Reading Camera settings

[Tizeye]

Had running fine with BI on 2 NIC system...then my SSD died. Of course I had no backup as this is a dedicated PC so easy to re-install Windows and BI on the new SSD (Drive C as all data is on as separate hard drive (Drive D.

The problem is, BI cannot find the cameras as I probably have to re-configure the NIC to the IP address of the cameras which differs from the LAN. Of course, I forgot the base address used for the cameras to re-configure the 2nd NIC so BI can find them. Is there some program and procedure where I can read the camera setting directly, and potentially change them if desired? While don't want to dismount the cameras (although I do need to re-position one after a gutter install partially blocking view) would I be able to view the camera setting (no video - just settings/firmware version etc) by disconnecting the line at the network switch and attach to a laptop running something like SmartPSS?

 

[ludshed]

Try the config tool.

DahuaWiki

dahuawiki.com

 

[Tizeye]

Try the config tool.

DahuaWiki

dahuawiki.com

Thanks. Will try it. Noted each 'locate/change' in the Wiki was based on being on same LAN, and that's the issue with the different IP address of the camera. I might be able to guess it as the standard IP address is _ . _.0.1 as I changed the 0 to my year of birth in the primary LAN. Believe I may have kept the cameras at either 0 or 1 but without programming the 2nd NIC to the base camera IP address, BI (and SmartPSS and others) just won't discover them.

Will try. Thanks.

 

[Mike A.]

Dahua defaults to 192.168.1.108. So if you left the cameras as they came, then they'd be on the 192.168.1.x subnet.