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So are you saying that the "Camera Master" is a good thing or a bad thing? Can you PM me a link? I was wondering does anyone know if an I-Phone can have an AV input?

http://www.extremecctv.com/pdf/pressreleases/PR-Extreme-Bosch-071213.pdf

I would Imagine it will just be adding some existings to the Bosch catalogue...when Bosch buy a company they tend to throw a fair bit into Development, so Bosch will probably launch something like a "bosch Industrial" range.

I wish to hell that they would design a cable and a plate for easy removal of a DVR. For example.....A lot of us use rackmounts, but we all plug in the messy little crappy fly leads, why not make a small EXtension of the VGA type connection that they have for these fly leads...IE same on both ends so that you are basically extending the fly lead socket back some way towards the back of the rack, then on the back of the rack it plugs into a small thin plate that spans the width of the rack, this has 16 BNC connectors in a nice straight line....that way if you ever need to service the dvr, you can simply unscrew the flylead extension and never have to touch the BNC's...plus its neat (I am anal). I have seen one othe system do this, it was a standalone rackmounted device, it had a caddy that the DVR slid into and pins that connected it to the caddy and then had 16 BNC's on the back of it, it meant removing the DVR was just a turn the key and slide affair and all the cables stay put....even an upgrade of DVR model meant it was so eacy to swap one out. I understand that every DVR Rack is different, but it would be so easy to map the pin outs to this back plate that stays fixed, additionally it would be awesome if you could have some way of either powering the back plate or using one of the USB's found on the back of most motherboards to allow the Geovision system to identify the back plate by way of dip switch representing a Hexidecimal number. WHY..... because that way if you have 70 in the field and you only want to update 20 of them who are all owned by one customer you could roll out to all the DVR's that are mounted to the backplate with the same dipswitch number or range of numbers and it could be done through the net. Perhaps the second part could be done within the software anyway, but DVR's can be upgraded or rebuilt on site, but the back plate will always have the right address becasue it wont change....so go on Geo make em up for us will ya!

I would say you have forgooten at least these... Baxall Sanyo Ikegami LG Arecont Ganz Only a few votes thus far...would have to agree that Panasonic is pretty darn good

LTC0495 is one of the best!

I must admiot Dallmier have some good set ups for casino grade equipment...I saw a demo recently by the Dallmier reps where it was recognising cards on a table through some kind of OCR, it was pretty cool but not 100% accurate, I am not sure if it was third party software...but it may be worth a look.

All the latest Bosch PTZ cameras (not sure about PTZ tilt heads and drive motors though) can be controlled via Bilinx, this is also inbuilt into the Bosch DVR's. You can use the Bilinx to set up PTZ tours etc and to control them.

Hi, I upgraded to 8.12 of Geo and was connecting through web page, however the installer crashed and now when I try to connect it accepts the password but when displaying the video it , comes up with, connecting....then "stop" it works on other pc's on the network, how do you unisnstall all the web add ins, i found the section but can only disable or enable the plug ins...any ideas?

One other thing though, any way of running the Multiview on your second screen......extended desktop? it just goes to the default screen on mine

Problem fixed, I had uninstalled the codecs and reinstalled DM Multiview from the CD and it worked

depends on the country, however, what you save should easily cover freight costs if buying in bulk

you could also use a Bosch PTZ and use Bilinx to control the PTZ, it would mean using a small piece of software run seperately on the screen

There are several ways to do what you wish to achieve, but several pitfalls as well. the first is Text Overlay, you dont need to worry about plugging a seperate input, as most text overlay box's pas the printer information through the device...IE printer output goes into the box then through the box and out the other side, this represents only two issues, 1/ does the box support the same baud rates etc that your printer does 2/ how is the text layed out and can the box handle that layout...this is fairly basic and results in a simple text overlay on your screen overlayed onto the video, you can then use any DVR you like, but you have no data base to search. The second is databased text overlay, it uses the same concept but the data box actually stores the data that passes through it in a database on the DVR, this can also (with some brands) allow you to transmit via ethernet to the dvr, this allwos for basic searching, because you can ONLY search what would be on the docket. The last is full database journal translation, most large POS systems have a back office PC where the journals (transactions in FULL) are sent, you simply translate the database that exists on this pc and create a database that your DVR can use, this is great because you can search the full journal...not just the printed reciept, there are no data box's used. This last option allows you to filter your database... IE you may firstly look at the entire days sales, then narrow to a particular operator, then narrow to a particular register, then narrow to a particular product, then narrow to a particular department, then narrow to sales over a particular amount, then narrow to ones that had staff discount, then narrow to the ones that were voided or took a long time to scan or had manager over rides...this is the best way to do POS Searching, however it is considerably more expensive to write the tranclation between two databases.

Yes played a few times there...only small stuff though

MDB reports?

Good to see that Aver are getting more serious...ok so Geo write great software but Aver are manufacturers so hardware should be cheaper and perhaps better..me thinks there have been a few staff movements betrween the two companies!

From my experience of dealing with casino's...well actually...it is usually through consultants who specify for casino's the statement of over a 1000 cameras is not over estimated and very correct indeed that one camera per box, the reasons for that are many. It is easy to record MPEG2 quality and 1 input at full frame rate...if one DVr fails..you only loose 1 x camera at a time...not 16. Usually tables are 1 cam to box, and mostly Sanyo MPEG2 recorders, however common areas are often used on multiple boxs. As for the right software...although casinos are usually around 1000 cameras that is not exactly a massive amount when you consider multiple other projects,but it is the kudos of the manufacturer to say that their cams are installed at the casino...we have only a few..not like the USA. So what tends to happen is everything runs through a analog matrix..thats right analog...and the matrix is configured to speak to each DVR, so they simply use single input dvr's mapped to something similar to a cad diagram, and the matrix controls it all..most manufactorers work together to write the integration as it is in their best insterests to do so. Seen several casino sitesz..very impressive and yet very hard to even get a look at....need security clearances etc!

Most of the good video servers will allow for dual straming to several IP's and the better ones will allow for dual codecs, IE MPEG4 and H264, as for recording, well that can be done anywhere that software exists to recieve the stream, however the smarte options are to record at the actual websercer itself by either using a webserver with inbuilt HDD or flash memory or ISCSI options...the reason you would wan to store locally is so that if you network goes down you still have a recording. The best video servers that I have seen actually send a heartbeat to the recording software and when the heartbeat stops due to a network failure, then it either stores locally to itself via ISCSI or Flash or HDD, then when the heartbeat comes back the software that normally reecieves the video, requests the missing bits and then downladws what was missing.

How times change.....nopw only have to convince you on the Bosch gear...starting to get swayed into samsung though

I found these guys, the CCTV Housings they make are soooooo tuff, they look basic in the drawing but they make anything to order and all solid steel with thick glass...prison grade stuff...worth a look. http://www.strongabuilt.com.au

Thats exactly it rory...not talking about us having to make one, too hard to wire all the tacks....but geo could get it manufactured easily

I was thinking more along the lines of a docking station...its hard to explain but here is my best effort. imagine a BNC patch panel...small and thin, mounted at the back of the DVR inline with the cable management system, this way the cables all stop at the back of the rack....no traveling through the rack, but rather than the inside of the patch panel having BNC's to connect your fly leads, I was thinking more along the lines of just the VGA input on the other side, with the inside of the patch panel just simply following the pins for the VGA connection so that...side a has 2 x vga connections and side b has the 16 BNC's running horizontally like the back of a standalone....now ideally the VGA type connector on all mother boards would be in the same spot so that you couls slide it in on a shelf and just click it in..but it wont be...so eliminating the actual whole flylead that currently exists and making a quick release vga to vga fly lead would be ideal.. So it works like this...back of the dvr out of VGA on VGA to VGA flylead, then to the patch panel into the vga socket, the panel is set back at the back of the rack so that only one cable is inside the rack and on the other side of the patch panel is 16bnc's.

Yes Rory, thats what I use inline with my fan, it has a small dial to adjust the speed. You could purchase a laser thermal gun to point the laser at the chip once you reduce the speed of the fan...if that is possible to get the laser onto it (Ie I assume the fan covers it)...I cant vouch for how accurate they are but I have seen them used to measure compression chip temperatures. I tend to agree with Kiwi though, Id bet that lowering the fan speed may make your DVR too hot, so perhaps purchase a whicper fan from absolute cool or someone like that..so long as it is the same or more powerfull rating...if your fan is 12v, and you go for a more powerfull one, make sure to power it from another source, like a camera power supply asd it may require more juice than the old one did and the DVR may not handle it. Perhaps even try to contact the supplier...they may have had this issue before and may be familiar with a solution, however that would obviously risk your warranty.

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