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You've convinced me. Arecont was out of the picture already, so to speak, given the lack of auto iris and ir cut in one model. Any alternatives?

I really like this camera(actually had the 2500) but had to send it back because the Long Exposure mode has a major flaw. It always integrates the number of frames selected regardless of the amount of light so when daylight comes, it completely goes white from over exposure. Sanyo tech support said this is how it's supposed to work and that if I needed to use the camera in the daytime, then I should not use Long Exposure and have enough IR lighting at night without the need for this feature. All the other cameras I have, Toshiba, Panasonic, and Pelco implement this feature correctly in that the selected frame integration number is a maximum and up to rather than fixed regardless of the amount of light. i.e they all back off to no integration when there is enough light. The video clarity on this camera with a good megapixel lens is very very good. Much better than my Panasonic WV-NP502 3 mp camera with the same lens or the panasonic lens made specifically for it. Is there another 4 mp camera out there that would be equivalent in performance and price but without the long exposure frame integration flaw? I was considering the Arecont cameras, but it doesn't look like you can get a day/night ir cut feature with an auto iris feature in the same camera. This is a deal breaker for me because I need the iris to close down during the day to provide a sharp image over a wider depth of field.

That's much simpler than the one I've been using. I used a url snooper to figure out what my video surviellance software was sending as it supports that camera. Then I used the URL below, after incrementing the channel and user id, in my ip cam viewer app on my droid x. The problem is that it appears if you open it up too many times, the camera becomes unresponsive and returns errors from the http request even when you open it up directly in a browser. I suspect the connect=start starts a stream and then requires some sort of closing of it. So I think I was causing a resource leak. Hopefully your solution will fix this. Thanks! cgi-bin/jpeg?connect=start&framerate=5&resolution=640&ch=2&UID=2

I went to the GeoVision website. Couldn't find anything on features plus it looks likes it a video capture card only type solution. If this is incorrect, please let me know. I really would like to find software that does IP and capture cards. A program to convert the IP to something that a VFW program could use would take up entirely too much CPU to make two 1280x960 and two capture card streams fast enough. The go1984 demo, even a year ago before the interface redesign allow you to use all features but the program was limited to using for only a month.

OK, wow, guess you didn't actually read my post. I already mentioned LuxRiot in the first post above. Already tried it. It has *NONE* of the features I mentioned above and has only very basic motion configuration. It's not even close to the current version of go1984 Enterprise edition. Maybe it was compariable to much older versions of go1984 but I need something that can do what go1984 does *now*, not 3 years ago.

I'm setting up a home video surveillance system. I have 2 Toshiba IK-WB11A IP cameras and two Osprey video capture cards with two Pelco cameras. I need software that does *ALL* of the following: 1) Reliable. 2) Software motion detection and needs to be efficient and configurable for sensitivity in both size of blobs and rate of change. 3) Needs to have maskable areas of relatively high resolution to mask out things like moving plants. 4) Pre and post recording around motion events by either number of frames or specified time(I don't care which). 5) Alarm event notification: Must be able to launch application for each alarm in each camera or single application with different command line parameters. I need this because I'm writing seperate software in LabVIEW that is integrated with my alarm system and I need to be able to launch instances of VIs through the command line for different cameras. 6) Remote viewing over a browser based inteferace. 7) Video storage maitenance. Pluses would be: ptz control of IP cameras, alarm on camera lost or disconnect, additional alarm options like playing sounds, sending emails, etc. Go1984 does all of these, but I'm hesitant to buy the license because it's $850. That in itself is not the problem. The issue for me is that the company, Logiware, is in Germany and they've been very unresponsive to my questions. I think they pretty much ignore the US market, so if I had any major issues, I think I'd be SOL and out $850. I tried their 2.x based product about 2 years ago and it did everything I needed above except the remote viewing. When they came out with the new product, I was not able to try it because they left cookies from the 30 day trial and didn't think enough that if you didn't buy it back then that you might buy it now given how completely new the product is and changed the cookies so that one could try it again. Oh well. I'd really rather find a US produced application. I've tried just about everything I can find and so far, nothing has been even close. LuxRiot isn't even in the same league.