Manage Dahua NVR and cameras with Mac?

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Asking for a friend, I have 0 experience with Mac’s. Can you adequately manage Dahua nvr’s and cameras web GUI with a Mac?
 

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Asking for a friend, I have 0 experience with Mac’s. Can you adequately manage Dahua nvr’s and cameras web GUI with a Mac?
In my experience you can manage most through SmartPSS but I never found a browser that didn’t want to try to install plug-ins that it could never find (if trying to manage the cameras via the IE icons) but you can get to Image, Encode, Camera Name and PTZ through Safari.

That said, your “friend” would be happier if they purchased a VM like Parallels and use the browser there.


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i assume you have, but I'll ask. Have you dug around the Dahua site. They used to have several MAC specific plugin's, SmartPSS and such under software.
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I have used my Mac and Safari to access my cameras by way of my NVR. After clicking the “e” to open the camera, click open pop up in address bar.
You can see pictures in a previous post Help with IP conflicts and POE networking
I don’t get the “open pop up in address bar” option. Maybe I’m misunderstanding or you’re on a different MacOS or Safari version?
 

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Clicking the IE icon for a camera while on the NVR registration page, opens a new window (popup to some) to login to the camera web GUI
 

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Not following how you got there, but the gateway is grayed out becasue you shouldnt mess with it. Thats the internal switch gateway.
 

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It's grayed out because it is set to DHCP. If you would change it to static, you would be able to enter any address you want. But as @bigredfish stated, do not mess with that unless you know what you're doing.
 

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It's grayed out because it is set to DHCP. If you would change it to static, you would be able to enter any address you want. But as @bigredfish stated, do not mess with that unless you know what you're doing.
I know what I'm doing and my config is backed up on the NVR but for the internal switch shouldn't be 10.1.1.1 with the same default gateway? If you try and change the default gateway to match the OP it won't take which is understandable.
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Here's how I got there. Log on to NVR using Safari on my Mac. Click on Camera List, click on any of the IE icons which takes to a page with a plugin link.
 

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And that page that’s asking for the plugin is the camera login page. Clicking it on a pc downloads the plugin, not sure what it does for a Mac sorry.
 

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And that page that’s asking for the plugin is the camera login page. Clicking it on a pc downloads the plugin, not sure what it does for a Mac sorry.
It's after logging in, it's the live view page that's asking for a plug in. My apologies, this whole time I thought we were all talking about accessing the cameras from the IE icon via Safari on a Mac. Now I know. you guys are talking about PC which works fine without any alteration.
 
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