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I have many DVR's that were recently taken over from an in-house group. Is there a repeatable process to obtain or reset passwords on these DVRs?

Looking to build a hybrid system that has all the flexibility of GeoVision products on an open platform.

I've been communicating with NetVision, and... well... they seem interested in the idea of a scalable product on the cheap. Pretty openh-minded guys, actually. I nearly snipped my own nose off to spite my face :/

I'm grew up in Calcasieu Parish in LC, now in SoCal I can take I-10 straight home

It's just the old analog software from Video-Insight - version 3.1.1.2 using their "Video-Insight MPEG-4" 8K frames ~ 5fps

1900 - "Man can't have powered flight" 1950 - "Man can't go to the Moon" 1980 - "Personal computers will never threaten the mainframe market" 1990 - "Sub $100 PC? Ridiculous" 2000 - "Portable computers died with the Apple Newton" You guy's have a seemingly dead-end attitude. And you wonder why more people don't buy your products. As of this moment, I have about 2000 subscribers for free broadband internet access. They make free phone calls. All using equipment the big boys laughed at and walked away from. They are obsolete before they even got started. Is your CCTV solution the next horse-and-buggy? --------------------------------------------------------- 4ch NVR attached to carrier grade wireless, fixed base cameras for access control points & high traffic isolated areas like gates, intersections, etc. 16-32-64ch DVR 1U rack mounted servers for property deployment. Video distribution via Cat5 or 25-pair cable to balun/power access points, then distribute video using siamese rg59 cable. On my existing system, I have everything dialed back to conserve bandwidth, also using multicast. 32 cameras @ full D1 consume ~ 5MBit of bandwidth at 5fps each camera, and we have had 100% conviction rate on video related incidents. I guess I could have spent the same money on a 4ch HD video system with 4 PTZ cameras, but then YOU GUYS don't foot the bill on smash-n-grab, do ya? -------------------------------------------------------- Contrary to the "nothing is free" comment, have you ever been on the receiving end of your business deals? Nothing may be free, but whoever can do it the most economically - wins. Just ask Wal-Mart, and the millions of businesses that Wal-Mart ousted -just like yourself- who wish they never had the "nothing is free" attitude. -------------------------------------------------------- The magic will definitely be in the software that ties all this krap together. -------------------------------------------------------- Show me a DVR card that uses a different chipset than the Chinese cards, and I'll show you a rebranded chipset DSP with my logic analyzer

Well, I would prefer an "open platform" as in open source a.k.a. free beer, but not at the cost of quality. I've contacted other companies and they all want me to run the same load of web-based crap software demo - and it all seems to be broken, modified, and rebranded versions of this company's CCTV software. http://www.onssi.com/ Realistically speaking, an open platform is one that can use the vast majority of inexpensive DVR cards and NVR systems available on eBay.

Oh, so this forum has life in it! I have been dealing with Video Insight since 2004, and I believe it's time to change. Not specifically away from VI, but towards a more component based, open standards system. Linux is a big plus for me, and for those of you that have never had to pay cash for 1500 Windows XP licenses, no license = good license. Right now I want to upgrade a 300 camera system spanning 4 properties, 2 of which are hotels. Also, I've been asked to provide a privately funded city-wide surveillance system in tandem to the Northrop-Grumman provided Community Surveillance system infrastructure we have now. I would (of course) like to see the most successful systems, then mirror the core components on the cheap. This being one of about 5 major projects being implemented over a city wide wireless network. Throughput anywhere on the network is 100MB full duplex, and switching fabric can handle 1GB throughput aggregate. The network belongs to me Like most projects I work on, this will probably attract a great deal of attention from forum members, and there will be tons of new traffic to this site from all parts of the world. This really is a thankless job - and I think NetVision just might do the trick. I await some feedback, but I am anxious to order some test equipment!