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Not sure. there is the option.. I say buy it.. of not take it to the store and return it. I don't have any other cams to test. I just added another Hik cam to it.

On what?

That is the one I have. But with Lorex firmware. Hope one day I can get the Hikvision firmware. That one is $399 Without HDD. currently. so 700 in cameras and 100 for HDD and 399 for NVR you are good to go. $1199. for a OEM hikvision system is not so bad. You can get the firmware from the US ftp site of Hikvision. Another user on here has updated theirs to use it, I haven't tried it myself, although I did download it. I to have the NVR firmware."DS-76xxNI-SE(P) USA Firmware_V2.3.3". I thought there was some kind of SN/ID that stops the firmware from working>>?? If it works, hell I may give it a go. Edit for Firmware info

That's why I always carry. Hope the thug gets what's coming to him.

PELCO / Integral 4601-20001 card looks like it works Best offer. came from working DVR

That is the one I have. But with Lorex firmware. Hope one day I can get the Hikvision firmware. That one is $399 Without HDD. currently. so 700 in cameras and 100 for HDD and 399 for NVR you are good to go. $1199. for a OEM hikvision system is not so bad.

Well I got the Lorex system. Cost? $850.00 to my house. 4 Cameras = $175 each retail $700.00 And should work under any NVR, Software as Hikvision. 2TB Hard drive Retail $100.00 8 Port PoE Retail $100.00 4 100 FT cat 5e cables Retail $50 So cost of NVR... $0.00 Is a nice Back up to whatever PC based NVR I want to use. Ahhh Redundancy So, I don't feel so bad, I haven't lost a thing.

Wondering if anybody had luck using any other camera on the Lorex NVR Thanks,

All mine are from Lorex. I just ordered one. The Lorex one is going to go back to get fixed once my replacement gets here. So I will have 5 total. And I may get a couple more later.

If you log in to the camera you can have the camera send the email motion pic. And it looks Good. I remember somebody asking

Problem with car mount is rain. Dash mount the wipers will keep a clear view. I thought about behind grill mount and rain hit me.

Small netbook with BI and a SSD drive and a 12V to 110 converter and what ever cams you wish. That was what I was thinking. And the only time you can have to much ammo... Is when your house is on fire

Yes I was looking at getting 2 720P ONVIF, or one more Hikvision. The one Hikvision has a bad condensation issue so I need to replace it so I can send it out. And if I can get 2 ONVIF to work I was going to do that.

Today I updated my Costco Lorex Cam to 5.0.0 130412 What I did. 1) Downloaded the firmware. 2) Logged in to IP cam directly. (Uses SADP tool)(I’m using the Lorex NVR) 3) Went to system menu and then to maintenance uploaded the firmware and let it reboot. 4) Unplugged the cam for 30 second used the SADP tool and reset IP address and logged in to cam. 5) It auto prompted to update plug-in first time it gave me an error. Closed out camera window once it started the installation process and it installed just fine. That’s it. Hope this helps somebody. Took all of 10 min total. There is some cool features (Sorry I will post other settings later as I cant instal plug in on work PC

Partly. For the resolution/frame rate/on screen text, they are. Motion detection is done in the NVR for the most part. The cameras provide a continual stream of video to the NVR, where the NVR records on detecting motion (if enabled), and/or continually. The cameras can also detect motion independently and record to another location such as a NAS device. They can also feed the video stream to software such as Blueiris at the same time as feeding the NVR. I verified that they can operate independently for the most part yesterday, some settings over lap. As long as you know which, you're ok. But you don't ever have to touch the camera software if you don't want to. This is how the system was designed. I to was tinkering with BI How is the Email pics from there? I may run BI just for that. I may even have to buy BlueIris use the NVR for just recording and all snapshots from BI

The NVR Pic is worthless. the Cam screen shot is 1920x1080

I'm not sure. All I know is I was getting images from the cam. can't check the NVR settings while at work. Id say set the NVR, and than set the camera, in that order. Interesting that from your screen shot it would indicate the snapshots were approx 215k in size - which is decent. When I receive email pics (the three that are sent via email for motion), the size is only about 19-20k! Good enough to see the image, but poor otherwise. I have set the email w/ pic function from within the NVR. Maybe I should log into a camera and check the settings 'cause that'd be an improvement. I've found that if I review previously recorded video using my laptop connected wirelessly to my NVR over my local LAN - I can pause and grab a really great screen shot in very nice resolution - probably much higher than the 200K that I saw in your last post. When I sent three of them to my office in a single email, the approx size of the email was 2-3 MB. They are Full size images Same as a screen cap res is not the same. Close.

I will reboot the NVR in the morning.. But if you turn off Motion on NVR and just use the camera.. I may try this.

I'm not sure. All I know is I was getting images from the cam. can't check the NVR settings while at work. Id say set the NVR, and than set the camera, in that order.

I chose a location on the cam itself. than set the settings. I watched the detect on the cam page and it is triggering the email it's self. So the camera page motion settings are only for email and snapshots they don't do a thing to the NVR as far as I can tell. I set the snapshot settings and it's not working , haven't given it to much time. but the motion sends VERY nice 3 image sets.

Maybe look at this.. Not sure.. http://www.securitycameraking.com/videos/video/197/Video-Management-Software-Settings and here Manual http://www.icrealtime.com/docs/manual/PSSUserManual_EN.pdf

Tim. Plug in all the cams into the NVR PoE ports like normal. Download the SADP tool from Hikvision. http://www.hikvision.com/en/us/download_more.asp?id=1120 Hook a Cat5 cable from a POE port to your switch so it is on the same lan as your PC Run the program... Can you see the cams? It should find the NVR and the cams you have hooked to it. You can than change the IP of the cams to your local subnet.. 192.168.1.XXX Enter your admin pass 000000 or 12345, and save. Than log in to them 192.168.1.ip of cam. If that works. add the cams to the NVR manually not plug and play. And they should work. Any questions post back.. Im beting the IP's of the cams are out of wack and that is the problem SDAP will tell you what the cam IP's are.

It took a bit to come back up. So I removed it and sat it on my desk. The cat5 cable I grabed was bad. so after an hour and a new cable it came back fine (other than the pass was 12345 not 000000) I now have 3 that I have running 5.0.0 atm one left to do.

Flashed another....Yep. Can't get it to show up on SADP ??? Flashed.. it rebooted and poof. help reset for 30 seconds unplugged it for 30 and hooked it back up nothing. Bricked. Left it alone and its ok.... I did a reset so the pass changed from 000000 to 12345

Did you forward the needed ports in the router?