boblobsta 0 Posted December 24, 2010 Hello All, Long time lurker - first time poster Im based in Australia and maintain several small business & High Rise CCTV systems. One CCTV system I maintain has 3x PC's with 3x Geovision cards along with a separate LuxRiot server / client. 1x Geo 1480 - Ver 8.31 Soft - 16 Cams 1x Geo 1480 - Ver 8.2 Soft - 11 Cams 1x Geo 1240 - Ver 8.2 Soft - 16 Cams The time of year has come to format these PC's and perform a complete reinstall, and I have a couple of questions before I begin. Can I swap the 1240 card with the 1480 card without doing a Geo reinstall on those PC's? Can the software handle this? The two systems on 8.2 have been running "TCP server" for a remote LAN dual monitor setup that connects via "RemoteView". It appears DMMultiView is the 8.3 replacement of "RemoteView" with extended functionality. Is this correct ? Is DMMultiView the best way to view the cameras live? The purpose of this setup is so that the building managers office can remotely (within the same building) view cameras live 24 - 7. Remote playback is always done from within the security office where the PC's are located. 1 more question - what version is recommended for upgrade? 8.33 ? 8.4? Geovision have given be access to the 8.4 download - it took around 4-6 hours for them to reply to my email with an access link (I noticed someone else was asking about this earlier). Feel free to ask any questions about the setup we have here, hopefully I can contribute some worthy information to the forums now that I am registered Kind Regards, Bob W Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harrar 0 Posted December 24, 2010 Can I swap the 1240 card with the 1480 card without doing a Geo reinstall on those PC's? Can the software handle this? The two systems on 8.2 have been running "TCP server" for a remote LAN dual monitor setup that connects via "RemoteView". It appears DMMultiView is the 8.3 replacement of "RemoteView" with extended functionality. Is this correct ? Is DMMultiView the best way to view the cameras live? The purpose of this setup is so that the building managers office can remotely (within the same building) view cameras live 24 - 7. Remote playback is always done from within the security office where the PC's are located. 1 more question - what version is recommended for upgrade? 8.33 ? 8.4? Geovision have given be access to the 8.4 download - it took around 4-6 hours for them to reply to my email with an access link (I noticed someone else was asking about this earlier). Swapping the boards around means reloading the software for the particular board installed. As for Remote View, you still have single camera Live View available with a lot more info and capability or you can use Multiview to look at all cameras at once from each DVR. You can even set up Multiview with all 3 of your DVR's as hosts and display all your cameras on one screen or drag and drop cameras of interest from the host list. Depends on your requirements. 8.4 has a couple of bugs yet but does add more capabilities for PTZ's and IP cams plus it handles the new Geo IP's without the license requirements. If you can get 8.34, I'd stick with that for now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
boblobsta 0 Posted January 12, 2011 Hello All, Just to update, I've reconfigured our CCTV operation and I had the following results. I was able to swap the 1480 and the 1240 cards between two PC's without reinstalled Geovision or Windows. Just plug and play basically, all functionality was kept - the only noted problem was as follows: When I removed the 1240 from PC 2 and installed the 1480 into PC 2, the 16 division home screen (in normal view or full screen) appeared to drop every 3rd - 5th frame - appearing slightly jerky. Individual cameras brought to full screen appear fine, and video recordings were all fine. A day after this the PC's were all fully formatted and re-installed, Using a tried and tested Windows XP Corporate SP3, Select windows updates & drivers. Geovision 8.3.3.0 was installed on all 3 PC's. Fine tuning windows and Geovision is essential - and everything is working mickey mouse now Rory has some excellent information about tuning your windows to get the most out of Geo. Multi View has been installed on the remote view terminal and operates well-ish... Functionality is better than "RemoteView" but the app is quite fiddly to set-up, gives excellent picture quality if you have the bandwidth to allow it. I will mention more about this in the next post to help keep my posts less 'rambly'. Regards, Bob W Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
