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Dorough, Would you mind sharing how you rigged the relay to the HF driveway sensor? I have one of those and was wondering if that could be done and used as an input to my DVR. Thanks!!

Does anyone have any experience with the Voice Alert System-6 system? This seems like it might be a possibility. Apparently it has 4 relays for 6 zones. Are there any comparable systems wired or wireless you'd recommend?

Oh, OK. I had no idea. I was thinking a wireless system would be the easiest to install but I'm ok with a wired system if it's significantly less expensive. All I want to do is trigger the NVR to record when the PIR senses motion. Any suggestions on the simplest system(s) that could accommodate this and where is the best place to shop for these online? Thanks again!!

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I left out some critical info from my original posting. I'm hoping to find wireless outdoor PIR sensors. I am new to all of this so I'm guessing I'll have to have PIR sensors that communicate back to some sort of base station. That base station would have to have alarm outputs that I can use as alarm inputs to my NVR. Does that sound correct? I appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thanks in advance.

I recently installed the Q-See 4 channel NVR system from Costco and I'm very happy with the picture quality. However, I can't seem to find the right sensitivity setting for the cameras. I get way too many false positives. I'm considering trying to add PIR sensors to the system but I'm not very familiar with the options. I would like a system with 3 to 4 zones or expandable to 3 to 4 zones. I don't have a huge budget for this. I know you get what you pay for but this doesn't have to be perfect. Are there any budget options for this kind of thing that would work as alarm inputs to my QC804 and be more reliable than the image sensor motion detection? Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions you may have.

Thank you to all who tried to help. I believe I have it working now. The problem was that I had deselected the Audio/Video checkbox on the record settings page under the extra stream. I'm surprised that choosing the menu item "Default" didn't reset this back to factory settings.

I was just poking around on the NVR and noticed the log view option. I can see a log on the NVR for each time I try to connect from iDMSS both at the internal address and the external (WAN) address. However, I see connection failed in iDMSS and then a log is entered on the NVR that the user I tried to log in as failed. On the NVR the time stamp of the login and logout are the same. I've tried multiple different user but still no luck.

Yes, port 37777 is open. I think PSS is using port 37777 and I'm able to connect and view a live feed on PSS running on a couple of different computers inside my home network. For some reason, it's just the iPhone app that won't connect. I'm not even trying to connect outside my my network. I'm just trying to use the internal 192.168.1.2 address right now.

No, I am trying Q-See QC View from the app store and I have also tried SuperCam from the app store. I just downloaded iDmss and set it up the same (192.168.1.2 port 37777) but I only get a black screen.

Security camera system newbie here. I have a QC804 NVR and I'm trying to set up Q-See QC View on my iphone but can't get it to work even on the internal network. When I first connected the NVR, I could view the cameras on the QC View app but it later failed. I suspect it had something to do with my settings on the NVR so I chose the "Set To Default" option but to no avail. My NVR is at 192.168.1.2 and I can connect to the NVR through PCs within my network by going to http://192.168.1.2:85 or by using the pss software that accesses the same IP over port 37777. I can't understand why the iphone won't connect as well with the same settings. My settings for the NVR device on QC are: ip: 192.168.1.2 Port: 37777 userName: admin passWord: admin It seems like the QC view app is talking to the NVR because if I put in an invalid id it fails immediately with an "Invalid user" message. If the information is correct, the app will pause and ultimately give a connection failed message. Thinking I may have messed up some settings on my Router, I tried a new one but with the same results. I've also tried the superCam for the iphone but no luck there either. I get a timeout error. Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can provide.