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Well, if your DVR only supports one channel playback, and you want 4... As you said, throw it away and get another unit that does what you need. Among others, Dahua will do it.

If there are way too many false positives, then you should look at configuring the MD zones and MD sensitivity to narrow them down. Remove the areas that trigger the false positives from the MD zones. If there are still way too many false positives to make it possible to find a given event, then maybe you should think about installing PIR sensors. Take a look at SafeMotion: http://www.safeware.ca/support.php It can help you detect movements on downloaded videos, you can choose what zones of the video you want to detect. But, for that you need to have the videos locally, so if you are doing it from remote, you would need to download all the videos first, probably time consuming. Some newer softwares also allow you to choose the zones where you want to detect moviment when watching recordings.

www.dahuasecurity.com -> Support -> Software -> Player and tools -> 1.16REC-Upgrade tool.rar

Oh, ok, one many rebranded units. That is a DH-DVR1604HF-U. You are not able to add more cameras? Because you will not have any settings to adjust for channers 17 and up until you add a camera on them.

Really? From the guy that can not even tell the difference between a 1/3" and a 1/4" sensor? viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36601 So now you want to go shopping, buy the case, sensor, lens, IR leds, box, manual, and you will start assembling your own cameras?

Something doesn't sound right to me there, 9116HFI Hybrid DVR from Dahua? I do not know all models from Dahua, but that doesn't sound like a Dahua model to me, and it does sound like a Hikvision DVR: http://www.hikvision.com/es/products.asp?cid=2

http://www.canyouseeme.org Use that web site to check if the ports you have opened are actually reachable. If they are not, there is something wrong in your router config/port forwarding.

Didn't know where to post this, so I will try here. I have a customer that builds darts machines like the following: Each machine has two cameras, one looking at the bulls eye, and the other one looking at the player. The cameras are analog cameras, sensor, lens, and connected to a capture board on the computer inside the machine. Now they are building a new machine, and they want to get rid of the analog cameras/capture card, and replace the cameras with USB cameras. This way the camera will get power from the USB (no additional wiring needed to power the cameras with 12V from the computer power supply) and mainly, so they can get rid of the capture cards, which needs a PCI slot, a big computer, and Windows XP (the new model will have low profile computers). Ideally I would need 2pc USB cameras that give decent image quality (the $US5 webcams just don't do it), from a brand or manufacturer than won't be changing models every year, and hopefully with open source drivers, since the next version of the machine should run some flavour of Linux. Any hints? I also gave them the idea of going IP camera, with two small POE cameras; but that would need more expensive cameras, and at least a small POE switch which would also add to the cost, and also the space inside the machine will be very tight, so they did not like the idea.

This one looks worth giving it a look, thanks!

Thanks! They do look nice, but way out of the price range we are aiming at. Even the cheaper 752 x 480 USB 2.0 camera cost $275 a piece, and we are looking at buying hundreds.

Question is, would you really want anyone with a printed picture of you to be able to unlock that door?

It is quite easy to know if a sensor is 1/3" or 1/4" by the size. Other than that... There are soooo many sensors, even fake ones... so I think you pretty much have no (easy) way of knowing for sure what sensor you got. If you are importing direct from Shenzhen, you need a trustable supplier. If you don't have that, sometimes you might get a good product, other times you might get crap. And if you are shopping mostly for the price, odds are you will end up with crap. Can they build good cameras? Sure. Can they build cheap cameras? Sure. You want good, but also the cheapest? Not gonna happen. Also; the fact that the sensor looks different from another might mean nothing. One batch from sensor might have the same specs from another one, but look different. But if the quality now is worse, well, you got sent a good sample, and now that you bought 100pc it seems you got a lower quality product.

Most of those are just chinese toys, cheap and crappy. Do not expect to get awesome video quality, and do not expect to last for too long (if they do, you got lucky).

Unlkess I had a good reason to do so, I would do the UTP cable all the way to the camera.

Doh, it has a 8mm fixed lens, relly? Makes me wonder why they would make a camera like this and not put in a wider lens, or a varifocal... Have you considered opening the camera to change the lens yourself, or that is not an option?

That is surely one nice piece of equipment... We carry Hikvision NVRs, but I still have not had a customer ask me for a 9632 unit. You must surely have a nice install at home!

Because your TV sucks and is unable to adjust the image? Nah, that would not seem strange to me, since you are using analog input. If you can not adjust the width of the image on your DVR or on your TV, you are out of luck. You can replace the BNC cable to your TV for a VGA cable.

We install mainly Hikvision DVRs, and I love them.

That unit does not seem that much "professional" to me. It can only do 100fps D1, are you recording each chanel at D1 6fps? If you are capturing that image from the netviewer program over lan, bandwidth might not be an issue, but maybe the DVR has dual stream. So maybe you are not seeing the best quality possible from the DVR. Can you try downloading a recording, and then comparing to the screenshot you posted? You might be watching CIF resolution, but the DVR might actually be making a D1 recording.

WTF Dahua, really... WTF That is what I call secure... And how else did people think they magically generated a one day emergency password without using a MAC address or serial number for each dvr? The only real surprise is that the 8888 portion is that simple. Regardless of the complexity of the formula, once the cat is out of the bag it isn't secure. I had no idea it was possible to get one day password for all Dahuas... I only needed this with Hikvision DVRs before, and you had to supply them the s/n of the unit. Well, this is the second way I find out to bypass the admin password on Dahuas, I will try it out (I did via web interface, but I guess it will only work locally).

WTF Dahua, really... WTF That is what I call secure...

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If you think he should forget PSS, I would love to see that link too. If for some reason it can not be posted in public, please PM me

Well... the answer would just be "get an email client that is mima/MHTML compliant". I have no clue what program iPhone uses for reading emails, or what programs you can install on an iPhone to read emails. I would also try geting those emails sent to different email account (not from Yahoo).