Aron2roy

Picked up the camera on ebay about a month ago and I have been unable to get the PTZ functioning with my avermedia NV5000 system. I bought an rs-232 to rs485 adapter to use, but still can't get it to work. Anybody have any experience with this camera? I've been trying to research it for a while and at my end with it. This is the first ptz camera I've tried so maybe I'm just doing something stupid. I think it may go back to ebay soon. When I power it on, it goes through an autofocus/home scan, so the camera appears to work fine. I'm thinking maybe avermedia just doesn't have the necessary protocol for it to work. The person I bought it from says it uses the BiPhase protocol.

I fixed it. The video card extensions were shipped to me already connected with the wires. Well they were connected wrong. I just reversed the connections and they worked. It wasn't real obvious on the cables, so I don't fell too dumb. Just glad I got it working.

To answer my own question after speaking with avermedia support, only 4 devices will show up in hardware manager because that is all that is plugged into pci slot. Tried another computer with same results. On the other computer, I only plugged in 1 extension and only 8 cameras were available on the software, so the extensions are being recognized correctly. Yet still no video. Spoke with person I bought card from and they said if the 4 main cameras are working then the card is fine. Doesn't seem to be what the guy at avermedia thought. Any opinions on this? Thanks.

I have 3 video extension cables for the nv5000 and I can not get any video to work with any of them. I'm on version 7.3 of software, it shows 16 cameras as available, but none of the cameras will work on those ports. Do the extensions show up as hardware in device manager? Because currently there are only 4 video and 4 audio devices available there. I'm on windows xp pro. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Just some thoughts on how I would troubleshoot So you have setup the username and pw on the clover box, and ip address is set, right? I would skip the dynamic stuff for now and just get your ip address off of your router. Not the 192.168.1.1 or whatever, but the actually ip address you have been assigned by your service provider (71.x.x.x - something like that). Make sure that you have the port forwarded on your router correctly and try to connect to the ip address of your router. It should forward the connection on to the clover box. DDNS stuff can take time to go into effect. I would try to skip that stuff until you are able to connect via ip address alone. Hope this helps some. Routers are all different so you may have missed some setting in there that are blocking your request to the dvr.

Never received call backs from companies, so I'm going at it by myself. Brother decided quantity over quality, so I picked up 15 ultrak kc552bcn cameras on ebay for around $200. From the specs, they seem to be about what he has now picture quality wise, but they have the varifocal lenses. Ordered a 24 vac power supply box for the cameras too. Still waiting on that. So far I got the lorex 6pin to bnc adapters for the clover cameras that he already has, but I can't get them to work. Anybody have any experience with these? Tried both the avermedia card and the bnc connection on the back of the clover box and both nothing. Would like to get the 4 cameras he already has working with the avermedia card if possible. Any suggestions? Thanks for all the advice.

I'm still waiting on return phone calls from the 3 local companies I called. If it's that hard for them to return a phone call for a quote, then I'm probably better off just doing it on my own is how I see it. Maybe I'll try to hunt down a few more companies.

Scorpion, Great example of mixed camera use. Way too extensive in my case, but now I understand where you're coming from. Main concern in my setup is car theft/vandalism outside on the lot. He's already been using a clover dvr setup with 4 cameras from sams club ($1,000 total), so I might relocate those cheaper cams inside in a couple of locations since that area isn't as important. I'd have to get a lorex 6-pin to bnc converter for those cameras to do so (guessing that'll work).

Ok, replying to my own post. Now that I've read up some more, probably can't afford true day/night. Seen Rory recommended the Sanyo vcc-4594 previously and it seems to be in the price range. Considering it, but being that we're located near Chicago, I'm thinking I may want to find a heated camera? Any opinions on that? An installer by me is recommending the speco HT-INTB8, so still considering that one. Getting close to pulling the trigger on something....any recommended places to purchase? I'm not opposed to used stuff if its cheap. I've been checking ebay, but not sure how warranty would work. I'm getting information overload....time to step away from the computer for a while

Wow that was quick!!! Must have caught you at the right time. The budget is tight, I'd like to stay around $1,000 total or $250 each for cameras. I can always just add a camera a month if they get too costly. I guess what I'm having trouble with is the entire day/night camera issue. The link you posted says it's a day/night camera, but you say don't use it for day/night because it's not a true day/night camera. I don't want a black and white, thermal image at night; and don't think I will need it because the area is fairly lit at night. If that is what is being considered as true day/night, then maybe I don't need true day/night? I just want good color quality at night in an area that is lit by street lights. Tried to post an image of the location, but I need more posts first

Thanks for the reply. I was starting to think I wasn't going to get one. Understand what you're saying about the varifocal. That makes sense. What about for nighttime? Whats a good low-lux vari-focal cam? I was told that the speco Intensifier cameras were better than IR, but I've read some bad things online. Any suggestions?

Great Forum, I have read alot and this is my first post. I need some help with choosing some cameras. I have ordered an avermedia nv5000 dvr card with a few extra extension brackets so I can hook up 16 cameras. Don't think I really need that many, but the price was good. I'm going to be doing my first install at my brothers small car rental business. The business is on a corner lot with some lighting. So I was thinking some low lux cameras would be best, since I have read that most IR cameras are overrated. The building is square, so I was thinking I could get 4 camera's with wide angle lenses to cover the most area. The camera's are only going to need to view about 30 to 40 feet deep, so I guess I'm looking for the best quality at the cheapest price (which is the idea of the wide angle lenses). Will need to be weatherproof and ok for cold because we live near Chicago. I was looking at the Eclipse ECL-595 cameras, does anyone have any experience with these? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm new to this and hope I have provided enough information. Thanks.