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i remember in the milestone training, that the storage needs to be formatted with a certain block size, i cant remember what that was, but ill check. cheers

ive recently received a demo lightcatcher dome and am very impressed. if you want i might be able to post a pic taken from my iphone of my dining room and then a pic of what the light catcher sees so you can compare...

You have to buy through an authorized distributor, and there are several here. You can't order them from wholesalers as you can with most other brands. Unless your down under, then you could buy it from a national distributor...

H264 is aka mpeg part 10. So milestone may display mpeg as the setting but it could be using the h264 stream.

I have tested both Dahua and Hikvision with Avigilon. Dahua needs to update their onvif driver for motion to work. Hikvision works great with motion, except you only have 1 motion window to configure.

At night my hik 2032 4mm had too much IR on the plate, and it was unreadable... But the car was parked about 5m from the camera...

In that case I would recommend a 5mp avigilon bullet. It's above your budget but gets fantastic results. I've got one looking at a boom gate that is getting plates 100m away from the camera. It's the 9-22 mm lens version.

here are two options that i've used... results are great, but you might want to stretch your budget a bit... http://avigilon.com/products/cameras/hd-pro-cameras/jpeg2000-hd-pro-camera/29-mp-jpeg2000-hd-pro-camera/ http://www.dallmeier.com/en/cctv-ip-video-surveillance/cameras/panomerar.html

all depends on budget, i would go for a small nvr at each site and then wireless link back to main site for remote monitoring. that way if the wireless goes down, cameras are still recording...

i've heard of high end cameras with sd cards being able to do that back to the nvr, but well outside your $250 budget...

And were you ever able to get them working again? The cameras are being plugged into my PoE switch - which is currently powering several other cameras. All the lights come on on the camera itself, but it doesn't seem to be attached to the network. I'm stumped. The ACTi utility isn't showing anything either. exact same issue here. Lights are on, no one home. Never got them working. i have 2 on my desk to fiddle with when (if) i get time... Mine are 1231 bullets, poe powered (even tried 12v), tried holding reset when power up for 30 seconds - 2mins.... still nothing. I've got other issues (intermittent) at the same site but found that if i reset the cameras through the acti utility, the cameras come back. if i reset through the web interface, camera is bricked...

I've had a couple of ACTi cameras not come back after rebooting from the web interface. I've even tried running wireshark to see the DHCP request but i get nothing. Its as though the lights are on, but nobody home...

im yet to see 10k sas drives in avigilon servers and expansion units. all the ones ive installed are 7.2k drives.

XProtect GO (the free version) lets me create any number of views and I can see any or all of them over the internet with an ordinary web browser or the mobile app. Like I said, retarded. I agree I wish CORE had the ability to save views but keep in mind you only have 24 cameras and you can drag all of them out with one click. This is a massive bug bear of mine. They should enable Core to save only 1 view only. Imagine having 10 encoders running on core and accidentally closing the view...

ok so here is my personal thoughts on why Avigilon's pricing is confidential. Avigilon is about providing a solution that is reliable and that works. They dont want to get a reputation based soley on price. Price is the last thing. People will automatically make judgement, and look at other products, when in fact, the whole Avigilon solution may be cheaper/better in the end. This is exactly what happened when i sold my 1st large Avigilon system. I looked at some of the pricing and thought wow... but after i added everything thing else up, it was cheaper by around $20K than the Verint or Digifort solutions quoted. Countless times when i submit small quotes without the client having a demo of the system, we dont get the work. If I demo the system first then provide the price most times we will get the job. +1 the funny part that "icamera" got price already and guess what, He turn around and offered half haha, you could always supply half of the license key...

ok so here is my personal thoughts on why Avigilon's pricing is confidential. Avigilon is about providing a solution that is reliable and that works. They dont want to get a reputation based soley on price. Price is the last thing. People will automatically make judgement, and look at other products, when in fact, the whole Avigilon solution may be cheaper/better in the end. This is exactly what happened when i sold my 1st large Avigilon system. I looked at some of the pricing and thought wow... but after i added everything thing else up, it was cheaper by around $20K than the Verint or Digifort solutions quoted. Countless times when i submit small quotes without the client having a demo of the system, we dont get the work. If I demo the system first then provide the price most times we will get the job.

can someone test if the new d/e firmware will bring motion recording to avigilon? i have tested the d/e cameras before but they were only onvif 2.0 i think... cheers

The cameras get detected as type HIKVISION (ONVIF) and yes the motion works. if you need to adjust any of the motion settings it is through the cameras web page not in cameras settings on avigilon. Just remember that pixel search will not work like the avigilon cameras, as the motion on these cameras is for the whole frame not like the avigilon cameras where is pixel based... Running these cameras and the avigilon software imho is the best bang for buck at the moment...

The 2032 works well with Avigilon.

can you please upload a quick video of the issue? 10 secs? Native format is good. Also can you take a pic of the camera settings and frame rate? how is the camera powered? What is the network layout for the system? Have you tried a factory reset on the camera yet? cheers, Ash

Sorry to say but not gonna happen for that price down here in oz unless you find something cheap on ebay. If you double the budget you could be in luck with maybe the Dahau cameras and NVR, or maybe even the Hikvision products. cheers Ash

If you are down under in oz, let me know. Cheers

Avigilon for sure. With Avigilon you can setup users and groups. So you can enter all the units as users, and then setup groups for certain cameras and then apply the users to single or multiple groups. You could even give them iPhone/iPad or Android access too. I'm sure someone here might be able to upload a pic of the users/groups screen... Cheers, Ash

yes, but there is a but... Client 4 and Client 5 can run side by side, however they cannot be installed on the same machine at the same time. Avigilon are going to release a v4 client "no install" version that will just run allowing you to install v5 and then just run the v4 client. I havnt checked the partner portal yet to see if it has been released. I saw somewhere that it would be on friday, but which friday i have no idea...

Thanks. Has Avigilon implemented ONVIF 2.2 and Profile S? I beleive they are onvif 2.2 Recently i have been testing onvif cameras with Avigilon I've tried the following brands. ACTi - E32 Hikvision - DS-2CD2032-I Dahua - IPC-HDW2100 Ganz - ZN-MD243M LG - LND5100 Sony - SNC-CH110 Pelco - IL10-BP (wouldnt connect at all) Of these, the LG and Hikvision and Sony were the only ones that would get motion recording working. The Acti was Onvif 2.2 but wouldnt work with motion. The Sony was the pick of the lot in terms of ease of setup. The others i had to create motion zones in the camera web interface 1st and then Avigilon would get the motion. Most of the others would connect and record but only continuously... Still bear in mind that it is no where near like the Avigilon cameras motion detection and pixel searching is not as good with the 3rd party onvif cameras as you are limited to massive detection zones. Hope this helps someone out there. Ash