How to manage a camera connected to an NVR

[rjonessoar]

I have IP2M-852E POE cameras, connected to the NV4116E-HS NVR.

Setting things up and getting them to work was mostly painless. My NVR is getting an IP from my router, and it is visible on my LAN, but I guess the individual cameras are served their own IPs on a subnet hosted by the NVR itself. This apparently means that I can access the web interface to manage my NVR, but I can't find any way to get to the web interfaces of the individual cameras. I would like to change the passwords on the cameras and also upgrade the firmware for the cameras, but I can't figure out any way to do that.

Do I need to unplug the cameras from the NVR and plug them directly into my router (or a switch on my LAN) in order to be able to manage them? If so, where are they supposed to get their power from when I do that, since these are POE cameras? It seems to me there must be a way to manage the individual cameras through the NVR...at least I hope there is! But for the life of me I haven't been able to figure out how.

Thanks in advance for any tips!

[jack7]

You could try this post.
https://amcrest.com/forum/technical-dis ... tml#p17519
In the Windows 10 search box, put internet explorer and search if you don't know where it is.
Or you could move your camera cables to a POE switch and connect it to your router, similar to what you described. Then you need to add them to your NVR.

[rjonessoar]

Thanks for the link to that thread...that is informative. I will try using Internet Explorer to access the cameras, and if that fails it looks like I need to get a POE switch to do the configuration and then move the cameras back to the NVR.