Adam Daley

So I picked up one of those Fisheye cameras that GeoVision has now, set it up this afternoon in my work shop... check out the video. This is playback not live. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1513501672914

Howd you make it rory? Which files/etc... did you have it copy/etc...

Ohh??? Do tell rory... did you write something or does geovision have some install file? Id love something where i can install all 8.3 driers or 8.4 drivers... some clients use different versions and id rather send them their exact version. A simple exe to install all that will save me time/headaches

I actually havnt run into any issues really. The only real issue is lac of macintosh support and a wide variety of support across cell phones.... other then that none really. The hardest part we face i guess is getting customers to login to their DVRs and enabling the active X controls. GeoVision CAN be a bit of a pain to get all the activex installed the first time. after you login and allow active x you have to log back in, then install them, then log back in, then finally run it, then on to the next option (like view log or single cam view)... it can be a pain in the but... otherwise no issues, they make a lot of accessories we use. i wish they had more PTZ support, i have a few clients with some very old Bosch style PTZs but other then that, so far no big issues. they need to tweak their auth server program, we've had a few issues with it staying stable, it tends to crash

Why are you guys even arguing about this? Its another fisheye camera that you can buy/sell your clients. Just like you have hundreds of domes to choose from, now you have more fisheyes. It may not be the best but for my money you can be damn sure i'll be pushing them. Since i push strickly geovision products this is a great item to sell to my clients who use geovision systems. This will be GREAT for jewlery stores that need a lot of coverage. Put a few of these up in addition to the domes they use and they got even more coverage. Its great for entrance ways also, you can follow someone as they enter the whole area and not lose them

Yeah that mobotix looks way better quality then the geovision... but im sure its really expensive right? Also how do you "decode" the fisheye representation? With geovision, since i use a geovision system, in 8.4 they added more buttons for fisheye. The geovision fisheye camera also has a built in web interface, just like their other IP cameras. I dont use that as i stream it to my DVR. Its only 1 or so megapixels though i believe, but they have a higher one coming out im hoping is really good quality. For what it is its pretty damn good, but id like to see better with a newer camera of course.

I havnt seen the other fisheye camera yet... so cant really comment, but all i can say is that they can't really patent a fisheye lense... its been out for a LOG time. Im sure there was a patent or something on it at first but its probably passed... thats like saying any dome camera has to pay royalties to one company because most dome cameras look the same,even bullets look the same... the geovision does look very similar to theirs, it even has the holes like that one... but has a 3 screw down patern opposed to 4... then agian maybe they are rebranded, who knows... im not sure if geovision manufactuers their own lenses/camears or uses one of the top companies overseas to do the manufacturer... most cameras seem to be made by the same people. i dont know who the lense is.... didnt really read the specs. its one image thats recorded btw, the software "decodes" it so you can look around the image, does a pretty good job of it.

It doesnt seem noisey when moving around, pretty smooth. What you see above is what i saw (as i recorded it from my iphone). Its only 1 MP i believe so the resolution isnt that high. Id like to see it better quality but they do have a 2nd one, which is higher MP coming out... but for what it is and what it cost, its pretty damn good. It covers 360 degrees of my office. I dont think you can set it to move around till theres motion, as its not a PTZ, its recording 360 degrees. The software digitally converts it to make it appear as a PTZ, but the real image its recording is a fisheye looking image. I'll post a video shortly of how that looks actually so you get an idea of what it looks like before the software takes over. Update: heres the video of the camera without anything done, so yuo can see how you kinda need to use the software to enable the fisheye playback: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlQJ8xKZko

I upgraded our office DVR to 8.4 since we have the fisheye camera now... i havnt tried my iphone app yet with the office... i cant install the new iPhone app, it wants iOS 3.2 or higher, which doesnt exist for iPhone anyway... but i dont want to upgrade to 4 since my bluetooth in my car has no volume controls with 4.0 and im afraid the same on 4.1 so im stuck on 3.1.3 still

It is an IP camera... supports local power and PoE (we're using PoE). Setup was as easy as any geovision ip camera. Its megapixel but its not the higher one. They have a higher megapixel camera coming soon. Its about the price of a few cheap domes... about the same price as any geovision IP camera you'd buy actually.

Got ya beat... my home DVR is on an old dell with a P4 2.8GHz and it runs just fine. Im also running other software on the background (i stream a police scanner to my website so im running a media streaming program on there as well as scanner software). Works fine for me. Its only a 4 channel of course, but still it works.

So heres a simple question, and i did this a long time ago but can't do it anymore... how do i take a geovision avi file and convert it to a format other then the GeoVision codec? So I can use it on facebook/youtube. Im using virtualdub, but can get my hands on any software package. I did this years ago but everytime i open it and pick a different compression codec, it doesnt save it properly for uploads... driving me nuts now... any ideas here?

Yeah i'll give movie maker a try... simple enough to use, downloading it now for W7 Update: It worked. Thanks a bunch... heres the video I was working on... some guy almost backs into me as he pulls a u-turn in our parking lot (im in red truck)... then he peels out from the lot leaving tire marks http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1513173024698

I believe they just released an android app and some new blackberry software

So how do I use multicast? I have a few clients with multiple DVRs on the same network. Im testing it out with one client who has about 6-7 dvr's on one network. I enabled multicast in the webcam settings and first tried making all the ip's the same but when i ran the multicast software it kept scrolling through all the locations. it would show the one, then change to another. how do i get them all listed on the screen so i can put them where i want and/or display them all at once??? i couldnt find any documentation on multicast in 8.3.1 and higher, just the older version.

Ummmmm i believe all wireless... at least the dvr's themselves are on the same network but in different buildings, which are connected to one another by a wireless network. Same subnets/etc.. same router, just wireless not wired. Ya think maybe the wireless devices are causing an issue with multicast?

Its a WRT54GL - no switches. Its part of a huge wifi network really. Cable - Linksys Router - DVR #1 Then attached to the Linksys Router is like 2-3 access points. They shoot the signal to another building.. and then it also shoots it across the water to an island where we have like 4-5 more DVRs setup, each in different places. Its part of a mesh network i guess. Anyway the few machines on the same network on the mainland, i disabled the multicast filter, but same thing. It keeps rotating throgh all the sites, doesnt list them all

Umm i dunno your standard Linksys router... WRT54 or something, or is that the wireless model... i'll check the settings in the router about multicast and all

Heres a video of the issue im having. I have two dvr's setup and you can see it switches between them: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1438907128097

I am the IT guy. Using a linksys router, nothing fancy. They all show up, sorta. They keep showing up and scrolling. Like it never LISTS them it shows one location, then it switches to another and it keeps doing that for all of them. They dont list on the page its more like they keep going on top of each other in the list

Yes I did. The DVRs are all on the same network, i have about 5-6 of them on one network (192.168.1.201 through .207 for example) On DVR 1 i made the multicast ip 244.1.1.2 on the 2nd 244.1.1.3 on the 3rd 244.1.1.4 etc... Ports 8300 on all. When i run muilticast i click configure and enter in 244.1.1.2 and port 8300 and it shows DVR #1 but how do i get the rest of the DVRs to showup? If i make them all 244.1.1.2 in their webcam settings, athen they all showup in multuicast but it keeps cycling through them all, it doesnt list them.

Installed it from GeoVision CD. I hit configure and then all it does is lists my network card and allows me to put in 1 multicast IP and 1 port number i have more then dvr, so how do i configure it to see all my dvrs, ive only been able to have it see the one

The newer cards give you either a USB header (which i use, the usb connects inside the pc case) and a USB cable that connecst to the gv-net board. I prefer internal connection, it doesnt "disapear" but if i forget i still use the external usb as a backup. Keep in mind you need 1 gv-net card (or the com box? i think its called) per PTZ type (at least in my experience, i couldnt run two different kind of ptz protocols with 1 expansion device). Being its all usb, its all limited to the amount of usb ports you can have (and that maxes out over 100 with usb hubs and all) So basically you have your DVR. Then theres a GV-net card (looks like a pci card, but it doesnt plug into the motherboard, it just sits there, it connects via usb and gets power via an internal floppy power cable). Then you connect your ptz (data wires/485 whatever you call it) to the card (theres a + and - on the card).

Yeah cheapest card you'll even find I believe is the 250-4 if you can even find it anywhere... the cheapest 4 channel is the 600-4

Not that i know of, not in multiview anyway. You can tell it which monitor to use for the viewing if that helps, but you can't break it up in multiview as they dont do floating windows. Maybe control center does something like that... you can always play with the multiview program settings: C:\Program Files\DMMultiView\DMPos.exe