Eliteoomph

no recommendations? I'll take anything I'm desperate...

Hey guys I am pretty new to the cctv game. I have a one camera system I setup myself at my work. It runs off digivue software and has a pretty good motion activation record feature. I am not familiar with different cards or software so I just want you guys to know what I am baseing my opinion on. Ok so I wanted to setup a system at home on a limited budget and slowly purchase one camera at a time as I had the money. Yall are probably going to laugh at me but I bought a dvr card off ebay from HongKong. goto ebay and type in the search box 8Ch 240fps +8 Audio Real-time CCTV DVR Card H.264 MPEG4 Well I got the card in and everything looked pretty good except I can't get the motion feature to work at all. The software is just called DVR4000. The motion sensitivity level only ranges 1-6. I have even taking all the zones off but it still just records all the time unless I uncheck the motion box. I am thinking of just sending it back and starting over with a new card unless some motion miracle occurs. Here is what is important to me I was wondering what you all would recommend Motion recording is very important, I would like to be able the set my own zones and have a wide range of sensitivity. And change the day/night settings if I can. 30 FPS per device remote monitoring would be awesome especially if there would be a way to watch the video from my smartphone Also I have noticed when shopping for camera sometimes they show a video displaying what the actual camera video looks like. I have noticed once I get the camera the video is never nearly as good. Could this be a connection issue. Are there better cables for better clarity or is this just typical? This is the last camera I got goto ebay and type in the searh box Outdoor IR 200ft Sony CCD DVR Security Gadspot Camera Thanks in advance for all your help!