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The time servers have nothing to do with remote access, you need to open the correct ports and port forward to your DVR, what is the IP address of your DVR?

You have to be very careful about what you run in an elevator shaft, there are very strict rules on what you can run in it. Also you will probbaly get better answers if you start your own thread, as this threat is talking about baluns and you are asking for help with a camera in an elevator. But I do second the axis cameras as an option

Why "HD-SDI to be a failed attempt" ? Failed attempt may have been the wrong words, I just don't think it caught on as great as was expected as IP cameras have begun to drastically drop in price as of lately. I think HD-SDI was just a little to late for its time. This is just my personal opinion of course.

You are going to be hard pressed on a 1400$ budget, even a cheap HD-SDI 8 channel is going for between 7-900$ right now. This does not leave you much to spend on cameras, cabling or any accessories needed. Personally I have always found HD-SDI to be a failed attempt at trying to compete with IP cameras. I would say start out with a decent NVR and slowly add cameras to it.

240 will give you 30FPS per channel but at what resolution? Can you post some pics of what your cameras look like?

You will need pigtail power adapters or screw terminal power adapters and BNC connectors for RG59 cable. Sounds like the person doing the work just wants extra money. Only way it may not work is if you bought an NVR system which uses IP cameras, but I doubt that. You will need these, both male and female: And these: RG59 W/ 18/2 is a very common wire used in analog CCTV installs.

When you have the DVR plugged in have you tried cycling the input selection, I have found this to solve this problem for me in the past.

I am really surprised there is no port 80, 8080 or 443 open to provide the HTML interface.

Can you outline a little more on what you are looking to accomplish with this system? I usually frown upon packaged systems as you are usually stuck with exactly what comes in the package and this is usually 1 type of camera that does not usually fit all of the persons needs. If you want something where you know everything has been provided and are willing to live with the limitations then go with a packaged system. If you want something that can be customized to meet your needs and work exactly the way you want piece a system together, start slow, 1 or 2 camera and do something like blue iris running on a PC and work your way up from there.

Please start your own threads, do not hijack others, it just confuses people.

No alarm inputs and outputs are for exactly that, alarm signals going in from things such as PIR motion sensors, and output going out to things such as sirens or lights. The RS485 port is used for PTZ you will need a controller or an RS485 to RS232 converter this will allow you to connect and control your PTZ. I have seen some box cameras which offer the ability to zoom in and out. I also just finished installing Digital Watchdog Dome cameras that had the the zoom function as well, I will look up the model numbers I ordered.

Get yourself a go pro camera a 64GB SDHC card and a car charger you have everything you need for in car video recording.

maybe its a secured site and needs the https prefix to get you on port 443. Can you upload a picture of the network settings on the DVR? I would say try scanning the ip address 192.168.50.90 with zenmap and see what ports are open.

Can you try 192.198.50.90 and let me know if it works, something tells me 50000 is the media port try just the IP and see what comes up, if it doesnt work try 192.168.50.90:8080

Check the board for any bent or broken capacitors I have seen this before, do you get any error message on screen? Is there a hard drive connected?

You are likely to see interference and I do believe this is against electrical code as well to run low and high voltage in the same conduit. Using Baluns will not solve a problem of high and low voltage next to eachother.

Is the monitor and DVR plugged into the same wall outlet or different outlets?

I would assume the system is going to come with a 1 to 4 splitter, they usually do, if not they are only a few dollars to purchase. If the 60FT cat5 cables will work then go with them, chances are they have used a good enough cable, if you are stay inside that is, if you are going outside you will want to look at an outdoor or direct buriel cable. The cables provided are going to be like any other patch cable you buy at the store. If you are running your own cabling I always suggest to go CAT6 if you can afford it, but it isnt needed to run IP Cameras. There are several differences between 5e and 6 the main one being 6 supports gigabit speeds. As for the microphone, yes any RCA mic should work, as for specific ones, I don't really work with mics so I am not to familiar with what is good to use. The RS485 port is used for controlling PTZ cameras, you will only have to worry about this if you decide to go down that road. As far as the network issue, you are mistaken, when you plug your IP cameras into your router you are adding them to your network, the data they send will have an impact on your network, if you only have a few I dont think it would be a problem, once you are talking many cameras say 64 cameras at 5MP then you are starting to look at network problems. Usually this is only a problem on the connection from the DVR to the network, and only if you have a large number of cameras, once this is the case we like to go all gigabit on the backbone and have gigabit ethernet ports, switches and CAT6 cabling. For your home use you most likely wont notice an issue, and if you do simply buy a second router and switch and put the NVR and cameras on their own network and just connect both networks together and utilize VLANS (again you most likely wont need this complexity for a small home IP camera setup)

Do you get an error message when you try to reach the DVR via a web browser? Also when you say outside of your DHCP pool you were sure to make sure the address you assigned was still on the same network segment correct? Example if you are using 192.168.1.1/24 and you have the whole network assigned through DHCP you cant assign your DVR a static IP of 192.168.2.100 and expect to reach it without some more advanced networking. Can you provide more information on how your network is setup. Like what network range you are using port numbers opened DHCP pool allocation.

The fact you cant ping the time servers, most likely means they are simply setup to not accept ping request. As for getting to it externally, have you opened the correct ports, assigned static internal IP to the DVR and port forwarded the ports? Have you checked what your external IP address is? Pinging time servers has nothing to do with external access to your DVR, these time servers simply help keep the clock in sync.

Do you have a monitor connected? I have run across some DVR's that will not start properly without a monitor connected.

You do know a lock works quite well and doesn't need to be rebooted, it wouldnt have remote access, well I guess maybe a z-wave lock connected to an alarm system would You should install a 2 way intercom so you can also yell at the people in the pool from your bed

It may work it may not, it would depend on whether or not the DVR is storing the password in volatile or non-volatile memory. If it is in volatile memory then this password would be lost in the event the CMOS battery is removed, if it is not and it is coded into the ROM or other non-volatile memory then this would not be the case. I would suggest if you are removing the CMOS battery you remove it and leave it removed for up to 24-48 hours. If this does not work I would look for a JTAG port on the DVR and attempt to flash the unit.

I don't get it you already have IP cameras and Blue Iris, what are you struggling with? Why go out and buy the exact same thing (another NVR and IP cameras) if you already have them?

Going to try and answer as much as possible here for you. Firstly the difference between IP cameras and HD-SDI is network cameras are all digital and utilize a network simliar to what your computers do to communicate with an NVR. HD-SDI is the digital equivilant of analog cameras. If I had a choice I would go with IP cameras as they are more future proof, and HD-SDI has some strict limitations on video distance, I believe about 150FT before a repeater is needed whereas ethernet is about 350FT (I say about because that is what the standard recommends but I have gotten it to work at greater distances) So my recommendation would be to go with an IP based system and NVR. 2) Both systems appear to have the same image quality but I would but my money on the IP cameras being better. Both systems claim to have 2.1MP cameras. 3) You are correct an NVR is going to run off of ethernet cabling and a wired network much like your home computers, whereas the HD-SDI will utilize coaxial cabling and BNC connectors. The NVR and network cameras will give you a digital image, whereas I believe SDI stands for High Definition - Serial Digital Interface. If you are going with a new application I would say go all digital with the NVR and IP Cameras, HD-SDI was developed to use existing infrastructure to transmit digital signals from locations that used to utilize analog cameras. As for the power cable in the DVR kit it should look something like the one below: