New New New and lost! Can't initialize camera...

[IPCJIM]

After having our car broken into I finally got my butt in gear to start the process of installing a surveillance system. Eventually looking at having very good front of house coverage and most of the back year covered.

Total newbie! I've read the cliff notes and been reading here as much as I can. I am new to cameras and networking so I have a lot to learn. I started putting together equipment to setup and test.

I have a desktop to run blue iris on
I picked up a BV-Tech 9 Port POE Switch - Model SW801-AB
I picked up a Loryta IPC-T2431T-AS to mess around with.
I also have a tplink ac4000 router

I hooked everything up tonight in hopes of getting to play around and learn a bit but hit a brick wall. I can not seem to initialize the camera using the configtool, The tool finds the camera but when I try to initialize after I enter my password and email and click next it stalls then shows the screen below. (network timeout error). Anyone able to point me in the right direction?



I'm feeling pretty defeated, If I can't get through this seeming simple step I am worried about when I get the more complex parts of the install.

Thanks in advance!

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[djernie]

Maybe one of these can help.

Unable To Login

I had to replace one of my IPC-HDW5231R-Z cams with a new IPC-T3241T-ZAS after it randomly began disconnecting. I haven't setup a new camera in about 4 years so kind of forgot how but using the Dahua Config Tool I was able to initialize and change the cams IP Address... but can't seem to login...

ipcamtalk.com

Unable To Login

I had to replace one of my IPC-HDW5231R-Z cams with a new IPC-T3241T-ZAS after it randomly began disconnecting. I haven't setup a new camera in about 4 years so kind of forgot how but using the Dahua Config Tool I was able to initialize and change the cams IP Address... but can't seem to login...

ipcamtalk.com

 

[djernie]

Or this.

 

[samplenhold]

Don't Panic!

Reset the cam. Take the cover off where the microSD card is located. Make sure the cam is plugged into the POE switch and the POE switch has power. Hold the reset button down for a slow count of 10.


The cam's IP will be 192.168.1.108. Make sure that your PC is on 192.168.1.xxx

Run the config tool. Initialize the cam. Change the password but do not give it an email address.

Use MS Edge to log in to the cam's web browser at 192.168.1.108 and from there reset the IP address to something else.

 

[tigerwillow1]

The PC doesn't have to be on the 192.168.1.xxx subnet. Config tool finds the cameras from other subnets. I do it all the time. For comparison my config tool version is 4.11.3 . The gotcha is that after the camera is initialized, you have to go to search settings and change the password to whatever the camera's password is, if you want to change the camera's IP address.

 

[mat200]

After having our car broken into I finally got my butt in gear to start the process of installing a surveillance system. Eventually looking at having very good front of house coverage and most of the back year covered.

Total newbie! I've read the cliff notes and been reading here as much as I can. I am new to cameras and networking so I have a lot to learn. I started putting together equipment to setup and test.

I have a desktop to run blue iris on
I picked up a BV-Tech 9 Port POE Switch - Model SW801-AB
I picked up a Loryta IPC-T2431T-AS to mess around with.
I also have a tplink ac4000 router

I hooked everything up tonight in hopes of getting to play around and learn a bit but hit a brick wall. I can not seem to initialize the camera using the configtool, The tool finds the camera but when I try to initialize after I enter my password and email and click next it stalls then shows the screen below. (network timeout error). Anyone able to point me in the right direction?

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I'm feeling pretty defeated, If I can't get through this seeming simple step I am worried about when I get the more complex parts of the install.

Thanks in advance!

​

Welcome @IPCJIM

Let us know what ends up working for you.

Thanks

 

[looney2ns]

Upper right corner of configtool, click on the small camera icon and read the instructions.

 

[samplenhold]

The PC doesn't have to be on the 192.168.1.xxx subnet. Config tool finds the cameras from other subnets.

That is true. But not in my case. My cam network is air-gapped. There is no connection to the rest of my LAN or the internet.

 

[IPCJIM]

I was able to connect today, I reset the camera and accessed it via the web using MS Edge (was using chrome before). I was also able to get it added to blue Iris. Thanks again for the help!