Change HikVision PoE Cameras to ONVIF?

[DrWFan]

My HikVision NVR stopped working (we had a power outage which seems to have blown the unit) so I decided to go with a different manufacturers NVR instead. However, I need to change the HikVision cameras to ONVIF mode.

I've tried following this advice, which doesn't work and found a bunch of other directions online which all say the same thing. Enter the IP address into the browser (I've tried Firefox, Chrome, and Bing) and all that happens is that it times out and won't connect. I'm obviously very new to this - is there anyone who can point out what I'm doing wrong please?

 

[Dan]

Hi @DrWFan

What model(s) are your Hikvision cameras?
Were the cameras directly connected to the PoE ports on the Hikvision NVR?

 

[DrWFan]

Hi Dan,

Camera model is 2CD2365G1-I
The cameras were directly connected to the PoE ports on the Hikvision NVR. They are still working as I have since connected the cameras to a PoE injector + Wi-fi router and checked them with the SADP tool (and changed the passwords).

 

[Dan]

Thanks @DrWFan

Do the cameras appear in SADP with IP addresses that begin 192.168.254.xxx?
When you log in to the new NVR, what IP address range is it using? (e.g. 192.168.1.xxxx / 192.168.0.xxx / 192.168.5.xxx / etc...)

 

[DrWFan]

Do the cameras appear in SADP with IP addresses that begin 192.168.254.xxx? Yes they do
When you log in to the new NVR, what IP address range is it using? 192.168.1.xxxx

 

[Dan]

Okay,

So the cameras are still using the NVRs subnet range (192.168.254.xxx) which are the IP addresses they are assigned when you activate the cameras via Plug & Play.

This subnet IP range is not visible from your local network IP range (192.168.1.xxx) which is why you can't log in directly to the cameras.

To login to the cameras you will need to use SADP to change the IP addresses to the local IP range (e.g. change 192.168.254.2 to 192.168.1.2 / 192.168.254.4 to 192.168.1.4 / and the same for all the cameras).

You also need to change the gateway address of each camera from the subnet gateway to your local network gateway (e.g. your router IP address - you can confirm your router/gateway address following these instructions).

Once those network details are changed you should be able to log in to the cameras and enable ONVIF.

 

[DrWFan]

Fantastic - thank you for those instructions.
I've managed to enable ONVIF for all the cameras. Still need to get them to connect to the new NVR (there is some kind of error) but that can be tomorrows job.

 

[Ben Bullen]

I'm trying to achieve the same result as this thread, but also having problems. I wonder if anyone can help please.

So I have a HikVision DS-7616NI-K2/16P NVR. I have seven cameras plugged directly into the back of this unit (via the PoE ports).
I am toying with the idea of getting rid of the NVR and replacing it with a Ubiquiti NVR instead as the rest of our "system" is already all Ubiquiti and, on the face of it, if the current gear/software is anything to go by, the UniFi NVR system will be amazing compared to the clunky Hikvision!

Anyway, that's a side topic I'm sure... What I need to try to find out is whether or not our current turret cameras can be changed over to ONVIF.

I've downloaded the SADP tool but the only thing that displays as a device is the NVR itself. No cameras.
If I log into the NVR and go to the config screen, I can see all the cameras listed and they are still under a subnet within the NVR itself. They are all working correctly as far as the NVR is concerned.

What do I need to do in order to get the cameras to appear in the SADP tool so that I can view/change their settings?

 

[chrisski]

I just hook the laptop or computer to a free port in my NVR and the cameras appear in SADP. Caneras Won't appear until the computer is physically plugged into the NVR, not the Router or WIFI.

I don't see an option in SADP to set to ONVIF, don't see it on my 10 year old NVR, but saw ONVIF option on my new NVR. Not sure if this new NVR setting is to receive in ONVIF or to program the camera to send ONVIF. Also, perhaps I need an update to my SADP program and that would let me set the ONVIF option.

Once you get SADP plugged in, you can get the model # of the camera and search for the spec sheet to see if it supports ONVIF.

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I am pretty new at this and plugged my 10 year HiKVision Vandal cameras into a Reolink NVR hoping the ONVIF format would work or not, and it would not link. Perhaps had I reset the HIKVision camera properly it would have connected. ONVIF is a standard that has been around since at least 2006, so I would think a camera would be capable of it.