JamesBonham

Hi there. New to this forum so hello all I have recently installed a nice CCTV system at a new build. Contains 6x IP8332 VIVOTEK camera's and nice 8 POE Switch and a very powerfull PC to handle the camera's. Before the house was done i managed to get 4 cameras loaded and working perfectly fine recording motion and the like. But Since the house is done and i have added the last two camera's i have had an issue. Only one of the cameras is working, and i cant get the Installation Wizard 2 to work. I start it up and it informs me that there is no internet (fine becase there is not) and that it will manual set up. SO then it closes the page and then a box pops up saying: DRM FAILER... I click ok and the box vanished and nothing... So im at the point that i cant set the IP of the other 5 cameras and check the connections because i cant get IW2 to work. Without it i cant get the cameras in the program to use them. Does anyone have any experiance with this software? its kind of useless at the moment. Or is there any other software that i can use? many thanks james

Hello people. Its all sorted now. The problem i was faced with was the fact the PC had set its ip to 169.168.137.1 / 255.255.0.0 The SMC Router im useing is 192.168.2.10 So i forced the PC to an IP of 192.168.2.50 / 255.255.255.0 This seems to have solved the DRM fail notice and works. One issue i have found is that the Cameras seem to change there IP even though i have set them to a specific IP in each cameras settings.... I will pop back tomorrow and resstart the PC and see if it boots up fine with the correct IP's. i must thank you all for the help given

Im on my way over to the location of the cctv setup now. WIll report back my progress. Im takeing a Wifi Dongle so i can tether my mobile with the pc for the internet will see if it fixes the problem. if not then its the Other thing i shall do that has been said

Hi there. Thankyou for the quick replys to my problem! If i was actually able tp find them in my routers interface (of it has one?) and or i use the program to find the Ip's will i just simply be able to use the VIVOTEK software and input the Ip's and it detect them? If im on the right track it just needs the IP to find it? I will give it a go when i get back to the site where the cameras are will report back within the next 72 hours.