find it to log into it. Make it something other than 192.168.1.108
2- In the NVR you set the date/time and the Recording Schedule. Period. Stop, All other settings should be done on the cameras themselves
3- A new camera that hasnt been messed with, you should be able to plug into the NVR, navigate to the screen on the NVR @wittaj showed above, and see it turn the indicator green. You then need to use the IE button to login to the camera and initialize it (answer 2 questions)
4- With tape, mark the cameras in order, channel 1, 2 3 etc so they can be plugged back into the exact same ports at their destination
5- Once at destination, Someone will have to (again by logging into NVR and then to each camera via the blue IE button) make a number of setting adjustments for each camera in each scene.

 

[river100]

If you have already been plugging in cameras, unplugging,m logging in, messing around, you've probably already made a mess

1- Get NVR up and running without cameras plugged in. Sounds like you already have. I would set a fixed IP for it, (you'll have to discover that from the destination) because if you do DHCP on it, every time power is lost or it reboots, you're apt to not be able to find it to log into it. Make it something other than 192.168.1.108
2- In the NVR you set the date/time and the Recording Schedule. Period. Stop, All other settings should be done on the cameras themselves
3- A new camera that hasnt been messed with, you should be able to plug into the NVR, navigate to the screen on the NVR @wittaj showed above, and see it turn the indicator green. You then need to use the IE button to login to the camera and initialize it (answer 2 questions)
4- With tape, mark the cameras in order, channel 1, 2 3 etc so they can be plugged back into the exact same ports at their destination
5- Once at destination, Someone will have to (again by logging into NVR and then to each camera via the blue IE button) make a number of setting adjustments for each camera in each scene.

Yeah it's a little messy right now, maybe real messy. I've been using Chrome on Win-7 launched by SmartPSS lite from home to play with it. Looks like a few options lot of the options don't show on it. I didn't know about the port redirection that the NVR does to get to the cameras. Once on site I can default the NVR and cameras and start over and use my Win-11 pro PC. It's going to be a pain to reset the cams but there's only 5 of them and they're all setting in one spot. As for the NVR IP I have that covered, It's @ Dhcp but will always get the same IP.

Nope that will just cause even bigger issues.

Simply go to Edge with IE tab on and type in the IP address of the NVR and username and password.

Then navigate to this page and click on the Explorer "e" and that will take you to the login screen for the camera.

View attachment 211394


And while it shouldn't matter, make sure you label the camera which POE port it goes to. There have been instances where the NVR assigns the POE port to the camera and then when they get all mixed up they all don't show.

Thanks, I was using a win7 PC with Chrome and didn't catch the web browser link on the add camera tab.

My solution to this was to unplug all the cameras and power them with a poe+ switch and reset each of them. While they were on the switch I deleted the installed cameras on the NVR and turned off the motion and other features.
Then moved the cameras back to the NVR and worked on setting them up using my win11 pro PC.
One thing that kind of bothered me is I could only set the motion to work on the NVR schedule by doing it at the NVR with a monitor and mouse. At the browser it only shows copy for the schedule.

 

[wittaj]

Once on site I can default the NVR and cameras and start over and use my Win-11 pro PC. It's going to be a pain to reset the cams but there's only 5 of them and they're all setting in one spot. As for the NVR IP I have that covered, It's @ Dhcp but will always get the same IP.

Doesn't defaulting and start over once on-site defeat the purpose of setting it up and shipping it?

One thing that kind of bothered me is I could only set the motion to work on the NVR schedule by doing it at the NVR with a monitor and mouse. At the browser it only shows copy for the schedule.

Are you using Edge with the IE tab or still Chrome?

We assure you setting it up at the NVR/HDMI level will cause problems.

The only thing that should be set on the NVR as it relates to the cameras is the recording schedule and how it will alert. Everything else should be done in the camera.

Or use Internet Explorer.

How to enable native Internet Explorer in Windows 10 and 11:

1. Open Notepad:
2. Copy then paste the single line of code below into Notepad:
3. CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application").Visible=true
4. Save as OpenIE.vbs
5. Make sure the the file name ends in .vbs not .txt, If it ends in .txt you must rename to .vbs
6. Create a shortcut to the above file and double-click it anytime you want native Internet Explorer
7. Download any of the plug-in the NVR or camera asks for.

 

[river100]

Nope that will just cause even bigger issues.

Simply go to Edge with IE tab on and type in the IP address of the NVR and username and password.

Then navigate to this page and click on the Explorer "e" and that will take you to the login screen for the camera.

View attachment 211394

I got it
And while it shouldn't matter, make sure you label the camera which POE port it goes to. There have been instances where the NVR assigns the POE port to the camera and then when they get all mixed up they all don't show.

Doesn't defaulting and start over once on-site defeat the purpose of setting it up and shipping it?




Are you using Edge with the IE tab or still Chrome?

We assure you setting it up at the NVR/HDMI level will cause problems.

The only thing that should be set on the NVR as it relates to the cameras is the recording schedule and how it will alert. Everything else should be done in the camera.

Or use Internet Explorer.

How to enable native Internet Explorer in Windows 10 and 11:

1. Open Notepad:
2. Copy then paste the single line of code below into Notepad:
3. CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application").Visible=true
4. Save as OpenIE.vbs
5. Make sure the the file name ends in .vbs not .txt, If it ends in .txt you must rename to .vbs
6. Create a shortcut to the above file and double-click it anytime you want native Internet Explorer
7. Download any of the plug-in the NVR or camera asks for.

Thanks,

I'm using using Edge with the IE tab while on the win11 pro PC. I didn't default the NVR because I couldn't find a quick way to do it, and I'm pressed for time it's leaving thursday morning.

So I turned off all the cameras gadgets in the NVR. As for the shipping part. I re-installed the defaulted cameras and set the recording schedule on the NVR.

To make it plug and play as much as possible I have the POE version of the NVR set to DHCP for the LAN. And since the cameras get their IP from the NVR I should be good. Just in case I labeled the cameras with the NVR port number they're connected to. P2P is enabled so it should call home as soon as it boots in it's new location. I have no clue as to what internet provider they'll have so I'm going to use the P2P for now. Connect with SmartPSS Lite and launch the redirected browser, Edge.

There will be a Win11 pro PC on site too so once they get settled I'll see what I can use for remote to it. The motion and human detection is working so far. BTW it does ok on Chrome too but I'm only using it for looking at recordings from my home.