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It's basically a nice embedded Linux 16 channel 7fps D1 (120fps) DVR with jog shuttle and DVD burner. I love the feel, style and performance, but it's lacking just overall GUI features. Playback seems primitive and the job shuttle doesn't seem to do a whole lot. Now granted, I probably need to mess with it a little bit more, but my question is, what other brands might use this DVR and would anybody know of a good firmware for it?

I had written it down somewhere, I'd have to look it up when I get home. It's the f1axa something or other. I don't have it online as I scored a decent deal for a QVIS Apollo Pro HD 16 unit I've been playing with. But I still have the 9016.

Wow, you didn't give up! Good work!

I've been using this for a couple of weeks now and it takes some getting used to but I had an issue where it wouldn't save my location settings right away, but if I set it to US, Save and immediately reboot, it worked. It's working for motion detection, actually quite reasonably. The menus are a little lagging but it does what I need it to do. I'd have to check the firmware version I have. I mean, it's pretty simplistic but functional for my needs - the only gripe I have is how it records in 10 second chunks instead of 10 seconds after the motion stops - makes using the jog shuttle mundane. I suppose using a scheduled recording would prove that use. Anyway, I e-mailed chinapst and have yet to hear back - all I can get is the manual.

Hey guys. Just thought I'd stop lurking and go ahead an register. I recently replaced my old PC running a couple of Q-see dvr cards in favor of a 16-channel standalone. I'm looking for any type of tricks for any of those DVrs from China .. hehe. It's embedded linux with a jog shuttle. For what it is, it does what I need it to do just fine ... now I have more ports for cameras.

I see what you're getting at, though. If we could find a more popular brand name that uses the same board that supports jog shuttle (which should) then there may be an opportunity to use better firmware. I mean, the capabilities are there with this unit - I've actually been researching some Samsung DVRs that have very similar features - but then again, that's a Korean company - but whose to say these Chinese DVRs on knock offs of more popular brands? If I had JTAG plans for this one I have, I'd have no problems trying - I just don't feel like sacrificing $300 without having a way to revert. Maybe I'll take mine down off of eBay and we can research this thing - you got my curiosity going now. lol

I have that exact one. I'm actually selling one for $259 (plus SH) with DVD burner on eBay. Nothing against it, is much better than my old Q-SEE. I believe the original manufacturer is China PST (chinapst dot com). Not much there but Manuals. For a low cost D1 recorder (120 total fps on all channels) it works pretty good. The GUI is fine for what it is, except maybe the playback is a bit cumbersome, but maybe I haven't figured it all out or played with it enough yet since I'm so used to PC based DVR. I believe it's pretty new on the market - extremely efficient, gigabit NIC, 16 channel audio, 16 channel alarm, PTZ control, jog shuttle, really is a nice unit. Kind of big, too. Plenty of room to install drives, but the cables they give you with it barely reach to the hard drive holders, but it works. That's really about all I got so far.

I have something similar but with a jog shuttle. Kind of sluggish but works. Be nice to find a 16 channel firmware from a comparible model with job shuttle support. That'll be a litle bit of a pain I'm sure, but being it's embedded Linux ... well, one can only hope. The internals on mine look a little smaller, but then again, my case is huge for what it is.