CollinR

Right click on the off button. The miniview is because you have RDP enabled in the main screen of the configuration.

Your bang:buck ratio is going to suck, bad. You would be soo much better off using quality analog cameras as much as possible. The panasonic mentioned above would work well if strategically located. I would run the Cat5 as if putting switches and you may install switches and streamers there if you so choose to. Right now just isn't a good time for IP based PTZs where the streamer is in the cam itself.

That pretty well covers it. Also if it is a big system I had some boxes built that look like a breaker box, put all your stuff in conduit and you can't tell it's not a breaker box.

Geovision has the best MD capabilities of what I have seen. Also on your Avermedia you can use the object counter feature to trip an alarm to ring the buzzer. Not every FOV will this work for but it works well for my front door camera where region 1 is up the walk (but on it!) and region 2 is the walk but getting close to the porch. To trip the alarm a human sized object must move from region 1 to region 2. Region 2 > Region 1 is ignored (anyone can leave beep free). Use the counted object to trigger an alarm and make the alarm event the buzzer. Geovision works close to the same just more detail, you can have different zones with different levels of MD ontop of IO and alarm triggering based on motion size and direction.

Think about it the active reciever has no control over anything that occured before it's UTP connection. The reason it's marketed as it is, is just marketing. You don't put amplifers at your speakers in home theater world, you amplify near the source. Same goes for everything else if the source is screwy the end result will be screwy. The greater the distance between the source and the conditioner/amplifier the greater the odds of it getting screwy.

Your logic is correct an active reciever is not as effective as an active transmitter or a midspan active transciever. Gargage in garbage out rule effects just about everything. I have gone farther then you are talking about with no name passive baluns and a couple few splices in the middle for good measure.

Depends... In Tulsa Cox Communications caps at 1mb upload. DSL can match this speed with the right package. In our recent OK mass power outages DSL has stayed up the whole time, my combined cable loss was something like 40 days. So working slow IMHO is better then not working at all! lol

Exacq is not bad at all and pricing is more then hybrid solutions but less then many NVR sotwares. (Exacq is a hybrid with full IO capability like Geovision.)

How many keyboards are supported on a single DVR? Joysticks? Man I am glad you started coming around Andy.

Because the FCC only applies to the US, anyone else can feel free to copy but not required. I am converting to the metric system... one inch at a time!

I would use stranded UTP, many elevator manufacturers provide the cabling already. It may alreadt be in the traveler you just need to find it and wire the car, then patch it back to the recording/observation gear.

You might try pulling the Hauppauge card out.

Get a vandal dome or it's probably not going to look right. I have seen few housings that mount by themselves and most cost as much as a decent dome anyway. Many cameras do have provisions to be mounted upside down in the housing this might even make them easier to service.

That Axis207mw is decently small but looks like a toy, you would want to fid it inside something.

If these are buttets you can run it over the Cat5, another thing is have him try both the Blue and orange pairs. Some old Cat5 cables had fewer TPI on the brown and green pairs. Obviously if you don't us a pair but actually just solid blue and solid orange it's not going to work too well. Is the camera mounted to metal?

Avermedia does have a video expansion add-on slot filler that sounds like what you are discribing. Maybe you had Geovision and Avermedia confused.

Oh yea it'll take 1920x1200 in! You just can't get it back out. Well to me thats not "supporting" megapixel it's more like converting 1920x1200 to 800x600. Don't get me totally wrong though, 600p is a way more resolution then the 480i from an analog camera. It's just not 1200p anymore, it's half the resolution of that source. I have repeatedly asked to be proven wrong on this, asked for directions on how to properly do this. Nada, still cant get past 800x600. This super hacked me off as it made ME PERSONALLY look like an @$$ when I told a customer it would support megapixel. So if I am wrong and shouldn't look like an @$$ to my customer/s I want to know. I would much rather admit my ignorance of my product then appear that I am tring to decieve my customers as I feel I have been decieved by Avermedia.

You troubles aren't with the camera its in your encoding and archiving. (Asumming the previsouly mentioned "T" is not present.

I would be shocked if it actually really supported megapixel, the PC version doesn't and if either did I would assume it to be that one. The best I have ever been able to get from an Aver system is 800x600.

Do you have the video and log storage on a seperate partition or HDD?

Sounds like you are also using a program that uses overlay or VMR9, some applications don't release this properly. What are you doing while Aver is minimized?

In most of the US if you can see it from a public street they have no expectation of privacy. Now mounting a PTZ on a high pole/tower isn't the same thing. Basically if you could stand there and see it without trespassing you don't have to worry so much.

No you guys aren't doing something wrong, on the server that directory needs additional write access and for whatever reason it doesn't get it. Thanks to who pointed out the error is generated on the thumbnails directory. Only Larry can fix this currently, if its what I think it is it shouldn't take long.

On the card, farthest from the slot cover do you see a burnt spot? If so I think you can just replace that. I don't know enough about them but it does appear with GV cards die from lighting that circuit fries and the damage is pretty concentrated.

While I agree with your intent I don't agree with those 2 statements. CCTV will stop a bunch of randoms, it's a fact that CCTV in use deters better/worse then Alarms seems to swing towards monitored alarms for B&E offenses. Vandalism I am sure swings to CCTV but I don't have a nice study on that. I would also say they are equals in activity, Proactively both act as deterents CCTV can be obvious and alarms have signs, stickers and visible window switches. Similar also in reactively CCTV can alert and pass data just as an alarm, just wanting for an event to react to. The problem you'll run into is most CCTV systems will false to the point you will no longer go check on it, especially from 400 yards out. The best option is a combination of dual technology motions and CCTV. You'll need to run wire and spend more $ but it'll work best for the least. In this case 1 good $600 dual technology or microwave motion could be installed to cover a pretty wide area between the home and the road. Maybe 6 and you can have ~100'-200' in 360*, it will find it's mark and can trip the cameras more effectively then motion detection in the video feed. Even compared to the advanced alarm settings on the NV3000/NV5000. x10 sucks too, you might wish to use a more reliable protocol for this, something like UPB or ZWave.