CCTV help

[winchman]

New house has a HKvision recorder thing and three cameras
I want to add a fourth
Current recorder thing has one more plug hole, cameras are POE which I believe is Power over Eathernet?
So how do I pick a camera and do I just plug it in?

 

[Anguz]

You will need sadp from their website

 

[winchman]

You will need sadp from their website

At the moment its just got the recorder box not sure it will allow me to down load anything?

 

[Anguz]

It's supposed to be plug n play but I have never got on with it doing that..... sapd allows you to set the ip address and passwords (if any) before you plug into the box
If yours is the same series machine as mine there is a lot of options within the menu's

 

[Anguz]

Sadp is windoze based

 

[Dev]

So how do I pick a camera and do I just plug it in

Maybe - if you plug in a hikvision, ezviz or hilook camera and your recorder is new enough it might detect it automatically and allow you to set it up but if it doesn’t then you use a windows program like sadp to configure it.

 

[finyuk2005]

I think i had to set up each camera individually, give it all its login and a fixed ip address etc, then it was easy enough to add it to the NVR, they are a bit of a fiddle to setup, but nothing too terrible

 

[knighty]

the box the cameras plug into... any numbers/model on it?

I'd be surprised if it's not just plug and play... cameras are plugged directly into it?

guessing it has another network cable to your router? can you view the cameras ok / playback recordings/change options etc. ?

 

[finyuk2005]

ah yeah, his might not be a network video recorder, maybe just standalone,
Mine just has one LAN connection, and all the cameras can plug in anywhere on the network and it finds them no bother

 

[Anguz]

mine has 17 lan sockets... one for network, and 16 for cameras... which can also be on the network side of things if you wish