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I have a jobsite that has a 175 foot run to a PTZ camera. I'm wondering if I could get by with Cat5e, as I already have that in an outdoor rated cable. If I have to use traditional communication cable, I would have to buy a 500' roll of expensive outdoor rated cable. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks! Matt

Great! thanks for the response. That will save me from stocking another item.

Hello: I'm just curious what other installers out there use for interviews room recording. I would like to offer something to my local departments that is purpose built for interviews, and not just your typical CCTV security installation. When I do searches looking for equipment, there are places that have proprietary systems that have exclusive distribution with their own internal sales reps, and the equipment/software is very expensive. One of my local departments got a demo from one such place, and got sticker shock. We currently use DVD-R recording at that location. It works great because you get an instant easy to playback and duplicate DVD when you are done. But they would like to have features like watermarking, note insertion, and perhaps even camera angle changes during playback. Can I ask what some of you folks are using for your law enforcement interview rooms? Thanks!

Thanks for the link. I didn't know they had anything that small. I'm going to try to spec that one out on my next job. Looks like it would be no problem in a thermostat.

I find the microphone part to be the easy part, with the exception of sometimes the acoustics of the room are bad in some of the rooms. I use Louroe Verifact D-V mics mostly. The are very sensitive, have a high/low switch, and are covert. A couple of my interview rooms have carpet on the walls, so that makes life easy. Its when it is just a square room. Then you have issues with acoustics, and have to try and get some furniture and various objects in the room. Almost all my law enforcement rooms require cover cameras. I find the large problem to be the covert camera quality. I make my own with a thermostat and a small board camera. I like the video to be at the eye level, and not up on the ceiling in a smoke detector or PIR. This pretty much leaves me with the thermostat only option, as you can't put a smoke detector 5 feet up on a wall. What I would really like is a small covert IP board camera. Then I could up the quality a lot. But of course I can then no longer use DVDR recorders, and have to be exclusively NVR recording.

Yes, I have read the new requirements. I also have done systems where we use the CCTV system, like Avermedia. But in those situations we also use an analog DVD recorder as the primary, and the CCTV system is only the backup. That way, if an officer forgets to start the DVD, they will still have the CCTV system going on motion setting. Also, the DVD is easier to distribute and copy. We of course have to use a time date stamp for the DVD recorder. The CCTV software programs all seem to have some issue that makes them less than ideal, so I was hoping to find something purpose built. It seems like a big enough market, I am surprised that some manufacture doesn't enter that market. The whole market seems to be made up of small companies with protected distribution.

So it sound like you can log in locally but there is no way to add a user. But you can add a user with the remote software, but can't log in. It seems really strange of any unit to only allow creating users by remote software, and not locally at the actual unit. You could try what fertilebert suggested. Is there a .pdf manual of this thing? I went to the manufacture web site and found nothing... which would be really sad if they didn't bother to put up a .pdf manual somewhere.

1. Very few people would install anything under 2TB of storage today, as it is so cheap now days. 2. Are the cameras set on motion? And what exactly is the "default frame rate"? Is it recording using mjpeg, or h.264? 3. If they are on motion, is there a lot of things happening in the scene that would cause it to see motion, and record all the time?

If you can see the image, and it is just "bad" looking, perhaps you have a problem with the termination of the coax. Or, it could be that you don't have enough power going to them. They take more power than most regular cameras that are not PTZ. What are you using for a power supply? Have you tried bench testing it?

Perhaps try setting up a new user altogether. They may have blocked the admin default from being accessible for the LAN for security reasons. Create a new user and password, and then try to access again through the LAN using that new username and password.

You can change the "webport" on the DVR from 80 to 81. It's right on your screen shot there, named "webport". Then, check and see if you can get to the dvr inside your network at 192.168.1.11:81. If you can do that, then you know you have everything working on your LAN. Now you need to get it working on your WAN (wide area network... the world wide web). If you can get it working on your web, you need to set up port forwarding. On your router, go to the NAT section, and then the Virtual Server section. There you want to set up a port forward rule: External port start and end should both be 81. Protocal should be both UDP and TCIP. Internal port start and end should both be 81. Server IP address should be 192.168.1.11. Server name can be something like "DVR". Now, test this from the outside... perhaps at a friends house. Have them type in your outside address, 182.186.210.60:81 into a web browser. Probably Internet explorer will work best. Make sure you don't forget the :81. This should bring you to your password page of your DVR. IF that works, then you can move on to using Dyndns. Do you have a static IP address at your location?

1. Those thumbnails size screen shots are too small to read. 2. Forget Dyndns for now. Make sure you can make it work with your outside IP address first. Once it is working that way, then you can worry about the dnydns stuff. 3. I can ping your outside number. When I type that number in a web browser, I get your DSL router. This means that your DSL router is set to allow outside access, and it is doing it on port 80. If you don't need outside access on your router, than turn it off. If you do need it, makes sure it is not on the same port as your DVR. You can't have two devices (router and DVR) on port 80. 4. Probably could help some more if you had full size images for the screen shots.

I'm guessing he is not interested in "video lost" so much as "no motion" report. And the OP probably wants an email report ... something that could tell him that nothing happened for 15 minuets. I can't see why he would want video, as there is nothing but a still scene anyway. I have not heard of any system that does that. I would imagine it might be something available in a more robust video analytics package. Google video analytics, and you will get lots of companies in that field. But perhaps someone on this form deals with this technology all the time. http://harmonicinc.com/product/iris?gclid=CID9gcGKzroCFVSZ4Aod6j8AEw http://www.mindtree.com/solutions/digital-video-surveillance/video-analytics-software

1. 20K does sound high, but if you are using name brand outdoor PTZ cameras, you can spend 2k on those alone, assuming you are going IP cameras (network cameras are much sharper than traditional analog cameras). Just do a search for WV-SW598. 2. Really think twice about PTZ. It adds a lot of money to the system, and unless you have someone watching it all the time, they really have minimal use. Also, with wireless internet, like 3G or 4G, you are not going to have really great speed internet, so don't expect to get really smooth PTZ movements. In fact, it might even be hard to control the PTZ remotely, because of the network lag. You tell it to do something, but it takes a second or two for the camera to respond. You might be better off going with a couple of more cameras, dropping the price significantly, and getting more coverage. You might choose to use a Dahue NVR or a full computer with a card in it, such as AVermedia or Revision. 3. Without running cables, you will need to set up a wireless access point, and a receiver at each camera. That will add some cost to the system, and also complexity in setting it up and managing it. 4. There are other considerations that I am not addressing here such as lighting and wireless distance issues. Compatibility with your NVR In the end, it may be best to higher a professional. Do it your self is nice, but it only takes a mistake or two in choosing the equipment, and pretty soon you at the professionally quoted price anyway. On the other hand, if you have lots of time, and are willing to essentially learn a trade, than you can save some money.

Can't send a photo without going back out... a ways of a drive. But it looks just like your typical doorbell 24VAC transformer. I think "Horizon" was correct in his reply. It turns out there was multiple cameras on one line, with each one having one of these transformers. And the input was 24VAC, and the output was 24VAC, so what he said made sense.

Hello: I am working on servicing an older CCTV analog system. I came across a camera today that had what looks like your typical 120v to 24v naked doorbell transformer power it. I freaked out when I saw that it had 18 gauge wire on the primaries so I took my volt meter to it, and it turns out it was 24vac. So we have 24VAC on the primary and the secondary. Does anyone know what kind of device this is? It had a part number on it, but no manufacture name on it. Does anyone know what this would be for? 24vac in and 24vac out? Seems strange. Thanks. Matt

Hey, thanks! That makes sense, because the power line that this camera was running on was feeding a couple of other cameras with transformers, and it was an older camera system. Thanks for solving mystery. Matt

Something like Photoshop may be helpful. We use it a lot in doing some basic work for our local law enforcement agencies. I also have access to an Ocean Systems dTective system. But I have worked on it for hours, and then did some basic stuff in photoshop back here at my office, and I could not tell the difference between the two. My job assisting law enforcement has become even less useful since VHS went away, and was replaced by digital. A pixel is a pxiel period. You can play with contrast and sharpeness a lot, but sometimes it just gives you a "different kind of bad look". Very subjective.

willsth6851, Ramellan is correct when he say you need to access the DVR using the port number, such as 192.168.1.10:80. This is regardless of any router installed in your network. If you pull the router, everything should still work internally (assuming everything has a static IP address) but you will still need to put in the port number to access that DVR remotely on your LAN. So the router is not relevant here really. Also, when you say the DVR doesn't like to change the port number from 80, that is really strange. Unless it is defective, it should be able to change the port number, and normally, on most routers, port 81 or port 90 should NOT be blocked for inside traffic. Once you have everything working on the inside (LAN), then you can start working on getting things to work on the WWW. (WAN). What internal address are you using? Do you have external STATIC IPs available to you? I'm trying to figure out why the DVRs would not work together while both on port 80. You could have a hundred DVRs working on the same network all on port 80 without any problems, as long as each DVR had it's own IP address.

I just got off geovision chat with someone named "connie", and got a more knowledgeable answer. It turns out the new version has a face mask function. From the manual "The Face Mask function is designed to detect front-view faces onl...," It is defaulted "on" for users. Really strange. Not sure what that is all about, but I guess I'm headed back to the location to turn that off!

Hello. I just upgraded a system from 8.3 to the latest version. It is a GV1240, with 5 analog cams, and two 1.3mpg IP cameras. It's been working great for years, except we had an incident where some audio was cutting out on some interviews (police interview room running audio). So I figured we would upgrade to latest, but now we are getting a blocky pixelizatoin occassionaly, on both IP and analog cameras, only in playback. This pixelization is not on the whole picture, just certain sections, especially where this is motion. System is Core2Duo, 4GB on 64bit Windows 7. DirectX 11, and overlay is turned on. Problem is only in playback, and was not there under 8.3. Did some live chat with Geovision, but they didn't really have a solution, and were pointing me to things like "unplug each analog camera individual, testing the system each time". Could not figure out the point in that, but maybe I am missing something. It just seems like a compression problem, and I have tried a lot of different settings, including going from H.264 to mpg4, and it doesn't change anything. Any help is appreciated.

In case anyone at AVerMedia reads these forms, I'm voting for an option to switch from 24 hour clock to 12 hour clocksystem for time stamps. I've had a few customers ask for this. I'm used to making the conversion in my head, but my clients are not!

Of course it would say 9:00PM instead of 21:00.

Anyone know where I can get one? They are discontinued... and I could use one. Thanks.

Thanks for the help. I never thought about that... but now that you bring it up, there are no electronics in the thing.... just outputs. I'll give that a try if I don't find a card anywhere. Thanks.