jdjeff58

hi. motion or always record does not effect your HD that runs 24/7 all the time. That's good to know.

It's an all in one Revo Sytem. Here's a link to the bullets http://www.revoamerica.com/Products/ProductCatalog/tabid/210/a/View/p/40/RCBY24-1.aspx The domes are identical electronics just housed for indoor use. The specs are linked on that page. And I also hear what you are saying about running a hard drive non-stop.

To Tom and shockwave....I sort of suspected what each of you are saying. I must say that daytime motion sensing on this equipment works very well....I should really say 'excellent' But at night, I'm having a hard time finding the window where it will stop recording noise and still pick up a human. Seems like the only way I can be 100% sure of capturing nighttime activity, is if it's recording non-stop. I don't know why I get so anal about saving hard drive space. This DVR will do a wrap around and over write...which I guess when you think about it, is a good feature to have in a case like this. But then again, I spent more than I can really afford right now on this system and wanted to be certain as to what I should really expect. And with the stellar daytime performance, it had me really guessing whether there was an issue with the DVR. But I think you guys cleared up my suspicions about night vision in general. Thanks for the quick responses!

My first post here. I just set up a 16 channel Revo system with 5 outdoor bullets and 3 indoor domes. All cams have an advertised 66' night vision capabilities (or 24 LEDS). The DVR is the latest generation I believe, DVR4 with 2 TB storage. I got the system up and running so far with the 5 bullet cams and everything is working to my satisfaction accept for some flaky issues capturing motion at night. There are seperate day/night sensitivity settings, and min block settings. I found out pretty quickly that the default settings for night were too sensitive and all 5 cams were recording constantly. So I tweaked everything back until there was no recording taking place and now I'm finding that it won't detect (or intermittently detects) a human being walking in the field of view. I had tech support on the phone a few times trying to resolve the problem which included a firmware upgrade and some starting points they recommended for motion settings. They have graciously offered to replace the DVR if necessary, but I'm just curious as to what to expect from a consumer grade system like this one. I chose this system due to some decent reviews and paid a little more I suppose for a higher quality camera than some of the other lower priced brands. I guess I wanted to post in here to get a feel for what I should really be expecting from a system of this caliber. And I was also wondering what I should be expecting from night vision motion detection in general. It's pretty obvious that some of these false positives are due to noise and sensitivity must be dialed back. Seems like on my monitor, the contrast is low compared to day view during the night....especially on some of the shots with no structure in the image....like down the sidewalk on the side of my house. So when I try to compensate, then the system struggles with human sized objects walking right through the center of the frame....much larger than the min block settings. Doesn't seem to have any issues with moths or cars driving by in the distance though. Should I go through the hassle of exchanging the DVR? Or will I just have the same experience. Should I not fret over hard drive space and just let it run all night? Or could there be a real problem here. It's not really camera specific since it's doing it on all 5 cameras....internittently picking up humans that is. I don't know if I gave enough info to solve the problem. But I guess a start would be to find out something like, "Yeah, setting up night vision motion detection could be a real bear." That type of thing. I aprreciate any insight on this. Thanks