Stevolution2025
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So, I have a 216M-A/8P 16 channel HIK NVR. I appear to only actually have 10 channels available to use (cannot add camera 11). It says 10 when I log into the NVR webpage.
I am assuming this is due to limitations of the camera resolution? If I lower it, then do I get the extra channels back? (on medium resolution at the moment).
Anyway....
The internal NVRs IP is factory set at 192.168.254.1.
3 of the NVRs ports are directly connected to HIK cameras. These are set to 192.168.254.10, 192.168.254.11, and 192.168.254.12.
The LAN port is connected to the house router, as is an 8 port POE switch alongside the NVR.
In this switch there are the other 7 cameras. These are set to the house network (192.168.1.##). The NVR sees them fine.
Camera 10 is an ANNKE camera that is the only camera using ONVIF (works fine). All the rest use HIKvision (because they are all HIK cameras).
So, my plan was to move the 8 port POE switch onto the NVR and re-address all the cameras to be on the 192.168.254.## network and get them off my household network.
To start off, I re-addressed the Annke camera to 192.168.254.50 and plugged it into one of the spare 5 POE ports on the NVR. It powered up, but the NVR just refused to find it.
Manually adding, auto adding - neither worked. The POE port showed as powered, but no settings worked (HIK, ONVIF etc).
Camera was definitely set correctly (default gateway was the 254.168.254.1 as the NVR states - I checked the IP settings against the working HIK cameras).
Any ideas why it can be seen on the house network and not seen on the NVR directly?
I read in here its not simply a case of plugging the switch into a POE port on the NVR (turning off the POE supply on the port feeding the switch)... it needs much more setting up than that.
I thought that as long as all 10 cameras were set to individual IP addresses on the internal network, it would have found them.
Ideally, I want all 16 cameras, but lots of faffing around never got the full 16 channels to appear. Maybe its time to just buy a new NVR and go from there
So, I have a 216M-A/8P 16 channel HIK NVR. I appear to only actually have 10 channels available to use (cannot add camera 11). It says 10 when I log into the NVR webpage.
I am assuming this is due to limitations of the camera resolution? If I lower it, then do I get the extra channels back? (on medium resolution at the moment).
Anyway....
The internal NVRs IP is factory set at 192.168.254.1.
3 of the NVRs ports are directly connected to HIK cameras. These are set to 192.168.254.10, 192.168.254.11, and 192.168.254.12.
The LAN port is connected to the house router, as is an 8 port POE switch alongside the NVR.
In this switch there are the other 7 cameras. These are set to the house network (192.168.1.##). The NVR sees them fine.
Camera 10 is an ANNKE camera that is the only camera using ONVIF (works fine). All the rest use HIKvision (because they are all HIK cameras).
So, my plan was to move the 8 port POE switch onto the NVR and re-address all the cameras to be on the 192.168.254.## network and get them off my household network.
To start off, I re-addressed the Annke camera to 192.168.254.50 and plugged it into one of the spare 5 POE ports on the NVR. It powered up, but the NVR just refused to find it.
Manually adding, auto adding - neither worked. The POE port showed as powered, but no settings worked (HIK, ONVIF etc).
Camera was definitely set correctly (default gateway was the 254.168.254.1 as the NVR states - I checked the IP settings against the working HIK cameras).
Any ideas why it can be seen on the house network and not seen on the NVR directly?
I read in here its not simply a case of plugging the switch into a POE port on the NVR (turning off the POE supply on the port feeding the switch)... it needs much more setting up than that.
I thought that as long as all 10 cameras were set to individual IP addresses on the internal network, it would have found them.
Ideally, I want all 16 cameras, but lots of faffing around never got the full 16 channels to appear. Maybe its time to just buy a new NVR and go from there
