Add Camera from Hikvision recorder to Dahua recoder by domain name

In this article, I will guide you how to set up and drag images from Hikvision recorders to Dahua recorders.

1. Setup on Hikvision DVR

• First, you need to change the authentication status on the recorder to Digest/basic as shown below:

• Remember the 2 Port parameters: HTTP (default is 80) and RTSP (default is 554). These are 2 ports used to connect to Dahua and recorders. You can change these 2 Ports as you like.

• On some Hikvision DVRs, I find that I need to turn off Hik-Connect to use it. You can turn this function on/off for testing.

• Turn on ONVIF and create an ONVIF account:

• Currently Hikvision and Dahua only support ONVIF version 2.4. Therefore, you need to change the compression standard to H.264 for both main/sub (main/sub) streams on all Camera channels that need to be downloaded.

2. Set domain name and open port for Hikvision

• To connect remotely using a domain name, you need to set a domain name for the system.
• Hikvision supports free domain names: https://cameraddns.net in Vietnam, or you can use paid domain names such as: DynDNS, No-IP, …

• Open Port for the video recorder on the network modem. You can refer to how to open Port on some common modems at here.

3. Add to Dahua recoder

• Manipulate as follows to add to the video recorder:

• You can customize the number of channels to pull as follows:

• For example, in the picture, I am pulling channels 1, 3, 4 from the Hikvision DVR to the Dahua DVR.

4. Important note

When adding a Camera from a Hikvision recorder to a Dahua recorder, there are the following notes:

• Some video recorders can only push back to channel 1 (cannot customize multiple channels or select any channel)
• Compression standard needs to be set to H.264 and create an ONVIF account before connecting
• Can support remote connection by domain name. However, in rare cases, only connecting using Static IP is supported.

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