SambaNoodles

o.k...tried that, and it seems I cannot even copy the .avi files from that time period onto a different computer on the network. I got a message saying something about data being corrupted.

Hi. I have been asked by the police to provide video footage of a camera we have that happens to face outdoors at a certain time of the day. They need the footage to help in their investigation of an armed robbery that took place nearby. I am using Geovision v8.3, with GV-1480 card installed. Camera in question is a 1.3MP Geovision camera. I am noticing that for any given video clip, the video footage starts working o.k....but then suddenly freezes after about 10 seconds of footage. This is only the case with this particular megapixel camera (the rest are just regular analog cameras, and the footage from the analog cameras doesn't stall or freeze). I originally thought this may be an issue with the database. I tried to run the database repair tool, but i keep getting a message that some other program is using the database and I must close it before i can run the tool (however, i dont think that this is the case....Geovision multicam is shutdown, all Geovision related services are stopped, and yet i still cannot run the repair tool). Any idea what this issue might be? I have been given about 24hrs to provide them with the footage they require, or they may send someone over to "assist me".

Hi. I am using a 16-ch (analog) +2 IP cam Geovision system with 1TB of storage space. I am running v8.4 For some strange reason, after runnning flawlessly for a few days, the monitoring (recording) of all cameras stops by itself. In the system log, they refer to this event as "Monitor Stop". I have no idea why that happens. And, unless I manually start monitoring again, (or restart GeoVisioin), then no recording happens. Anyone know why that might be? Might it have something to do with the recycle threshold limit I have (default value was set at 1450MB for me)? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Wow...I can't believe someone actually has the same problem as me! I have experienced the same issue on v8.4, v8.3, and also v8.2. I am using GeoVision's own cameras. Oh, and this problem occurred whether I was powering the cameras on PoE or directly through a power adapter.

Damn...I SEE IT....and yes it is enabled.....So that explains it....and it also officially makes me an idiot.

there is a big fat menu item that should stick out .. "auto reboot setup" or maybe "system reboot" in newer versions O.K....so maybe I'm blind or going senile or something, because the only thing I see is an option to auto-restart[or shutdown] if you exit the GeoVision application. I don't see any option to schedule reboots for any specific time. So, does this feature not exist in v8.4?

More just curiousity...I don't like things happening that I did not intend to happen. How would I find this mysterious feature is enabled? I don't see any obvious place to look.

Hi. I have a PC configured as a DVR running GeoVision software. I am running v8.4 of Geovision, under Windows XP. About once every week or so, it seems the machine mysteriously reboots itself. I am trying to figure out why? I looked at the Event Codes under Windows XP Event Viewer, and based on those codes, it seems that the reboot is desginated as a "normal shutdown" event (code "6006"). That seems to indicate to me that this is not an "out of the blue" reboot, but rather the Operating System or some application is initiating this reboot. Which app is doing this, I cannot say. I know that GeoVision is, by default, enabled to send a reboot signal if a particular analog camera loses its signal...but I turned off that feature and still get reboots happening roughly every week. So, I am not so sure that the GeoVisioin software is the culprit. Could this be a hardware problem? The PC is powered via a UPS backup power supply. I believe this UPS can force the machine to shutdown gracefully, but there are no logs being generated that indicate that this is happening. Any other ideas? I am kind of clued out here. I don't want to start replacing components (Video Card, Motherboard) one by one until this problem goes away. So maybe others have seen this happen before.

Just to give some feedback, I got the Netgear 24-port PoE switch. Been running it for about a month, and I am quite happy with the way it runs...fan noise is a bit annoying...but for $300, can't really complain. Cheers.

Hi. I need to purchase a PoE (Power Over Ethernet) network switch to handle around ten IP cameras. At least one (uplink) port on the switch needs to be gigabit. I will be connecting 1.3MP IP cameras. Any recommendations on a stable, but cost-effective switch. I'm not really looking to spend $1000+ on swtich, but i do want something that is going to last 5+ years.

why don't you just upgrade to v8.4, and add another cheap 16 IP cameras + gigabit switch?

I have a 16-ch GeoVision system based on the GV-1480, and the 8.3.2 software. As it turns out I need another 4-5 cameras, at least. I am torn between whether I should add another GV-1480 card, or just add additional IP camears to the system (no new card required). Apparently, you can add up to 8 IP cameras at no cost to the exisiting system. I am assuming I will need to purchase a more heavy duty (Cisco) gigabit ethernet switch to the system as well. What is the better option? Another GV-1480 card is going to cost $1000+, while the new gigabit switch is probably about $300-$500. Then there is the cost of the cameras. Any suggestions?

Hi. The time on the PC upon which the DVR software is installed appears to be inaccurate. Changing the time on the O/S (Win Xp) fixes things temporarily, before it again gets out of sync with the real time (in a matter of days it is noticeably off). Changing the time on the BIOS is equally useless. Things just get back to being out of sync as the days go by (in less than a month, the time is 15 mintues off). Of course this means that the timestamps on the video footage recorded by the DVR are innaccurate. So what do I do here? I am wondering if this means I got a faulty motherboard (i.e. quartz crystal) that is not causing the clocks to be out of sync. Can this be fixed without swapping out the motherboard?

A word of advice to GeoVision users. Buy an I-Phone. The GeoVision software is easy to setup and works almost flawlessly with the GeoVision DVR (at least on v8.3). As much as I hate Apple, the I-Phone will definitely go down in history as one of the greatests consumer devices of all time. The BlackBerry is quickly becoming yesterday's news.

Just contact USAVision (google it), and talk to their online tech support crew. They will hook you up.