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Hi I bought this system. I agree it is not the easiest to setup, after few days of hard work, i managed to get this to work reliably. I will share the following with you because I know how frustrating it can be when you spend hours trying to get something to work with no success. I hope this will help someone to avoid the hours of work I spent to get this to work. 1- I use external (outdoor) access point to ensure quality and reliability of images. Configure Access point with static IP address on the same network extension e.g 192.168.1.180 2- Connect all cams and NVR and Router using Ethernet switch 3- Open the software that came with NVR which you should have installed on a PC connected to the same router, preferably with an Ethernet cable, on config tab add the 4 cameras that appear on the network. You will see the devices added on the left side of software window. 4- Right click the devices one by one and Configure Wi-Fi on each camera to a static IP with gateway and DNS server being same IP as Access point. e.g Cam1 192.168.1.100 Cam2 192.168.1.101 Cam3 192.168.1.102 Cam4 192.168.1.103 Gateway 192.168.1.180 DNS server 192.168.1.180 Mask: 255.255.255.0 5- Once done, disconnect cables on cameras. On NVR menu, add IP cameras manually using the IP addresses you assigned to the cameras. 6- On motion detection menu, enable that for all 4 cams 7- On record menu. Select motion and then highlight the days and hours you need this function to be active for, the grids should all be filled with green if you want it to work 24/7. Make sure you copy that to all cams, or you can do it for each camera separately if you need the dates and times to be different for other cams. this way you NVR will only record when the cams detect motion. 8- To view remotely. Go onto network menu on NVR, at the bottom of window you will see your NVR ID number (m followed by numbers), click on that and enable p2p. 9- The NVR will reboot. now you can view remotely on any PC by going to www.dddns.org , install GKPlugins, enter your NVR ID and password, once logged in, tick all under digital channel on the left top corner of the window, you should see all the cams now. 10- To view on mobile device, open browser on your mobile device, and go to www.dddns.org/m , this will take you to the correct software to download. Once downloaded, configure with your NVR ID and password, when you click on the channel number the video stream will appear.