kdreger

We are planing to transition to a new Geovision ALPR system for our community gate and I would like to get some feed back on some items. Our camera vendor is suggesting CCTV Forums IP7 camera and the A4BZ cameras for our needs. Does anyone have a running ALPR system that can give me advice on how to start setting this up? I have it downloaded and installed on my home system but since we don't have any ip cameras on the WAN I am finding it a little hard to get things configured....... Any help is much appreciated....

We currently have a Specto NVR connected to a small IP hub. all the current cameras are BNC Analog cameras and we are going to put inn a Point-to-Point 5Gz wireless transmission point with 3 cameras over 1200' from the main server. My question is will the NVR be able to see the ip cameras even though they are not directly attached to the NVR? They are on the LAN and the NVR has the ability to scan for ip cameras.... Any thoughts???

I just signed up to see if the forum can answer some of my questions. I am trying to get an ALPR system up for our community front gate using Geovision products.

Interesting items, not sure if this is the way we may want to go yet, but thanks for showing them to me.

We don't have a security booth, so we will have to look into some sort of compartment heat & AC system for this when replaced. Budget is prob around $5-8k for replacement cams, equipment and setup. We do have 2 cams that were not stolen that are currently working. The problem here is the area where the cams are is just like solid ROCK! As is much of Hill country, lots and lots of Limestone rock....not much dirt...We can trench with a BIG Rock cutting machine and lay conduit for lines and power if needed. We will prop hire that part out since we are just old farts...

Thanks for the reply, we will look into a climate controlled area, here in Central Texas, North of Austin we get temps from 29-105! That is just TEXAS Hill Country for ya....

A full dump truck of trash! Bummer.... I guess I would start off by filing a report with the local PD or sheriff and ask them to do a drive by at night if they can. Or install some type of gate first to keep folks out. Maybe do some overnight surveillance of your own? If all that fails then I would do some type of road entrapment device that tears the crap out of tires! ROAD SPIKES... I have used the Hunting cameras and they are only good for short ranges and have rough quality, they are great for hog pens but that is about it. Good luck finding what you need and keep us posted on your capture rate!

As a gated community we are in the need and replacement (Stolen) of a new CCTV Closed system that operates at our front gate area in the community. We DON'T have Internet here in the middle of BFE and need to run 6-8 cameras within a 100' radius to cover traffic and cover the gate entrance. We HAD 4 closed system hard wired cameras as of last week (Now Stolen)! And want to figure out a way to replace them. We are looking at maybe Wireless ones but these will need power sources in areas where we don't have a lot of power. Our best option is to pole mount several of these on either side of the gates in forward & reverse looking directions to cover the areas. So, what I would like to ask is: 1. Can I take a router and set it up as a LAN (Intranet) router only to ONLY talk to the IP Cameras we may purchase? 2. What would be a good DVR system that can withstand the TEXAS Heat & Cold enclosed in a 6x6x6 wooden storage area that can support 8 cameras and a week of storage incase we need it. In the future we are planning on a community Fiber backbone to this area so we would like to have that option down the road in a year or two to connect them all to this new community fiber network... Thanks in advance for any responses and will be happy to add in additional information if needed.... Respectfully, Ken

Well, I went to camp Friday, took apart the DVR! It had 1 250 Gig HD with 2 wire staps, one disconnected, and the other to the MASTER drive, but what looked like on CH 2! So, I rewired it to be on Ch 1, slapped it back togather, powered it up and went into ADMIN for the Hard Drive! IT now allowed me to CLEAR the drive, and then stated it WAS recording! So, with all this excitement I connected my laptop and made the WEB connection! BANG! IT WORKED! So, It seems that it had to be RECORDING inorder to allow the picture to be displayed BACk thru the internet! So, for now it seems to be working ok, have to work out some of the kinks, timeing, sharing etc....... So, MANY MANY MANY thanks to all of you who helped in this process........ And all our Minutemen at camp also thank you, this will help us maintain a safe and secure canp for all of us at Camp Vigilance. Ken

Small question, after months of trying out WHY our cams are not showing up on the LAN or WAN I checked the DVR after a total reset back to factory defaults and then re-define of all the IP stuff. The system seems to be NOT RECORDING! There is a sliding BAR on the top right that should be advancing, bUT is NOT! I checked ALL the individual cam settings and they specify recored ON for all 5 of them, however the BAR never increases even after days of recording. The system is set to LOOP over old recordings, BUT when I try to go to the Hard Drive Management, the system says that MASTER 2 needs to be CLEARED! BUT it will NOT allow me to do anything to clear it! So, the question is: Could or does the recording function be the problem with the displays NOT showing UP from the LAN or WAN connection viewer? It ONLY shows up on the direct connected monitor! Ken

just did a port scan, and it seems that the port 50000 has tcp open with iiimsf after the message from the nmap? Ken

will try that in a few minutes.

Thanks, I found another one, and newer viewer softare, tried this and still same issues of nothing showing up remotley when connected. Viewer just says Connected. Ken

Yes, I have XP Pro, and disabled ALL firewalls.

Yes, the software here on my PC is configured for port 50000 which is what the DVR is useing and is on the router at camp. Have not checked the firmware level yet, but this is a new DVR, only 2 months old now. I don't have the MFG web site to get any info about it, if you can point me to that this also might help, I have looked all over for one, looks like it may be a 3rd party brand of another mfgr.