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follow our internet tutorial first and see if this gets you anywhere as a switch may not be needed: Please see my email about hughes net. You may have problems with them as I have had problems with them getting it internet workable in the past when they were my ISP. In order to get it working, you have to upgrade to their static IP plan. If they told you that you already have a static IP, then hopefully you already have that plan in place but please note that its a possibility that you may not as they normally do not put that plan in place unless you specifically ask for it (and charge you extra for it). If I read your email right, you have another ISP that you use too? If so you may want to try that too. Anyways, try out the tutorial first to see if that gets you somewhere and report back with your findings.

Well now you got me nervous So I had to double check. I tested his camera with the Apollo DVR that I sent him with the wires hooked up to the TX+ and TX- and it worked like a champ. I also have the same PTZ and the same DVR hooked up in our warehouse and have it hooked up for a while the same exact way with no problems. So I had to double check to see if it worked on the RX+ and RX- and it worked like a champ that way as well. I dont know why I have always hooked it up to the TX+ and TX-, thats just the way I have always done it from the get go when I very first started with these and since I have never had to daisy chain a PTZ I havent had to use both connections simultaneously. And since it has worked, I have never put any though into doing it another way. I hook up our other Costar PTZ's like that as well. So if you havent already hooked it up, its probably best to hook it up to the RX+ and RX- like Tom and Matt said just in case you need to daisy chain another PTZ someday. But if you did already hook it up that way and dont feel like messing with it anymore, no worries as that as how we have had our Ultrak hooked up for almost a year with a few different DVR's and controllers with no problems. Sorry for any confusion

Too much lifting big crt test monitors up ladders Dont invest. The USA is getting ready to default on their debt which will in turn screw up the entire stock market. Put money under mattress.

I'm Baaaaaack! Feel free to email me with any questions. Actually what I do is I hook up the RS-485 positive wire to the TX+ input on the camera and hook up the RS-485 negative wire to the TX- input on the camera. I have never hooked up the wires to the RX+ and RX- on the camera, not to say that it wont work, just have never done it so I'd recommend hooking it up just like I did to be safe. Now on the back of the Apollo DVR, you will want to hook up the RS-485 positive wire to the input labeled "A" and the RS-485 negative wire on the input labeled "B" Dont get your wires crossed during this time!!! For power just like soundy said, you simply plug one wire into one 24VAC input and one wire into another 24VAC input. You ignore the middle ground input. On the other end, you simply plug one wire into one terminal on the power supply and another wire into another terminal. You cant get your wires crossed on power so no worries there. Feel free to shoot me an email with any problems, questions, or anything.

I know they are selling the fire out of them on eBay right now. The only thing I know about them is that one of my customers had trouble controlling one of our zoom cameras with them. Still awaiting to see if it was a configuration issue or the DVR.

I used to be die hard siamese, but am exploring cat5 as an option now. it makes for a little cleaner install and I have found the costs of solid copper cat5 to be significantly cheaper than rg59 siamese solid copper. Still testing it out but I like it so far. I'll be running experiments on various lengths of cat5 soon and will post my results.

ask tons of questions on this site. I owe alot of my success to the people who has helped me on this site. I have learned alot in a short amount of time.

Yeah I think its pretty cool but definetely need an option to disable it.

Wrong

do u have your active x settings configured

You probably share that opinion with about .00000005% of the rest of the world. Most people do care what happens to criminals after a crime is done to them. And they really start to care if a crime is done to someone they love. I seriously doubt that the camera and audio recording problem would ever get to the point of being like the fictional big brother portrayed in 1984. The only people that have to worry about that are people who are doing what they are not supposed to be doing, i.e. criminals.

Hi Shockwave. If your camera has an on screen menu, you may want to turn your nightshot to auto which means it will make your camera go black and white at night. This will give you a more clear night shot.

Plus you can do the same thing on a DVR

If using (2) Twisted pairs in the Cat5 cable what would be the max you would run power using 12V DC and 24 VAC. How long could you run before you start to experience detrimental voltage loss? I have researched the forum and found many different answers peppered throughout several different threads so I thought I would start a dedicated thread to this topic. I would really like to see if anyone has any scientific data backing up their answer but would also like to get some general opinions as well.

Let us know if you run into any problems

, if they were to buy something such as an EX30, that would not be a cheap customer.

I agree. Spend the extra $10 to get the sony.

Great answer. Thanks!!! Good voltage calculator too - Bookmarked. LOL, I know, but too many customers asking why I dont carry Cat5 so I gotta give them what they want.

Could be more of a power issue. Are you connecting them all to the same power supply?

great!

Yeah thats not the same one as ours but the picture you sent is kind of dark. The philips cameras we have have a power connectors that attaches and detaches off the cameras. I cant tell from your picture if its the same type or not. If so, its possible you got a camera without the connector.

Yeah I do not know anything about AVS either. I was referring to the Qvis Apollo HD and the Mace SQ being similar.

The Apollo HD's are basically the same as the MaceSQ's except with a much better price tag.

Are you looking to just backup large amounts of video for storage? If so, I would just look into getting a DVR that can handle alot more hard-drives. Or better yet, a DVR with a hot swap hard drive.

I bet it comes from the same manufacturer because the android app used is also KWeye. What app are you using for Iphone on that DVR?