EmpireTech NVR8CH-8P-2AI - Setup Questions

[kd4e]

There is a difference between seeing the camera feed and accessing the actual camera GUI.

Are you saying you can access the actual reolink camera GUI from the cobra NVR - like you can't tell whether you are looking at the camera GUI separately or thru the NVR?

Yes on the Cobra.

On the Empiretech I can only view the Reolink doorbell cam and the Loryta cam.

(One of the other Reolink's has occasionally displayed on the Empiretech, but not both, and now neither.)

 

[kd4e]

When I log into the web gui it offers TCP, UDP, and Multicast. I've been choosing TCP - might Multicast help with any of these problems, especially the persistant logging-out problem?

(Also, among the gazillions of settings, across the many menus, I think I read where an alarm might be set to warn of a lost connection?)

 

[bigredfish]

No not at login. I use TCP which is the default

 

[bigredfish]

Perhaps I need to connect the 40" monitor directly to the NVR and just use the web gui for brief viewing and adjustments on-the-fly?

Via HDMI out on the NVR, Yes. This should bypass any timeout.

Then use your laptop to log into the WEB GUI of the NVR to make NVR changes or using the blue IE icons on the Camera page to access the various Camera settings in the individual Camera GUI

This is how it designed to work.

I cant help if you want to use Linux and no SmartPSS and other various 3rd party workarounds.

 

[kd4e]

Via HDMI out on the NVR, Yes. This should bypass any timeout.

Then use your laptop to log into the WEB GUI of the NVR to make NVR changes or using the blue IE icons on the Camera page to access the various Camera settings in the individual Camera GUI

This is how it designed to work.

I cant help if you want to use Linux and no SmartPSS and other various 3rd party workarounds.

OK then, I'll give that a try. That will be great if it's stable.

BTW: I started with DOS and grew accustomed to workarounds.

In 1996 I was asked to network some Apple stuff - laptops, desktops, and a central printer - across more than one generation. (I'd never managed anything from Apple before.) With some help (on the old version of the Internet) I got it going but the printer part wasn't always stable. I tried Apple support and was escalated to a senior support person - they all told me that it was impossible to do what I'd done - without some expensive additional device. Chuckle. It established a persistent belief that there's always a way to get to a solution.

Linux is like that - there's always a way to make things happen - it just takes some time to sort it out.