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I have a Swann NVR8-7085. It came with 4 bullets and I have everything installed and working perfectly. I wanted to add 4 domes to the system but Swann only has PTZ domes, but since its for my house and a fixed dome is all I needed I opted out due to the cost. The tech on the phone with Swann told me any POE IP camera would work. So I ordered 2 Speco O2DP9 and two Speco ZIP2D's which are POE IP cameras. I was able to get them all set up on my PC with IP addresses, ping them and view them but they will not show up on the DVR. I called Swann's tech support and after a hour on the phone they said they couldn't help me. SO my question how do I get these to work, Im sure its just some setting. I tried setting the camera IP and port number in the NVR settings with no luck, restarts etc. I am figuring that I need to set the Speco camera to pretend its a SWANN camera? Options I have; IP subnet, gateway, dns1, dns2, mac address, web port and rtsp port options with the SPECO software. I'm just not familiar with this stuff enough to figure it out. Installing it all and wiring it was a cinch but I'm stumped. I figure it has to be doable since I can see them and ping them. Thanks in advance.

It is sad Well after all my googling and many request to SWANN I don't think there is a option. SWANN only has PTZ domes for like $1200 each that will for sure work with this NVR. The SPECO cams which are much better quality and 1080p are $200 each so I think SPECO will be what I am going to use. They have good quality NVR's and much better camera options. Plus I was told by SWANN that "The NVR that you have uses a proprietary connection that is not compatible with any other known cameras." So I'm SOL. Erk, no. This is incorrect as well. Did the newbies tell you this too? The *only* cameras that are supported for use with the 7085 NVR are the NHD-805 and NHD-806. Absolutely no domes in our HD range are supported as they are all 1080p cameras and not compatible (or SDI). Ah so I was misinformed twice by your company, once that I could use any IP Poe cam and that SWANN had a PTZ dome that would work with this system. JUNK!

It is sad Well after all my googling and many request to SWANN I don't think there is a option. SWANN only has PTZ domes for like $1200 each that will for sure work with this NVR. The SPECO cams which are much better quality and 1080p are $200 each so I think SPECO will be what I am going to use. They have good quality NVR's and much better camera options. Plus I was told by SWANN that "The NVR that you have uses a proprietary connection that is not compatible with any other known cameras." So I'm SOL.

Just in case anyone was wondering or finds this; SWANN will not give out the settings on the cameras because "they are not the manufacture and do not have that information". They don't care to make a customer happy either. I have complained to 3 employees that I was miss led information that persuaded my purchase. Now seeing it is passed the 30 day return policy I can't return the camera system or the SPECO cams. So I have $1600 in a system that I can only partly use. I will just go with a SPECO NVR and bullets instead and take the SWANN system to the range and see how it holds up to that. SPECO is a much better manufacture anyway. We have the intensifier series at the office and they are amazing!

So there is no way to get other IP Poe cams to work on this DVR? Can you just give me the settings for the swann cams so I can try. I have a lot of money sitting here and would never have purchased the swann system if I wasn't told by a swann tech it would work. I replied to your PM with the ticket #.

SWANN says there 1080p cams wont work with my NVR8-7085 because its 720p? I will reduce the SPECO's to 720p and see if that will work. Are there any other camera manufactures that will work with the SWANN? Thanks for the help!

I called SWANN and asked them if they offered one and they said no fixed only a PTZ cam. I asked a level 2 tech if he could give me the info on the cameras so I could program the SPECO's to the same spec and he said "no". If I understand right NVR's are just a router. Shouldn't I be able to set the port on these cams to match and set to DHCP and they fire up? Or is there more to this? I googled ONVIF since I hadn't heard of it, should it matter if I can set the cams to SWANN's?

Found this page and site searching on Google. I have a Swann NVR8-7085. It came with 4 bullets and I have everything installed and working perfectly. I wanted to add 4 domes to the system but Swann only has PTZ domes, but since its for my house and a fixed dome is all I needed I opted out due to the cost. The tech on the phone with Swann told me any POE IP camera would work. So I ordered 2 Speco O2DP9 and two Speco ZIP2D's which are POE IP cameras. I was able to get them all set up on my PC with IP addresses, ping them and view them but they will not show up on the DVR. I called Swann's tech support and after a hour on the phone they said they couldn't help me. SO my question how do I get these to work, Im sure its just some setting. I tried setting the camera IP and port number in the NVR settings with no luck, restarts etc. I am figuring that I need to set the Speco camera to pretend its a SWANN camera? I have IP, subnet, gateway, dns1, dns2, mac address, web port and rtsp port options with the SPECO software. I'm just not familiar with this stuff enough to figure it out. Installing it all and wiring it was a cinch but I'm stumped. I figure it has to be doable since I can see them and ping them. Thanks in advance, hope this isn't thread jacking since the same system topic and a old thread.