Ethernet Camera to NAS?

[ThePCRunners]

Hello, I have 2 UNV cameras setup at my father's business.
It now saves the footage on SD Cards but it seems to corrupt them fairly quickly.
I have made a TrueNAS VM and successfully connected to it through the main computer.
When I try to setup the camera to save the footage to the NAS instead of the SD Card and try to do NAS Test I get the error "Test Failed".
Anyone worked with such a camera with that feature and could help guide what I might've done wrong?

 

[David]

Hello, I have 2 UNV cameras setup at my father's business.
It now saves the footage on SD Cards but it seems to corrupt them fairly quickly.
I have made a TrueNAS VM and successfully connected to it through the main computer.
When I try to setup the camera to save the footage to the NAS instead of the SD Card and try to do NAS Test I get the error "Test Failed".
Anyone worked with such a camera with that feature and could help guide what I might've done wrong?

For a temporary fix reduce the video resolution / frame rate you use to save to the SD card.

Post a link to the NAS setup procedure you are following.

David

 

[ThePCRunners]

Sadly I am not following a specific guide. However, I'll add a few pictures of settings.
10.0.0.10 = the ip of the NAS
10.0.0.6 = the ip of the Camera
The sharing option is SMB

 

[David]

I have made a TrueNAS VM and successfully connected to it through the main computer.

What operating systems are you using for the VM?

If you are using win10 / 11 can you map to the NAS drive using windows explorer?

Check the port numbers of the SMB server and client are the same.

David

 

[ThePCRunners]

For the VM software I use VirtualBox, for the computer's OS I use Windows 10, for the NAS within the VM I use TrueNAS Core 11 (Sadly the most recent release wouldn't install because of low RAM).
It seems they are at the same port as I'm able to connect to the control panel from outside of the VM.
I'm using Google Chrome to access it.

 

[David]

It seems they are at the same port as I'm able to connect to the control panel from outside of the VM.

Best to check which port numbers are in use.

To make sure the NAS is accessible as a drive using win10 map the NAS as a network drive, then create a text file and save to the NAS camera folder / directory. Then make sure you can open / edit / save / delete the same text file. This link may help.

David

 

[David]

@ThePCRunners
Following on from my last post, what IP address is the VM using?

David

 

[ThePCRunners]

It seems you were correct.
There is something blocking the connection to the internet.
When I tried entering the address http://10.0.0.10/24 as showed in the network section of TrueNAS it told me there was an issue with the permissions. To make sure, I looked over at the 'Update' area and noticed there was an issue reaching the server..
I wonder how I'm able to reach the web interface with the network having an issue.
I use within the VM the 'Bridged Network' option as it seems to be the only one connecting to the main computer's network driver.

 

[ThePCRunners]

Okay I was somehow capable of manually updating the version of the NAS.
It seems there is a "high" usage of the RAM, once I set the RAM capability a little higher it seemed to work a little better, still unusable though.
I will try setting a server I have aside and update how it goes after installing the NAS on it (will again be on a virtual machine).

 

[David]

It seems there is a "high" usage of the RAM, once I set the RAM capability a little higher it seemed to work a little better, still unusable though.

the host pc seems to be under resourced for the vm, what do the host pc performance stats for memory / disc / cpu look like when the vm is running?

Does the vm's bridged network connection assign a unique IPV4 address to the VM?

David

 

[ThePCRunners]

the host pc seems to be under resourced for the vm, what do the host pc performance stats for memory / disc / cpu look like when the vm is running?

Does the vm's bridged network connection assign a unique IPV4 address to the VM?

David

I have created a new one on a seperate server, now I've got some progress.
I am able to create a text file from another computer but still having an issue with connecting the camera to the NAS.
When entering the ip address and path I still get an issue of failed test.
Current IP: 10.0.0.9
Current path: /mnt/Storage/Camera
It is now with 8 GB RAM.

 

[ThePCRunners]

I THINK FOUND THE MISSING PIECE!
I turned on NFS and suddenly was able to finish the connectivity test successfully!
Now time to test it out.

 

[David]

I THINK FOUND THE MISSING PIECE!
I turned on NFS and suddenly was able to finish the connectivity test successfully!
Now time to test it out.

Progress indeed, did you enable NFS on the camera or NAS?

David

 

[ThePCRunners]

Progress indeed, did you enable NFS on the camera or NAS?

David

I enabled it on the NAS.
I also enabled FTP in hopes it would help.
Sadly so far it didn't start saving footage yet. I wonder if I just need to give it some more time or maybe still something is wrong.

 

[David]

I enabled it on the NAS.
I also enabled FTP in hopes it would help.
Sadly so far it didn't start saving footage yet. I wonder if I just need to give it some more time or maybe still something is wrong.

Are there any system logs on the camera or NAS you can check for errors?

David