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There are too many variables, and too many choices. There are hidden devices that you can put in to a car for temporary setups. If you are doing a permanant setup then that is different. I do not know what you mean by pushing a button for an alert. Alarm.com, and a burglar panel with a keyfob would provide in car, and outside of the car alert. Cell phone is an option as you may allready have one. Set it for speed dialing. There are items that you can ask for as "in all in one package", but you are talking about $10,000 with products, server software, and communications protocol. Great for LE, and Executive Protection. You could get an inverter, and set up a cheap DVR with audio, and hire someone to sit in front of the remote setup while this person is traveling. I would need to know more about what it is that you are doing. Is security of the essence? Is this something that you are trying to achieve, but you are doing this on a budget?

I do not know what to tell you about your budget. I would say it would be the same about building a car for $1000.00. Do you want brakes, or do you want a working transmission? If you go to the "buy here, pay here" car lot then you get what you get. If you are a mechanic then that is different. You know what "specs" you are looking for, and you know what the car needs to run. You do not need electric locks, AC, or a working radio. You need good brakes, tires, tranny, and an engine. A mechanic will have spare batteries, starters, and alternators laying around, and those are the first of any item to go out on a used junker car. What do you know about camera, and DVR specs? Here is where you need to look up the various links in the forum and look up CCTV magazines. If speed is of the essence then you are better off hiring someone! Forget the budget. If you buy based on budget then you will crash, and burn. If you buy an auto battery for $5.00 (us) then what do you get? It will turn your engine over one time, and thats it. If you engine "catches" the first time then you are good, and you got what you need. If your engine takes several starts to get it going then that battery is going to leave you stuck on the side of the road. Measure from where you are going to mount the camera on the house out to the area where you are going to be watching. Double this distance for your night time IR distance. Entry level cameras will have 30 feet of IR which means it is effective at 15 feet. This is great for most homes. If you require more distance then you sold yourself short on a cheap camera purchase. Now based on your distance measured now find the cheapest camera that you can find. Pay more, and do not buy used so that you have a warranty. Do not buy from Craig's list, or EBAY if it is used. There is no warranty, and you may be buying a product that is at the end of it's life cycle. It might die in two months. Any camera will work during the day. It is at night where the boy cameras, and the men cameras are seperated very fast. What do you think?

I do not know what DVR you have. I was wondering if it came with a disk so that you could load the remote software AP? Go to your computer where the DVR is located. You may be able to bring up the AP and it may have a search feature to find your DVR on the network. It may be possible to click on the info line, and the computer might connect to it. _____________________________________________________________ For others who have come to this post from a search engine. Try some of these manuals so that you can get a gist of how to set up the DVRs http://scorpiontheater.com/videonetworkingwithavtech.aspx Here are some of the tools that CCTV tech use. Do what is called an ipconfig. Google it for your type of operating system. EX Windows XP Start Run (type in cmd) In the black box type in ipconfig This should give you Connection IP address (outside) subnet mask http://ipchicken.com/ http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm _____________________________________________________________ Here is an interesting site for tools http://www.yougetsignal.com/ The Port Forward Test is great for testing to make sure your port is open http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ Type in your customers Wan address with the port that they are supposed to open for that DVR. It will let you know if it is open, or closed.

Thanks RickA! I do hope I get a chance to visit you again! Maybe this summer!

Here is my Dad installing it out in the road in front of his house. What do you think of this demonstration? I need some opinions! http://www.flixxy.com/speed-bump.htm http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/s/speed_bump.asp

Here are some photos of the speed bump. I will post some more shortly. It was more compact then I thought it would be! I thought it was going to be a serious size speed bump. Nice low profile! http://scorpiontheater.com/speedbumpcamera.aspx More info is here: http://scorpiontheater.com/lpr.aspx

Take a technitions monitor, or a TV with the yellow video in connector, and go out to the camera itself, and plug the video out of the camera in to your monitor, or your TV. If you have video then the power side is ok. The video cable is the issue. You might have a sliver of the braid wrapped around the center conductor, or the center conductor is touching the side of the BNC connector. If you do not have video then it is the power supply, power cable, or the camera itself. What do you think?

Thank you! I am hoping my wife will not see this post. I can hear her now about "how my head will not fit throught the door", or something to the effect! LOL! Hey shoreviewsecurity, I have seen your posts, and you have placed some super ones yourself! We appreciate your help! Hey Jim, Do you have a website?

Minimize the area where the mic can pick up sound. Post signage everywhere. This way down the road no one can say they did not know there was audio recording! As far as you can get from the mic put a simple fountain. This way you cannot record beyond this area. This will help with neighbor issues. Mics on covered porches will catch the front door, and that may minimize other sounds. http://www.cctvforum.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=3465

You will need one of these. http://www.avtech.com.tw/english/cctv_overview.aspx?ID=VGA01

The AVC 760A Welcome to my world! Can I get a copy? I believe it is in overwrite mode right out of the box. Ha! Ha! Ha! Well said! Thank you for the praise! I am glad I can allow others to take a short cut through fog. He has been a great help to me in return! I am still working on the FTP issue, and I have been having problems with audio over the internet. I have given up on a cell phone for remote viewing! The new H.264 has a cell phone viewer beta. Now I just gotta figure out who it is that I can bribe so that I can get a copy someday! Take care everyone!

http://www.videolarm.com/family_item.jsp?content=214&model=17275 IP cam, and solar power an option?

I know the answer is going to be no right off the bat. There is Cape Canaveral, Patrick AFB, Melbourne Int Airport, Harris Corp, the company that builds the JSTARS Project, and then on top of that you have GE, DRS, and on, and on. I may have to play each one with a different purpose. We could contact a manufacture, and see if they can get us "access", and then I can call my competitors to see if they can get me "access" with their customers, and then there is the "I am working on a proposal, and I wanted to see if you are satisfied with your setup, and we are seeking your input". We could always just kick in a door, run in, and play with the joysticks, and then run for it! I can call ICRealtime, and see what they can pulloff, and I can call Interlect custom Integration Distributors to see what has been installed with their product line. Lots of leg work, but I would have an interest in seeing "what's out there". I wonder if another angle could be to do a charity event. People (other ourselves) pay a fee to do a tour, and the money goes to a charity. This would be a good may of getting the CCTVForum's name out there, and to give back to the community. We could do our tour on our own, and then the next day we could "station" ourselves at each location, and be the "tour guide". We could contact the media, and then we can also do press releases. I think this would be great exposure for the forum. We would have to get Larry on board to have "us" (boy is he in for it) represent the forum!

I wonder if it would be of any interest to go through different loss prevention security dept, and to go through some of the goverment contract manufacture's security depts. Kind of see "how they do it".

East coast. I am in Melbourne which is near Cocoa which is near the place where they launch the space shuttle. In case you did not know it Cocoa Beach is where they get chocolate fish for Shamu at Sea World. You might recognize Cocoa Beach from the TV show "I dream of Jeanie".

Who would be interested in a Mini workshop here in Florida? Would more people be interested in late summer, or early fall, or spring of 09? How much would you be willing to spend on a hotel room? Lux Suite? Reg Room? One step above a Mom n Pop Hotel/Motel? Would you want one to a room? Two to a room? Sleeping bags on the floor until the rug is covered? Rooms at $39.00???? What kind of classes would be of interest? What kind of distributors would you like to see? Northern Video?? EclipseCCTV?? CoviSec?? What kind of Manufactures would you like to see? GeoVision? ICRealtime? I myself am more interested in an informal type of environment? I am not interested in "tagging, and bagging" as I call some "expos". I am more interested in putting faces to the forum "handles". What kind of commitee would we have to put together? Dealer team Manufacture team computers/welcome room team VIP room team Raffle contest/prize team vacation group discount team Any volunteers? Anyone know a "famous star" to invite? Would you want a small hometown expo where you can market, and sell to the locals? We can rent a city auditorium. Who wants to meet Rory?? What do you think?

http://scorpiontheater.com/record.aspx Video Recording is one thing, and audio is another thing. In a residential setup I would tell you to avoid audio recording unless "SECURITY IS OF THE ESSENCE". For commercial business setup then I would highly recommend an audio setup to back up the video. Why do you need to set up audio recording, and what are you going to use it for? For indoors http://www.louroe.com/mics.asp?model=amic Outdoors http://www.louroe.com/datasheets/emic.pdf You need to defer to someone in your local area who can get you set up! You would need to be more specific of what kind of microphone you have in mind that you would just stick in, and what are you sticking it in to? Are you speaking of an IP camera audio input? What kind of IP camera do you have? I would not cut off the plug off a microphone unless you knew what you were doing. I would keep the plug on, and attach a female plug to the wire. This way if you ever need to replace the mic it is just a unplug, and replug kind of issue. http://eclipsecctv.com/ECL-MIC_microphone.html

1. Insert cassete tape. 2. Press play to load software. 3. Take a lunch for 30 minutes 4. Come back to find that the software did not load properly. 5. Rewind tape press play, and leave for another 30 minutes to find something to do. Gotta love the trash 80!

I do not know what issue you are having, and I am not familiar with that model of DVR. I am guessing that you may have an active X issue. Normally when connecting with a DVR it may need an Active X. You will see this prompt at the top of you screen. You would click on the yellow bar, and then a run program prompt would appear. We will need to find someone that knows that DVR to confirm this. If you can control the DVR then it does not sound like you have a port forward issue.

http://eclipsecctv.com/ECL-WIREbLACK_siamese_cable.html For example:

I do not see any red flags that stands out, unless you are running a real long distance. With what you describe wiring wise I do not understand why you are having issues. I am not familiar with those devices, and I do not know if that may be your issue. My battery operated monitor has an audio input so I can test at the camera's audio output, and I can test at the DVR input, and the DVR audio output. Perhaps you have a small portable TV that you can set up at the camera with an extension cord to see if it is putting out audio. What do you think?

I would recommmend using the cat5e that comes from your camera dealer. You may pay more in the longer run, but then you have a "face" to your source. If you are going to buy from EBAY then $60.00 may, or may not be a value. If it is cheap wire, then why is it cheap? I just came across some cheap rg59 through my distributor, and I now ask for a different brand. I normally receive wooden spools, and on the last order they sent reel in a box style. I thought nice! Turns out it is crap. After pulling a long distance I find the red, and black two conductor pulls up inside the sheath. I would lose about a foot. I would have to cut the coax back a foot to match the two conductor. I always pull more than I need, and in this case it save my derrier. Reel in a box was nice, but the wire was not worth it. The coax side was very flimsy. I rather have a better wire to work with. I am more concerned about having to go back time, and time, and not earning any money!

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I would avoid $75.00. You will want to have a camera that has Wide Dynamic range. Entry level cameras will have 380 lor, and you may need a hire line such as 420 LOR. Proper cables will make a difference. You will want 95% copper. Copper center conductor, and copper shield. Do not use coax that is designed for the Cable, and Sat dish companies as they have steel center conductors, and a copper coating around the center conductor. Their signal is a high signal, and it travels on the outside of the center conductor. CCTV signal is a low freq, and it travels on the inside of the center conductor. The steel will not send the signal a far distance, and the aluminum shield does not help either. You can use the cheapest camera if you want, but do not expect "TV news" footage, but do use the best cable you can afford. If the cable is a long distance run then you need to make sure you have the right voltage at the camera. Long run may drop the voltage down.

If these are 12 volt cameras then you need to figure a way to read the voltage under load at the camera location. We have bought male, and female pig tails, and soldered them to a meter test probe. We can disconnect the camera, and plug in our pigtails to test the voltage. Perhaps you may need to get 13 volt transformers to make up the voltage drop? Another issue is the IR throw. Cheap "off the shelf" IR cameras are going to have a 30 foot throw. This means your effective range is going to be around the 10 to 15 foot range. Measure where you camera is located to the area to be viewed. If this distance exceeds the 15 foot range then you will need to move the camera closer, or order a camera that matches your IR needs. Take that measured distance, and double that for you camera IR specs Some of the really small IR cameras will only have a 15 foot throw which means you can only use them in the 7 foot range. This is what may be seen on such as the wireless style of IR cameras. http://scorpiontheater.com/irlab.aspx When you see the halo then this is a sign that the IR is not throwing far enough.