Unifi / HikVision NVR with Private PoE Cameras

VR6Pete

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Nov 4, 2024
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UK
Hi folks,

long story short, I have a Unifi UDM SE and HIKVision NVR - on a 192.168.86.* range.

Unifi now support adopting other onvif cameras into Unifi Protect, but long story short is that you cannot proxy through the NVR and instead each camera needs to be on the same LAN as the UDM SE, which of course with my cameras being connected via the PoE ports on the NVR forms part of a private network on internal/private 192.168.254.* range.

I tried using the configuration to manually adopt the camera in unifi protect using the http://<nvr-ip>:65001 for example (which I can can access via browser fine as using VirtualHost), but unifi protect doesn't adopt the camera properly.

Unifi support state the camera should be on the same network as the the UDM SE, of course the cameras are powered by PoE from the NVR.

Can anyone make any suggestions on possible ways of exposing the cameras via the NVR - or if I am missing a trick somewhere.

Seems crazy that for the most OOTB configuration this does not work.

Thanks.

Pete