swimminginthoughts

Its very rare that a DVR supports an OS other than Windows, especially with browser access and especially a stand alone DVR. There are some though, a couple even have Non browser apps for Mac now. But otherwise there are ways to get around it, see this thread if you feel adventurous. http://www.cctvforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=19615 Yep, I've been down that road with Wine but no luck!

garyhgaryh, I'll give you a review since no one else has. I'm pretty impressed with the unit although this is the first one I've ever purchased and setup for my home. The cameras are nice, they take good pictures during the day and decent pictures at night. They are not high def or anything. I have them set on the best recording level and they are more than sufficient. The lights on the front of the unit are too bright for my taste. I unhooked the ribbon cable leading from the front panel to the MB to shut them of. Yes, I can't use the front buttons or the remote but it doesn't bother me since I can use the mouse to control it or log in remotely which I prefer. When you log in remotely, the web interface isn't that great. Not all of the options are available which would come in handy. I'd like to see the web interface be the exact interface as the on-screen interface. I bought the unit for a little over $200 on NewEgg and bought the HDD they were bundling it with it (I bought it separate though, the deal was over). It recognized the HDD and the size of it but after formatting it, it still wouldn't recognize it to record on so I sent it back and ordered one that they recommend in the user manual. Speaking of the user manual, it's not that great. It's very obvious that they do not have anyone with English as their first language writing it. The website is even worse. For example, go to the product page: http://global.kguardsecurity.com/main/prod_in.aspx?mnuid=1555&modid=25&prodid=546 and read the FAQ --terrible! As far as the on-screen interface, it pretty good. I have some complaints with it but for the price, you can't go wrong. Most of it is intuitive, some of it is not. Some of the broken English appears on the on-screen interface too. It boots up quickly and the network settings are simple to configure. There are lots of nice settings in there too! I originally found this thread because I was having the original problem in the thread, I could log in fine from within the network but outside I could not. I could reach it, just not authenticate. For me, the problem was I forwarded port 80 but not the media port 9000 through the router. I hate that I have to use Internet Explorer to access the web interface. I use Linux as my primary OS and this sets me back a little. They should have programmed it with a cross-platform method instead of active-x. Also, they support iPhone, Symbian, BlackBerry, BUT NOT ANDROID which sets me back as well. Oh well... Viewing past videos through the web interface works well but freezes often for me and I tried it on several computers. It flags videos with motion with an exclamation mark so finding the interesting videos are fairly easy. I'd like to see a wireless model (not wireless cameras but DVR) or support for a wireless NIC that can be plugged into the USB port. Being that it's a watered down Linux version, seems like it should be fairly easy to do. NOT being wireless meant that I had to get an old XP machine, put a wireless card in it (to connect to my lan) and a wired card (because I cannot get cable to my router so it has to go to the XP machine). So I'm using the XP machine as a router for the DVR. Since I needed wireless and it doesn't offer it, I had to come up with this solution which was kind of a pain but not a big deal. Also, I didn't see what license they released their software under, but it is running Linux and if it's GPL, it would be interesting to see what others could do with these units since they are very nice. I read where some people complained that it only comes with 50' cables but I didn't mind, I just bought some shorter cables and some adapters. It actually saved me from having a large amount of excess wire just coiled up! There's my 2 cents!