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It isn't just HK cameras that run hot, my 1mo old IPS the main board shorted on one hot day, did some checking since I'm a electronics repair guy and found it's the DiVinchi chip that's putting out all the heat, some cams separate the power supplies to the main board on another board, this helps a little but the processor still runs 135@ in open air, the IPC cam with everything on one board ran 145@ open, to fix it properly I put a silicone thermal pad on the heat sink of the processor which dissipated and spread out some of the heat and lowered the temp down to 135@ open case, the underlying problem is you have a water tight case with no air coming in, best bet after seeing the temps involved is don't mount the cam in direct sun if possible or at least put a shade above it and make sure it's a light color, I told all this to IPS and they did not respond--I think they know they have a problem, at least they did send me a new main board--

Depends on how far you are between the 2 units, you can easily convert the DVI to HDMI and run separate audio cable, distance without a repeater is 50' specs say less but works at 50' without repeater there is also available powered video balums that go to cat5 and go long distance-this will only work if you have a spare cat5 run over there, the ones I've seen have caused non-standard problems with some TVs, you can also send it wirelessly, 2.4GHZ or 5GHZ senders are out there

Numnuts is right--get a better power supply, yours is regulated but from your voltage readings not very well ! also you are not seeing the full load unless the IR is on in the cams, the camera electronics pull less than the IR load and I'll bet you will see even worse regulation with them on--power supplies are cheep compared to camera costs !

Bout the best you can do without spending a fortune is paint the box white or a light color, add vents at top sides, home depot has some round louvered ones that are screened for the bugs and will not leak water, add a vent screen at the bottom and for extra cooling you could add a small computer fan, since you have power lots of fans will work, you can also use a cheep HF solar panel and run a small fan off it if you want, I did this on my MH refer and it works like a champ-no power needed !

Can anybody explain how to forward the camera alarm video to a usb 3.0 attached drive on a Linksys AC1600 router, I can not see where there is a setting for storage other than to a SD card in the cameras IE interface and the camera has no SD card capabilities, also the AC1600 settings for the usb attached drive allow it to be set as a media server or a FTP server, which would I use ? I'm sure these are dumb questions for somebody with lots of router knowledge ! What I want to do is record alarm video straight to the router attached drive without using a computer-to save power and use less equipment, I suppose a option would be to just record the live stream continuously since the live video stream is connected to the router also, just seems way inefficient to have to run a computer to capture the alarm video and send it to the drive attached to the router, the camera IS a computer and is running lynx so maybe some code changes would be needed to make this happen ??

You nailed it Dexter--horsepower, and the lack of it stops this ability, the dedicated DSP processor(made right here in America-Texas Instruments) is slammed just making up the bit stream and can only send low resolution clips out to email, with the price of microprocessors and memory now I don't see why they wouldn't add this possibility in the future, just seems odd, right to the router you have the video stream and the router can have storage attached to it, a piece of equipment could be left out of the equation to make the system work, a computer running 24-7 or a NAS drive or NVR constantly running adds to the complexity of it not to mention the added cost to run and maintain it ! I did mention this to AOTE, and as a side note they did make me aware of the fact I could add a USB to the camera and store video locally at the camera site, just $6 to add that feature ! got to love it, you can just order your camera ala cart, I can't see why everybody steers clear of these ebay cameras, so far the support has been quick and the cameras have a lot of features for a low price, only drawback I see with them is if you do need a warranty sending it back to china isn't cheep, otherwise both Aote and IPS have been very responsive to me

I'm looking into this also Tony, read my post on sending alarm video to a drive, so to understand, your NAS drive, just connecting the RJ45 to it, the camera it's self just writes folders to it and then dumps live and alarm video to it ? I think the reason the alarm video is put where it is being put is the scheme they use to write to the drive is sequential from track one of the drive, this is to save wear and tear on the drive, from what I can tell so far the alarm video is handled by the DSP processor and it only has limited headroom to do things beyond the main process of converting the analog video off the ccd and digitizing and encoding it, so it's just able to send alarm "clips" in the bit stream, these are just laid right down with the main stream, now one possibility I see is it also triggers an email alert so possibly there is a way to push this video (although it would be in the lower resolution) directly to your NAS drive in a separate folder

That's just it Dexter-it does support 14 different protocols and FTP is one of them, cameras in question are both low end Chinese ones (IPS 2MP and Aote 5MP)but have a great picture and lots of functions-one of which is a built in alarm function in the cameras firmware, these cameras run Linux and I'm sure anybody with coding experience could add a few lines of code to point the alarm or main stream video right to the attached drive on the router-instead of having to go to the NVR or a computer, I'm surprised nobody has thought of doing this before but I'm entirely sure it is possible, problem is person would have to get into the cameras firmware and make the changes needed, these cameras have a option you can add a SD card slot and the cameras firmware will write to that if present, coding would only have to be changed to allow it to point it to a NAS drive or router attached drive-which I have read is technically the same as the nas drive, I'm sure the Linux guys could pull the code down and a few key strokes later have it coded right in, I asked Aote and got no response to my question--big surprise there huh !

The way I was hoping it to work is the IP camera OS (Linux) has the ability to send alarm video to a onboard SD card if equipped, so why can't it be sent to the attached drive on the router and viewed later with any of the various viewers, maybe some cameras already have this ability ? the smart router I have is able to make the attached drive a FTP server or a DLNA media server, I've never seen a NAS drive so I don't know what would be different between the two

This question is close to what I just posted, so one just needs to configure router to forward ports to Server ? does this still apply to a router attached drive--not sure if a nas storage is the same

Just going through all this my self, quite the initial soup !! look on the little cd for IPC search-it should have installed with the CMS software, it will give you the camera address you need, try un-installing CMS and re-install it looking for the box to check for English, mine still gives a Chinese message when it won't connect to the camera !! another option is type in the run command line: IP config and camera address will show there, another thing confusing at first is you have to first find the camera in the CMS system setting by clicking search, then click add and it will be in there under encode on the left pane in the main window, you then can either double click the camera icon or right click it and click connect to server, CMS also has hidden things like right click at the top right bar and a bunch of other options come up, the IP cameras definitely have a learning curve and assume you have some routing experience as well as more than basic computer skills, I just bought the Chinese intelligence software and it looks a lot more powerful than blue iris and is even in English ! Hope you have better luck than me with your ebay camera--mine the main board took a crap after less than 1mo of powered use !

I don't but it's all available at home depot or lowes in the electrical department, just ask for help and they DO have the waterproof strain relief-just have to look for it your self in the electrical dept.

I just recently read a thread on the Linksys forum with exactly you problem, I think the answer was it's about the new routers being attacked with a DNS rebinding virus, it is a matter of the security on the router and the cure supposedly was to disable "cut through" which was a setting buried in the router administrator settings, you might see if you can get some help from the router manufacture--

The gasket on those plastic boxes are crap open cell foam, what you can do is cut your own gasket out of rubber, then run a bead of silicone on the box edge, cover it and then silicone around BOTH sides of the cover as well as the cover screws and any suspect penetrations of the box, on getting the cam cable in there, what I just did was drill a 1" hole through the box side, the 1" fits the RJ45 molded connector, then I put a 1" PVC male pipe adaptor with a 1/2" X 1" reducer threaded bushing followed by a water proof strain relief fitting, the 1" MPA I added a reducer washer and rubber gasket and nutted it with a regular conduit 1" nut, this only works if you have the ability to unplug the other end of the wire out of the cam, another option would be place the box where the cam can be directly mounted on it, you could then use a large rubber grommet to fit the 1" hole needed to get the cam wire in, if you slit the grommet to the center hole you will be able to get it on the wire from the cam then you would need to silicone around the grommet and mount the cam with the rubber back gasket, hope this helps

I work on TV's and I can tell you if the manufacture won't help your only options are: pull the memory chip where the firmware resides-usually will be marked or tagged-and find a board on eBay or elsewhere and replace the chip with a not corrupt one, second option would be to find the data sheet on the processor and try and accesses the code through debug or other routines that may be available on the particular chip, then you would need to try and load the new code thru the jtag, problem can be that the chip is locked, the data sheet should tell you how to unlock the code if it's possible, definitely replacing the memory chip is the easiest--if you have the proper equipment