CollinR

When are they stealing stuff? Who do you think is doing it? How are they getting in/out? Security and inventory control go way past CCTV, CCTV is almost always reactive. It's goal is usually to help capture evidence of something for future use. There are simple proactive methods (like the lighting you mentioned) that have excellent bang for the buck ratios. If you can concentrate as much on preventing the theft as you do on capturing it.

Obviously you should not use port 3389, the first part of securing anything is obscuring it.

Thanks man that's awesome.

How do you ensure you get the right northbridge? I haven't ever seen Dell calling out specs.

Idon't know for sure which DVRs will support it but Palm has a java browser out there.

Put a video card in the POS that has a composite TV output, then run that to your DVR's camera input.

nor am I.

Does GE still make an alarm control (Caddx)? If so I would wire the DVR as zones NO and supervised. I haven't seen too many DVRs that I would really consider as an alarm. Yeah you can use a regular automotive relay that will suppoer the 12v current, just put the relay after the transformer they installed when they converted the bar to run on 110. Then you have no high voltage issues, if you wire it up NC the light bar will work as normal when not connected to the DVR. You will need to bring the 12v from the power source to both the relay's NC side AND through a tiny fuse ~1ma to one of the DVRs relay contacts though some 22-2 wire. Bring the other DVR contact up the other conductor and to the relay's in the light bar's trigger. Unless you have another LV power source (camera system) that you would prefer to use for suppling power to the relay's trigger.

I think this is a perfect dealer area question...That is all.

Ditto.

What is this you speak of? (I asked for a demo at one time but never got a reply so I know jack about the ICrealtime's inner workings.)

Excellent post man, don't need to ask too many questions you had also checked into the hardware before purchase thats awesome. What are the settings on the other camera inputs? You should be able to record realtime on one channel but if it's got 7 more cameras on it at the same time it will get "jerky" when objects move. If you record a totally still FOV you should not see any jerkiness, if you do you have a real problem.

Yup it's still not right as I can see it. Yup user groups is how I do it.

A thank you from me and I bet this will slow down your PMs too.

This can happen on shared hosting for a variety of reasons, nothing to do with the software attempting to connect to the DB. Riight. I've done both too, I'll keep my OS community support. Makes me feel bad not releasing my snippets, VB hasn't ever offered to pay for them. Even if they include it in a new release, thats just chitty.

I see some liability concerns here, dunno how your state works but in OK they are pretty dang picky when it comes to panics, fire and duress signals. I'm pretty sure those would be considered duress.

Set your MTU at 1400 and see if it stops flaking. If it does you can increase it slowly, mine likes 1492 flakes at 1500. I think this is totally an ISP issue, it only has ever effected my DSL accounts, never a cable.

Have you modified the MTU setting in router? Broadbandreports.com suggests it but it can often cause flakely troubles if set too high.

Do they not have a burglary control? If they do it's no problem, if you can find out who made their alarm control?

They priced themselves out of my consideration. I just went and looked at it a month ago, not that impressed... Probably good for a what they call "standalone".

100% agree... I would think it might open up the PC specs as well but I haven't seen Geo saying it. Via northbridges would probably still not work but you can slash the CPU. I know with real hardware compression to MPEG2 (Hauppage 250) at 720x480 on 2 realtime channels produces ~10% processor load in a P4 2.8 with XP not stripped, a nice GUI displaying the video buffer and multiple other small apps running. Anywhere in the specs that Geo says depending on CPU speed talking about recording rate, it should take it to realtime almost regaurdless of CPU.

Do they really need each camera independently? If not you can do it on 1 channel if your DVR will output a baseband multiplex. Otherwise yes you can use 4 single channels or 1 4 channel modulator to get it to the UHF/VHF channels of your choosing. This can really get complicated if they are using a digital service over the incoming coax, it can be done but the more channels, crappier modulators and notch filters you use the more likely you'll have an issue. You amplifly (bi-directional and high frequency) and split the incoming signal 1 passes straight to their cable modem. One can go to be split off for all the TVs in tha house and the other gets filtered and injected. If everything is kosher you can install a splitter backwards between the modulator output and the passthrough cable before splitting it out to the TVs.

My problem is it doesn't even fit... CCTV is any local broadcast television, it includes things other the surveillance. I see it becoming more popular to use the term electronic security as I see the near future holding an all in one alarm control/remote monitoring/firewall router thingy.

Yeah it and the 700u are both great products, do you have COMPLETE lighting control in the room? This thing has plenty of light output but if there is a E or W window behind the screen that you don't have covered it will effect the result.

slipstream them mofos!