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You seem to have posted the same link twice.

You need an RF modulator to modulate the feed to the TV. You can do this by using a BNC T connector directly on the input channel of the camera at the DVR, or on the DVR video out without a T connector. Use the BNC video out and go to an F connector, then get a splitter and cable it up.

Your computer says the disc is blank or it cannot play the files? These are two very different things. First thing that comes to mind is you have a codec issue, next thing that comes to mind is perhaps there is some form of encryption on the disc?

If it will support a wireless adapter you should have no issues, WLAN speeds should be no problem for 4 cameras provided the signal is strong. If it wont support a wireless adapter, you could setup a router as a bridge and connect a shorter patch cable to the bridge.

What audio accessory to use? A microphone lol. ETS makes good mics.

Java and activeX have nothing to do with the image coming from an analog camera, those are used by the remote viewing application. How many channels do you need and what are you looking to spend? You have to remember even a 4000$ DVR will look bad with a crappy camera connected.

Yes, well it can be if you understand how to add a drive to a computer, you just need to plug it into a computer and see if the computer recognizes the drive, this will tell you if the drive is working. Are you hearing any clicking or grinding noises?

Pick yourself up any IP camera which offers storage to an SD card, axis, mobotix, vivotek, digimerge, there are many options, put in a 64GB SD card, get yourself some network cable a POE injector and you are set. Don't really know why you need 3 months of storage, if someone does something that you catch on camera is it going to take you 60+ days to realize and review the footage?

Is there a question here? Does the image appear grainy if you attach a monitor via the VGA port directly to the DVR? Were you sure your RCA cable was good?

All your cameras should be setup on the internal network, setting up a VPN has nothing to do with setting up cameras, you can use a hardware or software VPN, but this should be to establish a secure external link to the internal network, not for networking the cameras as these should all be on a secure internal network to begin with. I suggest you do some reading on what a VPN actually is as you seem to be a little confused. Any company I have ever been to would never allow someone to setup their own VPN access to their networks.

Have you tried accessing the hard drive by plugging it into a computer to make sure it is actually working?

You can put a 960H camera on a standard DVR but you are not going to get a 960H resolution. Regular DVRs top out at 540TVL.

What do you mean you need to start it, its a camera not a car, you need to attach a network cable, coming off a POE switch from the looks of it to the camera and have a router assign the camera an IP address, no starting required.

You want this camera to be installed in your car? How do you plan to power it? Unless you plan on starting your mornings with a dead battery.

If the second NIC is only connected to a switch there is no gateway, you need a router for that, and you can use what ever IP address provided its an internal IP range and subnet you want, I would say stick with Class C 192.168.2.x will work, dont go to a 10.x network as that is class A not needed.

Does the DVR have looping outputs? You may be able to rig something up using quads. But not likely.

Sounds like a CMS application would come in handy here, or else as has already been stated, get yourself some monitors a chair and a desk and go at it.

You can pull 2 cables just as easy as a single cable, assuming the 2 cameras you want to connect to are close together why not just run them back to the existing DVR? CAT5 with baluns will work fine, as should RG59, the choice is yours.

You want it to process and attach the video clip to the email? This is likely to be to large for an email system to handle. Or do you want it to just process the report? I know most systems can report on video loss, but I don't know about motion loss.

I would say go with RG59 as it is shielded against the low level EMF fields, don't go RG6. CAT6 and baluns sounds like you will have a problem with interference. Also CAT5 is more then good enough, no reason to use CAT6.

When you say locally, I take it you mean as in over your LAN network? Just want to be clear if you look at a connected monitor everything is fine? You need to figure out which port the services for your DVR are running on and make sure it is set to a static internal IP address, this will make things easier for you in the future. Once you have that information you should be able to put it into your browser and view your system. That setup is also a preamble to setting up remote viewing, once you have completed the above you need to setup port forwarding and determine your external IP address, once you have done all that you go to a different network, say one at McDonalds and type in your remote IP address combined with the correct port informaiton (Called a socket) and it should all work. There are some great articles in the networking forum about setting all this up.

If you tried to get it to work without the 8090 port, it tries to use port 80 the default for http, this is often blocked by ISP to stop people from hosting web servers on their internet connections.

Someone will probably hate me for saying this but CAT5 with baluns can easily cover that distance

Just remember to account for all the added power requirements or your networking gear and everything, you are likely going to need several deep cycle batteries.

Stay away from the wireless in an apartment there is likely to be many wireless routers all broadcasting junk, cluttering the channels. I don't know why everyone hates on CAT5 cabling, I love using it, but thats just me. Do you know what kind of shape the existing cables are in?