ched999uk

I have a Maplin Sentinel 4ch DVR that has been great for the last 18 months. It was my first DVR and I have become used to the features it has. It has died and the network light and hard drive light wont come on and there is no image from the composite or vga ports. I have tried an alternative hard drive, removing power and backup battery for 24 hrs but still no joy. I tried looking for a firmware in the hope that I could reflash it but I cant find any firmware at all. Any ideas? Alternatively I have been looking at a replacement DVR. Looking at them it appears I was a bit spoiled by the Sentinel DVR. In that I do use mobile over the internet so an internet quality of CIF is great as long as it can record all channels in D1. I used in in motion record with a 3 second before the trigger and 3 sec after. I like to use the CMS to configure the DVR and review footage so one with CMS would be good. It would be great if I could get a new DVR with the same features, it would be great if I could view recordings remotely via and android phone but that is a nice to have. Can anyone suggest a cheap DVR 4ch or 8ch that has the above features or any ideas on how to get the Sentinel back up and running. Thanks for any help.

Try contacting CNM via their website. You may need a few tries but eventually an email shoudl get through. I have recently bought a cnm primus and it came with a cd with mobile software on including the blackberry. It is listed as V1.00.0 and software is dated 26-07-2013! If that's any help let me know and I will email it.