CollinR

If you pull the card and take pics of it next to the screen with this thread you'll probably find a dealer thats willing to help you. The problem is piracy and thats why the software isn't handed out freely. I don't have a copy of V6 so I personally can't help you but I know there are guys here who do.

I can't see the attchment either.

Get a doorbell from your local hardware store, put the relay from the GV IO where the doorbell's button would normally go. You should be able to use the doorbell's wiring diagram. If you get a nice one you can have 2 bells 1 for the entry door and the other for the dumpster, just make sure it has a tone difference for the two. This might go beyound your wiring experience though as you will either need another relay NO from the front door or run it through Geo as well. Set the camera so that the dumpster takes up most of the FOV. Use the advanced motion detection to seperate the remainder of the FOV from the dumpster itself. Set your 2 MD sensitivities so that outside the dumpster just gets recorded but you have to raise the lid or throw a large object into the MD zone covering the top of the dumpster to trip the alarm. Obviously you want the camera up high to give the best perspective of the dumpster lid. Use a seperate high quality camera to actually identify who is doing it if the guy wants that captured, one camera most likely can't do both well. This assumes that the guy doesn't care if his customer comes in a buys a pack of smokes and then ditches the wrapper in his dumpster while walking offsite. A normal PIR or PIR/Microwave motion would false on that whereas you can use that zone's sensitivity to control pretty precisely how large the object going in the dumpster needs to be to trip the audiable alarm. This way even a light bag full of trash thrown from a distance will still trip it. This also assumes the dumpster is exposed, my banking customers have their dumpsters enclosed and as such you could just put a $2 magnet contact on it's access doors.

Put a camera on it and have motion detection trip a relay that makes a buzzer go off at the counter.

I think Llyod was specifically talking about Geovisions v6,v7,v8 PITA. Basically alot of people have gotten screwed by them binding hardware to their software. It is hopefully done with in v8 but only time will tell. The motivation has been to prevent piracy. Here recently some crappy dealers have been offloading v7 stock to customers, if that happens you will never be able to update your brand new card's software. Geo has in the past had a buyback program but it's not like they buy it back for what your reciept says you paid. The GV250 cards have not been effected by this for some reason.

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Somethings up that image is 808x585, looks like it needs refocusing too.

Some may claim they will work but they won't replace that motherboard. This is a limitation in how Via uses the PCI bus, it effects all high bandwidth systems not just CCTV. PCIe may resolve this but it's too new to really know firmly.

Are you a DIYer?

Yes they make testers that will tell you how far up the cable the problem is, if you have high quality cable it willbe marked for footage so it's a no brainer fix. As a basic test you can simply take the stub off the center of the spool and short everything togther power, briad and center pin. Then on the free end of the spool you just measure the resistence between each conductor if any one has much impedence (or infinate!) you have a bad spool and should reject it.

Thats part of being a pro, ohm your cable when you pick it up. Now just put your tester on it and start pacing it off.

You have the basic idea, it's not desirable but it happens sometimes. If you are using the cheasy premade cables then you are doomed, get some real siamese cable and buy a stripping tool. It will be well for the extra few bucks.

Anytime .... Expect a call from me the next time I am in SA.

IMO the next step is using hyperterminal with a direct to COM6 connection to send specific ASCII text strings to the dome. Samsung has been totally worthless in helping here! Their site has no documentation, it doesn't even list its protocols in the spec sheet. I also suggest stepping up the baud rate to 4800 or 9600 and using addresses greater then 0. I'm just working on the text string to manually send to the dome, if you already know it smarty then just update me. EDIT: I think I can already see a problem. I have your text string (I think ) . It is: FF,01,00,20,00,00,30 Sync,address,command1,command2,data1,data2,checksum You are sending A0,00,00,01,20,00,00,00,DE You should only have 7 bytes, you have 9! You have A0 instead of FF as a syncronization byte. You appear to be sending a focus near (01) and the zoom in command (20) but it's difficult to tell as your bytes could be out of order and you are using address 0. My example uses address 1. 20 is the zoom command. Data isn't used unless you make presets so I'm not monkeying with it now. checksum is data less the sync byte mod100, all data is hex.

I have gotten a system totally jacked up and now I cant get into it. It auto logins with a limited account. Once auto in it starts the TCP and Web servers and camera monitoring. I don't seem to have any other logins and I shafted, I have tried everything I can think of... Uninstalled/Reinstalled the software. Manually deleted the GV directory. + Above Deleted the XP user the software had been installed to. + Above Went to another GV v8 machine and used it's backup/restore function. +Above ( ) Attempted the PassUnInstll.exe +Above ( ) Where are they hiding this stuff? Any other ideas? Obviously you can PM me if you don't want to post how to do this to the internet. I just don't want to fdisk this one as it is XP sp0 and takes forever to update. TIA, Collin

So are you too saying that his config seems good? I really don't see anything wrong with it. Yeah I have already been building a playing with the GUI stuff, nice addition.

Is there a local zoom button on the lens?

Which COM port is the keyspan setup as? I noticed in their documents you can map the thing to COM ports that are in use or reserved. If you have an on-board modem it is probably using COM1 or 2. You might try changing the keyspan to a higher numbered COM or better yet get a serial mouse or modem and test to make sure you are able to Tx/Rx with the serial device on the end of the keyspan. It does seem as though the keyspan tries to do this automatically but it doesn't hurt to verify. You also need to make sure Geo is configured to use that COM port in it's config. IT defaults to COM1 which I kinda doubt the keyspan is using. Do you have anything else on the 485 bus? Keyboard?

I use that function in my trailer cam systems to help the driver when in reverse, basically none of the quality stuff has it that I know of. IIRC I have a switcher that can do it and shouldn't drastically effect picture quality. Unfortunately for you that switcher would be right behind your TV in system prices.

Siggy = Your signature line GeoVision, Elk M1, RCS, Insteon, DMC1 I don't know what RCS or DMC1 is but I know the rest and it's all good stuff. I bet we have crossed paths because of Sage or other HA, I do it all. ---- The USB thing is more of a stability issue as sometimes it doesn't get recognized when correctly when booting. It looks to me as though yours is connected and functioning. Some of these may be basic questions please don't be offended. You have run twisted pair to the camera (Cat3 or Cat5)? Did you use normal say 18/2 or 22/2 alarm wire? Have you terminated the RS485 bus at the camera with a resistor at the camera? Verify your polarity and ohm out the pairs you are using. What are you using as a power supply and where is it? What version of Geovision are you using? I'm researching too as I have never used a zoom only camera myself, it has always been full PTZ or nothing. EDIT: I just reread, all you need is a serial port. I can get you a GV-COM on the cheap but I suggest adding a real RS232 serial port and the GV-NET RS485 internal adapter card (doesn't need a PCI slot on the board). Looks cleaner and never fails on boot.

If your DVR uses port 80 set your port forwarding to bring external requests on 81 to internal 80. Lots of ISPs block port 80 or charge more for it.

You know larry sells ad space here sajaan458, you might PM him.

It's simple change who you buy from. I backfocus and assemble my stuff before it goes out. No DOAs yet and as long as you don't get cheap Chinese crap few die young.

No composite (RCA) video inputs on your TV? Might consider just replacing the TV. I'm really surpised you could even tell the darkness thing you did.

It's in an obscure location in the Windows registry.