CollinR

Asking the pros for their opinion is asking for trouble. If you build what we want no consumer will be able to afford it and we can do it manually better and cheaper now. Some of the things I would want: Decent lens prefferably with vari-focal auto iris support, no pinhole junk. BW or ICR option WDR option Solar cell on the outside half Wifi connection MJPEG/MPEG4 streaming Totally wireless and fully functional. Now you see. Of course the components aren't really available for all that right now. Because I can wire a decent bullet camera through the door to an LCD for ~$350 right now.

Use seperate wire for the power, I use 18/2 common for alarm system power.

Get a BW bullet and mount it near the first, patch the video feed to the new one. Quit buying cams with IR on them, if you need IR buy an external emitter or use a cheap IR cam.

Well yes, Matt wants $4k per install unlicensed so defenately something required here in OK. Most states have some form of licensing as well however there are a handful with basically none at all.

I always use D1/VGA or higher, in your case where you need not identify anything I dunno. Sounds to me like ~7fps wouldn't be too bad for you.

Dig deeper they have some decent stuff from Honeywell thats not out of control price wise. Some of it works so much better it's worth it anyway. I haven't noticed this on their cameras though, too much $ too little performance.

You could just get a text inserter... <$100 designed to do what you want.

Welcome! Not too many conventions come through OK however I would think some come to Dallas. You might look into some of the ADI expos however most seem like mearly marketing crap.

Not really, you should probably have two boxes or mount the only box on the exterior. I would suggest liqui-tight flexible non-metallic conduit if it's up very high and an armored conduit if it's within reach. Exposed outdoor coax or Cat5 is a pretty good mark of a hack job. EDIT: There are exceptions but generally the $1.50 for a box and $1.50 for the liqui-tight is cheap.

Cat5 supports IP gear, I have been doing Cat5 only for almost a year now. Sometimes I will splice and run more then one cam together, often I homerun it so I can upgrade the cams in the future.

Yes it is probably possible, you should see people whom specifically provide data recovery services. Make sure they know this was originally used in a DVR and all information about the DVR and it's software. All the data is most likely still there. You might even try booting with knoppix and see if that can mount the drive. Linux can navigate many more file systems then Windows. Assuming you didn't format the drive in Windows or with the DVR once it was reinserted. If it was formatted the data is there but no way to address it. You would need a specialist in the DVR's file system to get the data back. Most of the DVRs use relatively common software, it may not be Windows compatible but that doesn't mean it's not somewhat common.

Yeah but like every other supplier provides a grounded cord so when buying a Premere Power power supply you must add in that cost and the effort to aquire it. Further I somewhat question if the device is even up to code, you have HV on the LV side of the barrier. The transformer doesn't mount with the primary directly connected to the barrier through a conduit, it has 14 gauge leads. I think it's MG Electronics I have had good luck with in the past.

I bet the plugin was an afterthought, it looks as though they intended for it to be hardwired in via conduit. There is no way to secure the lamp cord either, you just have to tie it in a knot and not fully knock out.

What ports are available on the STBs and LCDs? If you have a VGA ports I would just do that.

%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\ 192.168.1.150 yourdvr.dyndns.org Now when you request 192.168.1.150 it will provide yourdvr.dyndns.org. Mo reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

Yup. The affordable cameras (under $10k) actually have near IR LEDs to provide lighting visable to CCD images. This is not thermal radiation which is farther up the spectrum. We you see IR here think of a flashlight that is invisable to humans. For all I know moles can see it, I assume they would consider it uncool and avoid it if possible.

Might try adding an internal IP to the DynDNS domain to your hosts file.

Being on eBay is not a good sign. That may well be legit but if it is it's old.

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Which color wires did you put the cameras on?

Reliablity is about the same, I think Avermedia is more user friendly. Geovision has more features, Avermedia has IP cam and MP support.

Think this may be designed in to prevent ground loops?

I just got one of these the other day!!! WTF were they thinking! I don't think I'll be buying another unless they start showing this on the spec sheets.

It's in your MD setup... Was one camera closer? If so the vehicle took up a greater percentage of it's detection area. As such a lower setting will still work, the smaller the object the higher your sensitivity needs to be.

I have never seen a LRP (we call them that as we have license plates rather then number plates) that is PTZ and I would be SERIOUSLY leary about one being functional. A real LPR system includes a high resolution camera with a focused field of view and a series of light filters to enhance the contrast of license/number plates. Then usually backed up with a high power near IR illuminator.