Router questions and what is this hardware?

White face was v1. Should work poe but a lot had problems and running with a power supply or a splitter proved better option.
So since you plugged it in and nothing happened, we have a few options:

The cat5 cable is bad. (try another cable)
The port was not a poe port or bad. (verify poe port and try another port)
The camera is not responding to poe. (power off 12vdc supply and see what happens)

When the camera initially starts (power first applied) it will drive the ptz motors to find the limits. That would be the first step before trying to locate on the network.
 
I turned 2 little cheesy home routers into wireless APs and they work fine, I think something like ubiquiti is overkill unless you live in a really big house, multiple floors and stuff, otherwise she's putting $5,000 rims on an old sedan.
 
I turned 2 little cheesy home routers into wireless APs and they work fine, I think something like ubiquiti is overkill unless you live in a really big house, multiple floors and stuff, otherwise she's putting $5,000 rims on an old sedan.

Ive got 1100sqft and 3 Ubnt UniFi access points.. its only overkill if you dont demand performance.. I get 500Mbps throughput or better on every one of my wifi devices from anywhere in my house.

considering most people have wireless networks slower than there internet, you have 2 options.. build a good wireless network so you can actually reach full speeds, or overpay for a bunch of internet you'll never be able to use.

I just put a couple unifi access points up in my sisters house; on the floor infront of her TV my phone got a mere 2Mbps of internet, from her sofa she got barely 10Mbps.. now she gets her full 30Mbps everywhere.. and she dont even have that fast of internet.

When you take your access points out of that cabinet in your office and put em in the wall/celing in your living areas then you can start using 5GHz at full speed since everyone has Line of Sight w/no obstacles.. that can save the day if you live in a high density area that has a saturated 2.4GHz band.
 
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Ive got 1100sqft and 3 Ubnt UniFi access points.. its only overkill if you dont demand performance.. I get 500Mbps throughput or better on every one of my wifi devices from anywhere in my house.

considering most people have wireless networks slower than there internet, you have 2 options.. build a good wireless network so you can actually reach full speeds, or overpay for a bunch of internet you'll never be able to use.

I just put a couple unifi access points up in my sisters house; on the floor infront of her TV my phone got a mere 2Mbps of internet, from her sofa she got barely 10Mbps.. now she gets her full 30Mbps everywhere.. and she dont even have that fast of internet.

When you take your access points out of that cabinet in your office and put em in the wall/celing in your living areas then you can start using 5GHz at full speed since everyone has Line of Sight w/no obstacles.. that can save the day if you live in a high density area that has a saturated 2.4GHz band.
I'll have to test, but I only surf the net and steam video on WiFi, and I get full internet speed, 90mbps down everywhere in the house so until I need better I'll stick with what I have lol.
 
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White face was v1. Should work poe but a lot had problems and running with a power supply or a splitter proved better option.
So since you plugged it in and nothing happened, we have a few options:

The cat5 cable is bad. (try another cable)
The port was not a poe port or bad. (verify poe port and try another port)
The camera is not responding to poe. (power off 12vdc supply and see what happens)

When the camera initially starts (power first applied) it will drive the ptz motors to find the limits. That would be the first step before trying to locate on the network.

Hi @NoloC @nayr @fenderman @hmjgriffon

I got the camera motors to turn on and move slightly, so I think the CAT 5 is ok and the PoE is ok...however, the NVR/Network does not recognize the camera?

Any thoughts on how to configure it please?

Tks
 
Try SADP tool.
Hikvision USA

My Huisuns work with this tool.

So the tool should let you change the ip address if needed to get on same subnet as your pc. Or at least you will be able to see the ip of the camera and then use a browser to log in. Then you should be able to control the camera etc.
 
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Ive got 1100sqft and 3 Ubnt UniFi access points.. its only overkill if you dont demand performance.. I get 500Mbps throughput or better on every one of my wifi devices from anywhere in my house.

considering most people have wireless networks slower than there internet, you have 2 options.. build a good wireless network so you can actually reach full speeds, or overpay for a bunch of internet you'll never be able to use.

I just put a couple unifi access points up in my sisters house; on the floor infront of her TV my phone got a mere 2Mbps of internet, from her sofa she got barely 10Mbps.. now she gets her full 30Mbps everywhere.. and she dont even have that fast of internet.

When you take your access points out of that cabinet in your office and put em in the wall/celing in your living areas then you can start using 5GHz at full speed since everyone has Line of Sight w/no obstacles.. that can save the day if you live in a high density area that has a saturated 2.4GHz band.

Nary can you tell me the mode number of the unifi system you are using


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I'd connect the camera to Poe, then to a computer, see if you have link lights on the network card, if so, set that network card to a static IP that can talk to the camera and try it's default IP, or scan for any IPs that are alive and try them. I've never used these tools like SADP in not sure how it would be able to work if the camera happens to be on a different subnet then your computer.

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