Has anyone tried adding additional cameras on to this system? was thinking of using an 8 port POE switch and adding 5 extra cameras to the system.
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I don't think that will work. The system allows for only 4 cameras to be seen at a time. Poe switch provides only power not video. Thank you.
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I ordered a bunch of these camera, it did not come with the cameras. Use white electrical tape and neatly wrap the connection. If you are doing POE, you will need to wrap the 12v power connection. I searched for 20 mins online and could not find anything made for these cameras that was a factory boot solution.
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If you can, try it on another poe device. It could still be the poe card in the camera has failed... you could also pin out the cat5 cable to check the supply voltage.
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Hello I have a 4 Channel system POE as of now. I bought two of the wireless cameras as additional after receiving information from Zmodo that they will integrate with My NVR. I was misinformed. The Cameras worked great with the Zsight app however they cannot communicate with the NVR and record since it is channel specific and I was using all 4 channels. You can only record the eight channels you have. If however you have channels available they may work ok. Hope this helps.
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My three video cameras using POE ports; 210 feet, 110 feet, and 75 feet + other non POE devices, Have not had a problem with this unit, very reliable.
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As long as your max power draw per camera does not exceed your POE switch/injectors.. then yes, you can mix and match whatever you wish. In my network, I have Dihaua, Foscam's, and Axiom Cameras all mixed on the same POE "fabric" with no problems.
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Here is a POE solution.. "PoE Injector/Splitter" I just ordered 2, seems to have good reviews, if it works then no need to worry about getting cameras with POE anymore...And it is really inexpensive... Under $7 Prime! Item: B00DZLSRJC http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DZLSRJC/
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Larry L., I am almost sure you cannot. Being this is an IP switch, each device is going to get an IP address. Also, if you are using PoE, Not sure how this would work. THEORETICALLY (and I am stretching my knowledge-base), you ca have another switch at the far end and have the cameras plugged into that. But I believe there is a 1:1 relatioship for PoE port to Cameras... I'll be interested in finding out if it does work though!
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While I suspect that a wide variety of NAS/NVR would work, I used Dahua's NVR 8 channel with POE for 4 of these cameras.I added a Western Digital 4 TB Green SATA III 5400 RMP WD40EZRX hard drive and the cameras are plug and play.These cameras are fantastic and you can connect them individually to a network but with the Dahua NVR I used,plugging the camera into the poe port bypasses the individual camera setup process. The NVR also alloweda single pinhole in my internet gateway to provide viewing all of the cameras on my android phone--anywhere.
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Hi Scott, Well, after installing several of the cameras, I have found the picture quality lacking in general. I installed with both the cables they supplied as well as serpentine POC coaxial cable in some areas rather than what they supplied due to distances I needed to run lines, and both are not good pictures. These are being used in a church environment, and we have a lot of interference from wireless devices and networks, so possibly affecting things here. May be a component/driver strength issue or an interference issue...not sure If using for home/smaller office, it may perform better. As for our environment, I am migrating to network based POE box cameras since DVR's have just not worked that well, and we've had numerous. I have had to replace them pretty much annually...hard drive crashes, firmware problems, power/fan problems, etc. Have only had this one a few months, so no problems thus far. Long range costs are just not worth replacing DVRs so often for our purposes any more. Sorry don't have better answer for your specific question.
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The switch seems to handle the three POE ip cams i have installed just fine. "foscams" Which cameras are you going to use? I also have Blue IRIS insalled on a PC. Blue Iris does a decent job at managing the cameras, but i have noticed that performce is weak when trying to do continues recording from 3 cameras. Some of that may be the pc im using but i am unwilling to invest in a new computer for just the purpose of running the cameras. There is not a lot of documentation with the software and its not very intuitive. I have 4 total and it will work with a wide verity of cameras. I dont have any experience with NVR's. I have looked into them but they seem pretty pricy. If you have not bought any cameras or equipment yet, I would strongly point you in the direction of CCTV systems. You can easily get a system for the same cost of buying 4 POE cameras. I wish someone had told me this before i got started. You will still be required to pull the cable to cameras either way. I think the upside with CCTV would be that the dVR is doing all the recording continusly. They do a great "Superior" job at what they are designed to do. PC based systems are kind of shakey at this price point. In most cases you can record up to two weeks worth at a time, with several cameras with a DVR system and have alerts sent and motion triggers. I have seen the difference in between my setup and two different CCTV systems. One of them "lorex" and the second "swan" If I had it to do all over again i would go with CCTV. Id buy a 4 camera set with a dVR with room to expand up to 8 cameras. I started with one camera and now have four. Its good to have room to grow. Just FYI I have seen a 4 camera setup with 4, 700 lines of resolution cameras for less or close then what your going to spend on POE. One last note you will also be able to remote monitor with your smart phone or web browser just like using POE and Blue Iris. More info then you wanted I know, but just my 2 cents!
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I just received my DS-7608NI-SE/8P in October 2014, build date says 130620 (June 20, 2013?). I plugged a Hikvision DS-2CD2032-I camera into each of the 8 ports using only a network cable, one at a time of course, video came up on each channel. This box does indeed have POE on ALL 8 ports!
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I have 2 of these cameras already installed and they work great. I was thinking about adding an additional camera, and want to know how do I connect the new camera to the two other cameras for AC power?
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Thank you for your question. You can only have 1 monitor synched to the 4 cameras. Additional monitors can not be added. We recommend adding additional cameras, not systems, as running more than 1 system may cause interference.
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Yes, but not using the conventional, ratified IEEE protocol. This camera pack comes with an injector for each camera, which has to be powered individually. Ubiquiti also sells their ToughSwitch PoE, which is a 5 port gigabit PoE switch. I didn't purchase it but I did use the injectors, which work fine. A little annoying when I have a perfectly good IEEE 802.3af compliant switch.
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Cameras that accept power over ethernet connect to POE. I would make sure the camera you are using is POE before connecting. The LAN side plugs into a switch or router.
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Yeah. If you had a non-PoE camera you would want a splitter to split thet data from the power since you would power it with a wall wart or something besides CAT 5/6. If your switch does not provide PoE to the camera you can use a PoE injector to provide power and data to the camera and back to your DVR or whatever. Hope this helps.