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And oh yeah. NB. I might be finished with this thread, maybe, maybe not, who knows, perhaps I might think I am on a Shakespearean Arts forum and want to post more gibberish that nobody understands because it makes me feel smarter than I actually am. NB. NB. what matters is the quantity of posts that people actually understand and which actually helps them, and the experience in the real world installing and maintaining security systems, not posts from some hobbyist noob on an english lit tantrem. Dollar Platinum Baby. Yeah.

I was in the burglar alarm industry for 6 years prior to CCTV, which also included dealing with breakins after the fact, and never seen anyone gain entry to a house via the roof .. door, windows, places that are easy access .. but roofs .. LOL thats the first, must be something in the water there!!!

If its a computer, it may, if its a small standalone DVR not likely, but the HDD could overheat - depends on the temperatures in your area - we would never put a DVR in an attic here (loft=attic right?), it would barely last a day in spring let alone the summer. However if it had no HDD, it would typically be fine as the small standalones typically just have basic power cords - but then the rats would get it.

or they could just use a paint gun to disable the cameras before entry, or cut the power, send a heavy surge to burn up all your devices, just light the house on fire one time .. or get you out on the street in some back alley before you even get near your home

Ok maybe I as thinking about the EX26LED then, I have one here and it has the same type of red filter in front of it, but this one is 840nm so no way to tell. BTW this illuminator is great, has power levels in a rear compartment, and easy to adjust. Just for smaller areas though, lights up my location great (plus I got it free, 2nd hand, new it did cost approx $400) It runs off 12VDC also. I have the EX26LED, a TDN Bullet, and another 3 cameras on the same 2A power supply .. no issues

Actually 850nm and 950nm IR are completely invisibly for human eye. The "red glow" is visible because of little side peak of radiation of IR LED within the visible range. Thus, in theory, using special IR filters which cut visible range it would be possible to reduce the red glow. Such filters are used in photography, but they are expencive. There are filters of different density. I suppose the same filters are used in IR illuminators with incandescent lamp (like UF500). Did anybody try such filters with IR LED illuminators? now that I recall I did use the UF100 940nm .. that has LEDs I think . never opened it up. But it also had the same type of filter over the front of it that the UF500 did In fact all their IR lights use a similar filter, even the EX26 LED and the little EX12

You have to use your ISP's SMTP server. That would be port 25 unless they say otherwise. Only use gmail SMTP if you can change the SMTP port in the DVR and want to get a headache trying to get it to work, which may never happen.

That would explain the UF100 being invisible also, as it had a similar filter like from the UF500, in front of the LEDs as well.

perhaps nobody has come along yet that knows that DVR? Anyway make sure the SMTP server is your ISP's SMTP server incase it blocks port 25 as many ISP's do. And you dont need an account name or password unless the SMTP server requires it. Other than that .. no idea without knowing that particular DVR.

I never used the Bosch 940nm LEDs, I used the UF500 (not LEDs) made by Extreme CCTV at the time.

Dont forget to adjust the TV Adjust section of the Menu, not just the resolution. The TV Adjust section is what affects the composite output.

Also although Im not an expert on HDMI etc, I think that is only a DVI output using an HDMI slot? Since it has no audio down the line? I dont know if that matters or not.

That is common if you are not using a balun and are using cat5 or telco wire over any distance.

I think they are spending more time on Android now, which makes sense when one can pick up an $80 android device these days that has more options than a $500 iPad. But they claim there will be a new iOS app out this or next month, no word on playback though. Its probably best to just use a computer for that, netbooks with a full OS only cost a couple hundred dollars these days, and you get a real keyboard.

i got bored of ptz like some 8 years ago.

if the HDD failed chances are something else got hit too, and also failed.

disable the alarm information popup in PSS http://www.bahamassecurity.com/articles/dahua-pss-tips.asp Also you can disable the disk full error messages in abnormality on the DVR but unless you use firmware 2.608 it will still show in PSS. 2.608 fixes that bug.

$100 vs $3000, i still have money left over to make it do it all however thats pretty low non my list of cons. The problem we had before for YEARs was that the VGA converters sucked and everyone wanted to use VGA .. now the DVRs have VGA that works good .. people complain about the composite out .

It depends entirely on the monitor used, it is crystal clear on some, not so on others. Either way it should be normal in single view, you should only be seeing this issue in Multiview. Also if you are going any kind of distance you will need to amplify it. Dont expect a $100 DVR to have the same amplifier built in that a $3000 one does.

So expensive here, after all those years was not worth it .. (plus I opened it up to clean it and that was the end of the rest of it anyway LOL)

Thats a first with a CNB camera, normally it is the other way around But in most cases if a TDN camera is stuck in BW normally means the photocell is bad, or it switched so much the ICR is physically stuck. In this case it has no photocell, it uses the video switch over (which technically sucks no matter what brand camera uses it) so it sounds like something else.

Yeah, although the brochure says its '3.6A max', they supplied a 1.5A which works fine if close enough. I ended up moving the AC adapter closer (100ft away) still using the 18/2 on the siamese and its now fine. It seems 200ft is too far, 100ft is 'ok'. Still not sure why its says 3.6, anyway. It does appear to be decent construction and quality moving parts. if it needs 3.6a, then supplying just 1.5a will kill it. get a 5A one time.

good to hear. You got a decent system and saved a couple dollars. Thats the way to do it in this current economy, unless someone is rich ofcourse

my Milwaukee drill lasted 8+ years of constant hammer drilling through concrete walls .. the thing was solid .. eventually the salt air killed the chuck when it was sitting in the garage for a couple months and by then it was pretty worn anyway .. going to get a new cordless hammer drill in the next few days, and it will again be a Milwaukee.

WDR in these cases are typically digital WDR so its not to compare with TRUE WDR such as Double Scan cameras which can cost ALOT more. Sense up is just slow shutter in most cases AFAIK - AKA DSS. 3DNR works to a degree but if you adjust it too high the video can look worse.