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yes good point, I had forgotten about that

well all 4 of mine just made it through the harsh northern ontario weather, it was -34C a few nights ago and with the windchill it was at least -40C pretty impressed with that!

Hi everyone i am using the lorex ip system from costco and right now i have 3 cameras connected and one of them i cannot get the motion detection to enable each time i try to enable it I get "network abnormal" or it says it saves but it doesnt work. I tried rebooting, even setting back to defaults but it still wont work Anyone else run across this problem? I have been playing for weeks without the solution i am doing it remote so i cant do it from the console and i wont physically be there for at least 4 more months

If you go into the app on your iphone and manage your devices and make a change and click save does it show any errors? I was having a similar problem with mine last week, it worked fine at my house but when i moved it to the cottage it wouldnt work, turned out the incoming and outgoing IP's on my cellulat internet cinnection was different and i had to call them and ask for a static IP So could be worth checking if your WAN IP of your router and if you go to whatismyip.com is the same, if not your problem likely lies there. Are you trying the I P or the DNS? Also check to be sure the DNS is being updated correctly if your using DNS

They have them inside already. lol someone is already ahead of me

has anyone tried putting some of those little silica packets inside the camera for the condensation?

I will checkout the cykick looks great

What kind do you use? I am curious if that doesn't leave some visible stains on the house?

I wonder what happens when it gets that low? I didnt notice this until after I placed the order and I am sure they will go below this temp where I am placing them

Awesome thanks for the confirmation

From the images it looks like a WD Green HD? Anyone know if its the EARS EURS model etc? I would like to have the exact same model for a mirrored drive Also does anyone know if its using software or hardware raid? Just curious

Tks Looks like it says elrs but it must be eurs, newegg has refurbs for 75 bucks, i purchased some wd's years ago and they are still going, and as its a copy its less risk than if it was the primary http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236215

Hi I cant seem to find confirmation on this but for the lorex ip cameras from costco if your using a power injector is it 48v or 12? I think this 48 one will work right ? http://www.amazon.com/WS-POE-8-48v60w-passive-Ethernet-Injector-cameras/dp/B0086SQDMM/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1369252299&sr=1-2

Which camera ? Lorex cameras, haven't you been paying attention, it's the title of the post BTW, in checking the specs, the camera uses 7W, so if you put 8 of these on that 8 port PoE injector it may not work, maybe limit it to 6 of these cameras. While yes, you have 7W per port, that's at the port, with power loss over the Ethernet cable, it will be likely be 6W available to the camera. Since it will work with 5W without IR, you can always do that and force them in day mode. Yeah i noticed that, for now i only have 4 and i doubt i will go pass 6 anytime in the near future... If i do by then i will have a full poe switch anyway or worst case buy 2 injectors

From reading the manual, it looks like it just copies files over, its not RAID. I asked Lorex tech support for my ftp id/password so that I can retrieve the files that way and auto backup to an external NAS. They didn't say no, but they told me to call the 800 number and closed the ticket. hmm Ok thats strange i assumed they would do raid... Guess i should look at the manual also . So i guess its not so important which drive it is

I fully agree on that for the majority of people thats more than adequate

Awesome ! Just ordered the usb to serial adapter like the one in the pic to try this

so does it mean its possible to logon to the box and to modify it? to setup rsync for example to another device? I would really like to have a duplicate of the recordings onto an iomega fireproof hard drive

there are lots of 100Mbs options but I want only one switch in my rack and gigabit ... then the price isnt the same lots of non poe ones for a reasonable price but not to many with POE

for me I have a managed APC PDU so I can fully turn the power off to the netgear switch, nvr, poe injector etc so I can reset all of the cameras remotely all I have to do is connect to the web interface of the PDU and cycle the power to the injector, of course it will kill all of them at once but thats not a problem as i dont expect to do it often I agree that having a managed switch is better as you can do each per device and for sure and I plan to change it after to a POE gigabit switch to remove the injector so then I can do it straight from the switch which is certainly better. The netgear 8 port one looks decent but the problem is I need more than 8 ports I need at least 11 today and I really prefer to have them all on one, to buy 2x $180 Netgear 8 port switches didnt make much sense. I lost out on a 24 port poe gigabit one on ebay by a few bucks better luck soon

I have flown to to many locations to solve major outages only to find some non manageable cheap switch / hub hidden behind a desk creating broadcast storms I am not even a big fan of using the manageable netgear but for a small cottage network it will suffice lol If it was at my house and I was there all the time I would feel more comfortable using the cheaper one as I am there and can fix it but at the cottage where I am there 2 times per year and working with my wife to troubleshoot something is a nightmare I will try and do it as good as possible lol

i prefer no injector also but I am living in France at the moment, my wife in the US and our cottage is in Canada and i am going there next week for a few days and i need all this equipment for when i arrive and i couldn't get such a poe switch on fleabay... Long term though i want to replace it with a 16-24 port rackable, gigabit, managable poe switch but those are not cheap. I will find one on ebay soon though I have a 24 port manageable gigabit switch plus a managable pdu that i can access remotely to power all the equipment on/ off. It wont be that messy because it will all be inside a rack and the poe injector will be mounted inside the rack behind the nvr and plugged in with small patch cables I paid 60 bucks for the switch, 60 bucks for the apc pdu, 42 for the power injector and a few bucks for the extra cables. So to get a basic gigabit switch that does 8 poe ports it would have cost me the same thing plus i need two switches as there isn't enough room for all the things in my rack, and those cheap switches are not rack mountable and i hate them... One of the downsides of being responsible for datacenter networks is you get picky about equipment lol Thanks for the confirmations that this injector will work

I went from having absolutely nothing to this so its a good start One question is it possible to reboot the camera if it locks from the NVR? or is the only way to do that if I put it on a managed POE switch and turn that ethernet port off / on again? how often does the lorex cameras lock? I ask because sometimes its 3 or 4 months with nobody at our cottage so if one goes down it could take a while before someone can reboot it

ok if I can reboot it then its ok I am looking at a poe switch, someone robbed me one last night on ebay .... ughhh!! lol

Hi all I have been lurking for a few days with information overload ! I think i have my mind set on the costco lorex system for 850 and i noticed it says its 350 off right now? Is that correct and i should jump on it before the sale ends or do they have this often? I cant seem to find it anywhere else for the cheeper. We have a cottage up in Canada 6 hrs from us and i think its finally time we install one as sometimes its months with nobody there. I had planned to buy foscams until i came across this site thanks for costing me more money lol Is it possible to stop / restart a locked camera on the Lorex? I dont have a managed external switch at the moment either but working on that... But if this unit does it then i dont really need it Other than costco is there anywhere else to get a decent deal on a package?