Remote Viewing of Recorder with P2P

Hi everyone, thanks for joining us as we talk to you a little bit about Remote Viewing, and our more recommended method of setting that up- P2P. Firstly it is important to know what this even is, and how it can help you. Remote viewing is very simply just being able to watch your CCTV system from a remote device on the internet such as a smartphone or a computer. With remote viewing, you can look at live footage as it is occurring, download footage to the smart-device or PC to be viewed later, receive notifications for alerts such as motion or IVS trigger rules, control PTZ cameras, and much, much more. There are a few ways to activate this feature, but the one we recommend most is P2P- due to its ease of setup. Today we’re going to talk to you a bit about what p2p is, and how to activate the setting on your recorder.

What is P2P?
I’m sure you have heard the term p2p used once or twice before, but maybe wondering what it even means or stands for.  P2P is short for Peer to Peer networking and in a Peer to Peer network, any networked computers connect to each other and act as both servers and clients simultaneously. So in a peer to peer style of the network, all computers are equally working together to share data and form the network. This is different from the more commonly used client-server model. In the client-server model a single, or group of powerful high-storage capacity, large data-processing capable computers act as the sole server, and all Computers within the network send all their information via these servers to be handled by the servers.

Setting Up P2P on Your Recorder

So how does P2P benefit your CCTV system? Well P2P is a simple and easy method by which you can connect your PC or smartphone to your Recorder or cameras. Using the QR code in your recorder, you can scan or type that into your device running the correct app, in combo with your username and password to connect directly to your camera system from anywhere in the world. Unlike port forwarding, the process to set up p2p on your recorder and accompanying device is relatively simple thanks to the p2p options. Follow the guide below if you have one of our recorders to get Remote viewing up and running using p2p:

1. Firstly, make sure that your recorder is powered on, and has a mouse and monitor connected.
2. Make sure that you have an Ethernet Cable running from the primary LAN port on your recorder to a router or switch supplying network/internet. If your recorder has more than one LAN port use LAN 1
   -DO NOT USE THE ONBOARD POE PORTS OF AN NVR FOR THIS, THESE ARE FOR CAMERAS ONLY-‘
3. Log into the recorder using your pattern or password. Be advised that even though you can log in, and activate p2p from the recorder itself using the pattern- you will need to know the actual password in order to add the recorder to your computer or Smart Device. The pattern is only for use at the recorder itself and this option is not possible on other devices.
4. Navigate to the NETWORK settings tab, found at the bottom of the page if accessing the recorder directly
5. Click the P2P option to move to that tab.
6. Now, simply enable P2P using the slider
7. Hit Apply
8. P2P is now active however you still need to add the recorder to a device. Take note of how to get to this Page (Login > Netowowrking > p2p) and take note of the QR code that is labeled Device SN. You will need to access this page again later and use this information

Thanks again for joining us today as we covered p2p, and activating that feature on your recorder. For more info, sales, or technical support, reach out to: 561-288-1541
Stay tuned for our next article about adding a recorder to your smartphone using p2p.

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