I have a Dahua IP camera and I had a lot of trouble getting it to work. I thought it was broken. It is with a tech right now and it looks like it is working fine actually.
But I couldn't see it on my LAN. I couldn't connect with it. Couldn't find it with IP scanners and such.
And here's the point: neither the vendor nor a tech could tell me something to do to definitively test if it was working or not.
And right now he's testing it on his LAN, not with any special testing rig.
So I wonder just how easy would it be to build something that would plug into the IP camera's Ethernet output and know that it was apparently working fine? Just from voltage testing even, without a video.
Or would it even be simple to convert something - smartphones? - so's the output from the camera could display on them?
Just anything. You see the thing doesn't even have a LED to indicate it is powered up. So my first hassle started right there - I was sure it wasn't even getting powered up.
But I couldn't see it on my LAN. I couldn't connect with it. Couldn't find it with IP scanners and such.
And here's the point: neither the vendor nor a tech could tell me something to do to definitively test if it was working or not.
And right now he's testing it on his LAN, not with any special testing rig.
So I wonder just how easy would it be to build something that would plug into the IP camera's Ethernet output and know that it was apparently working fine? Just from voltage testing even, without a video.
Or would it even be simple to convert something - smartphones? - so's the output from the camera could display on them?
Just anything. You see the thing doesn't even have a LED to indicate it is powered up. So my first hassle started right there - I was sure it wasn't even getting powered up.