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I love this kind of setup! During the rough in I would make the hole in the wood large enough to take the power cable, and the BNC connector, and allow it to travel back, and forth through. I would check when they put up the mesh. I cut the mesh back away from the wiring. I explain to the stucco people what I am trying to accomplish. When the stucco is dry I then chip back the stucco to make the whole big enough. If it is going to be some time before I mount the cameras then I cover the hole with silicone sealant, other wise I put the connector on the RG59, and crimp on a power lead. I mount the camera mount right over the hole, and seal the hole with silicone. This might be one style of camera that I use. http://www.avssys.net/?s=product&sub=camera&cat=outdoor&p=vnd49ir Do not forget to take pictures of your camera locations during the rough in. What do you think?

Yes! Great idea! This cannot be down through the browser, but it can be done using the supplied remote software.

I am not sure why you are having this problem. I am thinking that you do not have the cameras activated therefore there is not numbers available. __________________________________________________________ For others reading this post check these options: Download the manual here: http://scorpiontheater.com/nubix4st.aspx Click on AVC760AS Press menu 0000 (Enter button 4 times) Press RECORD (page 19) MANUAL RECORD ENABLE should be on. EVENT RECORD ENABLE should be on. Press the MENU button to back up to the menu page. Select ADVANCE option Select Camera option (page 21). In the far right column is the REC (record) column. Your cameras should be on. Press MENU to back up to the menu page. Press DETECTION option (page 22). In the second column it the DET (detection) column, and this needs to be ON> Move to the right one column to the AREA column, and then press enter, and setup up motion (Pink is block, and clear is detection). Page 24 is the ALERT page. Scroll down to MOTION BUZZER, and turn this off. This should make this work. What do you think?

In his earler post he says that he can connect to the DVR remotely with the AP. What kind of problem are you having connecting to the DVR now?

I am wondering if you have an AVC760A with the SATA drive rather than an AVC760 that has an IDE. If you have an SATA version then what video Viewer version are you using? Did this come with the disk with the DVR?

Yes, you will need some kind of preamplifier. Try using an inexpensive "DJ" mixer from radio shack. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102920

Sorry it took me so long to respond to this thread. I had to wait while my TRS 80 was loading from the cassette. That link was funny! I like this one too! http://www.cracked.com/blog/clippy-finally-messes-with-the-wrong-word-doc/

I have not dealt with this vendor, but any vendor who puts the manual as a link right on the website gets my vote (in the entry level market)! I see the DVR uses the J arrow for select. I have seen this menu in similiar OEM 4 channel DVRs, and those that I worked with were decent based on the price. I wondered if this DVR scanned the the four cameras individually, or if it received all four video feeds at the same time. It is hard to know with out putting your hands directly on one. The manual says that each camera has to be set to different channes! Nice! I am going to guess that it receives all cameras at the same time rather than sanning them individually. I like the idea of the "all in one concept". The only thing that I do not like having the receiver built in to the DVR is the distance limitation of the camera in relation to the DVR, and the amount of walls one penetrates. What is interesting is that it appears to have BNC inputs, and these are switchable between video, and RF. Now if you have problems with a camera you can get another receiver, and place it for best reception, and wire this back to the DVR. One problem with having 4 separate receivers is based on the design of the receivers. I have seen some receivers where you press a button, and it switches to the next channel. If you want to receive channel 4 then you press the button 3 times (it is allready on ch 1). The problem with this style verses the sliding switch to select camera channels is that when the power goes out it defaults back to channel 1. Now you have a loss of video until the receivers are set up again.

with a multiplexor?

Lego!

I recommend it as well, and it also keeps people from pressing buttons that they should not be if it was easly reafhable.

I have not switched brands. I mainly sell the AVTech DVRs, but when the job requires a DVR of a different spec then I go to ICRealtime DVRs. I meant to relate that I have "foggy eyesight", and I go to "20/20 eyesight" by comparison. I am still in the AVTech market!

IC Realtime stand alone DVRs look great to me, but then again I am moving up from AVTech.

Open it up, and take a look. It might be marked as JP2 with two pins near the power supply board. What do you find?

I have not seen the DG0412 so I do not know. See if you can find a PDF that matches your board. http://scorpiontheater.com/reset.aspx

H1N1! http://scorpiontheater.com/h1n1.aspx

Yes, they may have good points to make, and I would ask what are they comparing too? I am sure the Corvette Club would laugh at the guy who enters a Mini Cooper in a sports rally. I can see those who are in the commercial product arena poo pooing the AVTech, and then agian how many "common folks" are buying $2000.00 4 channel DVRs for their home? If you cannot afford a Corvette, and a cooper can get the trophy for less money then how do you compare the "better car"?

The IC chip that it identifies is bad. Is this a new DVR? Can you take it back to the sellar for a warranty issue?

Anyone want to buy a slightly used 62 Nova with a 350/powerglide that was only driven to the market on Sundays?

The biggest complaint about DVRs in the master bedroom is the fan noise. Woman will be screaming at the husband the next moring about the lack of sleep! Perhaps in the closet might be better, and wired back to the TV/Monitor. It would depend on the budget as to whether they are going to be able to use the remote control, but then again if it was that low of a bid it might be a DVR without a remote control.

There are many reasons why. As stated before H.264 can produce a better picture with compression, and H.264 webserver. The problem with H.264 is the same as driving a car in first gear out on the interstate at 60 mph. Some cars will blow before they get off the entrance ramp, and a customized performance car with a 4 core radiator, oil cooler, and beefed up water pump with a secondary electirc fan may go farther down the road. This is the same for DVRs. High end DVRs will have better processors to handle the video. The cheaper down the scale you go the more problems you have. The cheaper chipset will heat up more. The more heat the more fans, and heatsinks will be required. If you are building a DVR for the entry level market then there is not much that can be done to keep the chipsets from burning themselves up. H.264 will require some serious mass production to make it affordable, and for the designers to be able to afford survivable chipsets. There are companies that are in a limited ROI, and they have to go on to the next product to make a better margin. There is so much competition in the DVR market how do you stand out? H.264! H.264! Scream it from the mountain top! Once the ROI is gone then they will go on to the next "hype". They will start advertsing "such, and such" chipset that has proven to be a work horse for H.264, and then later it will be H.264V2. There may be some companies who want in on the H.264 market, but they may have to clear out the inventory of MPEG4 from their warehouses before they can sell a new breed of DVRs. There may be a company who has specialized in MPEG4, and has come up with alogrithms that make their product equal to, or better then H.264 without all of the difficult video processing required. AVTech is trying to make the entry level H.264 DVRs, and they are going through the trials, and troubles, but they are getting there.

Schedule recording is used by people who have people come in to their house. Perhaps a homebound patient, and you have incoming nurses to feed, medicate, and take care of the patient. One can set the system up to record from 9 - 5 to keep an eye on the nurses. Being that the cameras are on the inside of the house such as in the kitchen to watch food preparation, and where the medicine is stored, and dispensed, and in the room where the patient is located. I agree in keeping a video surveillance system running 24/7, but personal privacy may trump this. Perhaps there is a secondary DVR that maintains the outdoor cameras. I do not know what DVR you are describing, but I will guess that T stands for time recording, and S stands for Sensor (motion) recording. If you leave it with the line ----- then there no recording. I will make a wild guess that your DVR uses about 20 GB of "information" when recording 24/7. Divide 160 by 20, and you should get about 8 "days" of recording, and lowering the specs will increase your recording time.

This is a project that I would run from as fast as you can. If you are the owner of the equipment then it does not matter. In otherwords you are all ready working for free per se. There is no way to break out of the din cable, and then put the signal back in to the din cable. cutting the wire would be the only way, but the wires are two small, and a pain. This is a common pinout for Samsung, and I think it is the same for some of the Lorex. RJ 11 PINOUT 1 SPEAKER (+) 2 VIDEO_OUT 3 GND 4 SPEAKER (-) 5 AUDIO_OUT/ALARM_OUT 6 12V DC Back of Camera! Clip up, contacts down 123456

I am thinking 60 cycle hum which means you might be leaking ac in the power supply. I keep a 12 volt wall wart for testing. Plug this cable in to your test power supply, and see what you get. If it goes away then the power supply is the issue, or it is a ground loop issue. It may be that the first cable has better copper, or a larger guage, and the DC resistance may be low enough for the camera to work fine, and the other cable may have mixed alloy copper, or a smaller guage, and the DC resistance is higher, but this will not effect the AC, and therefore you see the 60 cycle hum bars in the video. I truely do not know as I would have to be there to see it. A secondary transformer, or the monitor test should get you through the troubleshooting sequence. __________________________________________________________ I forgot!!!! Some of these premade cables come with RCA ends, and they provide an RCA to BNC adapter. Once in a blue moon you might get one that gives you troubles. Pull the adapter, and switch it with another. I am not sure if this is the case with you, but for others who find this post it might help them.

I used to use an 18 pound sledge but the customers used yell at me for some reason!