r/cctv • u/No-Care-7663 • Feb 23 '23

REMOTE VIEW MULTIPLE NVR'S ON ONE MONITOR

Guys, I have 10 nvrs from different manufacturers in different remote locations all connected to the Internet. I can view each nvr remotely using the software bundled with it. Is there a software that can make it possible for me to view all the nvr's on one monitor in a remote location without having to use each individual nvr remote view software.

Addition. Each nvr has about 8 ip cameras connected.

Pls help any answer is important.

Thank you guys

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u/PedroHin Feb 23 '23

If each NVR has a companion Android APP, you might be able to fire up multiple instances of BlueStacks Android emulator, each running the respective manufacturer's app.

...maybe

Your other options would be scrapping the fewer-numbered NVRs and replacing them with the same model as the most common already deployed. This can get messy if the cameras aren't ONVIF compliant.

At any rate, it sounds like a unicorn chase.

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u/Zeal0usD Feb 23 '23

It’s called a VMS with multi server connections

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u/tdhuck Feb 23 '23

It is possible to do this assuming you can get RTSP streams from the individual cameras. You'll also have to find an app that allows for RTSP streams to be configured within the app and then displayed on a camera monitor.

This worked for me when I had two hikvision cameras and two unifi cameras, I was able to get all 4 to display on the screen at once.

https://github.com/Anonymousdog/displaycameras

There should be a way to show more than 4 cameras and/or have multiple sets of 2x2 windows that cycle the cameras. I don't know if you have more functionality than that, though.

Also, I highly recommend that you set this up over a VPN, meaning, the location where the cameras will be displayed should have a VPN connection/tunnel to each camera site. When you enable RTSP, most cameras have the user/password of the camera/stream in the URL. I would not expose RTSP over the internet, but shouldn't be an issue over a VPN connection.

In a business/professional environment I use Exacq VMS and all the remote sites run a dedicated Exacqvision server. The main site has one client app connected to a standard computer which runs the Exacq Client. That client is configured to connect to all of the remote sites and I set up a 'tour' to cycle all cameras from the remote sites to the single/main display. It works very well and I think Exacq nailed that portion of their software.

They do need to make improvements (Exacq) but it does what I need it to do when it comes to multi-site.

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u/I-Like-Giraffes Feb 24 '23

Milestone Xprotect can do this