Has anyone managed to get HI3516c camera working on Hikvision NVR?

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paulandersonnz

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Hi there,

I have a Hikvision NVR model 7108N-SN/P. I have a few various Hikvision cameras connected to it and they work fine. I have a couple of low-cost unbranded chinese cameras I would also like to get working with this NVR. The cameras are based on Hisilicon chips (Hi3516c chip with IMX222 sensor). The IP address range on the POE switch built into my hikvision NVR is 192.168.254.x. I've set the static IP address of the hi3516c camera to 192.168.254.4 and I have tried to manually add this to the Hikvision NVR using ONVIF protocol but I am unsuccessful so far. Management port is set to 8899 which is the ONVIF port on the camera according to the ONVIF device manager.

Has anyone else tried this successfully?

Any suggestions?

It would be great to get this figured out because it will make a low-cost Full-HD IP camera solution. Main cameras will remain as Hikvision but less critical locations can be filled out with the lower cost hisilicon based cameras... or at least that's the concept?

Cheers
 
In the past I've successfully added a few small-brand Chinese cameras to a 7816N-E2/8P NVR using both ONVIF and RTSP via the 'Custom Protocol' selection.
Dumb question - presumably you've matched the camera IP address and the specific PoE port IP address.
If you haven't tried the Custom Protocol RTSP route the RTSP string shows at the bottom of the 'Live Video' page on ONVIF Device Manager.
 
alastairstevenson said:
In the past I've successfully added a few small-brand Chinese cameras to a 7816N-E2/8P NVR using both ONVIF and RTSP via the 'Custom Protocol' selection.
Dumb question - presumably you've matched the camera IP address and the specific PoE port IP address.
If you haven't tried the Custom Protocol RTSP route the RTSP string shows at the bottom of the 'Live Video' page on ONVIF Device Manager.
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Yes I have matched camera IP address to the specific POE port on the built in switch. Today I had some success. I managed to connect the camera using the Customer Protocol RTSP route (I think took a hint from something you had in another post). However, this has limitations as it seems to just be a direct feed of the mainstream from the camera to the NVR. When using Custom Protocol RTSP there appears to be no support for the camera's other basic features such as dual stream and motion detection. I believe the camera supports these functions so assume it may be possible to access these functions if I can connect via the ONVIF protocol. However, I cannot get a connection using the ONVIF protocol.

Something else odd happened today. I had another of the low cost Chinese cameras on my LAN and when I connected my NVR to the LAN the camera appeared as a ONVIF camera under the cameras list? However, I was not able to add it as the NVR gave an error saying I could not add cameras as all the ports were taken? Does this mean that if I deleted some of the ports assigned to the built in switch then I might be able to connect to other cameras on my LAN using the ONVIF protocol?
 
Yes, RTSP only provides access to the specified video stream (Real Time Streaming Protocol) and does not carry info such as motion events, so it's 'recording only' with that type of connection.
In the 'Custom Protocol' definition, you can specify both 'Main' and 'Substream' RTSP strings. These can be seen using ONVIF Device Manager in the 'Profiles' page.
Example built-in substream from a Hik 2132:
rtsp://192.168.1.64:554/Streaming/Channels/2?transportmode=unicast&profile=Profile_2

Something else odd happened today. I had another of the low cost Chinese cameras on my LAN and when I connected my NVR to the LAN the camera appeared as a ONVIF camera under the cameras list? However, I was not able to add it as the NVR gave an error saying I could not add cameras as all the ports were taken? Does this mean that if I deleted some of the ports assigned to the built in switch then I might be able to connect to other cameras on my LAN using the ONVIF protocol?
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So if you have an 8-channel NVR and 8 PoE ports and they are all configured but not all in use and you want to add a LAN-connected camera, 'Add' will complain that your channels are all in use. And not allow you to delete any.
What you should be able to do is to pick one of the existing unused PoE ports, click 'Modify', change to 'Manual' and specify required protocol, LAN IP address etc and it should work.

On motion detection and ONVIF - none of my collection of 5 or 6 brands of low-cost ONVIF-compatible cameras support the 'push / pull event publish / notification' feature that can be used for motion detection and other things under the ONVIF specifications, which now have quite a few versions. They have all connected to the 7816N-E2/8P NVR OK under ONVIF, but as 'recording only'. But you do need to be sure about the 'ONVIF port'.
Hikvision cameras, though, have a full and certified ONVIF implementation and can do motion detection when connected as an ONVIF camera.
One way to easily check out if the cameras do support ONVIF 'push / pull event notifications' is to click the 'Events' link in ONVIF Device Manager and create some motion, observe the result if any.
 
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