The cameras did boot up with my newly made adapter 🚀, and I got the Dahua configuration tool running in a Windows virtual machine, but there was another problem: the configuration tool was unable to connect to the cameras, probably because someone had changed the default passwords. After a little cutting and soldering, the new power adapter for the cameras was ready to roll. I almost cut in half the 15V charger of an old IBM laptop to test frying the cameras with higher voltage, but luckily found another power adapter for some old Motorola device, which had 12V output. I looked into my graveyard of old electronics, found an ancient Nokia phone charger which plug matched the 12V extra input the cameras have - only that one gave out 5V instead of 12V. The only promising hint I found was from a Youtube video that suggested Dahua camera to be configured with the following parameters that would make them connect the Hikvision network:Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen modeĪs I did not have a regular PoE switch at hand, took my ladder and screwdriver, unscrewed the cameras and had them on the table trying to figure out how to power them up.
Oh boy, I could not have been more wrong! Those cameras did not just plug-and-play.Īs it turned out, the Dahua HFW-1300SP cameras were unable to connect to Hikvision NVR, no matter how I tried to configure them from the NVR.Įven though I figured out the name of the cameras after some googling - at first I thought the manufacturer was called "Alhua" 😂 -, I failed to find much help from the internet, almost every bit of information said I cannot connect the devices of those two manufacturers 😞. I thought that must be an easy way to get the cameras running, just plug in the devices, and should be ready to go. I knew this would require quite a lot of DIY work and maintenance, so recently went in the other supposedly simpler direction: bought a Hikvision DS-7600 Network Video Recorder. There were the cameras and the wiring in place, but nothing connected to them.Īs I have a Raspberry PI already constantly running Node-RED for my home automation, I had thought of buying a PoE switch, hooking the cameras to the Raspberry, and enabling the system with some kind of recording software.
The previous owner of my home had already installed surveillance cameras with power-over-ethernet support.
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