Help adding a Dahua POE switch to a Dahua POE NVR

[hohingday]

Hi,

I was hoping for some guidance with setting up a Dahua POE switch (DH-PFS4218-16GT-240) with a Dahua POE NVR (DHI-NVR5432-16-I/L 32CH).

I currently have 16 IPC-HDWW3549HP-AS-PV Cameras plugged in to the NVR, it works fine and was pretty straight forward to setup.

The problems is I want to add an additional 4 cameras.

I have done some reading about setting up the IP manually, but I am confused on how to go about doing this as it hasn’t seemed to have worked.

It was initially setup as follows: Router ---> NVR —> Cameras

I have now plugged it in as follows: Router —> Switch —> NVR LAN Port —> Cameras
—> Cameras

For reference, the gateway/router is 192.168.50.1 and the NVR is on 192.168.50.155

The working cameras for some reason have auto setup with an IP address of 10.1.1.xx
This seems different from other setups I have read about….

I would appreciate some advice on how to setup the additional cameras on the switch.

Happy to provide further information or screenshots if needed.

Thanks in advance!

 

[bigredfish]

Cameras plugged into the NVR PoE ports will be assigned a 10.1.1.x address by the NVR internal switch

Cameras plugged into a network switch on the LAN will use the LAN IP range and need manual assignment of a static IP on the LAN (same LAN as the NVR )

Then these external switch cams will be discovered by the NVR and can be manually added on the Camera page of the NVR GUI

 

[bigredfish]

The extra 4 cameras should be plugged into that external switch and assigned IPs on the cameras themselves in the 192.168.50.x range

 

[looney2ns]

How many channels does the NVR have? 16 or 32?
If 16, you are done adding cams, 16 channels can only handle a total of 16 cams no matter how they are attached to the NVR.

 

[bigredfish]

I think its a 32 with 16 PoE ports