Dahua Starlight Varifocal Turret (IPC-HDW5231R-Z)

Proplem is it seems like your using this for commercial purposes and people pay for consultants. If it where for personal usage use we would recommend you to read the forums and the cliff notes for dahua cameras.Its sounds like someone buying a manual shift gear car and can only really drive an automatic.and thinking the car is bad :)
 
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I like pink said:
ok... so i search "poe injector" on amazon and buy what comes up? or do i need something specific?

will this work? does it include everything i need?

https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-P...8&qid=1521034767&sr=1-3&keywords=poe+injector
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You don't need a POE injector, just a 12V/1 Amp power supply to test or reset the camera. When powered with 12V from the pigtail, any network cable/port will communicate.

This Amazon one works, or I'm sure you can find a 2.1mm/5.5mm 12V power supply around the house. Many DC items in the household use 12V.

https://www.amazon.com/CMVision-Lis...035225&sr=1-1&keywords=12v+1+amp+power+supply

I also find a small issue with aristobrats solution. Your NVR will immediately change the IP address to its subnet after a reset as soon as it's plugged in to the POE port. it will never remain 192.168.1.108 for longer than 5 seconds. You need to reset and administer it externally, somewhere besides the NVR. You router/switch most likely has an open port.

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You need to reset and administer it externally,
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Ah, sorry. I thought the original issue was that his NVR couldn't see the cameras. I didn't see where he wanted to administer them via the web client (outside of possibly changing the IP address).
 
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Proplem is it seems like your using this for commercial purposes and people pay for consultants. If it where for personal usage use we would recommend you to read the forums and the cliff notes for dahua cameras.Its sounds like someone buying a manual shift gear car and can only really drive an automatic.and thinking the car is bad :)
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i have read the formums and wikis and a lot of it is “greek” to me.... this is for our home. i bought the lorex based on rave reviews for it at slickdeals and chose the starlight’s because they were supposed to come with it. They don’t connect to my NVR, i can’t see them on my computer and they have an ip of 10.1.1.68 on the nvr but can’t be configured.
 
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i have read the formums and wikis and a lot of it is “greek” to me.... this is for our home. i bought the lorex based on rave reviews for it at slickdeals and chose the starlight’s because they were supposed to come with it. They don’t connect to my NVR, i can’t see them on my computer and they have an ip of 10.1.1.68 on the nvr but can’t be configured.
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Your situation is a simple thing to fix once you find a way to power the camera and configure it to be in the same ip range as the NVR.
 
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You don't need a POE injector, just a 12V/1 Amp power supply to test or reset the camera. When powered with 12V from the pigtail, any network cable/port will communicate.

This Amazon one works, or I'm sure you can find a 2.1mm/5.5mm 12V power supply around the house. Many DC items in the household use 12V.

https://www.amazon.com/CMVision-Lis...035225&sr=1-1&keywords=12v+1+amp+power+supply

I also find a small issue with aristobrats solution. Your NVR will immediately change the IP address to its subnet after a reset as soon as it's plugged in to the POE port. it will never remain 192.168.1.108 for longer than 5 seconds. You need to reset and administer it externally, somewhere besides the NVR. You router/switch most likely has an open port.

SD
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so i need power or a switch

plug into either computer or router

hold reset button for a minute

then i enter the 168 ip into the browser? and i should be able to change settings?
 
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I like pink said:
so i need power or a switch

plug into either computer or router

hold reset button for a minute

then i enter the 168 ip into the browser? and i should be able to change settings?
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You need power..Plug the camera into your computer. go into your adapter settings on the computer and change the ip address be on the same network as the camera.. So for example if the camera is 192.168.1.1 set the ip address to 192.168.1.100 on the computer and click ok. Then the computer and the camera will see each other. Then at that point you can go to your browser and put in the camera ip. Log in to it and change the ip of the camera to be in the same range as the NVR . save it. The camera will disapear from the computer because now they are again on different ip's. unplug it and plug it into the nvr and the nvr should then be able to find the camera .
 
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No problem @aristobrat. I'm not quite sure I (or he) knows what he wants or needs either!!![/QUOTE
i don’t know what needs to be done! that’s my whole problem!

i bought these based on they were a good add on to the costco 4k system. i have NO prior knowledge of ip cameras (we’ve had a battery eating arlo for several years). sadly i didn’t realize they weren’t simply plug in like the lorex cameras that came in the set were.

i wish i had realized there were
NO instructions and how hard it was to add these and i really wish i had bought them somewhere where i could just return them and buy the same lorex cameras that came with the kit. i try hunting for info on here and elsewhere on the internet but nothin i find seems to help

i’m going to order or find a power supply or switch and see if i can figure out what to do after that.....
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You need power..Plug the camera into your computer. go into your adapter settings on the computer and change the ip address be on the same network as the camera.. So for example if the camera is 192.168.1.1 set the ip address to 192.168.1.100 on the computer and click ok. Then the computer and the camera will see each other. Then at that point you can go to your browser and put in the camera ip. Log in to it and change the ip of the camera to be in the same range as the NVR . save it. The camera will disapear from the computer because now they are again on different ip's. unplug it and plug it into the nvr and the nvr should then be able to find the camera .
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ok i’ll try this tonight if we have a power supply that will work. (so maybe like a power supply for one of my external hard drives???)

so i reset first? and a reset should change it back to a 192 ip?
 
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I like pink said:
i don’t know what needs to be done! that’s my whole problem!

i bought these based on they were a good add on to the costco 4k system. i have NO prior knowledge of ip cameras (we’ve had a battery eating arlo for several years). sadly i didn’t realize they weren’t simply plug in like the lorex cameras that came in the set were.

i wish i had realized there were
NO instructions and how hard it was to add these and i really wish i had bought them somewhere where i could just return them and buy the same lorex cameras that came with the kit. i try hunting for info on here and elsewhere on the internet but nothin i find seems to help

i’m going to order or find a power supply or switch and see if i can figure out what to do after that.....
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Ms. Pink,

No problem. We understand. These are enterprise solutions without instructions. Enterprise hardware solutions assume you have some knowledge of the field you are galloping through. We all had to start somewhere. Most of us possess some IT/networking background. What you are trying to accomplish is actually easy, but so was Quantum Physics to Stephen Hawking. We realize it's frustrating to you right now, but just like changing your own brakes. It gets a lot easier once you've done it once or twice.

Start with what @woolfman72 typed, and then go from there. You have to walk before you run. Without any IT/networking background, it's going to take a bit to understand what you are trying to do, on a bunch of levels (IT/Networking/IP Cams/NVR's). As I stated, it's as easy as the Lorex system. All the systems out there are pretty much all the same, no matter the brand you choose.

Hang in there, persevere and you will win. The cams you bought are probably the best solution out there, value and feature wise, and have been for a long time. You DO NOT need to return them. They work just fine and are just configured incorrectly. They can easily be returned to factory settings, and you will be able to start again, in the correct order, and be successful. If you choose to throw in the towel, I know you can sell them for what you paid inside of 10 minutes here, or any venue of your choice.

Respectfully,

SD
 
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Ms. Pink,

No problem. We understand. These are enterprise solutions without instructions. Enterprise hardware solutions assume you have some knowledge of the field you are galloping through. We all had to start somewhere. Most of us possess some IT/networking background. What you are trying to accomplish is actually easy, but so was Quantum Physics to Stephen Hawking. We realize it's frustrating to you right now, but just like changing your own brakes, it gets a lot easier once you've done it once or twice.

Start with what @woolfman72 typed, and then go from there. You have to walk before you run. Without any IT/networking background, it's going to take a bit to understand what you are trying to do, on a bunch of levels (IT/Networking/IP Cams/NVR's). As I stated, it's as easy as the Lorex system. All the systems out there are pretty much all the same, no matter the brand you choose.

Hang in there, persevere and you will win. The cams you bought are probably the best solution out there, value and feature wise, and have been for a long time. You DO NOT need to return them. They work just fine and are just configured incorrectly. They can easily be returned to factory settings, and you will be able to start again, in the correct order, and be successful. If you choose to throw in the towel, I know you can sell them for what you paid inside of 10 minutes here, or any venue of your choice.

Respectfully,

SD
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thank you for being so nice :)

i’m going to try, hopefully, to get them reset tonight. (and in full disclosure: the lorex system wasn’t exactly easy either... but at least the cameras showed up! at least by clicking around we are learning them..... slowly! and i like spying on my cat during the day while the cameras are still stirring around various spots in the house while we wait for delivery of the lorex junction boxes! hahahaha!!! i still never figured out how to see the notes camera settings on my mac so we just got a long hdmi and usb extender! ). but i digress....

ley’s all just think good thoughts that this is going to work for me tonight!
 
I like pink said:
We hooked them up to the NVR first and yes, they were showing a name of 10.1.1.68. Then we tried hooking it up to the computer and it wouldn't find either the 192.168.1.108 or 10.1.1.68. Tried to reset and nothing.....

I don't know how to give the computer a new ip address (and as much trouble as these cameras are becoming i certainly don't want to mess up anything on my computer or my network.)
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When you connected to the NVR and you saw 10.1.1.68, could you view the camera video picture on the NVR at that point?

Find a 12 volt DC power supply, power up ONE camera. Connect camera to your network either at your router or a network switch.
Using your laptop, make sure it's connected to your same home network. Open Dahua's IP config tool again. At the top of the window, click on "Search Setting". In the window that opens, in Click on the box next to "Other Segment Search".

Enter the Start IP of 10.1.1.0, then enter the End IP of 10.1.1.258.
In the user and password fields enter admin and admin.
Click ok in the window, then click the big blue Ball at the top to the left of "Search Setting"

Does it find the camera? If not, repeat the above steps but this time use 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.255 instead in the search fields.

Upper right corner of the IPconfig window, there is a small camera icon, click on it, and there are instructions under help.

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No, we could not see the video on the NVR, we got a config-18 error.

So I'm home and we plugged the camera in using one of my hard drive power adapters and we can see the camera in the config tool (using ancient windows laptop) The camera popped up immediately with the 10.1.1.68 ip... Now I just need to figure out what to do to get it ready to work with the NVR.
 
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No, we could not see the video on the NVR, we got a config-18 error.

So I'm home and we plugged the camera in using one of my hard drive power adapters and we can see the camera in the config tool (using ancient windows laptop) The camera popped up immediately with the 10.1.1.68 ip... Now I just need to figure out what to do to get it ready to work with the NVR.
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@I like pink
I would change the cam's IP 10.1.1.120 using Ipconfigtool.
Remember to click save after you enter the new ip address in the cam.
Then try it again with the NVR.
 
OMG! OMG! OMG! WE HAVE A CAMERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mat linked me to lvjeff's page which I had read in the past but couldn't find last night. Still took some time but it connected!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOTT

On to camera number 2
 
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