I have a amcrest 16ch poe nvr with 9 cameras running directly off nvr and 1 wireless camera running through my router to nvr. I wanted to add 4 cameras on my detached garage so I ran a cat6 from main router to my garage where it connects to a 8 port poe switch. Looking at my router, i see the cameras, i can access them individually via the cameras ip on web browser. but i cannot for the life seem to get my nvr to find them yet alone connect to them when connection is manually added.
Someone Please help! I've done setups like this before but this one is absolutely stumping me!!
IP8M-2779E-AI wont connect to 16ch poe nvr! Help!
Re: IP8M-2779E-AI wont connect to 16ch poe nvr! Help!
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Can you confirm that the camera are on the correct IP address? When you connect like this they should have an ip same as your networks ip range for your computers, tvs, phones and what not.. If you are trying to setup using the NVRs IP switch IP. Then it will no allow the cameras to connect.
Normally IP for NVR POE Switch is 10.1.1.xx starting with 65, Now your home network could be anything in the Private IP range of 192. or 10. but can't be the same as your NVRs switch IP unless you are using a 5xxx model NVR and have changed the switch into Bridge mode.. Does your cameras IP match your Wifi cameras IP range?
Can you confirm that the camera are on the correct IP address? When you connect like this they should have an ip same as your networks ip range for your computers, tvs, phones and what not.. If you are trying to setup using the NVRs IP switch IP. Then it will no allow the cameras to connect.
Normally IP for NVR POE Switch is 10.1.1.xx starting with 65, Now your home network could be anything in the Private IP range of 192. or 10. but can't be the same as your NVRs switch IP unless you are using a 5xxx model NVR and have changed the switch into Bridge mode.. Does your cameras IP match your Wifi cameras IP range?
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Re: IP8M-2779E-AI wont connect to 16ch poe nvr! Help!
My nvr system is same subnet as router, it's a 10.x.x.x, my router is 192.168.50.x. the wifi camera comes up just fine on my nvr with with a 192.168.50.x address. The cameras im trying to add are definitely on same subnet and same 192.168.50.x. I have switched to bridge mode and it still does not show the cameras im trying to add. When I look at my routers connected log, I can see all the cameras and access them via http://192.168.50.x
Re: IP8M-2779E-AI wont connect to 16ch poe nvr! Help!
Ok normally Router pool isn't to important. I can have all my cameras setup as rejected in my Router and my cameras will still connect to my NVRs..
So I have a few different cameras, DVRs, NVRs and a good few Switches.. So in some of my setup my NVRs and IP cameras are not able to talk with 1 another and that is because they are on different VLans.. So if your switch is setup with Vlans you will want to make sure your cameras in the Garage are in the same Vlan as your normal network.. If you are not using Vlans and from your posts it seems you are able to access on your computer. So an idea and while not always as easy as typing it. But something I would try is change your cameras incoming port to the incoming port of your computer on your main switch.
So on my cameras and all other devices I use 255.255.255.0 for Subnet, Gateway for my Local IP devices is 10.0.0.1 and my switches on my NVRs are different per the IP of the NVR it self unless it is just a normal NVR and don't have a POE Switch.. So on my 4108E-HS that is 10.0.0.225 the POE Switch for that NVR is 10.2.25.xx and again starts at 65.. The another POE NVR is 10.0.0.96 and that switch is 10.9.6.xx.. I use a mix of Amcrest, Dahua, Hikvision OEMs and others on my network and NVRs..
So from your computer is an Idea.. Bring up the terminal or dos prompt, On Win10/11 press Windows Key and R together then type in box cmd, then at the dos prompt type arp -g and see if your cameras and NVR come up..
Setting a 5xxx series to Bridge mode would remove the NVRs switch IP and all cameras that were connected to the Switch if on Static IP would need to be changed to DCHP or changed to meet your local lan ip.. Then NVR should reboot and then all things that would connect to the NVRs POE ports would be setup with your Routers IP range with your router as your Server only.. Not sure just making the change and doing a search would change anything..
IN the pictures below, I have a few cameras that are connected to 3 switches 1 in my Shed POE switch, one in my garage passes those cameras to the main switch in my house where I setup Vlans for other connected devices. My Arp as you can see they are all on 10.0.0.xx besides one of my POE NVRs does show the switch IP 10.1.1.1 but don't matter for this.. All of these cameras are connected to NVRs in my home.
Above I mention changing your camera Lan cable for your computers lan cable. Looking to see if the issue is maybe a vlan or something not working on its current connected port.. Can you log into your NVRs WebUI? Wifi camera from your computer can you log into the Cameas WebUI?
So I have a few different cameras, DVRs, NVRs and a good few Switches.. So in some of my setup my NVRs and IP cameras are not able to talk with 1 another and that is because they are on different VLans.. So if your switch is setup with Vlans you will want to make sure your cameras in the Garage are in the same Vlan as your normal network.. If you are not using Vlans and from your posts it seems you are able to access on your computer. So an idea and while not always as easy as typing it. But something I would try is change your cameras incoming port to the incoming port of your computer on your main switch.
So on my cameras and all other devices I use 255.255.255.0 for Subnet, Gateway for my Local IP devices is 10.0.0.1 and my switches on my NVRs are different per the IP of the NVR it self unless it is just a normal NVR and don't have a POE Switch.. So on my 4108E-HS that is 10.0.0.225 the POE Switch for that NVR is 10.2.25.xx and again starts at 65.. The another POE NVR is 10.0.0.96 and that switch is 10.9.6.xx.. I use a mix of Amcrest, Dahua, Hikvision OEMs and others on my network and NVRs..
So from your computer is an Idea.. Bring up the terminal or dos prompt, On Win10/11 press Windows Key and R together then type in box cmd, then at the dos prompt type arp -g and see if your cameras and NVR come up..
Setting a 5xxx series to Bridge mode would remove the NVRs switch IP and all cameras that were connected to the Switch if on Static IP would need to be changed to DCHP or changed to meet your local lan ip.. Then NVR should reboot and then all things that would connect to the NVRs POE ports would be setup with your Routers IP range with your router as your Server only.. Not sure just making the change and doing a search would change anything..
IN the pictures below, I have a few cameras that are connected to 3 switches 1 in my Shed POE switch, one in my garage passes those cameras to the main switch in my house where I setup Vlans for other connected devices. My Arp as you can see they are all on 10.0.0.xx besides one of my POE NVRs does show the switch IP 10.1.1.1 but don't matter for this.. All of these cameras are connected to NVRs in my home.
Above I mention changing your camera Lan cable for your computers lan cable. Looking to see if the issue is maybe a vlan or something not working on its current connected port.. Can you log into your NVRs WebUI? Wifi camera from your computer can you log into the Cameas WebUI?
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Re: IP8M-2779E-AI wont connect to 16ch poe nvr! Help!
So as of now maybe to understand better what is going on. Download the Dahua IP Camera Tools and do a search of your network for your cameras. As you can see in the picture below I have moved one of my cameras that I have connected going to my 4116E-HS I know my other post said 4108E-HS that is on 10.0.0.218 IP and has the switch setup on 10.2.18.xxx and the cameras connected to the POE ports would reflect that IP address setup.. Anyway took my 2779E-AI camera that you are working with and moved it to one of my POE ports on my Lan Switch. As you see with Static IP setup that camera still has the IP of the switch and not my Local Lan. So that camera will now no longer show on the NVR because the front and back sides don't talk aka the local lan and the NVRs Switch Lan.. Anyway if you Download the Dahua Ip Camera tool and do a search and post a picture of your cameras it might show something that was missed and might bring light to why it isn't working?
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