12/21/2023 0 Comments Half of nightowl cameras not working![]() ![]() ![]() "Īfter learning a fuckTon of lingo on this site, I was able to figure out how to Use Blue Iris with amcrest/Dahua products. the Nightowl cameras worked and the App connected nicely, and my Non-engrish speaking part of the family can use the phone App and go" look a car. When i swapped the DVR to an Amcrest, as a test. Turns out the NightOwl app was the culprit on mine. Yeah, thats how my Journey started, out in a garage with cable drops and a Cat5e cable to the router/switch and a rage inducing piece of shit from Costco. Then you will have to go into each camera and manually assign it an IP address and user password and then add camera in BI and type in the IP address and username and password and then find/inspect and let BI do its thing. In that case you will need to put your cameras on POE switch instead of connected to the NVR. If you cannot pull the cameras into BI, then that probably means it is a proprietary system. OR depending on your NVR, it may populate all the cameras in the main and substream pulldown boxes and you just select a camera number and then add another camera and select the next pulldown. Then add camera and the select copy and copy this camera and then change the number 1 to a 2 and repeat for your cameras. Then about halfway down is a pull down for Camera number and pick camera 1 and then hit ok. Put in username and password and hit find/inspect and let BI do its thing. In BI, you select add camera and put the IP address of the NVR into the IP address location. You may be able to use your NVR and feed the cameras right from the NVR into BI. Well BI does have a 14 day free demo trial, not that it matters now.īut it won't find them behind an NVR as the NVR essentially acts as a firewall and those cams would be on a different subnet than your internet. I see the NVRs on the store, but don't recognize the brand, but believe it's a rebrand of a good manufacturer. So after sitting here in a rage because I have to go stand on a stepladder in the garage to find out where my missing mail might be (the recording refuses to play) I'm wondering if I need to upgrade the NVR, the laptop software, or both. I tried upgrading the CAT5 from the NVR to the wifi with a CAT7 and it didn't change. I can go out to the garage and play everything from the NVR, but that means standing on a stepladder. Some cameras will replay 100% all the time, certain others maybe 50% of the time, others somewhere in between. The EZVIZ app on my laptop has no problem replaying motion recordings if it's a random car driving past, but whenever there's an important recording I really want to see, it jams up and times out- will not play. 30 foot Cat5 run from the NVR into the house to the wifi router. Current setup is EZVIZ NVR in the garage, cameras connect there. ![]()
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