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Hi, The Net_DVR software I've used for the past few years has stopped working with the incredibly helpful error "Cannot open resource file!". I'm not sure what caused this and I'd done some windows updates and installed new software. I've reinstalled Net_DVR and get the same problem. The 4CH input device shows up fine in device manager "Video Capture Device(NVP1204)". I've tried installing all the outstanding windows updates, C++ redistributables, etc. I've tried installing other software, ispy, Contacam, Dvrsoft, none of them recognise the input card or cameras. I've lost a load of time on this and I've ran out of ideas. Anyone on here familiar with that card or software? It doesn't actually me what make it is, and I've been unable to find a website with updated software that might work. On WinXP as when I first set this up there weren't any cards that worked with higher versions of Windows.

Hi, I've been trying to figure out how to create a community CCTV network. I've had cameras for 7 years, for the last couple of years I've given up on DVR units and have a PC instead. I'm just about to hook up 3 more cameras including a PTZ dome, but my plans for the neighbourhood are much more ambitious... When something happens, car broken into, criminal damage, etc., people tend to as me if I caught it on camera. What I would like to create is a local CCTV network. The rough design is: Each household involved would have their own independent PC based CCTV setup. These would be connected to the internet. We'd each have a password protected login and be able to view cameras on the network live A server, probably at my house, would act as backup, and store timed images from each camera in the network Obviously, step 1 is the easy part. I'm not yet sure as to how best achieve the rest. I'm a software engineer, but I don't have much experience with CCTV systems. I certainly don't want to develop any software from scratch and want to use something off the shelf, preferably open source. Any advice you can offer would likely save me an awful lot of searching and reading. Lyle

Thanks, so I should use the software from here? http://www.dahuasecurity.com/download_2_4.html Run a server, then make sure all their PCs are running the same software? I'll have a poke about with this, the site seems rather lacking in documentation. Would dahua be the only software to do this or are their options? Do you know of any decent guides to this or something similar? It's like that in London, fortunately I'm miles from there

The cameras would only be viewable by people with authorized access. i.e. only people who have joined their cameras to the network or have been otherwise approved. No one would be forced to join. They could disconnect at any time. In other words, it doesn't matter if some people don't want to have their cameras connected. I already have people who do. In the UK we have something called neighbourhood watch, this ties in nicely with that. I'm well aware of the bandwidth consumption, the cameras would only need to do a full feed when someone is viewing. I would be surprised if there wasn't CCTV software with bandwidth throttling, should it be needed. Most people don't care or worry much about their upload bandwidth being used as they are mostly downloading.

I was aiming to feed each camera to a central dashboard behind a single login. Obviously that's going to be more difficult to setup, but surely it's possible?