jjandura

Just for anyone interested , I found the answer to the problem I had with time setting. It was that the DVR was set to adjust time in NETWORKS from the NTP server , and this was set to GMT + 8 and since my time zone is GMT -4 it would bounce it ahead 12 hours every 1400 minutes per the settings. What initially had be baffled was that the time seemed to move ahead at random times, but it was 1400 minutes from last time I set it.

Hi I recently purchaced a APOLLO HD 16-Channel DVR , aLL SEEMS TO BE FINE EXCEPT 2 THINGS. 1. when I run this to 1 of my tv's I can not see the edges or top bottom of screen with HDMI cable is there a way to adjust it, I seen the option to deflate top/bottom etc but this seems to not do anything.(the other 2 tv's are fine so not A BIG DEAL) 2. after I set the time it seems to be ok , but somewhere along the way it will switch from PM to AM , example , I set the time yesterday and checked it this morning so it went from PM to AM ok, but I just checked it at 7PM and it is reading on the screen as 7AM now . From the manual and settings it seems to take the time fine but I can not figure why it changes , It has now done this at least 4 times to me , is there something to check ? It really screws up finding recordings. thanks John

Hi , I am currently in need of a new DVR 16 channel. My old one a Wooju also sold by Kyros suddenly started rebooting after getting to configuration screen. This DVR had an option that allowed be to configure how the screens were displayed. Example can view 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 or 10 screens on the main display, it did this by rearranging screen sizes and position and NOT having any blank screens showing. like: ---------------------- | |____|____| |________|____|____| |____|___| | << show this for 10 camera's and can be configured any way you like |____|___|_________| Are there any NEW dvr's with this option ?? thanks John

Hi, I did start off with cheap ebay baluns which from reading here they are NOT real baluns so I did buy some real Baluns (off ebay) not passthru's like original ones I started with. Which did help on some camera's. Think tomorrow will run some 22/4 cabling for power only to the camera's and use the cat5 for video only, know this will not help for the ground loop, but till I can afford to update all my camera's it will have to do , so will also order some of the loop isolaters. question do they plug at the dvr end or outside at camera's or does it matter? Just need to get the picture quality up till I have the money to replace all the camera's , at least I will have the cabling installed for them , thanks John

sorry I did miswrite last post , I am running example blue pair to 1st camera video orange pair 1st camera power / BROWN pair 2nd camera power and greem pair 2nd camera video, using b-wire crimps to extent to 2nd camera. When I installed indivisually it worked fine problem comes in when hooked to DVR. So doubling up on the power you are using 1 power supply for both camera's? that I have not tried. I do not believe my problem is with not enough power (drop) on the line yes they are IR camera's (most of them) I guess I can run a 2nd set of wires (1 cat5 per camera) just hate to do this and have same problem when hooked to DVR. thanks for the quick responses , also the DVR I am using is a PROVISUAL since my older WooJu which I liked a lot now continually reboots, after I moved it on this reinstall relocation due to new cabling. Will probably be getting a new DVR from Nelly's shortly. thanks again

Hi thanks for the reply. What I did since 10 of my camera's are outside , originally had siamese cable but constantly had problems with loosing power or video (cheap cables) then would run another. Decided from reading that Quality burial cat5 cable would be better. So now running the cat5 to 1st camera in line then need to run the "other" cat5 cables to the next camera in line. example run blue & orange pair to first camera then need to attach next camera using orange / brown pair, so I need to crimp cables that I am extending ( think I found the b-wire as solution) camera runs are only about 40-50 feet so figured I can run 2 camera's per cable? Now running into the ground loop problems/ I think: when I installed had nice picture on each line indivisually but when attached to dvr all went to hell. Been battling this : tried a few things and cleared some camera's but will probably need to buy some ground loop isolators for others, not ready to buy new camera's at this time. Most of the camera's I have are mixed ebay deals some really good camera's some good/cheap camear's. Any good place to get decent loop isolators , triing like all to keep cost down with this cable changover ? thanks John

Hi, I have 6 outdoor camera's and want to switch the cabling over to external cat5 , and want to use 1 cat5 run for 2 camera's. Question is do I run the cat5 to the 1st camera in line, then crimp the cabling going to the 2nd camera? The camera's are (1 set about 10 feet apart) and 2nd set is about 50 feet apart. These are all outdoor camera's and I need to know how and what to make the crimps for the wires going to the 2nd camera in line. I seen the telephone type outdoor crimps are these what most people use if so how is the cable secures at the crimp point, I have been looking for pictures but have not found anything that I would think to be long lasting. thanks John