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More than as a joke, I would probably say as a dummy camera; whoever put it there probably expect people to think it is a real and working camera.

Active Webcam is not free, but cherap, and it also works fine with BT878 cards.

I should have asked him if he saw any difference between the way the stand was portrayed on our catalog, and the way he had mounted it. I think I just wouldn't have said anything... if it wasn't that he had told me earlier those stands were junk because they were not fiting ok, because the cameras could not be moved to the sides easily, and so on... so I had to.

Here is a "fun" one. I get a customer who purchased everything to do the installation himself complaining that the stands I have given him are crap; that they do not fit ok, that he can not move the camera sideways, bla bla... That it is a pain in the ass to orient the camera. He says that for mounting it he needs to make extra holes because the ones the stand has do not fit ok. Without knowing what he was doing I say ok, go ahead and make it as long as it is on the stand, not on the camera. When I went to see the install, this is what I found... :facepalm:

So, wasn't there a thread with pictures of messy installs? I am unable to find it, does anyone have the link?

There it is, the "hall of shame", I had a picture to upload... Thanks!

I have installed many 7204 units from Hikvision, maybe I can help if you try to explain your question again... I did not understand much of what you said.

Dahua does have 32ch units, I would prefer one 32ch unit than 2 16ch units. I have installed a few times DH-DVR3204LE-U (they probably have better 32ch models), it has 4ch D1 25/30fps and the other 28ch are either CIF 25/30fps or D1 6/7fps.

How is the product? Really 4ch D1 real time, and with decent software at least with GPS informaiton displayed?

RS485 is not needed unless you are going to use PTZ cameras. If you want to use alarm input sensors, you just need the DVR to have alarm inputs, you do not even need alarm outputs. Any DVR that has alarm inputs will have alarm triggered recording. Others will have extra options like sending emails, alarm outputs, uploading to center, etc.

Sorry, but I just could not come out with a better subject... I got a coupe of this posters on CPSE, and after being around here for a while folded in half they do not look like so well. I would like to have a nice one printed on cardboard so I can keep handy for testing cameras myself and maybe showing to some customers, does anyone know where I could download an image/PDF, so I can get it printed here in good quality? Thanks!

Looks awesome, and that would be great for tests on the road. But I would also like to have the smaller one printed for use in our shop and office.

Using only two wires on a Cat5e cable would also be a problem; every balun I have seen that pases 12V power over Cat5 cable uses 2 pairs (4 wires) for the power.

Excuse me? They might be "enough" in most cases, they are cheaper, but they are surely not "best".

I do know the company Teltonika, I have two different GPS trackers I purchased from them about 3-4 months ago for testing (we currently sell GPS trackers from another manufacturer). I have never spoken with Irene, and the person I have spoken with has not been hassle. I have still not gotten to fully test their products (lack of time, the two times I have tried, I have not succedeed), and I do get the ocasional call/email asking if I had time to check, if I need any help doing it, etc, but nothing that bothers me. The guy I speak with has never even brought up the subject of their cameras, but I would not have been interested on even trying them.

I will check it out as soon as I have some time, thanks!! " title="Applause" />

Subscribing to this thread; if anyone knows of any program that can easily do that, I would also be interested on knowing. We work with many investigators that sometimes use covert cameras that have no motion detection, worst part is when you have to go through those videos to find any event...

Hikvision DVRs allow me to setup the Dyndns server being used for updates, which is members.dyndns.org. A different server could be used for updates quite easily. But most (if not all) routers do not allow you to change the Dyndns update server With Dyndns, updating your host is just a http request like the following: http://username:password@members.dyndns.org/nic/update?hostname=yourhostname&myip=ipaddress&wildcard=NOCHG&mx=NOCHG&backmx=NOCHG If afraid.org can be updated like that, it should be easy to do it from any DVR/router that lets you configure the update server.

I didn't know about afraid.org, gonna check it out. Do you know if they are compatible with dyndns.org clients? That would be great, since most routers we touch have dyndns.org client.

Yeah, it seems they did change it recently... Now you can not use up to 2 hosts for free, like you used to. You can sign up for a monthly trial (credit card needed), if you wish to cancel before you get billed, you can do so, and you wil get to keep the free host you created. I guess they were tired of too many free users...

No problems at all. Only moving part inside the DVR is the hard disk, and it can work ok as long as it is turned 90º (you can have it flat, standing, standing on the edge, etc., you can not have it diagonal). We have also installed many DVRs like that over the years.

You had many options until you reached point 9.

Geuterbruck in Spain just plainly sucks... Not talking about their products, which I have been unable to try yet, but the company itself.

I would say that DS-7204HI-S and DS-7204HVI-S are the exact same machine, but DS-7204HVI-S has the VGA output. The VGA output is one smaller board that could actually be installed/removed easily from the DVR, so I would say that the firmware is probably the same in both models.

Finally it seems to be coming...