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Last year we sent a member of staff to get a stand alone ip camera that we could access over our network (needed in a hurry) he came back with a swann NHD-819 as recommended in the local maplin. I never got round to using it till now, and its crippled by its firmware i assume, it will only work with a certain swann nvr???

Is there any way to use this camera either on a network or with hikvision nvr or is it a paper weight?

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Hello. That camera model appears to be a high definition camera. So it would need to be connected to a high definition NVR or possibly a high definition DVR with a balun for the BNC connection. You can always check with Swann tech support.

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Last year we sent a member of staff to get a stand alone ip camera that we could access over our network (needed in a hurry) he came back with a swann NHD-819 as recommended in the local maplin. I never got round to using it till now, and its crippled by its firmware i assume, it will only work with a certain swann nvr???

Is there any way to use this camera either on a network or with hikvision nvr or is it a paper weight?

 

 

Hi yes it will .... why do you think there is a firmware problem ? Are you getting any image

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Because I cant find it at all on a network,

Swann tech support where no help at all, I phoned and asked for the login ip address user name and password and was basically told NO

So how do I access it?

At home I use a Hikvision ds 7616NI-SE/P great bit of cheap kit

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I'm trying to figure this out as well. Unfortunately, I'm not convinced so far that it's possible to connect one. So far, starting with a factory-reset SWNHD-819; camera connects / powers up over PoE and gets IP address (can see from router's DHCP client list). I then did an nmap scan of the IP which told me the following:

 

MAC Address: EC:71:--:--:--:-- (Shenzhen Baichuan Digital Technology)

OS details: Linux 2.6.32 - 3.10

Open ports: 9000/tcp

 

Port 9000 under IANA is something called cslistener which is nothing to do with CCTV/video. But only one open, so Swann must be doing something over this port. I tried all the usual streaming/MJEG URLs using ispyconnect to do this. It scans through a huge range of common rtsp / http stream locations (examples:http://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=swann#). No services found, no connections possible. However, even if a normal stream location may exist, I don't have any login details that may be required. Thus I can't tell whether I just need logins, or the stream locations don't exist and something proprietary is listening for Swann NVRs only over the connection.

 

I have a feeling Swann have gone down the completely bespoke route. I'm going to give them a ring as well, but I'm not holding out much hope at the moment.

 

Does anyone have Wireshark to intercept packets between an 819 and it's NVR (or any recent IP-Swann cam that communicates over port 9000 only)? This would help understand what's going on.

 

Edit: Old but useful thread elsewhere:

 

http://www.bensoftware.com/forum/discussion/838/swann-nhd-806-poe-camera-help/p1

 

Protocol over 9000 is completely proprietary on the 806. And my 819 doesn't have any other rtsp / onvif ports open like the 806; double checked with ODM (https://sourceforge.net/projects/onvifdm/). Damn.

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