Connecting the Bridge to the LAN for Camera Access

Connecting the Bridge to the LAN for Camera Access

The Bridge connects to the local area network with a single ethernet interface card.  The local area network that the Bridge connects to must have access to the internet on ports 80 and 443.  These are the two ports the Bridge uses to communicate to the CHeKT cloud infrastructure.  By default the Bridge obtains an IP address using DHCP, however setting a static IP address is an option.   
Important Information:
  1. Understanding the Bridge Network Requirements: Click Here
  2. How to Mount a Camera Stream: Click Here
  3. How to set up the Bridge Sub-IP Interface: Click Here (Section 2)
In order for the Bridge to connect to cameras for Video Alarm Monitoring, these cameras or recorders must reside on a network that the Bridge can communicate with.  This could be done with the following methods
  1. Same Physical Layer and Subnet as the Bridge's primary interface.
  2. Same Physical Layer and Subnet as the Bridge's secondary interface.

In either method, the Bridge will authenticate to the video device and pull the RTSP stream from the video device into the internal video buffer of the Bridge.  This internal video buffer allows the Bridge to generate a pre and post-alarm video event clip when an alarm trigger occurs. 

Connecting Directly to IP Cameras:

With the Bridge connected to the same physical network as the cameras, the Bridge will authenticate directly with the IP Cameras.


Connecting Directly to an NVR/DVR

With the Bridge connected to the same physical network as the recorder, the Bridge will authenticate to the video recorder and then request a specific channel of video from the recorder.  With this method, the cameras could be either IP Cameras on the Internal Camera LAN of the recorder or coaxal CVI/TVI cameras.


With each of the methods above, the installer will need to know the correct username and password combinates to connect to the video stream.


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