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did u try the cam locally next to DVR with another power supply? I would do that just to make sure its really the cam and not wiring fault.

I disagree with you on that one. When they deal with clients (sometimes installers too) who don't know what MAC address means, or if the camera is POE they can't waste staff time answering basic questions. I rather them put that extra salery towards another R&D guy salery to make things better. I think thats why some companies make you take the course before they even agree to talk to you.

some of us did install cameras once upon a time but $400 is a little low for what you asking. stick to the crappy costco system, at least you'll be able to buy an analog cam for another 150 to get your car clearly.

OnSSI also have MAC address licensing. I always explain the client the need to have a spare cam on standby for those cases. and we purchase extra ptz and license per project. If budget is tight and they prefer to wait the 8 hrs it takes onssi to send me the new DLC so be it, but 99% where we installed Onssi were client of mission critical who understood and can't afford downtime.

Hi guys, I'm in need for couple IP cameras decoders. The cams I'm using in the install are Samsung SNV-XXX Samsung claims decoder must be theirs. Is this correct? I would think any decoder which's able to connect to the cam should be able to provide output.

Hi Adam where are you located? I'm in Florida, US plates, tried GV LPR but was really disappointed. more errors than correct results. GV supports sent me screenshots of Netherlands installation, go figure. just wanted to know if you from USA and if you happy with results?

yep maximum for single file is 5 min movie. I believe this is to keep the system usable for viewlog searched and for other operation. If you set your system to round the clock you will see in viewlog that everything is there, just broken to 5 min clips. You can always backup these 3 five min clips to get a one 15min movie if you wanted.

thats interesting. thanks for the link. I wonder if it lets me output each channel on its own. We need to send some outputs for the monitoring company through OZvision boxes.

its a regular standalone 4ch with standard hdd inside. http://www.geovision.com.tw/english/Prod_GVCompactV34ch.asp I have the older version. the GUI is very basic but it has monitor out vga/bnc and can accept their GPS module. what I like about it most is that you can use multiview/viewlog to view recording.

Does the other services (remote dvr/ viewlog) work when triggered from control center?

Did u try reinstall all 8.5.1 apps only. Leave the driver alone within same version if its functions ok.

Geovision also make mobile DVR. I'm using one as stand alone (non mobile) for a client and love it. they also have GSM module for it. But im sure you knew all that already.

That's an impressive result for analog. Very detailed I was sure its MP cam

WD has a line specifically for A/V recording http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=150 but I personally buy standard drives. as long as you format them every now and then you won't have issues IMHO.

good balun cost $20-30, you paid .68 cents EA. that your problem. IMHO these 'baluns' look like the simply convert your BNC (+)&(-) to screw terminals, i highly doubt there is any capacitor under that mold. then you runing the signal over cat5...

once you add a NAS to the NVR operating system you can choose that new drive path as any local drives. just make sure the connection is established on boot up. I personally always prefer to store the actual recording on a NAS if I can VS locally. and defiantly over fastest possible link. Not sure about Aver per se but some NVRs let you store locally for performance and transfer only archive files older then x-hours to the NAS.

thank for the info. I never heard of EntryVue before. looks like they have some nice units on their site. I must get the price list tomorrow morning

*pardon for raising the deads* mind sharing what you end up with installing? I've had to replace Aiphone IE series in a building with 7 doors stations and used the AX series. I've pretty much just needed to patch the RJ45 wiring in a certain way. I wonder if the AX video station requires the use of all 4 pairs.

I'm happy to hear you got ZM to work last time I tried it it looked more like proof of concept than in production state. If I were you I would put couple of 3MP cams with SD card recording on them. I've had good luck with Samsung SNZ-7080R which is pretty sweet IMHO. I record locally on 32GB SDHC card. I also record on Samsung NVR server which is free up to 4 channels but will run only on windows machine and the system req are not cheap.(i5-i7 IIRC) I have email alerts and FTP upload to a BSD server I have. You are a little low on budget if you really need 3 cams. I've had good experiance with Vivotek, samsung and Arecont 3-5mp cams.

best suggestion will be to buy geovision instead.

Don't know if his rep BS or not but it happened to us once. I was failed inspection because of non UL cameras. that's in Sunrise Florida but they known as bi&%^ with inspections. We used Nuvico's CV-S and the EV4000 DVR. very neat install. the inspector wanted to see a UL label on the cameras and the DVR too, the sticker on the DVR transformer was good for the transformer only in his opinion. he even called his boss and checked if that DVR is on the UL listed list he have somewhere online and confirmed with him that it must be UL. but that's happened only once and only in Sunrise, other cities here are easier and not looking to fail you for BS, just looking to see that your installation is up to code and you good to go. from what I understand the whole UL thing on electronics is more about the fee UL charge the mfg per each model they want to get listed, and if that's true than demanding it as part of code is no no.

Hi guys/gals, We have <170 GV systems installed out there. Currently I'm using the feature of alerts when camera is out or if I have I/O error to a dedicated email address that logs all the errors and we contact the clients for repair if needed. This has worked beautifully so far and most of our client love the idea of us knowing the problem even before they noticed it. Recently I started considering teh VSM server as an addition for the service and was wondering if anyone here have it installed and can upload some screenshots of the server configs and interface. it's no big money but I wanna know if it worth it? Thanks.

which VPN router you have? that could be your problem as I know many low grade VPN integrated have BW limits for the VPN (~600Kbps IIRC).

thx JD, any chance for some screenshot?

no matter what the AT&T rep promise ADSL isn't as fast as cables. but thats a whole other thread I guess sorry for the confusion you did what I meant under the server setup. I would also change the compression to H264 for both MultiView & Webcam though I'm not sure it'll affect MultiView. but that's my personal pref only, some will argue here to stay with MPEG4. in your case, I would try to play with it and see if it's actually perform better. (System Config>A/V Setting> Video Attributes > Advanced) click the hand icon to transfer the settings to all cameras.