Is this with the NVR channel in 'Manual' mode and the LAN IP address of the LAN-connected camera configured on the channel so it doesn't use the NVR PoE port?
If I understand you correctly, I think the answer is yes. LAN goes to main switch and then to router and modem. All cams are on a remote subnet. All cams have manually-set static IPs. I can actually specify a 9th cam IP and it will connect and appear in the list of connected cams, but when I go to the display matrix (3x3=9 in this test case), it will not display the 9th cam in the 9th window. It shows their logo and has a "+" sign in the lower-left corner. If I click to add it, I get the message "No more IP camera allowed.". I haven't tried a camera simultaneously out of a poe port (there are 16 of them), since I have no use for them (no local cameras, only remote).
Using a PC?
There isn't a 'Snapshot' camera-like icon at the bottom of the playback page?
And a screenshot with Alt-PrtScrn ?
This is all on the display screen plugged into the nvr. I had spoken with Hik support way back when I discovered this and I was told that I could use ivms-4200 to connect to the nvr and that app can do snapshots, which is an f'n stupid workaround imho. Of course, under w10, I can snapshot anything with start-shift-s, but I don't use 4200. My work box is for work. The nvr is next to me as is the display for it. Installing and using 4200 for a head end just to get this functionality is a major band-aid for a firmware blunder and an unnecessary load on my work box. On the nvr itself, there is no place to get any type of screen shot and save, only video clips. And here's a good one... If I save a clip to a thumb drive in the nvr and that clip is an avi, if I try to play it back on the nvr, it can't play it. All the video clips that get exported can only be mp4 or avi, which is fine, but the mp4 they write is non-standard and requires their player app to view. It can be converted using handbrake, but it is definitely non-standard and requires an extra, time-consuming step to process. The avi file is apparently standard or seems to be and it can be viewed using vlc, but I assume that the firmware on the nvr thinks its encoded and tries to play it that way, so it error's-out. Another coding failure. It is definitely, reliable and decent hardware for sure, but the firmware is typical hikvision with a focus on making it proprietary in every way it can, and in doing so, they end up making the end-user's job much more difficult while crippling the firmware. I bet all the bs code to make it proprietary and storing their logo is taking up the space that some good, useful code like snap-shotting, could use.
I wish that someone had firmware source or could hack it, but the chance of that is nil, which is more than the possibility of hikvision actually releasing a firmware revision to fix these things. How does a security manufacturer not recognize the need to output a snapshot quickly and easily?
I'll try to find an nvr with superior functionality and if I can't, I'll make something nice and run
blue iris on it and sell this to someone who just wants p-n-p poe cams at their house/business. I am sure it's good for that, but not anything seriously pro.
Thanks
very much for taking the time to reply. I'm always open to suggestions, pointers, learning, etc.
