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Posted: 10/2/2023 3:53:28 AM EDT
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My Reolink sys lasted a little over 5 years. The part that isn’t working is where all the poe cameras/ cat 6 cables plug in. None of the ports are lighting up. Can this be replaced or should I just buy a new nvr? Any help would be appreciated. |
| Try leaving it unplugged for 24 hrs. Mine got hit by lightning twice and had same symptoms both times. Left it unplugged while searching for new unit. Plugged it back as last chance try and has been fine for over a year. You must remove ether net wire from unit before powering it up again. |
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Originally Posted By chris50ae: Try leaving it unplugged for 24 hrs. Mine got hit by lightning twice and had same symptoms both times. Left it unplugged while searching for new unit. Plugged it back as last chance try and has been fine for over a year. You must remove ether net wire from unit before powering it up again. I run a WISP and we have 45+ towers, each have a POE switch at the base, then between 3 and 25 Radios (Back Hauls and Access Points) up on the tower. Often times a tower will get hit by lightning during a storm and it will fry just one or a few of the radios up on the tower, but thankfully, not everything. When this happens the switch would seem fried, but we unplug it's power and all the POE/Ethernet cables from it and let it sit a good few minutes. Then we re-apply power to the switch, let it boot up and stabilize. If it does, its probably not whacked. Then we plug in the Ethernet cables that go up the tower, one by one, each giving the radio time to boot and come up. When we hit a damaged one, the switch will flip out. So we unplug the switch power again and the suspect Ethernet and continue on down the path or reconnecting radios. Once we are done, we take a stand alone POE, go back and test the ones that caused a switch spaz out. Usually, either the radios or the cables took damage from the lightning and we replace just those. Something to try. Also, we have had switches where the POE Output of the switch died in a storm and we just cut small jumpers and went from the switch port to a POE Lan port, then from the POEs POE port up to the radio and proved that the switch still passed traffic as it should, just the POE portion was blown. So if that is your case, like chris50ae said, you could run a short ethernet jumper from the switch port to another POE switch, then the POE Cams off it. We've done that too... |
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It really depends on what cameras you have. If the cameras are ONVIF they will be compatible with 99% of any ONVIF NVR. Some cameras systems are proprietary and only work with their own combinations of equipment so you'll have to buy the same brand or even a specific model of NVR that is known to work the same cameras. When buying a whole new system, that's one consideration when shopping equipment /packages. If you have to replace a camera, or want add a camera, or need to replace the NVR, how difficult will it be later on? |
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I tried everything above and nothing worked. Amazon had them on sale yesterday and got a new nvr today. I’m not computer building savvy but I k ow I can use the hard drive from the old one and double my memory. It needs an esata cable. Anyone know which cable would work? Here’s what I have. From what I looked up on Reolink it said it needs a power supply but I didn’t see a cable w a power supply???? Link |
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I'm taking a wild guess here... You're asking how to use the hard drive from your old NVR as an external HDD for extra storage? A quick search brought up this article: https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005091374-How-to-Expand-the-Capacity-of-Reolink-NVRs/ I have no idea of it would work but I think it's what you are looking for. You'd have to find an external power source for the HDD and plug it in, re-format the disc, and then see if the new NVR recognizes it. |
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