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Yes! 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Plug your ears! PS Nothing about my earthquake joke?? Then you really do believe it!!!

No. I would not disagree with you. Everything has its place in the right environment, and budget. For a learning process, sometimes I will play the DEVIL's Advocate just to bring up another side. Yes he can, and that is why he is weighing our comments. He may disagree with all of us, but he will take nuggets of information that will work for his environment, and his budget. Yes. Luckly we have started a CCTV rehab foundation. 7 steps, and then you will have to use a support group for life. You may not get your job back, your wife, kids, or your house back, but at least you will have your peace of mind! You are right though. I can go into any fast food restaurant, and any sub shop, and I can tell you what is going on without looking at a camera. Have you ever been in a nonalds (as my 3 year old son says), and it is just after lunch is starting to be served? Do you see the fries under the table? Do they sell fries for breakfast? Are there a lot of trays stacked on the trash cans? Are the trash cans full? Is there a lot of debris in the parking lot? When you walk up to the point of ordering, and the cashier is off to get some supplys out of the back does everyone stand around and chit chat without giving you notice, or do they say "someone will be right with you", or are they lazy, and start screaming at the top of their lungs "CASH REGISTER"! Can you see in the back? Is the sink full of dishes during a non rush time frame? How many employees are leaning on equipment, and sucking on drinks? If you do not see any employees do you hear laughter coming from the managers office? Yes, you are right CCTV is not the end all. LOCK YOUR SAFE! CCTV does not stop crime, as it only reports the crime. CCTV should give you more than who did it. What time did it happen? Did someone else do it, and frame another? How did it happen? Why did it happen? What made it happen? How can we prevent it next time? I find that many more "managers" steal than employees steal. They have control of the drawers. They just wait for the new hires, and take some cash. New employees are forgiven for cash problems as they are untrained. If a manager, and a staff member are sharing a drawer than they both have to split the shortage 50/50. If the manager steals $100.00 then both the manager, and the staff pay up the $100.00, and the manager walks away with $50.00. When it comes to staff I find most of the theft is in the drive through. Hand out a drink only order, and pocket the $1.50, and do this 10, or 15 times in one night, and you got some cigarette money. You inventory the meats, so they cannot hand out a bunch of burgers. They can probably feed one friend here, and there without getting caught. Do you inventory the cups? Here is another manager trick. Pick an employee that you hate. They always seem to come up short. Everytime they work, and it does not matter the shift. After a time the GM will fire them. You could also spread it around so that everyone is having "problems". Do you an install CCTV at a restaurant where there is a high turn over rate? Do the managers complain about how bad the employees are "today". I am exaggerating a bit, but then again I am not to far from it either. Scam? Everyone knows that I sell my equipment to those in neighborhoods where they make $10,000, to 15,000 a year. I used to do 20 installs a month. My numbers have dropped off alot recently. In fact I have lost a lot of business from that piece of my "revenue pie". Is a computer not a hard drive with a bunch of buttons on the front? OH! You are right. It has a mouse! My mistake! Scam? This would make me a scammer! I believe that I am the only one (if not one of the very few) who caters to this "market". Based on this then I am the worst one from thousands of people who are on this forum! Read my post. I am the first to complain about AVTech products! Would you guys on the forum agree? Again I am the first to promote the advantages, and price break of AVTech Products. I just worked with my first Dedicated Micros 16 channel DVR! After working on AVTech DVRs I thought I had died, and gone to DVR heaven with the DM!! LOL!! I have tried selling PC based DVRs to this market! I would sell picos if I did not have to go back and fix them. How come I am not having much luck with the $300.00 computers from Wally World? It is a computer right? I should be able to make it work right? What should I make on a profit? Cost times 2.5? I could do it cheaper by dropping my licenses. How much does court fees cost when I get popped for working without a contractors license? Maybe I should drop insurance instead? No, I better not do that. OK, I cannot sell my products at the same price I am buying it, and I probably cannot compete with EBAY. Why does everyone who buy from EBAY go to a search engine, and google stuff about AVTech DVRS?? Just from google alone I get 1600 hits a month looking for everything! Maybe you are right stand alones are junk. No! I disagree. I believe there are a lot of companies who sell stuff, but they do not provide tech support, and that leaves people fending for themselves, and I get to be the shining Knight in Armour! If I had a website designed for computers similiar to my website for AVTech tech support then why do I feel that my numbers would quadruple? I would really hate to get in to Vista issues! Would you guys on the forum agree, or disagree with that thought? Is that right? Would my queries quadruple?? Maybe I should forgo my crappy website as I do not put any money into it, and I do not have the time to work on it! Thank goodness the website is free, and it does not cost me anything out of pocket! Maybe I should fill it up with advertising, and make money that way?? My domain name is coming due in Sept. Do I just let it go without renewing? Who cares about 5000 hits a month with people who are looking for DIY help? Wait a minute! I do care! That is why I posted all of that info in the first place! It took me a long time to research every aspect of every manual, tech help, and matching AVTech DVRs to model numbers, and type, and all of that kind of stuff. I cannot let all of that info go to waste! Maybe I should charge to download manuals, and tech support help?? Naaaa. I will keep it cheap, and simple. Yes my site does not have the glimmer, and glitter, but it does get the job done! Now I still have to live with myself being the biggest scammer out there!!! Sold!!! I have a bunch of Pet Stores that I have to do here real soon all over the state of Florida. I like your pricing as it is better than what I can get through my "certified" dealers. Sold! What are my warrantys, and guarantees? How much for offsite tech support, so that I can have you handle my "help desk" for this chain? How soon can you start? 16 channels that retail for $100, and some. Hmm What is your cost? $50.00? Can you certifiy me, so that I can pass on any leagle issues back to the dist of the card? Thanks! I have already confessed to being a scammer, but the rest of what you say is not correct, and I can document it in court with full affidavites! I will be more than glad to show you all of my AVTech AVC 772s, and AVC 773s that are still running after all of these years. If those DVRs are not crap then I do not know what is crap. If those can keep working then even I have to say I am truley amazed. How I found out was I was checking on all of my customers in an area that was devasted by fires, and 30 homes were burnt to the ground, and 60 more were deemed uninhabitable. People were really surprised to see me. I wanted to know if my customers still had a house standing! I set up some loaner DVRs until I could get their olds one running again. Some had some cameras that died from the heat of the fire as the soffits were starting to melt, and the windows would shatter. I had to run some wire for a few, and for others I was just playing "dog, and pony" show reorienting the cameras to make them happy. We all had a good time catching up on "so how are you doing"? They asked about my baby, and I said she is 6 years old now! Boy time flys! Wow! It was nice seeing people that I have not seen in a long time. Do you want to see some AVC 773s in action?? Do not get me wrong! I have been embarrassed by all measures on DVRs that have created some quirk, or just died with no know excuse. I have had customers come pounding on the counters, and try to reverberate the walls with bellows from deep within lungs. I had customer tell me to get off the property duing an install once! (I saw a copy of a cctv mag that was just delivered, and they decided to do it themselves. Guess who got a call later to fix a mess)? I think most DVRs die because of power issues. Maybe we should sell more line conditioners!! For other things?? If I walk in to a house, and I look at your tool bar and you have 17 tool bars, and helpers than I do not want to sell you a computer based DVR, and I do not care how many of your neighbors are willing to steal your stuff!!! YIKES! I love watching people's eyes bulge out of their heads after I do a quick scan, and all of those spyware pops up, and then we get into the Trojans!!! Wu Hu!! as that bank says!!! You sound like you know what you are talking about!! Good job!! Find a niche market, and sell it deep. Sounds like you have found that, and more!! You must be very successfull with this clientle. There are large numbers of these customers as well!! Spend more...... Good advice again! That is a true statement. I back you up 100 percent on that one! Streching your dollars....... Another find piece of advice. Sounds like you have been in this business for a very long time! I agree with what you say, but I feel really bad about being a scammer, and being the guy who sells junk, and the junk that I am selling is not going to last very long, and it is going to be a constant battle to keep it running!!! I was having a good day, but now I feel like it is time to go home early! Yeesh! I was having a good day! I am trying to sell something. I think that is why they call it a job. If people would buy these from me without a sales pitch then I would be happy!! I would love to stop playing the guessing game!! Is this a customer who has a need? Is this a customer who is kicking tires, but will eventually buy something? Is this the guy who is pumping with a bunch of questions so he can buy something at the discount internet site?? Is this the guy who comes back and screams at me because the stuff he bought on the discount website broke down, or he has a problem with it, and I am supposed to fix it, or give him advice for free??? Sometimes I do, as maybe he learned a lesson, and down the road he might send someone my way in thanks. Then again this guy may take me for all of the info a second time, and never send anyone my way! Do I pay for a store front to look professional, or should I just close up, and sell at a flea market?? I can sell out of trunk of my car. Less overhead. More profit! Hmmm! Ding! Ding! What does this customer need?? Info! I have lots of CCTV info for you!! You better look at this computer monitor at my website. You had better sit down, and bring a lunch as it is going to take you a while!!!! LOL!! A scammer with something to sell. Oh boy! I am in trouble!

The better question to ask is: (do not answer these question on the forum) How much is your parents store worth? How much cash is in the safe on monday morning? How much income do they produce a week (gross)? How much is left over after payroll, and other overhead? Do they rent the building, or do they own the building? How much is the stock worth in inventory? How much is the equipment installed worth? _____________________________________________________________ If someone came in and cut all of the copper pipes to the refridgerent systems then how much would it cost to replace it? How long would it take a company to come in to complete the work? How much would the company charge you to replace the equipment? What is covered under your insurance, and what is not covered? _____________________________________________________________ How much do you loose to two legged rats (employess)? Based on these dollar amounts then I would spend 10% of that value. What do you think?

Yes they do, but with video will they look at your hairstyle, or the lack of hair? Will they look at your clothes to determine how you spend your money? Will they look at jewelry? Will they determine who you are with. That is not your wife/husband that you are with in the mall. How many bags are you carrying? Do you appear sad? They can research why. Do you appear happy? Why? Will this make you buy a product?

Welcome to the threads! See you on the forum!

Please feel free to download it from http://scorpiontheater.com/cpcamtechsupport.aspx There are many places on the web where you can down load the software (S/W). Google "avtech download video server e". This is the easiest way to find it if you wish to download it from somewhere else. _____________________________________________________________ How to download from the DVR itself: Type in IP address into the URL address box and press enter. Then you’ll see a login page. CLICK ON Download AP, and CLICK ON Download JAVA _____________________________________________________________ VIEW WITHOUT LIC S/W Type in IP address into the URL address box and press enter. Then you’ll see the login page. Key in the “usernameâ€

No mention of wireless! A professional would do a site survey with equipment such as this Wi Spy http://www.multitask-computing.co.uk/wispy.html This would tell him what wattage he would need, and what would be the most effective channel, and what kind of antenna to use such as omni directional, or beam antennas. Analoge wireless is exactly what you described!! These tend to be what customers want right off the bat for some reason why I do not know. I stocked them in the showroom, and they flew out of there at 100 miles per hour, until I had more competition with Radiation Shack, and Wally World. I am penetrating 40 walls, and I want facial recognition, and I do not want the camera to be seen. What do you mean that I have to change a 9 volt battery everyday?????

Build a website (there are some that are free), and make it free, and simple. When it becomes the defacto standard then charge for testing, and charge for joining the association, and then write a book on your expertise, and sit back and relax! You can approach the CCTV companies about providing your training to their customers?

Sound more like the customer would not spend any money, and wanted it done on the cheap. It could also be that the customer could be such a jerk, that the installer just decided to finish the job asap, and get out of there! Sounds like you have too much competition, and everyone is underbidding everyone else.

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NO! NO! NO! NO! You must have internet connection!! How can you guage if your payroll schedule matches your customer count? Would you like to see if you have more staff than customers that is burning up your money? Would you like to see pissed off customers becuase there was only one cashier lane open? Where is your safe? Would you like to watch assistant managers while they are handling money while you are at home? Do the pretty cashiers hang out with the "gods gift to woman" manager in the office? Anyone setting beer or other items out the back door? Get crazy!!! How about a camera on the temp guage of the ice cream cooler. Now you do not have to drive to check on it!!

We do not have enough info to work with. Are you an experienced person with DVRs, or are you a DIY (do it yourself). I am thinking that you have a dynamic IP address, and that it changed recently, and now you cannot connect to it. If you go to http://ipchicken.com/ then this will show you your IP address. Is this what you are using to link up to your DVR? Are you using http://www.dyndns.com/ or a similiar dns helper? Did si_kungs advice to power down the unit, and repower it work for you? _____________________________________________________________ http://scorpiontheater.com/links.aspx DYNDNS: http://www.dyndns.com/ Support: http://www.dyndns.com/support/ DynDNS Certified Hardware: http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/hardware/ General Information: http://www.dyndns.com/support/general.html Knowledge Base: (articles, how to's, and information) http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/ Support Tools: http://www.dyndns.com/support/tools/ _____________________________________________________________ Home page: http://portforward.com/ Read this: http://www.portforward.com/help/pfprogression.htm Guides: http://portforward.com/guides.htm Router Documentation: http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm PF (portfoward) Config Support and FAQ http://portforward.com/store/pfsupport.htm Securing Your Wireless Network: http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/wireless/routerindex.htm Firewall info: http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/firewalling/routerindex.htm How to find a computers MAC address: http://www.portforward.com/networking/MAC.htm Forum: http://forum.portforward.com/ What do you think?

You will be able to install everything "electronically" but the system will be a crash, and burn. There are 100 things that you need to know about installations. #1 Most quicksell systems will come with wide angle lenses on the cameras (whether box, or dome, or bullet). This is great for peripheral vision, but be FORWARNED!! Wide angle lenses have a distance distortion. Something 20 Feet away will appear farther away in the video, then in reality. Great for watching shelves, but terrible for facial recognition. Use non wide angle cameras at the front entrance to avoid this distortion, and to get zoomed in on to the faces. To make a camera cheap they start leaving out circuits that make a camera work. They yank out an 8 cylinder engine, and they replace it with a lawnmower engine. They yank out the cushion seats, and make you sit in a cheap plastic bucket. They take out the shock, and springs, and you no longer have a luxious cushion ride, and you bounce yourself to death! They take out the dash panel, and you have to guess how fast you are going when you see the police on the side of the road with the radar pointed at you!!! This is kind of an exaggeration, but then again if you read these posts then you will see I am not to far from the truth either! YOUR PRICE OF $2000.00 IS TO LOW FOR AN 8 CAMERA SYSTEM!! Drop some cameras from your list, and take that money, and buy a great DVR, and later buy some more cameras as the cash flow comes in. Think about viewing over the internet. Some DVRs are great like the ICRealtime DVRS http://icrealtime.com/solutions/dvrfxr30.asp AVTech DVRs are great for budget systems, but they leave a lot to be desired to watch over the internet. They are OK, but if you want better then at least you have been forwarned http://scorpiontheater.com/cpcamtechsupport.aspx Download the manual of a AVC 785 DVR that you see in the above link. This will give you some info before you spend your hard earned money!! What do you think? How to mount inexpensive bullet cameras! http://www.cctvforum.com/cms_view_article.php?aid=54 How to run wires from an attic with drywall walls http://www.cctvforum.com/cms_view_article.php?aid=48 How to trouble shoot camera problems! http://www.cctvforum.com/cms_view_article.php?aid=42 Here is how to fix your video source problems http://www.cctvforum.com/cms_view_article.php?aid=41

I am waiting for the day I walk up to a sign inside of a mall, and it say welcome back Scorpion, how was that shirt you bought last time you were here?

If her budget is that low of a range then try an AVTech AVC785. Just be aware that the video is not that great over the internet, but then that would match her budget. http://scorpiontheater.com/cpcamtechsupport.aspx Better yet would be an ICRealtime DVR Flex w/ R30 upgrade. http://icrealtime.com/solutions/dvrfxr30.asp Now all you have to do is program multiple users. What do you think?

That phrase is used in film based cameras.

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D-Link Introduces Ethernet-to-Coax Kit http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=563&docId=l:798511629&topicId=13703&start=7&topics=single The D-Link Coax Ethernet Adapter Kit (DXN-221) is ideally suited for adding bandwidth-demanding applications such as high-definition (HD) media streaming, music sharing and online multi-player gaming to the home network. The DXN-221 comes with two adapters, each of which includes an Ethernet port as well as a Coaxial F-type connector for bridging the two adapters together. The adapters may also be purchased individually (DXN-220). Users can easily connect the D-Link Coax Ethernet Adapter to their existing router and then to an available coaxial outlet in the home, enabling network and Internet access to multiple rooms. A second adapter is added in another room to connect Ethernet-enabled devices like PCs and media players. The DXN-221 may be used in rooms with multiple devices by connecting a switch to the adapter to connect additional devices.

On a TSCM forum (Technical Services, and Counter Measures) someone was asking for pictures of bugs, and they thought it would be a good idea to take pictures of them when we find them, and post them. Everyone thought that was a good idea. Here is my file of bugs that I have seen. You may notice that there are several bugs that law enforcement has experience with, plus several bugs with ties to federal agencies. <> http://tinyurl.com/5cp92f

Will she charge extra for this "service"? I think you can get 7 IP cameras, and a Sonic Firewall. This way she can remove passwords from customers for what ever reason. What do you think?

We need to know more. Is this so that a dog owner can view their dog from home? Is this more has a "promotional tool" used on the website to see the location? Will you need just one camera, or switching cabablilities? You can take just camera video out (if the DVR has loopout), and you can hook this up to a webserver, and you can get that on to the webpage.

I agree with UMD Ranger. If you do not have good video at the camera then that may show you a power supply issue, or too long cable length for power, or small guage used when you should use large guage for power. Are you powering the cameras with the cat5? You may have to power the camera locally if you cannot rerun the wires. _____________________________________________________________ What I really suspect is that you are having ground loop issues, and I say this because you say you have a warehouse, and I am thinking that you have metal building. Take a camera that is messed up, and take it down, or at least get it off of the mount. If the video clears up when it is isolated from the metal then you can come up with a plane to put something between the mounts, and the building. You can use something as cheesy as cardboard, or some plastic sheeting from a "hobby store", or you can cut up thin food cutting boards as these are easy to cut, and drill. What do you think?

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Home Theater would sum it up the quickest. We work with builders putting in tv wires, telephone wires, internet wires, intercoms, central vac, sat wiring, and alarm prewire. For the next level we install speakers for surround sound, and install wires in wall for plasmas, and LCD tv. The next level is custom design, and installation. It starts with a rough in, and then you do a trim out before they turn it over to the customer, and then you have a training phase with the customer. Sometimes you will only be doing the basics, and once you get with a customer, then you will find out their needs. We sell amplifiers, receivers, CD players, DVD players, music servers, cables, TV mounts, rock speakers, planter speakers, floor speakers, and in wall speakers. We also can take equipment that was not designed to work together, and use electronic componets to make everything work in sync. Before I lost a showroom to the hurricanes, we had everything hooked up to "one switch". As a demo we would flick on one switch to simulate coming home, or waking up in the morning. Music would play from ceiling speakers, lights would turn on, others would turn off, and others would fade down, ceiling fans would turn on, a plasma TV would turn on, and the news would come on briefly, and then a movie would start then a shower would turn on so that it would be warm by the time you jumped in. The shower was easy. We had a solenoid that bypassed the valve so that water would flow, and it was controlled by 12 volts. Tv can be a pain in simple home automation systems. TVs that do not have one code for on, and another code for off can be difficult to work with. There are sensors that can detect if a product is on, or off, and you can use this signal to control other items. There are products that detect audio, or they detect video sources, and you can use those to change sources on receivers, or Televisions. We also do security work where we install alarm systems, or custom alarm systems. We also install video surveillance systems. We also work with local nightclubs. We sell, install, and program intelligent lighting. This is what you see on stage as snowflakes turn to the american flag, and the lights dance all over the stage, as the colors change. We can set up a DJ booth, and a dance floor. If they are doing a sport bar, then we can install all of the cables, the TVs, speakers, sat dishes/receivers, amplifiers ect. We also do a lot of other stuff during buildouts. We may be installing black lights, or X10 to turn lights on, and off such as house lights in a club, we order vinyl, and we will place them on mirrors, and such. We will put the clubs logo, or name on large wall mirrors, or on walls. We install LED lights under pool table such as what see used under cars. We may have to remove electrical cords, and replace them to get the length that is needed. Imagine hanging pool table lights from 20 ceilings in a night club that used to be a super market in its previous life. We try to come up with decorationg tricks that are simple cheap, but provide a large impact. There was a club that had a long narrow entrance to get to the "pay" window. We took a round staircase banister, and we cut it in half to give us a long rounded piece of wood. We took metal tape used in air conditioning, and we put it in the long semi cirlcular dowels. This was installed from the three foot to six feet high. This gave chrome lines pointing all the way to the window. Cheap, but high impact! We have taken moulding, and made squares, and put them on the walls diamond style, and they trimmed aluminum foil that was attached to the walls. Cheap, and high impact. OK purple walls with pink, and coral trim is a little out there, but it worked! We repair a lot of wire connections on POS stations as they get abused alot. There is always something to be repaired in nightclubs, and bars! Lighting, audio, video, internet, video surveillance, cable, or satellite, alarm, and on, and on. We are planning a showroom where all of these items can be displayed, and we are planning several showrooms in various cities.

Anyone use this DVR before? http://www.swannsecurity.com/s/products/view/?product=372 Thanks!