piku 0 Posted October 25, 2012 Hey guys, I hope the answers to these questions aren't posted anywhere else, I tried to search very well. I'm an IT guy (sysadmin, programming and web marketing) and one of my clients I just started working for has needs in the DVR area. He has many older Mace DVR's, various ones but the same he gave me as a sample is a DVR0804RW. He has 16 channel dvr's as well. The webrec web interface doesn't seem to work for me, always displays a red X in the browser. I've tried various versions and iterations of PSS and while they can connect to my DVR, when I try to display live video I Just get a blank window and no kbps data movement. Interestingly, when I connect to one of his DVR's (but not others) everything works great. There's clearly some interesting stuff going on with firmware versions, etc. Does anyone have a source for updated firmware for this dvr? I know it's old but the firmware I have on there is from 2004 so it's really old . This old mace remote client software works for all of his DVR's but not the one he gave to me! I'm quite confused what could be up. I know it's listening on port 37777. Is this an unsupported combo? Does anyone have a pointer to kind of a Dahua overview of what you can expect to work with what. Is my DVR "protocol version 1" while PSS seems to support "protocol version 2". Do all the current versions of PSS only support like the qsee dvr's or very new ones? Has anyone gotten TaniDVR to work? Thanks for any help or insights! This chinese dvr market is insane. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yakky 0 Posted October 25, 2012 Has anyone gotten TaniDVR to work? TaniDvr doesn't work for me, tried on two machines, it connects but no video. You might want to try some of Rory's simple viewers. Google Bahama Security. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tomcctv 190 Posted October 25, 2012 Hi. Sounds like your unit was made before 2010. In which case PSS will not work. There is an update for your unit be you will need to get it from Mace Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
groovyman 0 Posted October 26, 2012 What's the big deal for a company to provide legacy software for download on their website? I hate when a company doesn't provide legacy software for older products that still work. Some companies are real good about this, some aren't. Unfortunately, seems like Mace is a company that's not. I have an older Mace DVR that was replaced a few years ago, along with the remote viewing software. I think it may be the same model that you have, or pretty close to it. It's certainly from 2004/2005. The software used for remote viewing was called Mace-Client. I have two versions, Mace-Client_6.5.6.88 and Mace-Client_6.5.8.50. They're each about 1.5MB in size. Maybe with some searching you can find it somewhere on the Internet. The DVR has a built in web viewing, but might not work in IE7 or above. If you have an older XP system with IE6 you can try to access the DVR remotely via the web interface. If not, maybe if you have an old PC that you can install a fresh copy of Windows XP on. That will come with IE6. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piku 0 Posted October 26, 2012 Hehe neither of those keywords turned anything up. I'm not surprised really. I have an email in to mace, we'll see if they respond or if 8 year old DVR's aren't important anymore Thanks for all your help everyone. Still fussing with this thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
