How to add a non Hikvision camera to DS7608 NVR

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Ajsgroupe

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Hello,

I'm fairly new to Hikvision products and I'm having trouble installing a new camera (from Axis) to my NVR can someone please tell me how to add a non Hikvision camera (connected to the POE port behind the NVR).

Thanks
 
You will need to know either the RTSP URI for the camera, or the 'ONVIF port.
If neither are mentioned in the camera user manual, and the camera is ONVIF compatible, you can get both (and lots more) using the very good Windows open-source tool 'ONVIF Device Manager' from sourceforge.net
The ONVIF port (which you'd use as the Management Port if you configure the NVR channel with the ONVIF protocol) is shown at the bottom of the 'Identification' page, after the ':' after the camera IP address. If there is no ':', the ONVIF port=80
The RTSP URI is shown at the bottom of the 'Live Video' page.
And you will need to assign the camera an IP address to match the range used by your NVR PoE ports - typically 192.168.254.2 and up.

A nice feature of the Hikvision NVR is the ability to define 'custom protocols' which can be configured for each non-Hik camera you may want to add.
Here is an example for an 'IP Cloud Camera model IPCC-B10', a 720P low-cost Chinese camera. It also works just fine with an ONVIF choice.

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Sorry to revive an old thread.


I don't seem to have the ability to create a custom protocol as per your instructions above, which is a shame because the ONVIF Device Manager was an excellent call - I can see the RTSP stream addresses and everything.


I'm using a slightly lesser DVR, the DS-7316HQHI-SH. Is there any reason this one wouldn't be able to do the same thing as your 7800 model?


Also, I've got a Hikvision IP camera which also won't add. That's clearly more bizarre, since I assumed Hik->Hik would work flawlessly. It's a DS-2CD3132-I which streams just fine from the ONVIF DM application and direct from its webpage. But in the DVR config it simply says "Offline (Parameter error.)"


The ONVIF camera I tried to add is a standard Foscam. That one produces this message: "Offline(Stream type from the IP camera is not supported.)".


Any ideas to solve any/all of these issues please?


Thanks in advance.
 
alastairstevenson said:
On the face of it - the user manual for your DVR suggests there is the ability to create a custom protocol to allow adding of non-Hikvision cameras, page 48 and onwards here, which if it's valid may allow use of the RTSP stream:
www.hikvision.com/UploadFile/image/2015060816102489271.pdf
Click to expand...

It's completely bizarre: the manual describes a procedure that doesn't appear to exist in reality. There is no way that I can see to add a custom protocol despite it saying there is.

More weird is that it recognises the Device Model, Serial Number and Firmware version (of the Hikvision camera, anyway) yet still wont connect!
 
Ok so it turns out the 7316 only supports IP cameras with a maximum resolution of 1080P. Once I reduced the resolution from 2048x1536 back to 1920x1080 it worked straight away, or at least the Hikvision camera did.

I still can't add the non-Hik camera, as above the user manual describes something that doesn't appear to exist.
 
Just a dumb question, for which apologies:
Are you using the web GUI or the VGA/HDMI interface for the screens to add/modify cameras?
On my 7816N-E2, adding/modifying with a custom protocol is available both with the web GUI and the VGA/HDMI interface, but maybe not on yours.
 
Not at all a dumb question. I upgraded the firmware this morning and suddenly there are things on the web interface that were previously only available on the HDMI GUI. However I've been unable to find the custom protocol on either!
 
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