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Hey all I just wanted to say I can create custom GeoVision skins for your business if you are interested. It is a great way to brand your company! Let me know!

I understand your stance on this I just as a developer choose to disagree. If I were you and you enjoyed their products I'd write an email, otherwise IQEye it is.

I'm sorry, but foisting your own NVR software on my machine when all I need to do is configure the camera for another system, is arrogant and unnecessary. I shouldn't need to read the manuals to find out that I need to disable that, it SHOULDN'T HAPPEN in the first place. I guess it's my bad for expecting more PROFESSIONAL operation from this outfit.

I feel your pain with the NVR software but it's free marketing for them. Doesn't drop their professional image in my mind. My opinion is if you around any industry and see something you don't agree with you're argument shouldn't be i shouldn't have to.....it's going to wear you down.

Ridiculous. I should be given the option *during installation* to have that happen or not, or for that matter, the choice of which components I want to install. The only option I'm given is the install path.

 

I'm using these cameras with existing hybrid DVRs. ALL I need is the configuration utility to assign the cameras an IP. I don't need their NVR, I don't need a local database of the cameras.

Perhaps but it's pretty simple to do it in the program or msconfig.

And what about the next tech to come along, that doesn't have a laptop or the Arecont software and needs to reconfigure the camera?

Uninstall the software but save the installation file on the laptop.

Oh... great. So if I DON'T uninstall the thing or reconfigure the DEFAULT options, it's going to frak up my NVR operation??

Read manuals or try it at your shop. Don't let the first time you touch it be in the field.

Actually, I'm leaning more and more to simply NOT installing Arecont and sticking with IQEye... so far I haven't seen anything "special" about the ones I've set up. Their web-based configuration and features appear to be

FAR more limited than IQ's as well.

Sure IQEye definitely has a more detailed web interface but Arecont went for simple. I like them - I figured out early how their software is and learned from it.

Some new/enhanced features:

Take 32 inputs and split 16 on one monitor and 16 on the other and each monitor is capable of having separate motion settings.

Geovision has a GPS feature now where you can put a device into vehicles and you can open a map which is googlemaps within geovision and it will show you where your vehicles are. You can add cameras to this so you can get live feeds from vehicles. The cameras will transmit 3g.

New gv Iphone viewer and i think an updated bbviewer. Both of these are available now for 8.3.1 series.

this thread needs to be on a permanent sticky. very good and hard to find information.

It really isn't that hard to the average kid out there with malicious intentions...

Find the kind of camera, use their ip scanning software to find an ip then spoof to that ip and monitor your packets and you'll see the nvr trying to grab data.... then you go and play with the nvr. RDP enabled? Scan for VNC? is VNC vulnerable to auth bypass? If nothing else they could simply just knock the NVR offline which wouldn't be a smooth job but in the end the client wouldn't have the video.

This isn't nearly as concerning as the ACTi cameras. They include publically in the cameras root directory a network testing tool that can be misused to perform a denial of service attack to anyone on the internet/lan. So imagine setting up a big system with 20 of these cameras and someone uses all 20 and targets the main switch for the school. Yeah..... thats not good.

vista is definitely a bogged down os but with just a bit of customization it works fine. As far as the worst ms os I def wouldn't pick vista. It had bugs yes but XP had even worse security flaws from the get go. Same thing was said about XP that is being said now about Vista. - my opinion. Rory you seem like a very intelligent person nice to have a forum ran by members who know their subject matter. Thanks

I can do a little bit I can currently change the splash screen and the video lost and video not activated images. Really helps because now the images are ugly blue boxes. Working on getting down the new styling down. If you want the splash or the splash and info let me know by a PM.

We use teamviewer and it works great. The techs go out there place the systems and go over things with the customers but if they ever need help they are sent to the support page and i help them out. DSP Overlay affects it at first when you connect so all the cameras are pink but once you toggle it off you can see al the pictures clearly.

Geovision also works well on vista also has faster startup times. XP will soon or if it hasn't been already deemed the keyword unsupported by microsoft. Start experiementing you don't want to be the one who has to delay projects because of OS issues.

Man I use video-insight and run mainly acti 7411's with 2 tb's of storage and I can get 5 months of storage. Only 9 cameras but still.

The best player is VLC Player.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Will play 100% of the time.

For the windows firewall just go to control panel > firewall and turn it off. So you have opened the ports but have you forwarded them to the dvr? If you are still having problems with this you can try a dmz.

Just because Avermedia has different features doesn't mean it's not stolen technology, I'm not saying that it is infact stolen I'm simply stating a fact.

I've never used Avermedia but I prefer GV to other mainly analog systems. It is not complicated at all it is extremely flexible and the hybrid functionality tops it off. I've seen them have issues and come out with fixes relatively quickly so I know the support is there. GV has been tested Avermedia hasn't.

Glad you're doing ok

Sorry to dig this up but just wanted to let everyone know that you need to update your systems to 8.3. The 8.3 update was not just for new features but for certain security aspects. There have been at least 3 brand new vulnerabilities since 09. Two in February and one in March.

Feel free to google Geovision Vulnerability so you can understand how big of an issue this is. A lot of companies spend all their time getting the jobs done and not securing things that hold their reputation. For instance leaving default passwords on routers, switches, cameras, and software. In this case it's keeping your software updated. If old versions are out there they are vulnerable.

I'd definitely go with the EnGenius.

Never used this particular model but everyother acti i've used does not let you play back footage via a browser. Just settings for the camera and all that nonsense.

For 8.3

http://www.2shared.com/file/5671554/d9c4ba5f/83_online.html

or type this into notepad and file>save as> FILENAME.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DataCode]
"default-8.3.0.0-0"=-

Then just double click it - it will ask for permission to modify the registry, allow it and open multicam again and you'll be asked for a new admin.

No problem, if that does not work you can try the registry tool.

1. Minimize geovision by either holding the windows key and hitting d on the keyboard or by holding ctrl and hitting escape and then hitting start.

2. From start go to the following:

Start>Run>msconfig

Go to the tab startup and uncheck the geovision key and hit apply it will prompt you to restart your computer - do so.

3. When the system starts go to your c: drive from there go to your GV folder and look for the application passuninstall.exe. It will ask to remove the password system - Allow it to remove it.

4. Start>Run>msconfig

Go to the tab startup and check the geovision key and hit apply. Restart again.

5. When geovision starts up it will ask for a new supervisor account and there you go.

Hey guys I'm wondering if any of you can help me out with this system I'm trying to implement. We have quite a bit of customers around the thousand range now and I want to be able to keep tabs on their systems. For instance if they have a camera out I want an email telling me its out. I know geovision has a built in email function but implementing that across all of your systems with different isps is pretty much impossible.

Now I use a similiar program for my NVRs and basically it lets the individual systems talk to a server on our rack and then the program takes all those inputs organizes a report and sends that to us. Any ideas on a system like this for Geovision? If not what do you use for this?

if he's gutting the restaraunt i would go ahead and run all new cat5's to existing cams just in case he wants a full switch.