This is a follow-up posting where I will be adding 3 Hikvision cameras (all in different states) to my Hikvision NVR over my LAN or network.

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In this situation, my cameras’ cables terminate in a different location than where my NVR is located. I have a PoE switch in my basement where half of my network cables are terminated for my cameras. I want to keep my NVR in the garage, let’s say, where the other half of the cameras’ cables terminate. Make sure your NVR in plugged into your network through the LAN port. Make sure your NVR is on the same subnet as your network. If not, update the IP address and gateway to match your router’s subnet. This can be done here on the SADP screen on my PC or here in the NVR on the System > Network > TCP/IP Screen. In my case they are on the same subnet and can therefore communicate.

Here are the 3 Hikvision cameras I will be adding to my NVR:

  1. A Mini PTZ dome which has not yet be activated
  2. A standard dome which does not have the activation feature and but has been factory reset.
  3. Another standard dome which has a static IP address and port configured from when I used the recording software Blue Iris

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Let’s drop these onto my LAN and figure out how to access them through the NVR. Also, I’ll be using SADP on my PC in these examples. It’s a handy tool to manage the IP address of your cameras.

Let’s get the Mini PTZ plugged into my PoE switch.

  1. Here on the NVR, the cameras on my network are all detected on the Cameras screen when you click Custom Add. If your camera doesn’t show, click the Search button which actually does a refresh of the list.  But if I try to take that route to add the camera I get an error message saying “No more IP cameras allowed”.  There is even a message on the bottom of the screen indicating there is a number of devices unadded.  These are network cameras on my LAN and you would think that selecting a channel then selecting a camera would add the camera in that spot, but no, it’s a more challenging process.
  2. Activate the camera by selecting the unadded cameras link on the bottom of the screen.
  3. Select the Inactive Mini PTZ camera and click activate
  4. Give the device a new password or use the default camera activation password. There is a check box for Use Admin Password, but this is actually not the Admin Password for the NVR but the Camera Activation password you assigned earlier. It’s misleading.
  5. If you want to update the camera’s IP address, do it in SADP or you can do it here by clicking edit in this list followed by the password. I’ll update mine to keep all cameras on the same .0 subnet and unique to .155.
  6. Now to add the camera to a channel, click the edit button.
  7. Select the Manual adding method and enter the IP address followed by the password.
  8. That’s it, the NVR is now recording a LAN camera and using 1 of the 16 available channels on this device.

We will now add this older Hikvision camera over the LAN which does not have the activation feature. Again, this camera has been reset to factory settings as if it were brand new.

  1. On the NVR, if we try to add camera using the Add buttons, we get the “No more IP cameras allowed” error, so we have to follow the same process as before, just no activation this time.
  2. In the list on the bottom of the screen, update the IP address and ensure the camera is on the same subnet. The password is 12345. To change the password, you will need to log into the camera using the web user interface, like we did earlier.
  3. Then click the edit button on the channel where you want to add the camera and manually enter the IP address and password.

In this last scenario, I’ll add this dome camera to the NVR over the LAN, but this one has a static IP address and port from when I used it with Blue Iris.

  1. Let’s find it in the list on the bottom of the screen and note its IP address and port.
  2. Next, you guessed it, we’ll update an existing channel with this information.
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That covers adding these 3 cameras to my NVR over my network. Unfortunately, Hikvision does make it a little confusing with its wording and process when trying to add cameras. I hope this video has helped clear up some of the confusion around adding cameras which are on your local network. To check out where I picked up these cameras and NVR see my blog in the description below and be sure to like this video if you found it helpful and subscribe for my videos.

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