Camera connect, but doesn't show on screen at all. Suggestions?

[boermac]

Setting up a new AMCREST NVR. I have it setup on my network, and I've searched for and found my ONVIF camera. It shows with a little green light in the camera panel, which I believe means I'm connected. But it doesn't show the video image on the screen at all.

I can see a Live View if I go directly to the IP address on my computer, so I know that the camera itself is working, but nothing on the NVR at all. Any ideas?

[jack7]

After adding the camera, did you click the pencil icon left of the little green light to set ONVIF and password?

[boermac]

After adding the camera, did you click the pencil icon left of the little green light to set ONVIF and password?

Yes, I did do that. I have tried changing it to the wrong password as well just to see what it would do and it display a message about login timing out.

If I go back and put in the right password this error message disappears, but I back to just a blank screen. This would at least seem to indicate to me that the NVR is communicating with the camera, but no picture displayed.

Again, for the record, I DO see a live picture when logging into the camera directly via my web browser, so the camera is functioning.

[jack7]

You could try deleting the camera and doing a Manual Add. Also, try a NVR Restart to see if that helps, or try the NVR Web UI which you can go to by putting the NVR IP address in IE browser.

[boermac]

SOLVED!

After looking through all the settings on the camera I noticed that it was recording at a super high resolution... well over 1080. I changed that setting to 1080p at 30fps and that did it. Now I'm seeing the camera input on the NVR.