Hikvison Remote cams refuse to work

[bigmacdave]

Ok,

I am vaguely familiar with the process of what i am trying to do. but it is refusing to cooperate. SO that leads me to believe i am missing one piece of info.

Here is what i have:

Location 1
Hikvision DS-7608NI Q2/8P with 4 cams (DS-2CD2143GO-!) attached hard wire to port 1-4. All good

Location 2
4 cams hard wire attached to a poe switch with static assigned IP's and ports open on router and all that. They work great going directly to them AND using iVMS-4200 off site.

Heres where it gets whacky.
When i manually add them to the remaining 5-8 ports, even tho i change the management port when adding (8001, 8002, 8003 and 8004) to match what i put on the cams (also what i put into iVMS-4200 btw) ALL 4 of the cams show the cam that is on 8001.

I feel like it is a routing issue, but the Upnp shows everything is good and valid on all 4 and in the router AND i can hit each of them individually off site using explorer.

what am i missing?

thank you for any help.

David

 

[SouthernYankee]

how is the NVR at location 1 suppose to connect to the Location 2 cameras? Does the location 2 have ports open to connect directly to the cameras? Is there a direct VPN connection between the two sites ?

 

[bigmacdave]

how is the NVR at location 1 suppose to connect to the Location 2 cameras? Does the location 2 have ports open to connect directly to the cameras? Is there a direct VPN connection between the two sites ?

So Hikvison does this really cool thing. When you setup a camera(s) at a remote location, in this case another store, you can open the ports on the router (at the remote site) and then at location 1 (where the NVR is) you can add those cams to it using the remotes location WAN ip and port info. Works great. For whatever reason, there is something that isn't jiving at the remote and instead of showing the 4 cams when i manually add them with the right ip and port info, it just shows the same cam 4 times. as if i am adding the same one 4 times.

Im hoping someone has run across this situation instead of me chasing my tail trying to figure it out. I was thinking it is smtg on the remote router i am overlooking. But that doesn't make sense, since i CAN add them to iVMS-4200 the same way and they come up correctly. iVMS-4200 is basically a hikvison NVR only in software form. If it works there it SHOULD work on the hardware version.

Strange for sure.

 

[bigmacdave]

how is the NVR at location 1 suppose to connect to the Location 2 cameras? Does the location 2 have ports open to connect directly to the cameras? Is there a direct VPN connection between the two sites ?

I wasn't sure if you were asking how it works or how i was doing it So i just spelled it all out. I have done quite a few, these are the first that have done this strange thing

 

[fenderman]

So Hikvison does this really cool thing.

Hikvision is not doing this, it is basic networking and will work with any ip camera. The problem with the method you are using is that you will be hacked, if you have not already been.

 

[bigmacdave]

Hikvision is not doing this, it is basic networking and will work with any ip camera. The problem with the method you are using is that you will be hacked, if you have not already been.

thank you for that. agreed it isn't hikvison specific but thats not what i'm referring to. they are very firmly behind a firewall. I have done probably close to 50 exactly like this. Im 99% sure it is a faulty router. as i can put the right info into the NVR for each cam, but instead of showing 4 different ones, it shows the same one on all 4 ports. It appears the router is ignoring all the custom forwarding and just pointing all traffic to the one cam. which of course makes no sense, because i have double and tripled checked all the settings. the NVR is 100% talking to the remote site, but the remote site is returning the wrong answer.

ill post back when i figure it out.

 

[fenderman]

thank you for that. agreed it isn't hikvison specific but thats not what i'm referring to. they are very firmly behind a firewall. I have done probably close to 50 exactly like this. Im 99% sure it is a faulty router. as i can put the right info into the NVR for each cam, but instead of showing 4 different ones, it shows the same one on all 4 ports. It appears the router is ignoring all the custom forwarding and just pointing all traffic to the one cam. which of course makes no sense, because i have double and tripled checked all the settings. the NVR is 100% talking to the remote site, but the remote site is returning the wrong answer.

ill post back when i figure it out.

lol, they are not behind a firewall, you opened the port! It is frightening that you dont understand that basic principle.
If you are installing this for others you are a danger to your unassuming customers. This will be costly to them eventually.
And it was what you were referring to. You believe this is a hikvision feature, its not.

 

[bigmacdave]

lol, they are not behind a firewall, you opened the port! It is frightening that you dont understand that basic principle.
If you are installing this for others you are a danger to your unassuming customers. This will be costly to them eventually.
And it was what you were referring to. You believe this is a hikvision feature, its not.

Like i said, thank you for your input. as useless as it is. you have NO clue my level. and obviously NO clue what I'm talking about or you would have offered a solution instead of attacking me. If they want to try and break into a sonicwall, then they can have at all the want it. the ONLY ip that has access in is the NVR's IP. But i didn't want to confuse the issue with all that because that is NOT the problem. The problem is clearly in the routing BEHIND the firewall. Instead of thinking you are all that, maybe you could spend some more time trying to be constructive. you are a horrible staff member trying to berate someone asking a honest question when you have not an ounce of insight whom you are speaking with.

Have a great day.

 

[fenderman]

Like i said, thank you for your input. as useless as it is. you have NO clue my level. and obviously NO clue what I'm talking about or you would have offered a solution instead of attacking me. If they want to try and break into a sonicwall, then they can have at all the want it. the ONLY ip that has access in is the NVR's IP. But i didn't want to confuse the issue with all that because that is NOT the problem. The problem is clearly in the routing BEHIND the firewall. Instead of thinking you are all that, maybe you could spend some more time trying to be constructive. you are a horrible staff member trying to berate someone asking a honest question when you have not an ounce of insight whom you are speaking with.

Have a great day.

I know exactly what your skillset is. I know this based on your post and replies to same. You dont understand the basic principles of port forwarding. You have opened the entire network to attack. See securing your network in the wiki.
I will not help a trunkslaming thief endanger his clients.
Inept installers like you is exactly why I started this forum. Folks, another great example of installers who are dangerous and why you need to do everything yourself.

Read this you fool.

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