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Way too many variables! You might need the help of someone local to you. _____________________________________________________________ First look here (click on top right if you see an ad) http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm Pick your router, and then select Gadspot IP camera (this should be close to what you need for a DVR rather than setting up a multiplayer Doom game). Go into your router, and set up your port forwarding enter your linksys model number for info http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/support http://kb.netgear.com/app/home http://www.dlink.com/support/products/ What port does your DVR use? Does it use more than one? _________________________________________________________ Next go to a computer located where the DVR is located, and go to http://ipchicken.com/ Write down the IP address that it shows you. This is the address you will use at a remote site to log in to your DVR. (in some cases you may have to use :portnumber at the end of the ip address. ___________________________________________________________ Before you set up remote view you will want to have video on a local LAN with the DVR. In other words if you do not have local video then you will not get remote view. What is the gateway? windows XP. START > RUN > enter cmd on the line > type ipconfig press enter write down all of those numbers. _____________________________________________________________ You can find product info about ATT, Verizon, Brighthouse, Cox, ect, ect http://www.dslreports.com/faqnew _____________________________________________________________ More info here: http://scorpiontheater.com/videonetworkingwithavtech.aspx Is this enought to get you started?

Good points! This is great info for others who want to get in to the business, but did not really think about the "real meat" that goes in to putting these systems together. In a convenience store I would imagine that the camera is behind the clerk on the wall to get that face shot! I like to use these: http://eclipsecctv.com/ECL-CPIR_hidden_camera.html It cuts down on shirts being thrown on the cam. Now put a cam within reach of the perp so that he "thinks" he has killed the evidence gathering device! Nothing wrong with domes. In some cases having a wide variety of choices is a good thing. They are all tools of the trade. I think a camera type selection is sometimes more based on the distributor. In other words what they specialize in, and the base price may dictate what you sell to keep a profit. Some dealers have cheap bullets, and others have cheaper boxes compared to other dealers, and sometimes a dealer may not carry exactly what you want, but they are nearby, and you can get products in the next day rather than waiting 5 days to come from the opposite coast from where you live. Thank you guys! Great food for thought!

I will chime in here! I love the AVC 2 Cameras, and they are my favorite. http://www.usaginc.com/productdetail.php?sku=US-AVC2-2-420DN WARNING! This camera is a screw on base, and it is made of "metal". There are alot of cameras that look just like this. WATCH OUT! The look alike may have a plastic base, (nothing wrong with plastic, I just do not like paying for the same price when I could rather have metal). Some also use allen screws to mount the base to the camera. I hate these!!!!! You have the camera on the ceiling, or one the wall and the allen wrench hits the wall, or ceiling, and you have to yank it out, and reinsert it and barely get a turn out of it before you have to pull it out again! The screw on base is great. Spin it down, and you are done. One trick is to turn the camera counter clockwise just a hair, and when you go to tighten it down you can turn the base just one little bit more by grabbing the camera, and the base, and bringing it to the "home" position. If you want to get in to the business of CCTV you will def want to sign up USAG! http://www.usaginc.com/products.php I also use Eclipse CCTV http://eclipsecctv.com/CCTV_products.html I get tons of emails from foreign (Asian) "manufactures". I see the price list, and I about fall out of my chair! Great prices! I have never bought Asian, but I am tempted. For those of you who do not know may want to consider if it is worth it, or not to buy Asian. The reason that I do not buy Asian is that you become a Distributor, (you become your own rep). You now have to provide Tech Support, and Marketing (too yourself). I would rather let the big pockets test products, and let them sell the best of breed rather then myself getting a shelf of products that did not cut the mustard. If you buy direct from Asia then what do you do with the millionth product of the assembly line that fails. At a 1% failure rate which is very low, then you are still going to have product failures. It is not even worth the shipping fees to send it back for repair / replacement. If you need to talk to manufacture techsupport prepare to stay up at 2am to talk to them on their time zone! Oh! You do not know the native language? Too bad, now what do we do? What do you do when custom holds your shipping container for inspection. I have heard of products that take 20 days to get to the shipped to address! Yikes! If you are a high volume installer then it may be worth getting in to direct purchase. If you lose a cam here, or there then it would not matter so much. If I order 4 cams direct, and one comes in dead out of the box, then I got problems, and I cannot wait for another one to come in. I guess I could order a few extra to have as back up, but that is money out of my pocket that I could use to buy a camera for an install. USAG brags about building their own cameras? Everyone says that! Come on! OOPS! My sales rep just had me log in on the CCTV system at USAG, and took me for a tour where I can see the assembly area on camera. Ok! I finish my crow pie for now!

A motion detector system as you described is a failure. I am not sure why you want to "hide" the illuminator. Illuminators are invisible to the naked eye. This means you are hiding the slight glow from the LED style illuminators. If someone is scoping your place with a camcorder then I see a premeditated crime rather than one of opportunity, or out of desperation (such as one who needs a quick drug fix). If they have a camcorder then they know what they are after, and they have more inside info then a random crime and your are more than just targeted. If they are within a range while video taping then will they not set off your motion detection, and see the very illuminators that you are "hiding". I was curious why you would add more money to a project? The system failure is that the motion detector would never shut off depending on the environment. Outside animals, and birds, and moving branches in the wind may set off your detector constantly. If you truely need this kind of a system, then I would suggest beams that a person would have to break that would trigger your illuminators (or alarms for a different project, or to trigger a DVR channel to record). You would have more than one beam. A person would break two or more beams, but wild animals, or pets would only break the lower beam preventing false alarms, and if the animal is big enough to trigger all of the beams you might want that on video! http://www.optexamerica.com/productpage.aspx?l1=2&l2=7&id=6 If a motion detector is the way for you then try various settings to get the beam high enough to prevent walking animals from triggering it. Place some tape on the inside of the detector across the top to "shield" the sky to prevent trees, and flying birds / bats from triggering the detector. Perhaps tape across the bottom horizon, and across the top horizon may create a "slit" that the detector can see out that would trigger against a person, but minimize some of the false triggering? You will want to order a motion detector that is Outdoor designed. Indoor ones will fail depending on your environment. http://www.optexamerica.com/productlist.aspx?l1=2&l2=9 What do you think?

Here is one: http://eclipsecctv.com/ECL-598V_security_camera.html

Hello! I was having a panic attack due to the expiration date on the domain name www.scorpiontheater.com. My wallet was stolen, and I had to receive new bank cards, and it was a race between the arrival of my new bank card, and the URL expiration! I was about to have a heartattack! The website URL expired, and I received the bank card the following day! Ouch. I have been searching at www.godaddy.com to catch it went it was released to the wild. I have not seen it, and I thought someone snagged it up rather quickly. I saw that it was no longer on the market! Ouch! I had to see who bought it, and who owned a fine name of a URL! I did the Godaddy search, and low, and behold it is registered in MY NAME! Hmmm! Interesting! Bill Gates was kind enough to pay the renewal tab on the URL! That was really kind of him! I know $20.00 is "chump change" to him, and he probably spews $20.00 bills out of the holes in is pockets while he walks! Thank you Bill! I appreciate it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Live Create a free website with free hosting here: http://www.officelive.com/en-us/

No program, or service was involved. I was there back when this "service" was a beta, and I was one of the first few to sign up. Perhaps it was a "courtesy" for being there from start to finish, and for putting up with all of the tool changes, and the experimental software that was "buggy" until they came up with a refined "Free Website" service for business solutions. For a free website with WYSIWYG editing, and free website hosting I really cannot complain. I find it easy to work with, but then the uninitiated may find it difficult until they learn to move around with it. I can read something on the forum, and I can punch out a webpage in 10 minutes, and have it live on the net to include googling a picture, and uploading it to my photo gallery, or uploading a doc to the doc gallery. To those who do HTML they might have something to say, but the system has frames where you can insert HTML, and other software. If there was a service I would reserve it for a years worth of RENT!!

I did receive a note identifing that Office Live made a payment. LOL! That would be funny if Steve Jobs paid for it! How ironic!

I prefer this style over the bullet cameras. Bullets can be bumped with a broom, or a long 2X4. http://www.avssys.net/?s=product&sub=camera&cat=outdoor&p=vnd49ir

Use the AVTech AVC 760A with an inverter, and the air card router that you ask for. The only reason I suggest the AVC 760A is that it can take a licking, and keep on ticking if the car suffers in the heat. I do not live in a cold weather climate so I cannot speak about winter use.

The device that you are asking for is a switcher. A 4 channel switcher will do what you ask. A multiplexor will take all 4 camera views, and put that in to a quad screen so that you can see all four cameras at the same time. The DVR that you see in my avatar has both options built in, and it records also. Main monitor out gives you a quad screen, or you can press camera 1, or 2, or 3, or 4 to get the camera full screen. The other monitor out is called a spot monitor, and it shows the cameras one at a time as you are asking. http://eclipsecctv.com/Video_Splitters_Switchers.html When you said auto, I was thinking car. What do you think?

Hello! The files are being removed from the website editor's document gallery. I am redoing some of the manul titles, and making some needed updates, and changes to the website. I have tried to leave the printed text up while the website is "down". There should be an alert showing the email address on this webpage. You can email at sales@scorpiontheater.com I apologize for the inconvenience.

I have never done this, but I am thinking that there is too much of a draw on the power supply. How about bench testing it with an external power supply. My mind slips me as it has been a while. I believe there is a relay that is controlled by the board that supplys "juice" to the hard drive. If it turns out that the system will work with a stronger power source then you could cut the lands, and insert the new juice in to the relay this way the DVR still has control activating the hard drive at start up. What do you think?

I am not quite sure what you are trying to do with it as you did not identify so. If you can find one of these RCA ones then I would say use this. It has an auto detect circuit when a video feed is activated. http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?mc=05&p=CRF940&d=RCA-CRF940-RF-Modulator-&-Video-Switcher What about going to a Pawn Shop and getting a cheap game system that has an auto switcher that plugs in to the RF input of a TV and hacking it to your needs?

Kind or rare for just the cameras to be taken. I run scenarios through my head. Would this be a next door neighbor upset about the cameras, or one who fears the "big bother" issues? Were these cameras of value, and resellable for a profit? How the cameras were removed would identify the motives. It is hard to resell damaged cameras unless they were of extreme value. If they were hammered off the wall then I suspect the "big brother", or a disturbed neighbor. What is missing from the equation is this: Was there a robbery also? If not could they be prepping for a return? Were they home, and is the DVR setup to beep an alarm with video loss? For those designing a system you can run another 2 conductor wire to the camera that is tied in to a zone on an alarm panel. If the wires are cut then the alarm panel will sound (assuming the alarm panel is armed to away, or home). It is possible to put a contact on the surface, and to put a magnet on the camera base, or inside of the camera to trigger the alarm when the camera is moved away from the contact switch. Using plants can elevate safety such as cactus, or roses with thorns, and other fauna that is unpleasant. What do you think?

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Why do you need wireless cameras? I would imagine you will have to run wires to the cameras to power them. If this is the case then you may as well run video cable as well. Wireless cameras that are in the budget price range are going to be 100 milliwatt in power. You cannot pass the signal beyond more than two walls. You will want to check to see how many walls there are between each camera, and where the receiver / receivers will be. If you truely want "reliability" then you will want to go above 100 milliwatts. Above 100 milliwatts the transmitters cannot be installed inside of the smaller bullet cams. Buy a WiSpy and check out the frequency around your house. http://www.metageek.net/ If you have a 2.4Ghz camera system then change out your cordless phone for a 5.8Ghz phone, and change the channel on your wireless router so that it does not interfere with your cameras. Be aware that anyone can see your video. If this is a concern then use WiFi Cameras. Your video will not be in the open for everyone to see. WiFi cameras are digital, and the wireless video signal will travel farther compared to analog signals. The real trick to making a system work is to place the receiver / receivers in a central area to all of the cameras, and take the video out, and run it on wires back to the recording device. This will make your system more "bullet" proof. I would suggest wired cameras in all honesty. I like using wireless cameras for things like detached garages. You might have a driveway, or a pool, or a tennis court that blocks you from trenching video cable back to the main house. You can power the camera from the garage, and receive the wireless signal to record. This is what wireless was designed for. You would place the receiver close to the garage on that side of the house then wire the video out back to the recording device. What is the budget of this project? Hobby? Security is of the essence? What do you think?

Of course. the supply voltages are all right. But I dont know : what is the U65 IC (ATV...) I dont found datasheet. I am glad that you checked the power voltages with an oscilliscope. A multimeter can fool you as it will give you correct voltages, but the scope will show you AC leakage. AVTech DVRs hate AC leakage. I was hoping that buying a new external power supply would resolve your problem. ___________________________________________________________ Alex, I would say the same about your DVR. Try another power supply, and see what happens.

I have not worked with a LI Lin PDR 2160 DVR. I did not see anything in the manual that I found on the internet. Start a new thread. If there is someone who is familiar with this DVR then they can respond. This is a CPCam thread, and your request will not be seen by others unless they just happen to look here. I wish I could be of more help.

I hope it is not Bull s***!

True! I guess I do not make a good "story teller"! I only used the "registered" date in case someone did a whois. I was suprised to see a new date for 2010 when I had not renewed myself. Hey! The milk has todays date, can I still drink it?

Change the crystal, (or is that clock oscillator)?. It may, or maynot be part of the problem. Is it an H025, or the MCO1500A? What does the output look like on a scope? It might be a sloped square wave. I assumed you have checked all of the supply voltages?

Unplug the DVR. Open the chassis. Look for JP1, or the pad marked Sys Reset (tall pins) Short the pins, then plug the power cord back in to the DVR, and wait at least 10 seconds. Put the chassis cover back on, set it back on the shelf, and plug 16 RG59 cables before your boss gets back! 0000 (press enter 4 times) remote is admin admin While you have it open, and replace the fans from a computer store while you are at it!!! The chip will fry without the fan, and the hard drive will fail! What do you think?

Here are some video shots of a low rider getting caught on a speed bump camera (ICREALTIME). What do you think this guy is going to think when his insurance company gets the bill? Click on this you tube video first, and then watch the videos with the background music!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iffDvXTcm8 Over view camera http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmi6C8ACnA Bump View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYJVlmxF5UE On the bump camera, watch as he pull the lag bolts out of the ground, and the video camera changes the angles. The HOA President, and I had to take up a bump camera for maitenance issues, and with the epoxy we had to use a long blade on the sawsall to get it off the ground, and we still had to struggle! The truck yanked it out in one second flat! OUCH!

The AVC 760 A with Video Server E? I think you have a regular AVC 760, and this has the IDE drive. The A series has the Sata drives. _________________________________________________________ If you can see video through the browser then this tells me that portforward is good. If you can see the DVR in Video Server E, but you cannot log in. Question: Are the words a bright black, or are they a shade of grey? If they are black then it should log in. If it is shaded grey then you need to switch to Video Viewer remote software, and you do in fact have a Sata A series. What software came with the DVR? What do you think?