Another update:
The vendor is working with Dahua and have replicated the problem on their new shipment of units. Supposedly gonna be a software fix (in the NVR it appears), and it sounds like it might be ready. I'll let you know how it works out. I might pick up the tester later, this is really the only poe device I have. I was thinking though it would be nice later to just find a small touchscreen that runs off POE and mount an interface in the house where you could bring up cameras if you heard something outside etc, but nothing id be looking at doing right now.