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It's OK, I've sussed it now. The address should be set to the number of the camera within DigiNet Site, if for example you have three fixed cameras 1, 2 and 3, with a PTZ as camera 4, the Spectra's D-protocol address should be 4 (SW1-3 on). All other settings should be default (2400-N-8-1), termination should be switched on (SW2 on) if camera's at the end of the chain and if there's no 120 ohm termination resistor already on the plug in the housing.

Does anybody know what the camera settings need to be in order to control a Pelco Spectra III from Diginet Site? I assume Pelco-D SD needs to be chosen on the PC, but it doesn't let you select the ID number of the camera concerned - Pelco D protocol supports 254 addresses set by DIP switches on the camera!

Got screenshots?

I've had this problem, turned out to be the graphics card (4.11 lets you use nVidia cards, newer ones are ATI only).

Digital Video Witness would do it, but it's basically DigiNet with a few things moved about. What problems are you having with DigiNet?

Also the GV250 cards don't need a dongle. When I was using one I upgraded to V7 without any problems. (many thanks to Richard Berry of ezCCTV.com for answering that one for me)

Alternatively you could ask your works IT bods if they'd poke a hole in the firewall from your PC's IP address to the outside world, on ports 8080 and 8081, both TCP not UDP.

Looking at the WebDVR HTML code, ports 8080 and 8081 are also used. To get this going:- Find THREE ports that are open in your employer's firewall, let's say for example they're 10000, 10001 and 10002 (you may have to ask your IT bods for this, explaining what they're needed for) On your own router, forward 10000 to port 80 on the IP address of your CCTV (If your router gives the option of TCP or UDP, choose TCP for these three ports) As above, but forward 10001 to port 8080 As above, but forward 10002 to port 8081 On your CCTV system, open C:\apache\htdocs\webdvr.html with WordPad Find the "function OnConnect(){" line Just below that, you'll see 8080 and 8081, change them to 10001 and 10002 Save the file Open C:\apache\htdocs\webdvr32.html and do the same here (webdvr32.html is the 32-channel version) The one downside to this is that when you're back at home (or wherever the CCTV is) you'll have to view it "from outside". In other words, put in the same URL as you would at work (including the port number). This is because from outside access in this example is via ports 10000, 10001 and 10002 (as per the HTML), but from inside access is via 80, 8080 and 8081, (so the HTML is wrong). By putting this URL in you're going out through your firewall, then coming back in again (and getting port-forwarded to the correct ports on the CCTV). One slight variation (that I've done on my system) is to do this:- Forward 10000 to 10000 instead of 80 Open C:\apache\httpd.conf with WordPad About a third of the way down, change Port 80 to Port 10000 Save the file and reboot the CCTV system

C:\apache\conf\httpd.conf Search the file for 80, I think it's the second occurrence you find. While you're at it, there's an e-mail address in there you may want to change to something more appropriate (you'll spot it when you do the port number change), it's currently an address @kodicom.com There's more to it than that though, I've just set my system to use port 10000 and can't access it externally, I just get kicked out with the "Connection Failed" message when I click the "Login" button.

The original x-vision cards are GeoVision. The entry-level 15-20fps cards are compatible with GeoVision 7.0 (I used to use one myself). Don't know about the bigger cards though, as they need dongles (the entry ones don't).