gedster314

Hello, I have a HikVision DS-9016HQHI-SH that has 2 network ports. Network Port 1 is the office network (10.x.x.x) and Network port 2 is the IP camera network (192.x.x.x). I installed 6 additional Hikvision IP cameras. When I put my laptop on the 192 network switch, I have no issue accessing my cameras. I try to add the cameras to the DVR/NVR, it can't find them. I did setup both network ports with appropriate ip address for their network. Any ideas, I would rather not put the IP cameras on the office network? I have a 4 channel encoder on the office network that I was able to ad ip cameras from. I can't imagine wanting cameras on a different network would be overlooked by hikvision. Thanks

Depends how many you have. If you have 4, Hikvision makes a nice encoder that's about $250. I access it with Hikvision's software and have it store video on a HikVision DVR\NVR but I can easily get it to store on an NFS share or SD card. Most encoders have a max resolution of WD1, not quite 720p, at least the ones I saw. The Encoders I have seen only use one ip address and it is up to the software/hardware you are using to figure out the device has X number of cameras on that IP address. Not sure how some software packages deal with camera licensing and encoders. HikVision makes a 16 channel encoder for around $700-1000 dollars but you can get cheap DVRs for that. HDView on Amazon sells a 16 analog DVR + 16 ip system for about $600. HDview just relabels chinese models, not sure if the DVR I mentiioned is a Hikvision rebrand. I did buy 5 HDView compact ip dome cameras which are HikVision and they are working out great, the Hikvision NVR treats them just like Hikvision cameras. HDView support has been good through email. I like them because their office and warehouse are in Los Angeles. I can buy on Amazon and have it next day. I just bought the HikVision Turbo 16 channel + 18 channel IP that holds 8 drives, $1200(drives extra). I was surprised to find that some of the cameras at a location were better than I thought, must have been limited by the old DVR. Software is a little buggy when you have dead cameras active on it, had a view crashes. Disabled the dead channels and it has been working like a champ. The dead channels will be sorted out shortly, just old bad cables. As for replacing old cameras with IP, as one old camera dies, I put in a HikVision Turbo Bullets. With the new DVR the 2M pixel 1080p, they look great. If your cabling is still in good shape, don't be in a rush to go to IP cameras. If people are price sensitive, I have no problems suggesting going analog with TVI.

Sounds like you need to get some field experience. That's similar to what I say to people when they ask me how to start in the IT field. Get a basic cert for hardware and cert for network/security and dive in. With the network and security certs that should get you out of helpdesk hell. But yeah, nothing beats actual hands on in the trenches. I few of the bigger suppliers in my area offer product training for new products. They'll have like a HikVision (substitute manufacturer) day with a bbq for free. Google for suppliers in your area and check their websites or maybe call them and see if they offer any product training.

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I got volunteered to trouble shoot a sister company's camera system. Complaint is that Video Insight is not recording to their NAS. When the system was pitched, it was supposed to record to the internal drives and then roll over to the NAS. As far as I can tell, Video Insight is just configured through IPServer to store on the internal 14TB raid. The Nas is setup as a third drive on the host computer but there is no place to add another storage location to the ipserver. It appears that VI has never touched the NAS and this NAS has been spinning unused for a few years. In looking through the camera setup, Video Insight will allow me to point each camera to a different storage location but when I test it on one camera it does not store to the new drive. The server does have permission to right to the drive, I have no problems pushing items to the drive. The manual is useless in regards to using multiple storage locations. The system is a mix of ip cameras and analog cameras going through encoders. Combined there are about 40 cameras. Currently don't have passwords to the encoders, so storage routing will have to be done on the VideoInsight server. Any suggestions?

I'm an independent IT contractor. One of my clients has an exacqVision system. Their's isn't a VM but a standalone server running a very old version of Ubuntu. I imagine the VM is the same install but virtualized. I was not involved in the purchase of the system but have played with it and had to trouble shoot some of the Ubuntu configs. It does appear the software is free but anything above recording one camera requires a license for each camera. That seems to be the current trend from what have seen but I'm new to the Security Camera business, just getting involved because the client asked, seems no one on site even knows how to use the system, I get calls to pull videos, occasionally go in swap out drives, fix/replace cameras along with their other IT needs. Seems like an ok system, except for the old Ubuntu distro. It's not on the web and is just for internal use so why update the OS if it works with the hardware.