nic12937

I assume you have probably figured this out by now but I was able to successfully configure 3 HIKVision cameras off 1 single port on the HIKVision NVR. We have an uplink cable from the NVR to a small POE TP-Link switch where 3 cameras are plugged in. I used the HikVision SADP tool to scan the network for cameras to determine they were indeed getting IP addresses from the NVR. In order to see these cameras from a laptop you must manually configure your ethernet adapter to be on the same network as the hikvision in my case it was 192.168.254.x. The port on the NVR "Adding Method" was configured to Plug-and-Play but I had an issue....the 3 cameras changed IP addresses ever 30 seconds. To fix this I changed the adding method to manual mode on the uplink port and the IP addresses stopped changing. These 3 cameras were accessible by web browser on the laptop which was plugged into the NVR and I manually added these cameras to available channels on the NVR with the IP addresses that I discovered with SADP.