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Before you try that, try EventGhost it's free and IMO easier to use. If you have a USBIRT as an IR reciever you can quickly use any remote you like. You'll really like it though as it also adds in about every other means of communications. TCP packet, Serial Data, X10 RF (what I use) all possible with good logic too.

? I have an Alnet card infront of me and it's obviously not that same hardware. I actually pulled this from a customer as I (and 4 other CCTV contractors, nor the ISP technicians) could ever get remote access of any kind inside the DVR to work. I contacted Alnet (Michal, ma(at)alnetsystems.com) for help on 11/29/2006 @ 10:44pm (GMT -6) To date no responces... It REALLY, REALLY pisses me off when the people most qualified to support their products blow me off.

The ATI and NVIDIA chipsets have been a crapshoot for me. Best to stick with Intel.

Done it never had a problem but I haven't left one up and doing it for too long either.

The GV250 runs on alot of stuff. I have one one something simular AMD 1.5 something like that. I haven't tried v8 on it yet though, I'm actually swapping it out his week. :^(

Panasonics are always good to look at, make sure and check out GE as well. This is more of a simple file issue, most CCTV apps will be overkill for you. You just need a little VB that allows you to enter info like ClassID and a toggle for start and stop. Another app to recursively seach the directories for files by Class, date, student... Then either playback or stream to the network. You could however use something like Geovision for control and have a seperate app that pulls from the Geo files. Geo makes it easy as the files have the date&time in the name and the codec is installed on the server already.

Thats a fact jack! Solar is going to seriously cost you for 12+ independent systems that can run any kind of IR for 10 hours a day while capturing and broadcasting. I think WirelessEye was a little low at $2k / cam solor (he probably gets better prices though too so..).

I currently provide one of each, however they aren't directly integrated. I hope to have an integrated solution. I don't see it happening in one box, well unless you hardware to MPEG4 or dvix but still it's cheaper to do more then one at that point. Lots and lots of problems in the media center area, your customers will want HD TV and that basically won't be happening for a while. Sure you can get your locals ATSC and linux users can do more with QAM but HBO, Cinemax, Showtime nope. Well except the new ATI cablecards, but they are OEM only. The interface is the biggest issue, how will you interact with it and what can it really do. How many places can you interact with it, how many concurrently. How will it be maintained... Little stuff like ripping CDs, automated MP3 tagging, playlist generation, album art. That alot of crap just to have it kinda maintain itself, all your customers will want cover art too. Don't even think about using Windows MCE for TV, it's funtionality is pretty sad compared to BeyondTV, SageTV and MythTV. AMX and Crestron have capacities like this but I don't do those. ($$$) IP cams make everything easier, no encoding = little CPU work. Thats a very complex subject you really need to study all 3 subjects plus theater design, terminal services or ?, VoIP and QoS.

Agreed, smoke and sprinkler cams work well for this. I doubt they will steal the whole machine. I think the problem will be you might have a DVR that doesn't properly support covert cameras. (Geovision has some issues here...)

When I opened that site I immedately noticed that those tiny cams look VERY much like the ones all over the city of Tulsa, OK. I know they aren't Extreme's and I know they can LPR. I look at toll booths and intersections alot nowdays.

Another thing you can do on homes is recess the cameras back into the house/attic. Then it's not -40 anymore, its actually alot warmer depeding on the specific building (trying to tie my vocab to the NEC here) and insulation methods.

Oh my mistake, I thought somebody actually named a DVR product POS.

Why would you want to use a Piece Of Sh!t DVR card?

I call it a walk through myself.

I might get into something like that for a family member or friend but... Thats just really asking for trouble, if you are going to do it make the customer buy the crap and have it there to install. Make sure and put a heavy margin on it.

Geovision systems can do this, sometimes. The term you want is recognition. The system actually recognizes the text on the plate.

Nobody is going to be able to do that in a forum post, thats a very very complicated subject. You'll just have to research each senario as it comes until you have seen about everything. No advantage to it, IR is an advantage in that it's lighting humans can't really see. Otherwise regular lighting is better and works with digital day/night cameras. A true day/night camera is required for a color picture in the daytime and IR assisted BW picture at night. Preferrably the IR isn't attched to the camera itself.

You'll be hard pressed to find a 42" 16:9 display that fits the other requirements. You might go back and look at those 1024x768 LGs. How far is the viewer from the screen?

How much do you want to spend and what kind of volume? I too have been looking into custom fabrication.

Where aer you located?

I'm with you on the HD possiblity, haven't seen it with Geo but others. None like to hit an unwriteable sector on the HD. Always do a complete format, never the "quick" format option.

LLC is on the nose, thanks to Pheonix at Geovision I got my installation updated to v8.1 and understood. When you go looking for a monitor it is VERY important to get one with one of these resolutions as NATIVE. 1280x1024; 1600x1200; 1680x1050; 1920x1200 Many other things can work but for a quality job you should have a 1:1 pixel map if the user is going to be anywhere close to the display. These are ALL PC monitor resolutions so don't be looking at TVs (1280x720, 1366x768, 1920x1080)

I actually researched like 85% of this before I realized only trailer builders would pay to do it right. You'll need either BW or true Day/Night, vandal domes are perfect... No point in recording so you only need a simple switcher. I sell a switcher/LCD combo thingy that would possibly work. It would be nice to be able to mirror a camera so you can mount it on the back of the trailer for backing it up. You basically need a camera per horse except in the side by side 2.

Ditto. Also ditto on the argument DVR vs. NVR. NVRs aren't going anywhere anytime soon, it's obvious to me analog cameras are going away. I'm sure they have some serious software out there but the prices to play and find out are pretty crazy.

If it's building to building I usually use direct burial Cat5 and a remote power supply. If you are installing multiple cameras you will be very thankful that you did, if not add-ons are no big deal in the future.