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Those should give you a visual example of what I mean - notice how the main switch is acting as the central hub of everything instead of the NVR? That's the key to understanding this. You can see an example of that in this network diagram (Or if you want to see my own cam network, which is a bit more elaborate, you can see that here). The other option, what I call power user mode, is to separate the cameras from the NVR and place them somewhere else on your LAN, powered by an alternate method (usually a PoE switch).There are also some things that, due to the nature of their NVR OS, just do not exist through the NVR, and likely never will. Another way of thinking of it is that the cam no longer has a brain of its own, it's now just a dumb lens with the NVR being the brains behind it. So you lose any features that that camera has, but the NVR has yet to receive updates for (which I go over down below). One of the disadvantages to this is that the cameras themselves get new firmware and new features faster than the NVRs do, and the way Reolink's OS works is that when a camera is plugged directly into an NVR, the NVR overrides the cam's settings and features. This works just fine, it's nice and simple. The traditional setup is when you have an NVR and all of your cameras are connected directly into the NVR.To set this up, let's go over exactly what I'm talking about by examining the two scenarios. However, I ended up having to link new folks to that comment so often that Reolink admins asked me to just make it into its own post, so here we go. Any of you that visit here with any regularity are probably aware of all this and are probably sick of me bringing it up. Several months back I made a comment on a post where I explained the advantages of running your cameras off of a PoE switch on the same LAN as your NVR as opposed to directly off of the NVR. So please don't be afraid to make a new post, even if you think it's a simple question.Īnyway, back to your regularly scheduled programming. I was doing too much 1 on 1 support when this should be a community effort. That is also why I have turned off the ability for people to send me chat requests. I don't mind answering questions, but I don't want to be the only one doing so.

There are a lot of other regulars on this sub that are knowledgeable as well, and more eyeballs on a discussion is always a good thing. Second, when a question is asked here it's very unlikely that anyone is going to see your question other than myself. So if you have a question look through the comments here first. First, there are 127 comments here, so most questions that can be asked about it, have been asked and answered already. If you have any questions about this method, please make a new post on the subreddit.

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UPDATE : I will be locking comments on this post soon.