Hi! (tldr at bottom), just wanted to say thanks to a great community, I've found this place to be an invaluable resource in getting my system set up. For the most part everything has gone pretty well, but I seem to have made a grave error and can't find any good info anywhere on how I may be able to fix it, so I thought I'd check here to see if anyone had any thoughts, or maybe could confirm that I'm dumb.
My main setup is several dahua cams and Blue Iris running in a windows 7 VM on an UnRaid server. It's working well and I seem to have managed to iron most everything out. I also grabbed a couple super cheapo "besder" brand 720p cams for about $12 or $15 to cover areas that are not really that important, just for presence detection indoors. They worked great for that, until I screwed them up.
While the dahua cams are easily configured using the web interface of the camera, these besder cam web interfaces are all in Chinese, so I used the 'ONVIF Device Manager' tool to configure them. I created a second network for the cameras to separate them from my main network. My main network is 192.168.1.1/24. My camera network is 192.168.2.1/24. When I set the IP addresses on the cameras I accidentally gave them the default gateway of my main network: 192.168.1.1, instead of the 192.168.2.1 it should have been. This had the effect of making the cameras unreachable. Not able to ping them, not scannable with nmap, nothing I tried allowed me to access the cameras after this was done.
The dahua cams have a reset button, so it's not a big deal to start over. But these besder cams apparently don't. I took one completely apart and didn't see one. Might be a jumper reset? But nothing I could identify. Not really any documentation for these cameras that I've found, but I'm still looking and waiting to hear back from them.
The besder cams do still show up as 'clients' in my unifi controller. I've tried plugging the cameras and the camera switch directly to a pc and changing about every combination of network settings to try to ping them, scan them, or get them to show up in the web ui or the ONVIF Device Manager. I tried using other software like 'ispy', which lists besder as a supported brand, but still no luck. Tried creating a new network in unifi with the 'wrong default gateway', but It won't let me be that dumb.
tldr; So I guess my question boils down to: If you configure a device with the wrong default gateway, is there any way to access it over ethernet when a factory reset button isn't an option?
My main setup is several dahua cams and Blue Iris running in a windows 7 VM on an UnRaid server. It's working well and I seem to have managed to iron most everything out. I also grabbed a couple super cheapo "besder" brand 720p cams for about $12 or $15 to cover areas that are not really that important, just for presence detection indoors. They worked great for that, until I screwed them up.
While the dahua cams are easily configured using the web interface of the camera, these besder cam web interfaces are all in Chinese, so I used the 'ONVIF Device Manager' tool to configure them. I created a second network for the cameras to separate them from my main network. My main network is 192.168.1.1/24. My camera network is 192.168.2.1/24. When I set the IP addresses on the cameras I accidentally gave them the default gateway of my main network: 192.168.1.1, instead of the 192.168.2.1 it should have been. This had the effect of making the cameras unreachable. Not able to ping them, not scannable with nmap, nothing I tried allowed me to access the cameras after this was done.
The dahua cams have a reset button, so it's not a big deal to start over. But these besder cams apparently don't. I took one completely apart and didn't see one. Might be a jumper reset? But nothing I could identify. Not really any documentation for these cameras that I've found, but I'm still looking and waiting to hear back from them.
The besder cams do still show up as 'clients' in my unifi controller. I've tried plugging the cameras and the camera switch directly to a pc and changing about every combination of network settings to try to ping them, scan them, or get them to show up in the web ui or the ONVIF Device Manager. I tried using other software like 'ispy', which lists besder as a supported brand, but still no luck. Tried creating a new network in unifi with the 'wrong default gateway', but It won't let me be that dumb.
tldr; So I guess my question boils down to: If you configure a device with the wrong default gateway, is there any way to access it over ethernet when a factory reset button isn't an option?
. Imagine my surprise when BI started up and they were running again! That was a lot of work for some crappy cheap cameras, but I guess at least I learned something, thanks!