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Open Suse will work just fine and Zoneminder will still work with it. I checked your system specs and I recommend an i5 or an i7 as the Celeron is weak. I would also forget about that Seagate Barracuda too, that drive is not designed for continuous use and will fail quickly in a CCTV setup. Look at a Western Digital RE3 or RE4 series since they are designed for continuous use and is perfect for CCTV or server use. You should be able to get ahold of a 500gb RE3 fairly cheap. I do suggest you run Zoneminder on a CLI only install, no X window or any of that. You will view your Zoneminder from the browser of your other computers and devices. Running it in a CLI will guarantee more resources for your Zoneminder and will provide greater reliability in the long run. If you will run it in the CLI, you can simply got with a basic integrated graphics card and save some money on your build. If you build an i5 or i7 you will want to intall your RAM modules in sets of 3 so as to not bottleneck the bus, so go with 3 x 2 gigabyte modules for a total of 6 gigabytes.

I think I am going to take a picture of a KIO-1616 and do the same thing. Even if I do not learn what the other pin outs are for, I am sure some future visitor to the forums could use the illustrations if they ever end up installing one of these cards as I could not find this information anywhere on the web. It ended up being a case of following the traces on the board and trial and error before I got it right with what I know about the cards so far.

I believe it would still be a B&E in this state in that he was staying with me rent free and he forced open a back window on the house. The guy that shows up in the white Dodge is my friend JR. I am assuming that is the nice car you are talking about. My stepbrother ended up moving out because he was mad at me because he was mad at me. It was his own actions though that caused his anger and was not my fault he got caught in an unnatural act on CCTV. One day when he was off work I was at work, he was here at the house with his female 1st cousin. The power went off and was off for most of the day. He assumed the CCTV system no longer worked due the power being off and thought he could sneak in a quick session with his cousin in the livingroom. I guess he did not notice the slight glow of the infrared LED's on the camera in the livingroom which would have indicated the system was still working because of backup power. lol I wish he had noticed it was on because I rather would not have seen what that livingroom camera caught. He would have been smarter to have just stuck to the bedroom he was staying in as there are not any cameras in the bedrooms of this house. I always thought the cousin thing was one of those cruel West Virginia jokes, but I guess it is real. lol

There will not be an easy way to fix the color issues of the ADS-100. Just run it as B/W. Just like the other poster suggested, you can get better cameras through gadspot.com. I have bought many there myself and you can easily get two decent cameras for under $200 that will easily blow away the Swann ADS-100's. I will provide you some sample footage from gadspot cameras as I have a few of them myself.

I know how you can do it cheap and still have a decent DVR if you have an old PC on hand with a 5 volt PCI slot. Ok, get ahold of a KMC-8800 via ebay. You will find this for around $100, sometimes less. You can get a decent camera from http://www.gadspot.com for less than $100 with infrared LED lighting. If you opt to use Windows, the Diginet softwate is $99.00 through http://www.dvr-usa.com. If you want free software, install linux and goto http://www.zoneminder.com. Zoneminder is free and it is awesome. Make sure your Linux is a server install as zoneminder runs best on a machine with just a CLI, leave X off the system as you wont need it. You will access your DVR from another machine via it's IP address. You will be able to visit your Zoneminder from your smartphone, tablet, laptop and desktop with ease. Firefox works best as it can directly stream JPEG. If you use IE, you will need to set up Cambazoola as well (Java viewer) for use with Zoneminder.

Zoneminder stores all frames as JEPG images. It is heavy on the CPU a little, but performs VERY well. It is also not that hard to set up and has an excellent community. If you want to install it with ease and have mastertheknife's performance patch as well (highly recommended) then follow the instructions on this post: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17652

It is definitely a Kodicom. Can you take a photograph of the inside of the machine so that I can get a better look at the cards. You clearly have a KIO-1616 in there, but I am not 100% sure of the capture card though I am leaning toward a KMC-4400. Depending on what the capture card is will determine the ultimate value of the machine. It will more than likely be running Windows 2000 and probably Diginet 4.13 or older. These machines were dedicated to function as a DVR so they are not set up to operate like a PC where you can easily use other programs while it performs it's DVR work. It is possible though to easily make a hotscript that will allow you to use it like a regular machine.

I will still continue using analog for the foreseeable future. While IP cams have nice high resolutions, I feel the cost is prohibitive and the space requirements of multiple megapixel video raises the cost even more (good hard drives suitable for CCTV are not cheap). A well placed analog system with multiple cameras is more bang for the buck. I have installed hybrid systems in the past, but have yet to do a pure IP install. I do not consider the cloud as a solution, you need sufficient uplink to send quality video in real time to the cloud server not to mention bandwidth to retrieve as well. The cloud is also not completely under the customer's control and you really don't know who can actually see your portion of cloud. No thank you, I like have control of my own data and I guarantee you I can access locally stored data much faster than I can cloud based.

I still use Windows 98 to this very day, of course as a Virtual Machine under Linux. I like to play my old DOS games from time to time like Warcraft II, Populous III, Dungeon Keeper, Dune, Duke Nukem 3D, Leisure Suit Larry and etc. The new games are just nothing like the old school games that actually required some thought to play. Windows 98 was the last OS to have true DOS still within. I was not a big fan of the DOS that was under ME.

I see free software with ads taking over ... if it hasnt already the US economy meltdown due to credit will only get worse eventually people will stop their blatent use of credit cards so paid software will die as microsoft's OS gets worse and worse (eg win8 tablet OS), that will go a different direction eventually microsoft will loose the market and a free OS will take over the Mac OS will be a thing of the past way before microsoft is mac will be selling hardware for any OS .. to compete eventually we will be using DOS again as the new OS needs a faster and faster computer and due to economy issues people just wont be able to afford the new 32 core computers needed for those OS ... we will eventually be back to using the typewriter ... sorry if i skipped a few dozen decades Very prophetic indeed Rory. It is already heading this way. Linux is making great strides in providing a functional desktop and it is my OS of choice. I can drop into the terminal and relive those good old DOS days. Truthfully, I enjoyed computing far more in the days of the C64 and DOS than I do now, but I think the good old days are coming back as people wont have money for all the fluff that is Windows and most OEM system. It is already starting to show. With a Windows PC you need to buy virus scanner updates regularly, with each update Windows expands like a gas and consumes more system resources just for the OS forcing an ealry upgrade well before the end of system life. It is a rediculous cycle to say the least. At least in Linux, I can use a 10 year old computer easily and still play some decent 3D games. I can even leave out the entire GUI desktop and run it all from the CLI (the best way to run a Zoneminder system for CCTV). While it is possible to receive a virus on Linux, it is far more difficult and you have to login as root or run it as super user to do much damage. ClamAV is good at detecting most of the rare Linux virii out there and finds most of the Windows variety as well. Mac is overpriced for what the consumer gets. I am also not a big fan of the Iphone, Ipod or Ipad. Apple is luring it's customers into the same MS upgrade trap to get the latest an greatest. When I used smart phones, I preferred Android. It is far more customizable than any Apple OS can ever be. Most of the customers do not realize that the Apple OS is a modied BSD. One of the other open source OS's out there with similarities to Linux. While many move to tablets and lap tops, I will be sticking with the good old fashioned more functional desktop. The cloud is for the birds. Will never use it or trust it. lol

Here are some analog samples of my own house being broken into. n6JwsBClX9M This video is from my front porch camera. This is a Lorex 420TVL camera using a KMC-8800 capture card and Diginet 5.2 software from Say Security. g-Ri7FBR_Vs This video is from a cheap Swann ADS-100 facing toward the kitchen door. This camera has a microphone that works quite well. I am using the same capture card and software. The camera mic is wired into the Audigy 2 mic in port since the KMC-8800 cannot provide video on it's own.

I am getting closer, I have figured out how to wire the card for sound and video. The card works in Linux. No luck with Windows yet.

I recently acquired a Kodicom KMC8416N capture card. I am quite familiar with the fairly common KMC8416A capture cards on the market, but this is my first time of having come across a KMC8416N. I cannot find any drivers that work with this card. It is using four Nextchip NVP1004 IC's along with an A-Logics APC-915 and SAA7121H for video processing functions. There is a large IC on the board that is branded Kodicom and identified as a KM480. The identification information stamped on the PCB is as follows: KMC8416N 2007. 04. 03. Rev : 0V2 This is like no other 8416 series board that I have ever seen in the past. On the slot cover there is a port with 26 pins in three rows, a port that appears like an ethernet port though there is not any circuitry to support ethernet funtions on the card that I can identify and a BNC video out. The card has two IDE style connectors on the top as well as a 4-pin power commector just the the more common 8416A's. The top 26 pin and 34 pin ports seem to be used in the same way as they are with the 8416A. There are two 7 pin headers and two 2 pin headers on this card as well. It also has a XILINX XC95144XL IC which appears to be a CPLD. The board has several Amp circuits in the forms of two AD7812's and four LM324DG's which suggests it has audio in capability, possibly as many 16 channels though I cannot tell since I cannot see all the traces being that it is a multi-layered board. The PCB has three 64 megabit Samsung DRAM chips on it arranged around the KM480 IC. I cannot find any schematics, drivers or information anywhere on this card. It seems to be a rare limited production card that was put out just before Kodicom went under. Not even any of the common clone manufacturers and hacks in China are making this card as they do the more common Kodicom hardware. I was hoping that someone else had run across the card before and had some information that could help me in putting it to good use. Thanks

I think all of them look good except for 7 and 1 (at night). Camera 1 is awesome during the day though. Better than average setup IMHO. Your pictures are clearer than alot of retail systems that I have seen. Not bad.

RG6 is not needed for the application and will work as long as it is the standard 75 ohm type with copper center conductor, aluminum will be fine for the braid. Tear apart almost any of the elcheapo premade BNC cables and you will find that the center conductor is copper with straight ran thin aluminum wires or wrap around it, not even a true braided cable at all. Of course everything depends on run length as well and copper braiding has lower resistance and works better on longer runs. I doubt 90% braid will be different in this case because of the close proximity of the transformers. Many of the cheaper CCTV cameras out there have less shielding on the circuitry than the cabling provides. The camera circuitry itself can pick up interference from the transformers. I have seen interference from common old flourescent lights with cheap cameras close to them (picture waves). The only thing done was changing the cheap camera out for a better one and the problem was rectified. Only in Iraq have I seen CCTV on transformer mounts. lol Best suggestion is use the existing cameras and cabling in a different mount location and see if that solves your problem. If not, go for RG59 with copper center conductor and shielding. You will find it there in the Phillipines easily enough, it is common and not very expensive either.

Not bad at all for ADS-100 cameras. I would not mess with any of the settings as the quality is decent for the purpose. The ADS-100 is a camera that uses IR illumination but lacks an IR cut filter. I would not worry about the color with these cameras. For the money, you got an excellent picture and color is not needed for the purpose you have in mind anyway.

I know the Intel Atom is adequate for a KMC4400 and it's regular software.

Most professional retail systems that I have seen tend to use multiple 16 channel DVR's. They do not depend on any one box for all of their needs for fear of it going out. The reason for unused ports on power supplies could be the limits of the power supply as well. It is not uncommon to find cheaper CCTV power supplies that have 18 ports or better but only offer 12 amps of power. Many CCTV camers these days if you start dealing with PTZ and/or IR illumination will need at least an amp at 12 volts for each camera. When you start getting into retail cameras, the demands can be even greater. What model of cameras are in use? What Linux based CCTV software is in use right now? Most linux systems that I have seen without brand name tend to use Zoneminder, most of the branded ones are proprietory.

There is no helping you my friend. These images lack the resolution to work with. With CIF the camera would have to be out by the street to even attempt to obtain a plate number. These shots appear to be from two floors or more up and a quite a distance with poor resolution. You will need a 2 megapixel or better IP camera with decent optics and zoom set for on the street (this means that will be all you can see on it) to have any hopes of getting a plate number. If you go the IP camera route, there is some excellent freeware software for windows that will actually take care of recording the number for you as well. For that matter, it will record every license number it reads for you and will snapshot the image it used for you as well. This particular software works well with IP cameras but is horrible with most local cams on DVR cards,

Reasonable quality analog cameras can be aquired from http://www.gadspot.com at a reasonable price. Almost all of them will have the IR capabilities and will give surprisingly good picture quality for the price. It will be better quality than any of the common package deals. For a residential setup, any common DVR card cable of doing 640x480 will do the job. If you want something cheap, look up KMC 8800 on E-bay. You will find those under $100. They will give you eight channels at 240 fps. The software that tends to come with these cards is crap. You can get decent software by contacting http://www.saysecurity.com and getting Diginet 5.2 for about $99.00. This software runs very well with these cards and it works great on an older spare PC as well. This spare PC can have as little as 512mb of RAM and still do just fine with this software. You can always go dirt cheap and free with Linux and Zoneminder, but you will need a beefier computer for the best results if you choose this route. Zoneminder stores all frames in JPG format and that just so happens to be the way you view your video in real time as well. Keeping that in mind, you can see why the system needs quite a bit of processing power to do the job right in the case of Zoneminder. If you have a good budget, then a true Geovision system with 8.3 or better software is the way to go.

Need some specs to know for sure if this camera is any good. What kind of resolution does it state it is capable of? What kind of optics does it have and what are they set at? Is it one of the 2.4 ghz pieces of crap that you tend to see a lot of? If so, any wired camera will give you a much better picture unless it is a true IP camera. Many analog cameras offer wireless functionality in the 2.4 ghz spectrum, but many of those that I have seen have been pure junk. Stick to a wired camera unless you are dealing with a true IP camera and even then make sure it is better than the cheap VGA ones that are common out there. 640x480? May as well stick with wired analog, you get more for the money. If you go IP, may as well go into the megapixel or better range.

I use a PC based solution using an 8416A card. The beauty of the whole thing is that I have it all set up in a an Intel SC5200 case. Even without a motherboard, drives and all the goodies, this case itself weighs 70 lbs. Once you add in the redundant power supply module, fully equip the drive bays and add in the goodies, the weight gets over 100lbs. Even then the analog cables are well hidden and you wont find them just looking under the desk lol Which large computer out of five in the house is really the server for the camera system? Good luck finding it out without time to look for it in detail. You best bring some gas and matches with you to be sure you get it taken care of. lol

If you get great quality with a direct connection to a monitor but the DVR quality looks like crap, then it is time for a new DVR if you know for certain you have it set to the best it can be. Many of the Qsee and other common consumer DVR's are actually quite limited and you will find alot of them out there can only do 320x240 when it comes to trying to record at real time. I have even seen some retail stores using pitiful resolution like that. If you have a setup like that, then 320TVL will give you more than what it can actually record. You will not see much difference with 700TVL. Honestly, 700TVL is an overkill on analog anyway, you really want to look at the optics of the cameras as well as features like AWB and etc and you will find that a camera capable of 600TVL will be more than adequate for the task at hand.

Wow, I must have a truely rare card as nobody has offered their advice yet. I have gotten a driver that appears to work for part of card's function. No it is a matter of finding a software that will work with. It looks like the drive to be concerned with was the one involving the Phillips SAA chip on the card. It may possibly work with Zoneminder, but not with any of the audio capture or other functions it appears to have.

Pico2000 cards are BT878 based, they work very well with Zoneminder. That is the best bet if you want something that is free and open source.