#Nightowl dvr camera url install#
#Nightowl dvr camera url full#

Power up the cam, wait a full minute then launch the Fing app on your phone and scan your LAN, looking for the IP of the cam.Insure the PC is on a LAN port on your router.

#Nightowl dvr camera url install#

Download and install Blue Iris' demo on a Windows 8 or above PC.

If you do NOT have a POE switch but you do have a 12VDC 1 amp supply and the cam has a pigtail with the female that accepts the 12VDC plug, then power the cam that way and run an Ethernet cable from the cam to your router (NEVER use a POE switch or injector AND the 12VDC supply at the same time) do NOT power up the adapter just yet.

If you have a POE switch, leave it UNpowered, plug a Ethernet cable into the cam and run it to the POE switch, run another Ethernet cable from the POE switch to a LAN port on your router the intent is for the cam to obtain an IP via DHCP from your router.

Install the Fing app on your smartphone.

Since there are so many unknown and variables, I'd try this: Actually, the other issue is I think the cameras are NOT taking DHCP from the server so I can't even try most of these I know I can pass an RTSP link from an NVR connected Night Owl camera into iSpy/ZoneMInder as I've already got that working at some other sites through some of the other very helpful posts here, but can I do the same when the camera is NOT connected to the NVR and just sitting on a POE switch instead? Can't seem to figure out which port and stream link to use for a direct connection. They tell me to check Amazon and Walmart (LOL?), and try to pass me to Sales again. I ask again if they have another NVR unit that I can use my existing cameras with or if I just throw thousands of dollars worth of working equipment in the garbage because one piece is broken. They tell me it's impossible to access them via web browser (really?).

I ask Tech Round 2 if I can access the cameras via web browser without the NVR if I connect them to a POE switch (i.e, I just want to run BlueIris/iSpy/ZoneMinder from the location's on-site server).

Sales says there isn't a standalone NVR available and can't tell me if I can use my cameras with another one of their own products, so they send me back to Tech.

They completely ignore my questions about whether my cameras are compatible with one of their new NVR and just copy pastes a generic 'please contact sales to purchase a new one' message.

Technical support tells me the NVR is no longer available.

I want to keep using the cameras if possible, but Night Owl support, as you know, is completely useless and can't/won't give me any answers. So, I've got a broken Night Owl NVR-H5B-32 (stuck on Night Owl boot logo) and 16 cameras (CM-H54MPW-BU) at one of my offices.