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Looks awesome, and that would be great for tests on the road. But I would also like to have the smaller one printed for use in our shop and office.

Using only two wires on a Cat5e cable would also be a problem; every balun I have seen that pases 12V power over Cat5 cable uses 2 pairs (4 wires) for the power.

Excuse me? They might be "enough" in most cases, they are cheaper, but they are surely not "best".

I do know the company Teltonika, I have two different GPS trackers I purchased from them about 3-4 months ago for testing (we currently sell GPS trackers from another manufacturer). I have never spoken with Irene, and the person I have spoken with has not been hassle. I have still not gotten to fully test their products (lack of time, the two times I have tried, I have not succedeed), and I do get the ocasional call/email asking if I had time to check, if I need any help doing it, etc, but nothing that bothers me. The guy I speak with has never even brought up the subject of their cameras, but I would not have been interested on even trying them.

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Subscribing to this thread; if anyone knows of any program that can easily do that, I would also be interested on knowing. We work with many investigators that sometimes use covert cameras that have no motion detection, worst part is when you have to go through those videos to find any event...

Hikvision DVRs allow me to setup the Dyndns server being used for updates, which is members.dyndns.org. A different server could be used for updates quite easily. But most (if not all) routers do not allow you to change the Dyndns update server With Dyndns, updating your host is just a http request like the following: http://username:password@members.dyndns.org/nic/update?hostname=yourhostname&myip=ipaddress&wildcard=NOCHG&mx=NOCHG&backmx=NOCHG If afraid.org can be updated like that, it should be easy to do it from any DVR/router that lets you configure the update server.

I didn't know about afraid.org, gonna check it out. Do you know if they are compatible with dyndns.org clients? That would be great, since most routers we touch have dyndns.org client.

Yeah, it seems they did change it recently... Now you can not use up to 2 hosts for free, like you used to. You can sign up for a monthly trial (credit card needed), if you wish to cancel before you get billed, you can do so, and you wil get to keep the free host you created. I guess they were tired of too many free users...

No problems at all. Only moving part inside the DVR is the hard disk, and it can work ok as long as it is turned 90º (you can have it flat, standing, standing on the edge, etc., you can not have it diagonal). We have also installed many DVRs like that over the years.

You had many options until you reached point 9.

Geuterbruck in Spain just plainly sucks... Not talking about their products, which I have been unable to try yet, but the company itself.

I would say that DS-7204HI-S and DS-7204HVI-S are the exact same machine, but DS-7204HVI-S has the VGA output. The VGA output is one smaller board that could actually be installed/removed easily from the DVR, so I would say that the firmware is probably the same in both models.

Finally it seems to be coming...

4ch D1 real time with 4008HCI? I have no idea, sorry, but it might be possible. 4204HFVI would give you 4ch D1 real time, but if you are looking at 4ch D1 now, and later expanding up to 8ch 2CIF, 4008HCI might work for you. If you already have it, just try it.

The issue on this post has been fixed for months. Hikvision broke something on a iVMS4500 update, everyone who had automatic updates on their iphones/ipads downloaded the broken version. They pulled the bad version from the app store, and reuploaded a fixed version a couple of days later.

I'll be there too, leaving tomorrow, staying in Shenzhen until Nov/7! Is your company exhibiting on CPSE?

I am quite sure that I recently read an article about a city/country that made/was making mandatory for new businesses to have a CCTV system in order to get their license; I think it also said that exiting business would have a given time for installing a CCTV system, or would not get their licenses renewed. I would say that I read it somewhere on this forum, or maybe linked from this forum, but I am unable to find anything using the forum search. Has anyone read any news about this subject? Thanks!

It wasn't any of those, but the second one rang a bell; the news I had read was about Philippines. So I trimmed down the search with "Manila", and I did came out with a few related to the article I had already read. It wasn't this one, but it does sum it up: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/337946/no-cctv-no-business-permit Now I wonder how I end up reading that, if it wasn't from this forum... Thank you!

He could probably plug the old HD and a new HD on a computer, an dlcone the drives. But then, that would be the same as just storing somewhere the old DVR with the old HD, and just buying a new HD for the new DVR... All in all, wasted time and nothing gained.

Maybe he wants to back it up on VHS tapes...

Ah, ok. I thought you could keep the D1 real time on those channels, even when using D1 7/fps on the other channels. It is good to know you can choose anyway. I try to always say "real time" because otherwise I would say 25fps, since I work in PAL. That's why I was also referring to 6fps while you say 7fps, since it is D1 6fps on PAL, and D1 7fps on NTSC

You can do the same thing on Dahua, except its 7 FPS instead of 6FPS but thats not much of a difference really. Ahhh, that's good to know, I never checked. So with Dahua entry level DVRs, you have 1ch D1 real time, and the rest are CIF real time or D1 7fps?

4008HCI does up to 8ch 2CIF real time; you also have from Hikvision 4208HFVI, which does up to 8ch D1 (4CIF) real time. D1/4CIF is as high as you can go with analog cameras.

Hikvision 7204HFIST does 4ch D1 real time, but it is entry level, only one SATA connector (I put link to my web site because I can not find it on hikvision.com) http://www.securame.com/grabador-dvr-hikvision-ds7204hfist-4ch-video-d1-100fps-4ch-audio-h264-vga-lan-sata-p-969.html If you want something better, 8104HFIS/8104HFIST also does 4ch D1 real time, with up to 8 SATA ports. http://www.hikvision.com/en/Products_show.asp?id=71 http://www.hikvision.com/en/Products_show.asp?id=5014