Hikvision Camera & NVR | From unboxing to Configurations | Add camera | Installation and power-up

 Today I will explain about Hikvision camera, NVR & Switch connectivity step by step.

Nowadays cameras, NVR & switch configurations are everywhere In Enterprise solutions like any office Network, Road Traffic signals, Shops, warehouses, banks, big malls &any other corporatesector.

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let me explain the Hikvision NVR DS-7700 Series and DS-2CD2163G2-I (2.8mm) 6MP camera model but almost the same procedures for any other Hikvision NVR & Camera model.

Camera model DS-2CD2163G2-I picture below

Below is the Box picture of the Hikvision NVR DS-7700 Series

NVR Front side picture:

NVR Back side picture:

There are two LAN-1 & LAN-2 ports, HDMI, Audio, alarm & one power port.

After power-up of NVR & connected the Camera to the POE port of the switch.

Let’s Start

There are two methods to activate the Hikvision POE camera

Method-1:

Camera connected through POE Adapter:

Method-2:

Camera connected through Switch:

After connectivity with any of the above methods now download & Run the SADP Tool.

The default IP of the Hikvision Camera is 192.168.1.64/24   assign 192.168.1.65/255.255.255.0 IP to your laptop to become in the same subnet.

Run the SADP tool will receive the Connected camera IP 192.168.1.64, click/check on the inactive camera

After clicking on the inactive camera first time, the menu will automatically open on the right side, you need to set the password as below picture

The default username is admin & the password you need to set for the first time.

 Then click on activate this way the camera will be activated.

Note: You can change IP Address as per customer requirement by clicking on modify on the top of SADP Tool or it will show the menu page on the right side to edit.

By changing the IP Address of the camera assign NVR IP as a Gateway.

After activating Camera now, you can access it through a Web browser by putting the camera IP Address.

Initialization of Hikvision NVR:

The same process will be followed for NVR initialization as connecting Laptop with NVR directly with the LAN port on the back side of the NVR but this time access through the Web browser directly or can be accessed through the SADP tool for changing the IP Address.

Access Hikvision NVR first time through the Web as below,

Set password & click on activate

Write Basic security questions & email id.

Now change the IP address of NVR by clicking on configurationàNetworkàBasic settings

Add Camera with NVR:

For adding the camera in NVR, the first important point is Both Camara & NVR must be connected with a switch & configure the laptop in the same Network.

In some NVR models, there are LAN ports we can connect the camera directly to NVR without a switch.

Below picture for reference

Now ping NVR & Camera IP from Laptop CLI.

Access NVR in the Web browser

Go-To configurations -> then Click System -> Camera management  -> Add

After clicking on add below a new page will be opened then fill in all option like the IP address & password you set for the first time

If you are interested in the configuration of Dahua, Huawei Camera, NVR & IVS, click the required tab under Camera & NVR.

In the Next post of the Hikvision section, we will cover how to connect & configure the Hikvision Face recognition terminal & Door access control system.

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