Eliteoomph

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!

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