Vaughn

I am convinced I am going to get an inferior product, so I just make sure I pay an inferior price, then it is all good! I love my $55 outdoor IR color day/night cameras. I still need to put up pics, always so busy. Vaughn

I have a RapidOS 4-port card and I went to move it to another machine and can't find the disk, so knowing alternate options would be cool. For generic software, I use WebcamXP, but I have never tried to get a DVR card's channels to show up in it. If that is possible, it would likely take different drivers, and I should find the chipsets, or should it be as easy as installing the software on that box and looking for the channels? Vaughn

I am not trying to make a DVR, but I am very interested in some of the expertise here. I made a USB Gun turret and it worked great using a Webcam (or hauppauge WinTV cable and CCTV) and I coded it in VB6. The thing was very popular and the video got over 200k hits. The second version I wanted to use 4 cameras, so similiar to a DVR, but no recording necessary. Like some have said in this thread, the simple methods for a single webcam (clipboard frames) don't work for multiple webcams. I am willing to go almost any direction with this, but would want to keep it in VB. Motion detection features will need to be coded against 3 of the cameras. I am willing to buy different cameras, custom controls, etc as this is not an opensource project. I am not sure if OpenCV or RoboRealm would help with this. I am pretty busy with my automation software and this is just a fun side project that seems to be good at gathering interest and hits. If it has to be done in C++, I definitly do not have the time. If someone even wants to take over the project, I would provide a turret setup in exchange for the help. hehe, I know it is off topic for these forums, but I am a good ole boy who don't try to make money on anything and appriciate the advice. check out my videos at youtube /ver0776 if you are not familiar. Vaughn the Virtual Crib

You know how copiers are designed not to reproduce certain color combonations to avoid money fraud? Is something similiar going on with wireless cameras? I am looking for a wireless camera with pinhole lense and low light, perferably on a off frequency like 434 or 900mhz. Ideally with a built in battery and mic. I can find: 2.4g with .1 lux CMOS no battery 2.4g with .5 lux CMOS with battery 900mhz with .5 lux CMOS no battery or I find great low light cameras that are not wireless at all.... I am looking to spend $200 or less too, which blows a couple options that may be out there, but I have not even found them at any price. Using a wired camera with seperate transmitter is fine for a few projects, but not relevant on this. There are toooo many batteries and wires and I could just use a full size camcorder if I did not mind the size... I will post the links for the ones I have later. Security man just released a 900mhz wireless camera to compliment their 2.4g offerings, but they dropped the camera from .1 to .5lux. So they eliminated the interference and privacy issues, but broke its light sensitivty... give the the same quality of camera on the 2.4g, but make it transmit on 900mhz... So it just seems like anyone will give you 2 or the 3 features you want but no one will give you all three.... Vaughn

I know most of this. I did not ask for anything that can not be made (that I know of). I am not complaining about the batteries or transmittion range. My issues are with Light Sensitivity and available frequencies. Which is why I am looking for 434mhz or 900mhz instead of the 2.4g that everyone has and sees. I don't run any wireless cameras, network or video at my house. My needs are for portable applications. If you have seen any of my videos, I do a lot of RC type projects, gun turrets, etc. I guess I will just buy a seperate 434mhz transmitter... All the seperate components weigh to much for my RC cars generally. SuperCircuits and a couple places sell some seperate transmitter/receiver kits. That is all good info though. I disagree about prices though, in general you are right, but most things are over priced and good deals are always to be had. I spent $150 on my 8-channel 240fps hardware encoding DVR card and $55 each for my CCD 66ft (even better than their rating) IR weatherproof cameras. Those prices barely get you junk normally, but my setup is awesome for that price. a 900mhz wireless camera setup is about $75 for .5 lux, so I don't think $200 for a .1lux version is unreasonable. I guess I understand the tech but was looking for some shopping hook-ups if someone had some. I appriciate the info and am glad LVS pointed me to this forum. I recently bought a EB1304NET based on the recommendations read here. Thanks! Vaughn