3.6.1 Camera Management

Step 1. Add camera.

Method 1. Add camera through Device Search interface. ‘Camera’→‘Device Search’.

1. Select IP Range, NIC and Protocol, which includes ALL, ONVIF and MSSP.

2. Click button to search cameras at the same LAN with NVR.

3. Select one channel, click button, input password and click button to finish.

4. Check to batch adding the network cameras if they are with the same password, you can choose TCP, UDP or Auto transport protocol for it. Click to finish batch adding.

MSSP: You can search out all Milesight cameras which have different network segment in the LAN.

Method 2. Add camera through camera management interface. ‘Camera’→‘Camera Management’.

Select channel ID, input complete information, then click [Add] button.

There are three protocols available for camera connection:

• ONVIF: You can add any ONVIF IP cameras with ONVIF protocols.

• RTSP: You can add any IP cameras with RTSP protocol streams (Port: 554). It needs you to input complete resource path of the IP camera to add it. Take Milesight device for example, the resource path of main stream is “rtsp://IP:port/main” and secondary stream is “rtsp://IP:port/sub”. The length of RTSP can be up to 128 bits.

• MSSP:You can add Milesight cameras which are in the same LAN with MSSP protocol.

• Milesight DDNS: You can add Milesight cameras via Milesight DDNS. After enabling DDNS on Milesight camera and selecting “ddns.milesight.com” as provider, you can add the camera via the Domain Address “ddns.milesight.com/MAC address”.

You can add offline cameras to Milesight NVRs by method2. As long as the device information you fill in is correct, NVR will determine whether the device is connected and update the camera status automatically.

Step 2.Check the connection status.

After adding the IP channels, click button on Camera Management interface, then appears under Status.

If it shows the icon, users can move the mouse to the corresponding icon in the status bar to check the reason for the disconnection.

Step 3.Configure camera.

Configure one camera

After successfully adding the camera, click to re-edit the channel info.

Go to Parameters page to re-edit parameters of this channel, select the Record Stream Type as General or Event to set different parameters separately. It is recommended to set lower parameters for General Stream to save certain storage. Click [OK] to save after your configuration.

Batch configuring camera

Click , select multiple channels and set parameters of cameras.

Step 4. Delete camera.

You can delete this channel by clicking , or you can select multiple devices and then click to delete.

Step 5. Configure PoE Channel(Only for PoE NVR)

1. Connect Milesight camera to PoE port, it will detect the camera automatically.

2. If the camera's password is the same with NVR admin password, it will be successfully authenticated and be changed into the same network segment with internal NIC IPv4 address, then the camera will be connected successfully.

3. If the camera's password is different with NVR admin password, the PoE channel will show disconnect status. You need to input the camera's password by clicking to realize authentication ( you can also multi-select the devices and then click this button). Then the camera will be changed into the same network segment with internal NIC IPv4 address and will be successfully connected. Next time, NVR will use the password you input to authenticate this camera when you re-plug it.

4. You can access tocameras website directly by clicking, which can save much steps to configure cameras with complete settings which were unavailable.