CollinR

I have had 0 problems and I do 100% Cat5 now.

I use JASC paintshop pro and have had no issues with evidence usually they are very thankful. However I always submit an unmodified original watermarked version for whatever they need. Going beyond on your copy doesn't effect the original.

Right now you can do digital PTZ but the cost will be pretty high. Digital PTZ is a camera that has multiple imagers pointing in multiple directions. So in essence you are capturing the entire field of view all the time but can be rendered as a single NTSC feed that you pan tilt and zoom through after the fact. However all of the video is captured you are mearly displaying only certain pieces at a time. IF You retrofit wiring costs are high enough this may be something to consider.

You can use the pinhole in an electrical box trick, also sometimes from the outside in is easier. People don't hide from cameras they don't know about, so you can combo fake cameras and real ones to make someones movements predictable. The camera watching the DVR should always be covert.

What? I know most cameras can be captured on linux based NVRs and I know they are not using .Net to do it. Heck go get a copy of the Exaq server, notice the cygwin.dll in it's install directory. I can see them having some secrets in store.

Why go .net??? Built it in Java or X and take all the Mac and *nix market share! I hate .Net and ActiveX if you couldn't tell. lol

I used to save a couple bucks and buy them but now I only build. It's a variety of reasons. I found the cost savings in hardware wasn't worth the labor cost gained in configuring. OEMs just change up their products too much to be reimaging as creating the image takes too much time. That was a lot of why I quit buying. I didn't have a bunch of hardware problems aside from their cases aren't filtered and the power supplies often didn't fit into my cases (rectangular hole). Then the CPU heatsinks and cooling only worked well in the original case and it wound up just being easier and about the same $ to just build. Well this and I know 100% whats inside my machine, little worries of something getting changed up on me.

It's one of those two.

Home, Pro or MCE will work. Try your on board video first, I have had no issues with it (Intel stuff that is).

You are on the right track, and are a decent percentage of my customer base. You can get worthwhile cameras and baluns for $150 but you should really consider different applications require different functionality. You can do this for less $ then you might think but it should be well thought out. I further would not suggets a budget embedded unit, my systems fully integrate into your larger control systems and thats just not possible with most single use DVRs.

x2 Very nice cam.

It's an open source terminal server. I have an integrated application you can provide to your customer. They copy it to the GV machine and double click it and I have total control of the machine, needs no port forwarding/PC/Network knowledge for most. I also have control center.

I'll look at and can most likely set up VNC for you, if their web access goes through a corperate proxy and smart networking you may need them to provide remote access to it.

Really it's not Arecont it's 1/2" megapixel in general and you can put any CS mount lens on them and yes even 1/3" can be made workable. Surprising my normal fujinon lens was on part for quality with a couple few of these so called "megapixel" lenses. The reality is your options are small and expensive further effecting your bang:buck.

To my knowledge there is no such trade however Arecont gets you in the optics as there is only a couple few decent lenses for them. Not to mention none few of them are varifocal I haven't seen any IR corrected (not a problem on 3130) so you better have lighting and and FOV calulations done before placement is even considered. If the lens you need doesn't exist you may not even really get the option. Well that and the dealing with the rest of their needs, don't get me wrong I like em too but they are not really a beginner camera. Also I would flip flop and physically install the camera yourself and pay to have a design drafted so you maximize your bang:buck. 3 HD cams isn't really enough either, well unless maybe you live in a tetrahedral pyramid 35-40 foot tall. Then it would totally kick butt!

Well Windows and open source is kinda silly.

Zoneminder

Ganz has them.

Depends on the specific purpose of the camera, sometimes analog has the edge sometimes megapixel but each location should be evaluated. Feel free to PM me about system design or consulting, if you are even thinking about megapixel it's a no brainer as there are lots of gotchas in that game.

You have dissociative identity disorder and should seek professional assitance.

Consider yourself very lucky it didn't get your server, lighting is very unpredictable. I have a system that lost a mouse and a monitor last week, how does that happen?

It's crap.

Should work fine. 1. It's the IR LEDs themselves, if it's pointed up as in your diagram you will not be able to see them. 2. Clover sucks, bad. BTW Honeywell has a ceiling mounted hockey puck style 360* illuminator or indoor use, I haven't played with one yet but it looks cool.

None the less thats why few can properly demo a megapixel camera.

You would want to geographically located to take advantage of the internet structure. I mean each 1.3MP MJPEG cam lets say lays down 15mb and asy you wanted to be able demo 4 models, thats 60mbps. So in Tulsa you would need 60 business cable accounts worth up upstream pipe. Basically you would need an OC3 or better connection which ain't cheap.