Very puzzling situation

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Trucker1962

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Mar 11, 2022
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Ottawa, ON, Canada
Here is my situation and I need help cause it's driving me nuts. I have a Dahua NVR OEM 4216-16P-4K with 8 wired cameras bullseye type, and I don't know what model they are because I did not install them they were done by the company who installed my older nvr and I know for a fact that they don't have a reset button (I already open one up) 4 cameras are el cheapo bankrupt QSee wireless and 4 are Tapo C-100. I disconnected them yesterday to do some labelling and now only 4 PoE switches are working (#1 to #4)
I did a complete factory reset of the nvr, I connected 4 of the PoE cams from 1 to 4, 5 to 8 are the 4 Tapos, from 9 to 12 the 4 Qsee one and from 13 to 16 the last 4 PoE.
If I disconnect 1 of the last PoE from 5 to 16 and plug it to one of the PoE 1 to 4 it will work but not in it's original place 5 to 16. If I connect any of the wireless cams from 5 to 16 they work. To me it looks like 5 to 16 works wirelessly but not connected thru PoE, and any of the wired cams if I connected it to any PoE port 5 to 16 it doesn't work.
Why was it working before (I was using 1 to 8 PoE) and 8 to 16 had wireless cams?
Is there something I can do let say to have all 16 channels to work PoE even if I have 8 cams wireless? If I had 16 wired cameras only 4 would be working on 1 to 4 PoE and I would have to disconnect any one from 1 to 4 to add another one all and all 16 cams but only working 4 at a time.
The wired cameras are fine because if I connect any of them on a PoE port from 1 to 4 they are working. Only 4 PoE switches working the rest are not except wirelessly
What can I do? what did I do?
 
I failed calculus

Show us a picture of your camera registration page.

You need to start over. One camera at a time. Turn OFF the wireless cameras to start so the NVR can’t see them. Unplug them. Then add your Poe wired cameras first.

The Poe ports have no bearing on the wifi cameras. They are obviously connected to an external switch or your router and are likely showing as very different IP addresses that your wired cameras.

Likely you have two issues

1- you may well be exceeding the incoming bandwidth of the NVR with all of those wireless cameras
2- you have likely confused the poe ports and cameras that were assigned an internal IP and then plugged into a different port. And you may have ip conflicts.
 
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bigredfish said:
I failed calculus

Show us a picture of your camera registration page.

You need to start over. One camera at a time. Turn OFF the wireless cameras to start so the NVR can’t see them. Unplug them. Then add your Poe wired cameras first.

The Poe ports have no bearing on the wifi cameras. They are obviously connected to an external switch or your router and are likely showing as very different IP addresses that your wired cameras.

Likely you have two issues

1- you may well be exceeding the incoming bandwidth of the NVR with all of those wireless cameras
2- you have likely confused the poe ports and cameras that were assigned an internal IP and then plugged into a different port. And you may have ip conflicts.
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Your troubleshooting makes lot of sense and I would tend to agree with #2 the PoE ports are all confused but since the outside cameras are 10 years old and the 3 in the back of my house are totally dark at night and 1 infront has humidity inside due to pooring rain we had at one time, I am thinking of changing the whole thing, and go wireless totally all around. I might give your idea a try but I'm quite done fighting with cams that are obsolete to start with. Thanks for your help though it's much appreciated and makes a lot of sense and I never thought of that, I'm not an expert in that but I've learned a lot
Thanks
 
You need to do the opposite.

Going to all wireless cams will be a nightmare
 
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bigredfish said:
You need to do the opposite.

Going to all wireless cams will be a nightmare
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In fact we have a whole thread showing limitations of wifi cams

wittaj

Thread 'The Typical picture of a Perp on Nextdoor-type Apps with Consumer Grade Cameras like Ring, Nest, Arlo, Canary, Wyze, etc.'

Love these posts on Nextdoor type apps LOL.

This thread will be used for members to post the poor quality consumer grade type camera images that we see people post to the Nextdoor type apps.

Can anyone make out this person that went thru their cars LOL....

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And this thread is where members are posting the type of images we capture from better cameras of perps our cameras have captured:

The Better typical picture of a Perp we capture with better cameras than the consumer grade camera images we tend to see on Nextdoor

A while back I started the thread for us to comment and point out the issues and problems with consumer grade cameras and the images that people have posted to the NextDoor type apps. That thread has been a great resource to send the NOOB to in order to see what quality they don't get from...
ipcamtalk.com ipcamtalk.com


Here is a good...
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There’s nothing but pain and suffering in store for you if going with WiFi for video security. :facepalm:
 
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Trucker1962 said:
Your troubleshooting makes lot of sense and I would tend to agree with #2 the PoE ports are all confused but since the outside cameras are 10 years old and the 3 in the back of my house are totally dark at night and 1 infront has humidity inside due to pooring rain we had at one time, I am thinking of changing the whole thing, and go wireless totally all around. I might give your idea a try but I'm quite done fighting with cams that are obsolete to start with. Thanks for your help though it's much appreciated and makes a lot of sense and I never thought of that, I'm not an expert in that but I've learned a lot
Thanks
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I did what you suggested and it looks like only the 4 first PoE are recognized by the NVR, the other 12 only work with wireless cams. So I will consider changing the 8 wired one (since they are obsolete and not working properly) and also consider the fact that I should keep them wired to avoid potential problems as suggested in this thread. Beside my house outside is already wired and wireless cams would need to be powered and more holds in the house nope.
 
Nope that’s not true. You are doing something wrong
 
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