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Beanies, Beans, Jelly Beans? Anyone know why these are called "B-Wire" in the first place?

Feed the trigger into an Altronix timer board and hook the output of the timer board to hold the slider input open.

Should I posit this question in a different forum?

Thought occurred to me as I was driving home; Can ONVIF be implemented in Arduino or Raspberry PI or something open source to give an arbitrary number of inputs/outputs?

is that on one of those portable security rigs? Those cameras could be anything. The cams are certainly not custom built, but the enclosure they're mounted to is probably production run of a few dozen or a few hundred units by the looks, made to match the camera housings for a specific application. looks like a traditional power connector on the bottom with a switch, bet there's a power supply and dvr in that box with a cell communicator.

If they all started doing this at exactly the same time then it wouldn't be the cameras or the cables. Does each camera have its own power supply or is there one power supply for them all? I would check that first, you can get voltmeters cheap from walmart or Fry's or an auto parts store( just don't trust your life to the cheep-ee's for 120v, low voltage only) You should be getting either 24 volts AC, or 12 volts DC. To see if it's the recorder itself as a problem, feed a known good video signal into it, composite (yellow plug) cable from the output of a VCR or cable box ( you will need an RCA to BNC adaptor, or cut the cable and shove the wire into the jack ) I've seen lightning and/or power surges take out whole recorders like that.

The cameras you bought have no IR filter. This explains the strange colors. Looks like one or more of the cams also has moisture in it, clogging up the view.

The screenshots definitely make it look like there is no IR filter at all. Nothing can be done about this.

Help me out here; why would anyone want a camera with optical zoom if they're not going to mount them on a pan/tilt base? I don't see the point of zooming in on a fixed object.

The trick to Samsungs STWebviewer, you have to add the camera to trusted sites and enable downloading of signed and unsigned activeX controls. You also have to add the site to compatibility view. Get the latest version of the thing you can, install it, then use firefox to access the cameras. It doesn't seem to care which model camera you're using as long as your version of STWebviewer is newer than the one the camera expects to use.

I started in southern California with burglar alarms and cctv systems back in 2007, with GE Caddx and traditional DVRs like everfocus and Vitek and Digimerge. Everfocus was a disaster; their 4 channel DVRs only had a 10baseT network card, and their interface was junk. I loved working with the Vitek units In fact whenever I had trouble, it was great to be able to just take the problem unit over the hill to Valencia for a swap. The GE Caddx/NetworX burg panels, while not really related to CCTV, are one of the best systems I've worked with; the system will accept keypad input as fast as you can press the buttons (as opposed to Napco, which is slow as molasses.) After several years of hiatus, a move to Texas, and a deployment to Afghanistan, I got back into security work, and the first thing I did was replace about 60 Integral DVRs with Exacqvision systems (one per school in the district) and fell in love with how reliable and easy to use they are. I have yet to see a system that's as user friendly. Then we installed some 600 Panasonic WV502S cameras, along with 60 Samsung SNV-5080's. Over the course of two years, of the 600 Panasonics, we had to RMA around 10 of them. Of the 60 Samsungs, we had to RMA 10 of them. Now I'm working for a company that deals in Video Insight and Samsung cameras. I was pretty distressed after starting finding that Samsung was the main product we sell. Each different model of IP Samsung camera requires a different version of the "STWwebviewer" ActiveX control, which doesn't reliably install unless you're running IE9. If you're running IE11, you have to enable compatibility mode and pretty much disable any kind of ActiveX security. In Chrome you'll need to enable the NP-API flag which will stop working in September after Chrome v45. Not to mention the Engrish in the software. Video Insight is not too terrible. It's super CPU heavy, especially if you want to display tons of cameras. I was able to run over 70 IP cameras on an Exacq server across three monitors. I'm lucky to get 50 on three monitors using their outdated 'video wall' software on an i7 computer. I've never been able to run their VI Monitor software for more than ten minutes without it crashing (Java). For as long as they've been pushing their software out, it still seems like a beta product. Arecont cameras are complete junk. Stay as far away from them as you possibly can!

What was the final answer?

DIVR Systems "edge camera server" DSI-ECS-4PE I picked up this old four channel encoder from work that's been sitting on the shelf for years gathering dust. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any documentation in the office, and certainly not online since the website now seems to be owned by a chinese gaming site or some such thing. I can log in to the web interface, but the username and password are unknown to me. The usual stuff hasn't worked

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I'm usually pretty good at finding all the settings, but unless it's been disabled, I'm not finding it. Any help?

I haven't tried that. The biggest problem comes when you have more than one series of the Samsung cameras, as each model will want to use a different version of the webviewer and will try to uninstall the other one.

I wouldn't worry about using CAT6 cable. I haven't seen a single camera that can some close to the full bandwidth of a CAT5 cable (ie. they only light up 100mbit on the switch) I haven't been given the chance to play around with a 4K camera yet so I don't know about that, but the Arecont AV12186 still only lights up 100mbit. I've had nothing but trouble with Arecont cameras. They're a complete waste of time IMO. You can't use the web interface to reboot the camera. There's no physical reset button on the camera either (one bricked and had to be replaced)

You might be able to make a user account for remote viewing and limit that account to the 'low bandwidth' streams, maybe?

Please, for the love of God, stick with Exacq. I can't speak about Toshiba, for I have never touched one. VI works but it is super CPU intensive and a nightmare to install or reinstall if the installation fails. Of all the systems I've used, Exacq is the most reliable and easy straightforward to use and configure. The documentation is very good too.

Advidia and Video Insight go hand in hand with each other. If the server side motion detection settings aren't working, then you can use the cameras' built in settings from its webpage. Lizards

As it turns out, this is a re-badged Vivotek VS2402; http://download.vivotek.com/downloadfile/downloads/datasheets/vs2402datasheet_en.pdf The login in root, the password is the MAC address It's useless as a video encoder for systems like Exacq or Video Insight. It's more of a standalone recorder or web viewer than a proper encoder from what I see, like the original Axis cameras. Lizards