Hi, i'm new to this forum and wanted some advice regarding HIKVISION NVR's. I've installed 4 channel hikvision NVR's in the past where i've connected hikvision PoE cameras directly to the NVR's and they work fantastically well and very reliable. I like how you have the option to pre and post record on motion detection. I'm looking to do a much bigger installation with 30plus cameras. I noticed that HIKVision do a 32Channel NVR. My question is, do the channels on the NVR's determine the max cameras the NVR supports? For example do all the cameras have to be plugged in to the NVR PoE ports? or lets say if I had a 4 channel NVR and I connected a single ethernet to 1 of the 4 ports of the NVR and the other end of that Ethernet lets say was uplinked to a seperate 24port PoE switch, could I connect the cameras to that external PoE switch? If so, how many cameras will the NVR detect?
I'm assuming if this works, it's probably still not advisable to use a 4 port one to run more than X cameras because the NVR must have it's processing limits. Like a 32Channel NVR surely will have much more processing power right?
Thanks
I'm assuming if this works, it's probably still not advisable to use a 4 port one to run more than X cameras because the NVR must have it's processing limits. Like a 32Channel NVR surely will have much more processing power right?
Thanks