Casper01

I have a bit of a scenario I'm trying to resolve. Years ago I installed several geovision cameras in a building while it was being constructed. The owner is now asking to add another camera at the front of the building, actually near to where an existing camera is. When I ran the cable previously, the building was just a skeleton, now everything is sealed, drywalled (with decorative covering), and impossible to access to pull another cable without creating an access hole(s) and causing damage. There is also no nearby power sources. Nothing but this poe cable. That I'm wondering is if there is a way I can utilize that existing network cable to provide power and network to both cameras. Thanks edit: actually just seen the vivotek AP-FXC-0210 extender, that might be the ticket.

Hi, I'm repairing a Geovision VD-122D outdoor network connection and need some advice as to what others do or use to wire/connect it to the network. The VD-122D has that thick 3' long cable coming out of it with an RJ45 at the end. Previously I cut the cable back to about 1 1/2' so it could fit inside the pedestal, but to connect it to the network, had to use an inline coupler. I had a waterproof coupler but it wouldn't fit inside the pedestal, so had to use a smaller coupler and just put heatshrink tubing over it. The camera failed, and have to assume it was due to the coupler as I couldn't find anything else wrong with it. Its mounting direct to flush brick, the geovision pedestal, I can find the pt# now, but it's that heavy metal one, with the gaskets between the base and the arm. I have the base bolted directly to the brick, silicone sealed the outer edges on the brick, and around the cable where it comes out of the brick. The cable itself is a 24awg UTP Cat5e. When mounted, its extremely solid. The cables were installed during building construction, and they only left 5" of exposed cable (love contractors). Now the building is complete, its drywalled and sealed inside, its impossible to access to run new lines. The hole drilled through the brick that they ran the cable through is only 1/4", barely enough to fit the utp cable through, or otherwise I could just push the coupler to the inside of the building and seal the brick. I have another camera now, with another 3' thick cable coming out of the camera. Only thing I can think of doing is taking down the pedestal base and installing a junction box, relocate the pedestal base a foot over and run a pvc conduit to the junction box, then can use the waterproof coupler. Measurements for the new base location, and conduit would have to be exact so I don't end up with too much cable in the junction box or too little. So before I go ahead and putting this eyesore contraption on the wall, I wanted to see if I could get some other ideas for mounting. Thanks for any advice!

I have a VD-122D used outdoors, installed 5 years ago. For a couple months, it would disconnect. I would just power it down, power it back up and it would connect again. This week it won't come back up. I've pulled it off the wall, everything looks normal, can't see anything wrong with it. No water penetration, seals were in perfect shape, no condensation. I connected it directly to a new POE injector, nothing, no lights, anything, just dead. Is there anything serviceable on these, like maybe a fuse or something inside? Do people actually sent these out for repair, or if they're like this, normally just replace them? Anything I can try to bring it back to life? Thanks.

Hey Guys, Hoping someone can help me out a bit. Using a DS-2CD6332FWD-I 3MP Fisheye camera with Hikvision iVMS-4200 PCNVR(v1.0). Problem 1. Unlike Geovision, Hikvision does everything onboard. It outputs 5 camera streams, 1 Raw HD fisheye and 4 low quality camera streams. Using the PCNVR cannot get all 5 streams to display at the same time. Max is one HD and 2 additional streams before it bugs out with an error code 83 on the streams. Also unlike the geovision, you cannot manipulate the HD fisheye stream for different views. Is there a way to have all 5 streams at once or manipulate the fisheye stream? Problem 2. For recording purposes, can only record the live streams, any that have crashed stop recording. Problem 3. The video is very blurry, couldn't tell it was a 3MP camera. Even standing directly under the fisheye, still blurry like its out of focus. Are you supposed to have to adjust the focus on these somehow? I tried the client software as well as logging directly into the fisheye, video is still blurry (think old cctv 480tvl) Thanks for any input on this.