What device allows the PPOE cam to split to HDMI spot monitor and the feed continues to the NVR. I want to do this with 5 cameras. The rest of the cameras will connect directly to NVR. Thanks to whoever knows this answer.
PPOE cam split to HDMI TV and to NVR
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You can use a NVR to run all of your cameras into for recording,
but will only have one output from the NVR for viewing.
You can use something like a raspberry Pi or a small fanless to connect
back to the IP cameras and feed another monitor.
I don't know how many devices you can connect to a camera. I know 2.
but will only have one output from the NVR for viewing.
You can use something like a raspberry Pi or a small fanless to connect
back to the IP cameras and feed another monitor.
I don't know how many devices you can connect to a camera. I know 2.
A typical "POE" (Power Over Ethernet) camera provides an encoded, digital stream over Ethernet that must be decoded before it be displayed by a HDMI or VGA monitor. It's not like an analog video signal that can be simply amplified and split to display on 2 or more different analog displays.
In your schema the NVR is required to decode, record and display the digital video stream from the camera. There are decoder devices available but they are expensive and would not provide a practical approach to answering your question, as I understand it.
If you wanted one place to monitor the 5 cams and not 5 different places before they made it to the NVR, consider this: Send the cams to the NVR as "normal' and monitor them there on a HDMI monitor, then send the NVR's LAN feed to a PC fitted with Blue Iris VMS. Blue Iris can monitor and record all of the cameras connected to the NVR from anywhere in your network.
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You would have to add another user to the cameras' login which all can be managed at your NVR.
For every device that is a "stream user" they should have their own login at the camera.
But Its better to use the NVR as the camera host doing the hardware encoding/decoding and connect to that with a VMS software so that there is less traffic on the network.