I created an account on this forum to thank all the people that have made me possible to understand most of the ins and outs of a couple of ZOSI NVR/DVRs I have buy throughout the years. Looking to give back some knowledge as retribution (and unsure if this was posted already) I would like to share some knowledge of what I learned, hoping that some desperate soul finds comfort with the answers that took me a long while to find. I'm a non native speaker or writer, so please bear with me regarding any grammar or spelling errors you might find in these lines.
A couple of years ago I bought two separate kits of ZOSI Wireless NVRs (ZR08JP) with 8 cameras (ZG2322M). After installing all the 16 cameras, I started noticing through the NVR interfaces that they used a fixed, private network subnet regardless of my the actual subnet defined for my network (the cameras used 192.168.138.X/24 for cabled connections and 192.168.147.X/24 for wireless connections) and no matter what I tried, I could not change these IPs. I ran into some issues in which some of the cameras from the first or the second set would "collide" as both sets would come with some IPs that would overlap from factory, and this would lead to strange behaviors. Seems like they never though of somebody buying more than one set for the same home. Also the NVRs themselves had the same IP address in this "obscure" subnet, 192.168.138.254, acting as gateway of that subnet. I was able to log using telnet on one of the NVRs and manually change some scripts to have the IP in that subnet changed to 192.168.138.253, and after some trial and error, I learned that in the window in which you would add the cameras "IPC something" includes an option to reset the cameras, these would in fact sometimes change the IP address, to what I believed it was a random address. And this way, I ended with 12 or 13 cameras whose IP addresses did not overlap, and I could have the two (crippled) kits plugged on the same network without major issues.
Fast forward to about a year ago, one of the NVRs died. Trying to avoid spending money on a whole kit of NVR and cameras, I though there should be a way to either find a ZR08JP NVR or there should be some other way to change those fixed ip addresses. Tried moving around scripts in the cameras HiLinux environment, and I could not make sense of where the IP addresses were stored in the cameras. Finally I got my hands on a fairly new ZR08UM (8Ch, 4K Capable NVR with PoE) and I though it would be a matter of plugin it on the same network as the old cameras, and Adding the cameras, right? It's a ZOSI for a ZOSI at the end of they day isnt? well no. After fumbling around and not being able to make them work, I contacted ZOSI support which stated that the ZG2322M cameras were not compatible with the ZR08UM NVR, that my only options were a)get my hands on a ZR08JP or b)buy a new kit (NVR + Cameras).
Now my drawback was growing even larger.
As desperation is the mother of innovation, I was looking for clues in the new NVR UI and noticed that it would let you add cameras using ONVIF protocol or a so-called "private" protocol using port 32540 if my mind is still sharp at this late at night. The NVR could correctly "detect" or scan the cameras (they would show up with the dreaded 192.168.138.X IP already set), but when adding them, they would never connect or show any video, complaining that there was a network error.
Due to sheer luck, I stumbled upon "SearchTool v2" in ZOSI Support forums, which after some trial and error, I learned could persistently change the IP addresses of these cameras to my actual network address space, and could make them work with the ZR08UM NVR.
TL;DR: Searchtool v2 from ZOSI forums is able to change the ip address from ZG2322M wireless cameras, to any subnet you want. Previously it was believed that you needed to change the IP address of the equipment you were using to capture video from them to some IP on the 192.168.138.0/24 subnet, but this tool saves the day allowing you to change the IP address to your custom, private IP address (or public if you got the taste for it).
Here's the link to the forum entry: Download SearchTool V2
and software:
Hopefully this saves the day of anybody who's in the same situation as I was a couple of days ago.
- Carlos
A couple of years ago I bought two separate kits of ZOSI Wireless NVRs (ZR08JP) with 8 cameras (ZG2322M). After installing all the 16 cameras, I started noticing through the NVR interfaces that they used a fixed, private network subnet regardless of my the actual subnet defined for my network (the cameras used 192.168.138.X/24 for cabled connections and 192.168.147.X/24 for wireless connections) and no matter what I tried, I could not change these IPs. I ran into some issues in which some of the cameras from the first or the second set would "collide" as both sets would come with some IPs that would overlap from factory, and this would lead to strange behaviors. Seems like they never though of somebody buying more than one set for the same home. Also the NVRs themselves had the same IP address in this "obscure" subnet, 192.168.138.254, acting as gateway of that subnet. I was able to log using telnet on one of the NVRs and manually change some scripts to have the IP in that subnet changed to 192.168.138.253, and after some trial and error, I learned that in the window in which you would add the cameras "IPC something" includes an option to reset the cameras, these would in fact sometimes change the IP address, to what I believed it was a random address. And this way, I ended with 12 or 13 cameras whose IP addresses did not overlap, and I could have the two (crippled) kits plugged on the same network without major issues.
Fast forward to about a year ago, one of the NVRs died. Trying to avoid spending money on a whole kit of NVR and cameras, I though there should be a way to either find a ZR08JP NVR or there should be some other way to change those fixed ip addresses. Tried moving around scripts in the cameras HiLinux environment, and I could not make sense of where the IP addresses were stored in the cameras. Finally I got my hands on a fairly new ZR08UM (8Ch, 4K Capable NVR with PoE) and I though it would be a matter of plugin it on the same network as the old cameras, and Adding the cameras, right? It's a ZOSI for a ZOSI at the end of they day isnt? well no. After fumbling around and not being able to make them work, I contacted ZOSI support which stated that the ZG2322M cameras were not compatible with the ZR08UM NVR, that my only options were a)get my hands on a ZR08JP or b)buy a new kit (NVR + Cameras).
Now my drawback was growing even larger.
As desperation is the mother of innovation, I was looking for clues in the new NVR UI and noticed that it would let you add cameras using ONVIF protocol or a so-called "private" protocol using port 32540 if my mind is still sharp at this late at night. The NVR could correctly "detect" or scan the cameras (they would show up with the dreaded 192.168.138.X IP already set), but when adding them, they would never connect or show any video, complaining that there was a network error.
Due to sheer luck, I stumbled upon "SearchTool v2" in ZOSI Support forums, which after some trial and error, I learned could persistently change the IP addresses of these cameras to my actual network address space, and could make them work with the ZR08UM NVR.
TL;DR: Searchtool v2 from ZOSI forums is able to change the ip address from ZG2322M wireless cameras, to any subnet you want. Previously it was believed that you needed to change the IP address of the equipment you were using to capture video from them to some IP on the 192.168.138.0/24 subnet, but this tool saves the day allowing you to change the IP address to your custom, private IP address (or public if you got the taste for it).
Here's the link to the forum entry: Download SearchTool V2
and software:
Hopefully this saves the day of anybody who's in the same situation as I was a couple of days ago.
- Carlos
