Camera protocol settings

[Lavinius]

I have a NVR HWN-2104MH from Hikvision with a camera on POE also from Hikvision.

I used SADP tool to activate the camera and give it a 192.168.1.160 as an IP and NVR has .155

Internally NVR attributed a different network IP such as 192.168.254.3 and is working perfectly.

Now I bought a second IP camera modelDS-2CD1067G which got the IP 192.168.1.140 on activation with SADP tool.

I connect it to NVR which assigned 192.168.254.8 automatically but camera was not working as network could not be reached.

So , chat GPT said as info that I should put with SADP tool the address which NVR assigned to the camera.

And to change to ONVIF protocol.

I did it and worked.

Now the question is …. Why I need it to change the protocol to ONVIF from HIKVISION and why NVR cannot deal to switch networks.

I did something wrong or?

 

[trempa92]

You dont, usually PoE is made for plug n play mode.

When camera is fresh out of box and connects to NVR, nvr will activate camera and assign the address.

You started configuring like you have standard nvr with poe switch.

Why it doesnt work its hard to tell. Nobody but you know entire process of what you did, perhaps there was a thing or 2 you forgot to mention?

 

[Lavinius]

You dont, usually PoE is made for plug n play mode.

When camera is fresh out of box and connects to NVR, nvr will activate camera and assign the address.

You started configuring like you have standard nvr with poe switch.

Why it doesnt work its hard to tell. Nobody but you know entire process of what you did, perhaps there was a thing or 2 you forgot to mention?

I was expecting plug and play as well. Maybe camera is newer than the NVR and need to change to ONVIF t manage addresses

 

[trempa92]

No need for onvif, standard hik protocol should work, regardless of hardware aging

 

[JB1970]

My guess:

Now I bought a second IP camera modelDS-2CD1067G which got the IP 192.168.1.140 on activation with SADP tool.

I connect it to NVR which assigned 192.168.254.8 automatically but camera was not working as network could not be reached.

Hikvision Plug and Play only works with unactivated cameras. You activated the camera and assigned a LAN address with SADP....you should have plugged it straight into the NVR which would have both activated the camera and assigned its address in the correct range. The NVR possibly shows that the address is 192.168.254.8 but that's the address of the NVR channel and the reason you get an error (as the camera has 192.168.1.240, it's unreachable)

- In short if you want to use plug and play - Just plug the unactivated camera in to the NVR
- If you want to use the NVR PoE channels but assign your own address - pre activate it with an unused 192.168.254.xxx address, then before connecting the camera, change the plug and play channel to manual and enter the IP address you activated it with.
- If you want to connect the camera somewhere else on your network (not using the PoE ports), do the same as above but pre activate it with an unused address that matches your LAN.