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Hello I am trying to purchase a NVR for my parents house. At my house I currently have a Dahua Tribrid DVR that I like...... But I was switching over from an old analog system. This will be the first system at my parents house, I want and NVR because I plan to run the Ethernet cables myself for the POE cameras. I already have the cable, the RJ-45 ends and crimp tool. So it should be fairly easy..... But im not sure what NVR to get. It doesn't need to be crazy good, but here is what I need: - 1080p IP cam support (I will probably only use 3mp cams IF THAT) - 8 channel - at least 2-4 alarm inputs for future motion detectors (I won't be installing these right away) - Support for only 1 or 2 HDDs is fine, its just a house. A single 8tb would even be fine My price point is around $200-300 for just the NVR WITHOUT a HDD is fine. I was looking at the Dahua NVR4208 which can be had for around $250 http://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/nvr420842164232-8p-640.html I was also looking at a couple of hikvision NVR's, but it seemed that they were a lot more money ($600-700) even for similar specs as the Dahua. Which is over my budget. Does anyone have any experience with the Dahua NVR4208-8p? Or can anyone recommend another NVR?

Thanks, That one doesn't look bad..... But it doesn't have alarm inputs I found this Samsung SRN-873S http://www.a1securitycameras.com/samsung-srn-873s-1tb.html?gclid=CjwKEAiAy7SzBRD_lv7quOnr6XUSJAAOLkW6UPjADwH6OT4cy7DJc5VOQ8GrOwaSnyrZaiOmJAjl_xoCFjHw_wcB So far its between the Dahua NVR4208 or that Samsung. I wonder if either NVR will use other branded IP cameras than their own? Because Samsung cameras can tend to be a little bit more pricey.

Hello, I have a dahua HCVR5108H-S2 dvr for my house. I recently upgraded to this dvr from an older analog dvr. I installed a few HD cameras which is MUCH better than my old camera quality. But I am having a problem with the built in (pixel based) motion detection. I get false alarms on everything. Clouds, Sun, etc etc. I tried everything from turning the sensitivity all the way down, with threshold up, to turning sensitivity up with the threshold down. Etc. I set it up to where it will hardly even detect a human walking, but yet I still get hundreds of false alarm emails every day. So I decided to give up with the crappy pixel based motion detection. I want to hook up a PIR motion detector to my system. That's when I realized that I cheaper out on my DVR, it doesn't have a full alarm in/out panel like my old analog dvr did. The only thing that this dvr has, is a two small green and two small orange inputs that are labeled "A/B" I'll try to post a picture of that connection. Is it possible to hook a PIR sensor to that? Or am I out of luck with this DVR? EDIT This is the connection that I'm asking about I believe that is for connecting PTZ cameras. So I'm assuming there is no way to hook up a PIR to this DVR? In other words, I either buy a new dvr or turn motion detection off and try to live without it?

Ok so I just upgraded my system a little over a month ago. I was previously running an older 4 channel LTS analog DVR with a 500gb HDD. I wanted to add more cameras and get better quality so I upgraded to an 8 channel Dahua Tribrid DVR (HCVR5108H-S2) that would still accept my 4 analog cameras, as well as new HD ones. Everything is going good. The new DVR interface is much more user friendly with a lot more options, and the two new 1080p cameras that I put up look GREAT. The problem is the motion detection with this DVR SUCKS! I had motion detection set up on my old DVR and everything was great. A few false alarms here and there, but nothing really bad. The new DVR is insane. I have messed with the settings about 1,000 times and nothing works. I get so many false alarms that is just unusable. Literally within a couple of days I will have to delete over 2,000 emailed alerts from my gmail account. I went just 1 week once and had almost 6,000 emails just from my motion detection. I literally sat there for hours working on each camera individually, I had my wife walk around in front of the camera, I would bring the sensitivity all the way down until it wouldn't detect her, then I would raise it just enough to where it would barely catch her. Then I adjusted the threshold the same way. Still the next day around 10am the alerts start rolling in. Its always the sun. Every single time the sun goes behind a cloud and comes back out BAM three emails get sent PER CAMERA. (5 cameras, is instantly 15 emails). (That is another annoying part about this dvr, my old DVR sent me one email message with all of the details and a picture, this DVR sends me three...... one message to let me know there was a motion, another message with a picture, and another telling me that the motion is cleared.) I have tried everything. Right now I have the settings turned down so low that they will not detect a person at all. I have the sensitivity all the way at 40 (out of 100) and the threshold at 30. I could go out there right now and run around in circles and it is not going to detect me. But I still get a ton of false alarms from the sun. Before this setting, I tried using a super low sensitivity with a low threshold. (sensitivity of less than 30, threshold of 4). It detected people, didn't detect my 60 pound dog, but still got tons of false alarms from the sun. Im to the point of giving up. I almost want my old box back. One could say that its the cameras, but it can't be. It didn't do this with my old box (same cameras). So today I went to try and play around with the Anti-dither and I realized that it was set at 5 seconds. I tried to lower that and apparently this DVR will not let you lower it past 5 seconds. Any number that I enter below 5, it will automatically revert back to 5. Same thing with the Delay, 10 seconds is the minimum on this box. Anything that I enter under 10s automatically reverts back to 10. Its nice having a new box with a couple new HD cameras, but I feel like its pointless because I lost a KEY functionality of my old box. A proper working motion detection. My phone goes off so much at work from alert emails, that my co-workers get aggravated. I then have to turn my sound off, or remotely log into my DVR and shut the motion detection off. Does anyone have any ideas?

I just bought this Dahua HAC-HFW2220R-Z. 2.4 MP 1080p HDCVI camera with motorized zoom. And it's extremely inconvenient and unreliable. I wish I would have saved the money and got the non motorized zoom. First off the camera is advertised as having a 2.7 - 12mm motorized zoom. So naturally I thought that I could go anywhere between that. Like say 6-8mm focal length. But nope, it's just two modes. Either zoomed out at 2.7 or zoomed in at 12. Second, it's failed twice on me already. I go to adjust the motorized zoom and it struggles to focus, then it freaks out and shuts down. Goes to a video loss screen and occasionally turns back on, fails to focus and shuts back off. The worst part is, it's basically bricked when it's like this. I can't zoom back out because the camera is spazzing out. Tried disconnecting the camera power and restarting it that way, but that doesn't help. This has happened twice. And both times, I had to get a ladder out, go take the camera down from my second story overhang. Bring the camera in the house, hook it up to a different channel with a different cable and for some reason that seems to get the camera reset and focused and working again. How inconvenient and unrealistic is that. Then I spend about 30 minutes trying to put the camera back up and readjust it etc etc. Very frustrating. I wish I knew some way to reset the camera manually.

Im trying to upgrade my current all analog cctv system. I just ordered a tribrid HDCVI DVR so that I can use HDCVI cameras and also still use my old analog cameras until I can afford to upgrade them all. Anyways, I was planning on running cat5e for the new HDCVI cameras that I install. I was looking at these Cat5e Balums with power: http://www.amazon.com/VIMVIP-Converter-Connectors-Security-Surveillance/dp/B00QUJZWQM/ref=sr_1_13?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1435953940&sr=1-13&keywords=cat5e+power+balun My question is, how does the power work on these? Will these inject power into the cat5e cable (Power over Ethernet?) For instance, I plug the BNC end of the balum into my DVR, and plug one of my 12v power leads into the power end of the balum, will it then send power through the Cat5e cable? I just wanted to make sure that is how this works before I buy them. Thanks

From my understanding don't most of these Network DVR's allow you to hook up IP cameras in two ways......? Directly to the DVR ports, or via ip address from anywhere on your LAN. If so, you could do this........ Instead of connecting the cameras to the DVR directly, just run them all to a switch on your LAN. Then set up MAC address security on that switch. So for each port the only device allowed through the switchport is the MAC address of that specific camera that you specified. So if anyone gets access to one of those cables, and they plug their laptop or whatever in, the MAC address security is going to block out their device since it doesn't match the MAC address of the camera. MAC address-security is what you need. EVERY device with a NIC has a unique mac address. Securing each port to the corresponding camera MAC address would probably be the most secure and simple way to do what you need.

Hello, First off ill start with a little background on my current situation and setup: I currently have a 4 ch analog DVR system. Over the winter we had someone try and break into our house and we got it all on camera. The bad part is, the camera quality was not good enough to identify facial features, and because we had our motion sensing lights off, we could not tell the colors of cloths either due to the IR night vision black and white. Anyways, my city has been having a large increase in crime lately. From B&Es, robberys, vandalism etc. So after our winter scare, I want more cameras up. I want to get an 8 or 16ch DVR, and start by adding 2 or 3 more cameras for now. I want to go with a Hybrid or Tribrid DVR because I want to keep the functionality of my current 4 cameras for cost reasons. However, the new cameras I wan't to be high quality HDTVI/HDCVI or IP. Most of the tribrid IP DVRs that I have found, only support 2 IP cameras regardless if they are 8 or even 16ch DVRs. WHY? Why only 2 IP cams? Can anyone recommend a good Hybrid/Tribrid DVR for me that is around $300 or less? Hard drive doesn't matter, I can supply that. I need it to have all of the networking capabilities. I currently have mine setup with a DDNS so that I can view them from anywhere. I also have it set up on motion schedules and it sends me emails with pictures every time an event is triggered. I would need the new DVR to also have those features.

Thanks, Ok so 1080p at 15 fps doesn't look as bad as I thought it would. My situation is this, I may or may not be going out of town for work in the near future so I wan't to be able to do some upgrades to my system before then for my wife. My house is a two story and I don't really want to take all my old wires out and run all new CAT5e wires, I also don't know if I would have time to do all of that. So that plus the cost factor is why I ruled out a full IP system all together. My current analog cameras aren't totally useless. 700TVL, they aren't great by any means, but they can still detect people and send alerts. I figured I can replace them as time goes by, but not all at once. I don't have a large budget. That is why I thought a tribrid would be nice. It would allow me to add new HD cameras (wether IP or HDCVI) while also replacing my old analog cameras (over time not right away) without running new wires. I was looking at this DVR: http://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/hcvr510451085116h-s2-866.html Looks like I can get it for around $160. I would get a 4tb Hard Drive for it, and probably pick up just 2 1080p HDCVI cameras for now. I want to replace one of my analog cameras and the other one to a new spot on the house. This would leave me with 3 more empty channels for future growth. Is that a good DVR? 8ch HDCVI/Analog with possible 2 IP. 720P all channel full-time recording, 1080p all channel 15fps recording. Thanks again

Ok no answers? Here is another question. Lets say I narrowed my search down to a tribrid DVR such as this dahua: http://www.amazon.com/Dahua-HCVR5208A-Channel-Tribrid-Analog/dp/B00TI52SRQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1435436157&sr=8-2&keywords=dahua+tribrid Everything about this DVR seems good. It will allow me to use my old analog camera and new HD-CVI and IP cams. But it doesn't allow realtime 1080p 30fps recording. Now it is my understanding that most of these DVRs are limited to a total amount of fps that is divided between the channels. So with 8 1080p cameras hooked up, you would only get 15fps. But lets say I only have 4 old 700TVL analog cameras, and 1 or 2 new 1080p HDCVI camers, could I then set those to 1080p @ 30fps recording since im hardly using any of the DVR's processing power? or does it not work like that? For instance if the DVR supports 8 ch of 1080 at 15fps, that would be a total of 120 FPS. Now lets say I only have two cameras at 1080p, that would be 60 per camera so it should be able to handle 30 fps? I really want to get 1080p realtime without spending tons of money

Hello, I just got this DVR from a local security store. Its a 4 channel DVR, but im only using 2 cameras currently. This is the DVR I have http://www.ltsecurityinc.com/en_us/product/1091.html "WD1 LTD2304SS-C realtime H.264" Let me start off by saying, im pretty good with networking. Im new to CCTV and DVR's, but I never expected to have network issues. Im going to school for networking and currently have my Cisco CCNA cert etc. I have set it all up for remote viewing. I set up a Dynamic DNS through ns1.dvrlists.com (one of the only ddns sites that are supported on my DVR) I made sure port forwarding was all good and all the ports work. I have tested the remote viewing using the PC software to connect to both the local IP address of the DVR and also the DDNS URL of the DVR. And Both work fine. Which leads me to believe that the remote viewing is working properly. Here is my problem. I work midnights and my wife is alone in our new house all night. And shes still getting used to it, and sort of scared. So I wanted to be able to view the DVR from my phone with the remote viewing. And also let her view it from her phone if she was laying in bed. So I open up my android phone browser and type in my DDNS URL and it tells me uknown device, and gives me the options to download clients for blackberry and windows based phones but not android based phones. So I went another route and searched for apps. There are numerous CCTV apps for android that let you connect to DVRs for remote viewing via local IP or DDNS. I tried about 10 of these apps. And every one of them seems to connect to my DVR fine, but then displays and error something along the lines of ("receiving data from the device timed out") or ("unable to retrieve video feed") depending on the app. But the main consensus That I got, was the remote connection is established fine, but the video feeds from the cameras along with any data are not being sent to the phones. Its almost as if the DVR that I have has NO SUPPORT at all for android based phones. Even with generic CCTV apps. Can anyone give me any tips? or has anyone else had similar issues with mobile viewing that could chime in? Thanks a lot,