I am the manager of a retail store that has a security system. When I took over this position, all manuals for said system were lost. It is a DVR system, but has no monitor. It does have ethernet ports on the back of it, and from what I have read it can be accessed via networking or the internet. I would be interested in doing both, but I have NO IDEA how to go about it. I requested the manual from their technical support, but all they sent me was a PDF file that had absolutely no information regarding networking.

I just wanted to come here to see if anyone had any experience with connecting to a security system.

The unit is a SDVR-4-80, SS2. Part # 0110-D504-Y7.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

6/4/2010 5:56:01 PM

plug its ip address into a browser, see if anything happens

6/4/2010 7:24:15 PM

plug it up to your router, log into the router and see what it's IP address is, type that address in on another computer on the same network. Hopefully it just has a straight HTTP server and no funny port business.

6/4/2010 7:24:40 PM

^^ I don't have the ip address, so I was just about to ask how to get it

then ^ answered my question before I asked it. I will try that out tomorrow when I get back to the office.

^ follow up: do I have to move the router back there, or is there a way I can hook it directly to a laptop and find the IP?

[Edited on June 4, 2010 at 7:47 PM. Reason : a]

6/4/2010 7:46:56 PM

If you hook it directly to your laptop you can try statically assigning yourself an IP from some of the common ranges.

192.168.1.0
192.168.2.0
10.10.1.0

Then use angry ip scanner to check for ICMP responses throughout the entire range.

http://www.angryip.org/w/Home

factory reset procedures for most DVRs are pretty tough to find, unfortunately.

[Edited on June 4, 2010 at 7:59 PM. Reason : ]

6/4/2010 7:58:49 PM

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"^^ I don't have the ip address, so I was just about to ask how to get it"

easiest way is to get an IP scanner like ^ suggested.. plug it in to whatever network you have at the office, run the scans, print out or write down what IP addresses come back as being taken. then unplug the DVR thing and do it again..whichever IP address is no longer giving a response is probably it.

or pay me to come do it

[Edited on June 4, 2010 at 8:09 PM. Reason : asfd]

6/4/2010 8:08:50 PM

^Yeah, this is definitely a better suggestion. For some reason I was thinking the DVR had never been plugged in or present on your network and set to some unknown static address.

If it's set to grab an IP from a DHCP server you could also snapshot your ARP table (depending on router), plug it in and take another look instead of using the IP scanner.

[Edited on June 4, 2010 at 8:24 PM. Reason : ]

6/4/2010 8:23:12 PM

Create a GUI interface in Visual Basic.

6/5/2010 7:46:29 AM

[Edited on June 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM. Reason : I've made a huge mistake ]

6/5/2010 7:46:29 AM

^^^ You are correct, it has never been plugged into a network.

And you are all speaking a language I do not understand

[Edited on June 5, 2010 at 10:21 AM. Reason : a]

6/5/2010 10:19:58 AM

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"Create a GUI interface in Visual Basic."

see if you can track an ip address

6/5/2010 4:56:53 PM

Enhance.

6/6/2010 2:08:02 PM

Close the port and run a trace.

6/6/2010 2:56:07 PM