jono80

Thanks for confirming Tony - I will probably end up bring each camera back on a separate VLAN and using 3x PoE / camera ports into the main switch each with a different camera / VLAN. Not too bothered about switch ports as it's only 3x cameras but yeah shame it's not a bit more flexible. Thanks again for your response. Jonathan

Hi All, We have the Dahua DH-NVR7816, there are 3 IP Cameras connected to the built in PoE switch ports, we need to plug in another 3 IP Cameras at a back office, these IP cameras are connected to a separate PoE switch. To connect the back office IP cameras can I plug the back office PoE switch into one of the PoE ports on the NVR54-16P or do I have to use the network port? 3x IPC --> Separate PoE switch --> NVR54-16P (PoE port) is what I want to do but I'm only seeing one camera when I do this, I didn't have much time to look into it but will try again next week. I want to use the inbuilt PoE port as an uplink because I can keep the cameras isolated from the rest of the network and leave the network port free for users to connect to for viewing the NVR. Thanks, Jonathan