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Every GV card I've worked with has the Model name printed on the PCB, Except one old school gv250. Thats the green PCB so its old, and its got no markings so that's either a clone, or really old like, you'll be lucky to run gv 8.11 old, your better off looking at version 7.xx software. Another really easy identifier, is install the drivers first then go into your hardware page and see what your system recognises it as. Gut feeling says its a clone, it doesn't look quite right to me.

I'd recommend tracking down a new Geovision version 5 Gv650 or Gv800 8channel card. The new Version 5 cards (The PCI-e ones) work really well with Sandy Bridge (The older version 4 ones have some issues) They work fine on 64bit Os's, I run them on windows 7 64bit professional all the time and they are really solid. I've never seen them run on WHS 2011 but they do run on windows server 2008 (which from memory shares a lot of the same drivers/compatibility) best of luck!

I think I used that bottom link you have there as a cheap 8 channel multi-plexer for a customer once (It looks the same but I don't know the brand) I was amazed when we realised it was in fact a full dvr, Yeah you just mount a standard 3.5" hdd in there it will work fine. It was a cheap DVR devoid of any advanced feature sets, lacks I/O but it worked. Depends on the application really. Oh and for the HDD I'd recommend WD Black hdd, as they have a sweet warranty and they tend to handle the high writes associated with camera use a lot better than your generic hdd.

From Memory the early versions of the GV250 don't stack, In fact I don't think i've ever seen a dual card GV 250 system. Your probably better off getting a single gv600 or gv650 8cam + card

3.51 from memory should be a 3.51 (s) card in which case you can run a much later version of the software on a 32bit os, I'd give 8.4.0.1 a crack and see what happens. Best of Luck

Hello all, My Name is Chris, I work for a company called seedigital, We deal mainly with Geovision equipment, and due to the nature of their products (Specifically the capture cards), a lot of things must be learnt by trial and error. So I am more than happy to tell help in the ways which geovision hardware and software have and have not worked for me!

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Have you done an Auto Gain adjustment?

VMS, Like through a 3g connection? None that I know of I thought he was using ADSL

Oh and the geovision ones can on motion as well, but your right not a lot of brands do it.

Geovision cameras can by default, You set them to send compressed attachments to a server on an I/O activation and I've been able to get it to work with A couple of Messoa cameras as well. I don't know what he is running its all ideas at the moment

Your not going to have high quality (high Res / high frames) camera footage with these kind of restrictions, With 5 cams I doubt its going to be feasible So think a bit outside the box, how many frames per second do you actually need? maybe 4-5 per camera. You want to have enough to identify a threat, record general incidents you don't need a full 24fps per camera. Record on motion/ Stream on motion it will reduce traffic, most DSL connections are not going to get 4mbps upload, maybe 1.5mbps upload depending so get smart with your bandwidth allocations. The cameras generally have a few seconds worth of buffer / pre record so you could use detection at site linked to the IP cameras I/O (most of them have some form of single port I/O) put a beam on the door, when people enter take like a 4-8 second clip, Same as the car park get a PIR out there and record/stream on an activation. You got a hell of a challenge! but you can make it work!

Geovision NVR can do it, it would be a hell of a job to setup but It can be done. How many cameras do you have per site? and whats the approx speed of the connection? (we sell Geovision so i'm always going to reccomend it, but some of the guys here have some wicked software which could probably do it as well)

I agree, Wireless cameras are generally pretty average. That said we have a solution for some running over 370 odd meters away, using some directional edimax outdoor wireless access points. They use a single antenna standard of "N" wireless and you align them like beam you can get some sweet distance (they reckon anywhere upto 2km but I think that would be pushing it) and they can do up-to 150mbps (though you'll probably only need 7-10mbps for it to work reliably) We used a set of analogue cameras over a video server (I think they call them IP encoders in these forums) and then linked them to the wifi access point. They work with PoE so you mount them up a pole with a single Cat5 they are pre-sealed but i'd put some additional silicon in the base. We have them running 6 months so far with no issues, you do need to pick a decent wireless channel that's somewhat free or else you will get the standard wifi issues. This solution was a point to point solution, It can run in point to multipoint but I have not done that with them as of yet, but check it out!

Yes, I brought a tablet and barely used it for months, was going to sell it until I did a night course and it became the handiest thing in the world. You can view notes edit it on the fly, (muck round during a boring lecture....) Depending on whether your text books are available on-line you can save some $$$ by purchasing them on the kindle site (or location them through your uni/polytech). I recommend anything tegra (nvidias arm based processor) powered. Asus Transformer is probably a really good idea if your going to be doing a lot of typing, snap in that keyboard and away you go. battery life is generally really good on them, yeah do it. its a really good alternative to a netbook/laptop

Could be a super easy solution, Start IE as admin (right click, run as admin) install those active x controls and lets see what happens.

But yes fully agree with CCTV_Tech, Its awesome when it works! Trick is to get it stable on a test bench first (use a camera amplifier or duplicator to fudge a whole bunch of cameras, or hook up a whole bunch of cameras) sort all the niggles out. Soak test it for a week, make sure its doing exactly what you want it to do in terms of recording (right frames per second, storage location, resolution) then clone that hard drive! and shelve it. If you keep using the same hardware you can keep cloning that master drive, just put the new windows key in each new machine to make it legit and your good to go. Downside is if you don't iron out all the bugs, then yeah you will be essentially cloning a fault so do it once do it right! Best of luck

I agree! good luck with the build

I have another fix from Geovision, and that's keeping them up for 2-3 days at a stretch, If anybody else is having similar issues PM me and i'll email it to you.

I think that he means use Cat5e or above grade (Cat6, Cat7) and use a big "Rope" of Cat's with an active receiver back at the DVR (and repeaters higher up the building if need be) Its a good solution, the only downside is the amount of Cat's that you would require Essentially 1 Cat cable per floor heading back to the DVR. BUT That said it would be come easier the higher you go up, Floor one will essentially have 20 Cat's going down the Conduit, floor 2 would have 19 and so on and so forth. If you can swing it this would definitely be one of the best solutions, and if you want to upgrade to an IP setup later on you've already got cables in place just re-purpose them for Ethernet and plug a 4 port switch in at each floor!

That card is pretty overkill in terms of Frames, How many frames per second do you need? and are you recording on motion or 24/7? Not a huge amount of Information on the PC side of things either, Geovision cards can be temperamental in terms of chip sets and compatibility. Not to scare you off!, Awesome system once its working! but giving you a heads up. The PCI-E flavours of cards work with pretty much anything Intel based, (Im a huge AMD fan, but Geovision plus AMD based equipment for me at least has been woeful) The PCI versions of the cards are a bit different they have random crashes and errors with Intels Sandy Bridge based stuff due to the lack of native PCI support, (The MB which have PCI go through a 3rd party controller) If you post the Specs of that Dell based system i'm sure somebody here will help determine if its compatible for you.

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All Good Options, personally I Would look at a Video server (We use Geovision ones but you can use whatever brand tickles your fancy), It takes 2 or 4 analogue cameras (Depending which model you use) and Runs them over the TCP/IP network, so you could put one each each floor and then use the internal network to get it back to the DVR. As long as their internal network is a half decent speed you should be fine, Else just patch it in to a separate router downstairs and segregate the cameras from their network and dedicate it solely for the cameras. Alternatively if you do want to run your own cable, for longevity / upgradable life cycle look at what distances you can get long (10/20/30meters) pre-made fibre cables (which aren't all that bad) and Daisy Chain media converters to each floor. Ok thats a bit crazy but still doable, a Media converters are cheap and can be upgraded, premade fibre cables are reasonably cheap. Its crazy but maybe somebody else can build on this for you.

Seriously, Imitation hardware never has the same capabilities as the original. I haven't seen one run it yet but i'm not about say they don't exist. If there is anything I have picked up on its the GV 800 is the big one that they are cloning. I'm still new here myself and i've already read the posts on how Imitation hardware and cracked software is frowned upon and rightly so. So not only are you running the risk of running inferior hardware, but your also looking to loose the free support offer by the forum. There are a large range of stand alone products out there which can do 16 channels which will probably cause you less grief, less features but it really depends what your wanting to do with it. I love Geovision kit, but it has a time and place and if your not using all the advanced features.... then go for something cheaper and easier to use.