Got a customer with a GV 1240 (8 Channel) who is maxed out with analog cameras. He's talking about putting an IP Camera on there and I told him he's maxed out.......he had a valid question and I'm asking here cause I'm really not possitive of the answer.......The IP camera is not a physically connected analog camera so really it's a function of the software at that point as to whether it will allow adding a 9th camera being the IP camera.

Am I right with the card being maxed or can I actually add additional cameras over the 8 already there via IP?

That's not correct actually. If your customer has an 8 channel card, then they can have a maximum of 4 IP cameras, and will have to reduce the number of analog cameras to 4. They would need a 16 channel analog card with 8 cameras on it, then they could add up to 8 IP cameras.

This may change in v8.3, but that's how it's done at the moment in 8.2.

That's not correct actually. If your customer has an 8 channel card, then they can have a maximum of 4 IP cameras, and will have to reduce the number of analog cameras to 4. They would need a 16 channel analog card with 8 cameras on it, then they could add up to 8 IP cameras.

This may change in v8.3, but that's how it's done at the moment in 8.2.

Seriously?? Oh man. I already sent an email to the customer telling him the good news.

Didn't we used to have a Geovision contact on here? I forget his name, maybe he can provide us with an update on this.

Seriously?? Oh man. I already sent an email to the customer telling him the good news.

Didn't we used to have a Geovision contact on here? I forget his name, maybe he can provide us with an update on this.

I can confirm that is wrong!

I just tested a GV-1120/8 + 1IP camera, 8 analogue cameras from channel 1 to 8 and the IP camera is on channel 9 on this 8 channel GV card! So I am pretty sure that you can have 8 + 8 on a 16 channel due the GUI, and if you have 16 channel card you can have 16 analogue or 15 analogue + 1 ip and so on.

The 8.3 is giving you a different GUI that will change this then you can have for instance 16 analogue and 16 ip cameras.


Hope this helps your heart & puls! hehe


JD

You are correct ! I tested it too. Also got confirmation from Geo that it can be done this way. They did initially say it had to be done the way I mentioned above, but seem to have changed their tune. Sorry for any panic caused !