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I've replaced probably a half dozen of these that did the same thing. I got so fed up with this model that I don't sell them anymore. I've been installing arm electronics and haven't had the frustrations. I've called CNB a number of times and it's always the same thing "we've never seen this before" and then I cough b&//$-:t. I can't be the only one and now I see I'm not. The transition between color and b&w is horrible. During the transition the focus will start to shift and you can see it happening. I have no way of correcting this and it happens a lot. I can repeat it with a 100w bulb on a dimmer in a room. Turn it down slowly and you can see the shift occurring.

Ohhhhh boy now you've started something In terms of the list I'm sure AK could come up with I think we may find what the character limit is here and then again we may just need a very large shovel. Either way I'm standing on the sidelines waiting and watching how this one will go!

I installed a two monitor single door system for a pharmacy. I have an sdcard installed and every push of the doorbell results in a snapshot. Customer loves the system. I just installed an aiphone system for a school and it came at a considerable cost increase over comelit. The two systems were really the same caliber system in this situation.

Been released for a while now man. They got a home server 2011 that was released in March 2011 and they have a small business server 2011 as well. I will say it again. The current version of Windows Server for Enterprise and basic is 2008. What does Home server and Small business have to do with that statement? I missed this one....I'd like to know where enterprise was mentioned in your original statement. So my reply had everything to do with your statement but now that you added enterprise in your rebuttal then I guess my statement would be incorrect. Water under the bridge. Either way I am not a fan of ONSII so I could care less anymore what it works with lol.

DMZ opens the ip selected for DMZ to the world and everything coming in through your router is sent to your DVR. Doing this negates having a NAT firewall for that IP but it fixes your troublesome port issue. Remove your port forwarded references to your DVR but leave the dmz enabled. You will see that you can still connect without the port forwarding defined. What this is telling you is that you are missing a required port in the port foward definition. All you should really have to mess with in your router is the virtual server part. Make sure you got all three of those ports defined and pointed to your DVR. When in doubt use both UDP and TCP protocols.

I've installed a number of these and have had to send back two so far. One camera was taking down my POE switch, power non Poe and switch worked fine but turn on Poe to that camera and switch shutdown. New camera was fine. My second camera had focus issues. The camera was an interior 8134 and one side of the picture could never come into focus. I would turn the small lens and the left side would be clear but the right was blurry and vice-versa. New camera fixed that one as well. I would say this one would have to be returned.

I had to quote another 16 camera job out using exacq. I have not been giving a chance yet to really use Avigilon because of it's lack of support for as many cameras as exacq. This customer has a mix of Arecont and Axis. I was all set with the Areconts but the Axis cameras they have are not on Acigilons list but are on exacq lists. Another score for exacq on my end. We just sold a 19 camera job using Vivotek cameras and guess what? No Avigilon support. I'm sorry I'm selling products that customers are willing to pay for and there not supported. I had finally made the jump from Acti to Vivotek and am not going back just because Avigilon supports Acti. So in summary for me exacq wins for more third party camera support. I'm still working on getting some smaller Avigilon packaged systems for small businesses but no luck yet.

UPS delivering that shiny new Avigilon camera

Where are u located ? Does anyone else see where this one is going?

Bump..... Is there no response from the ONSSI folks? Ari maybe? I know exacq supports it and according to there documentation it was tested back in December 2011. For the cost of these cameras he may be willing to change VMS. I'll give it a day or so more before I put the VMS sales hat on. I could really use a response here PLEASE!

Is there anyone besides Arecont that makes a 5MP bullet camera. I received a RFQ for 5MP bullets, 3MP domes, 1MP domes, 1MP domes with WDR and trying to find one manufacturer for each of these without having to use two or three different camera MFG's. Run on ONSSI and 90 days retention at 7FPS! Thanks for any help

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One day I Had to drill 32 holes in red brick in order to put anchors in for my swimming pool cover. I thought well I don't want to go spend too much money buying a hammer drill so I went to a local Ocean State Job Lots (surplus store) and bought a drill for maybe $30. Brought it home all excited about the deal I just got and the money I will save over all doing this job myself. I drilled 1 and half holes before the gears totally stripped out. Well I did not have to ponder too long wondering what just happened. I knew......I wanted to save a buck and now it will cost me more in the end because of the frustration, time wasted and hassle with returning the piece of junk. I went to a local hardware store and bought a nice Makita hammer drill. To this day about 10 years later I still have that same Makita and use it often. It is a quality tool and I have never ever purchased another usable tool at a discount store. I guess what I am trying to say is not to expect Porche performance from a Pinto. Any analog camera will look like crap on a 42 inch tv anyhow and doing some quick searches on this forum will take you to posts explaining why this is.

What others have you found in the price range? Im still looking. I don't fight so much with the Arm Electronics cameras and they are in the same price range. I have the issue as you though which is why I have so many of these CNB cams out there. Last two jobs I used Arm and it was so much easier without all the frustrations.

This is hilarious. I live in Canada but not Canadian, my wife is Canadian. We both got a kick out of this. I guess I already follow what he says since I live and breath in Canada most of the time LOL. I might regret saying this but in my opinion the U.S lost the values it was built upon and we simply bend over to grab our ankles while the rest of the world takes us for a ride, and we punch them in the face if the ride gets too rough. I don't understand the decisions that the country makes or why they make them, I just know that I don't dare venture out over seas for vacation due to the way the rest of the world seems to see us as Americans. Funny video ak " title="Applause" />

For us it depends. Most of our customers allow us to have the access and we have our own admin user and pass. We have a few that prefer not and would rather pay a trip charge if they need help. Having the access especially if a PC based system allows us to provide a much faster service for the customer. Sometimes I can remote in while on the road and take care of something within minutes of the call. We do not make a living logging in whenever we please, we tell them that we could randomly login to check on status once in a while. This has allowed us to find issues before a customer even knows there is one. They love it when we show up unexpectedly with a new camera or what not and when they ask why we are there they are completely floored with the service. Most customers never check the cameras for long periods of time so we do it for them as a courtesy if there ok with it. Most are completely fine with it.

I have a bunch of these 24vf's. It is a messed up camera and I don't sell them anymore. I've sent back a large number of them. Trying to get the camera to remain in focus between day and night is nearly impossible sometimes. There is inconsistency in the cameras, buy two and one may be fine and the other may have day and night focus issues. The inbetween is terrible just before switchover. I hate these cameras, there are better in this price range.

Don't tie your low voltage wire to a line voltage conduit. I got one site I visited where the whole length of a long hallway has the low voltage camera wiring ziptied to the conduit. Popping up some ceiling tiles wires are sitting directly ontop of the florescent light fixtures and they called us to see if we can go fix some video noise issues. After spending a few hours we told them we would have to re-run cables because the whole job was not done correctly and the noise could be coming in from anywhere along the way. Stay away from line voltage as much as possible like folks are saying here and if you have to cross then cross perpendicular to the cable and/or conduit. Try to stay at least 12" from any line voltage.

Been released for a while now man. They got a home server 2011 that was released in March 2011 and they have a small business server 2011 as well.

It's nice to see MFG's monitor this forum from time to time. I received a call within days of this post from ONSII answering all my questions and today received a follow up message stating that they have updated the documentation. Much Appreciated " title="Applause" />

I have always felt sick at the thought of black puddin' but this is a step too far. Black pudding click the link if you don't know what it is. It's a kind of 'Boudin' or 'Blutwurst' literally translated as 'blood sausage" Had that on my breakfast plate every morning when I had visited Ireland for 10 days. We stayed in B&B's every night and every morning our plate came to us with black pudding but it also went away with the black pudding in the same place! LOL

Hardwired this is awesome. Looking forward to giving this a shot tomorrow. Are the different profiles all setup within that same setup window you attached an image of? Customer views a number of cameras at a time but let say anytime they have a multicamera screen can we have the lower res and when they double click to show just one camera it will display in full? It seems I can do this but not sure where to look at this. I'm no Milestone expert for sure. I've stayed far away but I got one customer with it and I didn't install it. They have this slow sluggish performance so I'm hoping this will help.

Awesome. Would love to meet up with all of you.

I'm not the one who has been trained and certified. The customer whom is requesting the server is. They will be installing ONSSI. I called the customer this evening and said are you serious??? THis software required a server this size? He says ya the last one they built was a quad core. I told him I could offer a system half the cost that was better than this offering but they insisted on sticking with what they were trained and certified on. I'm glad I'm not the one messing with it. But I still need to find the hardware and software for it. I ran into the same support issue. Is it really not supported on anything other than server 2003 and 2008? Man they are behind times...