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Hi Helen you will get as much help as possable from everyone on this forum. just let people know what system you have and also the problem. if you dont know that then the name of the company that installed your system.

if you are doing POS for a customer then just pass the cost of the pos box onto them if they dont want to pay then they dont get POS. you are doing more than 1 cash register so you are going to have costs in the form of the GV rs485 capture box or 2 rs232 to rs 485 converters for each till. if your cash registers are windows based with UTP then you could go with the GV-POS-TEXT-SENDER-12CH but it has a very high cost.

depends on what you mean by cutting your budget. and how old your GV is. have you done POS before ???

Hi i would stay away from the auction sites. and also maplins if you want to use the footage in court in the uk. a good little unit is the avermedia EB3004 net http://www.avermedia.com/AVerDiGi/Product/Detail.aspx?id=252 you can set the whole thing up with your laptop. for cameras i would look at the CNB range. with good mounting brackets.

T-mobile . now has a pay as you go cctv data package. sim card

also the forum can save you money. looking at your post (turn your VCR into motion) Convert an old VCR to a smart security recorder! sounds good on paper. now here it is from a engineers point of view. on a standard VCR from pressing the record button to your VCR recording can be 10 secs. by adding a Conversion Module will miss the footage. your camera detects the motion (someone crossing camera) your VCR activated by the module by the time the spools have spooled the tape and got upto speed to record the person will be away from your camera view hence nothing on tape. and that module is $150 motion on cameras is a pain you will end up switching it off. like soundy has said give as much info of your area that you can . do you have internet do you have good mobile reception. you want to catch the scum around your house. and members on here would love to also help you to do that. but you need something that works. like you said you want to call the police if anything happends but what you dont want to be is the guy who calls wolf and not having any police responce at all. if only someone would put this into production. (would be ideal for the end of your drive)

or a few of these around your property. http://www.espuk.com/intro_guardcam.htm

Hi BruceC. this is the problem with trying to sort things out on a forum. you never said the property you wanted to protect was at the end of your drive. why not put the protection on the cabin along with your camera. a camera on your home looking 2000ft to the cabin cant be done on a low budget

Hi BruceC. i would say looking at your requiments i would look at the smaller picture rarther than the bigger picture. just because your drive way is 2000ft does not mean you have to put your beams that far. i would use beams closer to your home this will also stop many restless nights with deer setting your beam off. form an invisible optex square around your home and you are protected from every direction and not just from your driveway

this is not a bad unit in your price range http://www.avermedia.com/AVerDiGi/Product/Detail.aspx?id=257 and if you are thinking of adding ip at a later time . then this is just above your price. http://www.avermedia.com/AVerDiGi/Product/Detail.aspx?id=253 both from the UK

Umm... what? Does anyone at GV comprehend English? You have to Congratulate GV for wanting to remove LEGIT and counterfeit cards from getting into anybodys hands

from your link posted you are in the uk. like soundy said it is illegal to record sound in the uk if you are not licenced to do so. and you also need a licence to hide covert in a public space area. and with you asking on how to wire up a microphone and your friend also not knowing how tends to surgest that you have not done this before and so not licenced. your not doing it for money your lending your mic. you have lost nothing from the job so just walk away. and about signage. you say it might warn the offenders off. is that not what you want as an end result

Hi you could try a guy on here called Bean00 pm him memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=17001 and as far as the SDK rory have been working on the dahua

have you opend all the ports for the dvr on your router. what i would say is dont keep your system to long if it has problems. you can buy two ways from maplins .... new or B grade. which did you buy.

dirk if i was you i would just keep on considering and then buy something else.

Hi what ever you do you will still need the viewing software. you need to get a clean copy of DxClient software. remember with that dvr you would also need to give a copy of your footage along with a copy of DxClient software for anyone to watch your footage. that dvr does not export a player.

how many cameras are you looking at each location. you could just have all the same dvrs and a good CMS software.

There's probably not much that could be said at this point if you are the original installer and ran the cable. The burden and expense is on you to correct the problem in accordance to local code. If you didn't run these cables you need to tell the customer to contact who did and have them correct the problem. The issue is you are now liable if you ran the cables or try to modify what someone else did. Either way, you need to work with the elevator company and eat that expense of them ringing out a pair for you. Probably no justifiable way to pass this cost to the customer as this should have been charged up front in the proposal. Obviously there are ways to get around the problem in a less than professional manor. I'll leave that up to someone else to answer. Tailbone, I don't really understand why should we bear the expense since we did not provide any warranty on cabling works in our proposal earlier. I mean most local installers do not offer warranty on cabling. And the cabling has been done and it's been working since 6 months ago. Do you offer warranty in your area? is the warranty not on what you install . system / cables / monitors. cat5 has a work life longer than 6 months. so its not the cable its the way it has been installed ..... so its an installers problem.

it sounds good on paper. but i think it would be a bad thing to do. companies dont just install cctv they have the other side .... service and repair which is also an income. engineers go though college or have spent money on trainning to get were they are. to give all that info away for nothing would not be right. its the same with giving out to much info on how to reset a system or how to reset a password. this info should never be given on on a open forum. giving out info about power units .... well it sounds simple but how do you know the person is capable of doing the job. doing any sort of electrical work has to come with a bit of electrical knowledge.

are you using the pos box on a avermedia dvr ???

for the cost of that camera i would rarther just go on holiday. spot the problem .............. PTZ but the IR is fixed. its one of those bad ideas like a snooze button on a smoke detector.

yes your budget does keep comming up and you have got it down to £991. not bad you have saved yourself £9. dont pat yourself on the back too quick. now you need to record it all. looking at the cameras that you intend to use. will not protect a warehouse and 3 you have listed as PTZ (no there not) and going ip you need to keep the network all together for your system dont link in and out of your existing infrastructure. with £1000 i would just install a 4 camera system and stay away from your ip ..... it will do more and protect more than the system you have listed.

hi noooodlez. like has been posted £1000 budget for a 12 camera system cant happen. even if you go and buy secondhand your budget is still to low. and the cameras you have posted .... they are just for home indoor use. pointless for a warehouse. what is your max budget and what value are you ptotecting. i take it you want your system to work if anything happends.

hi martin. yes your camera will link to that unit. but you will have problems with your wireless as it 2.4ghz and you will have all sorts of problems baby monitors / wifi / blue tooth / next doors remote door bell will all knock out your video. so i would just link your camera upto the unit direct.

something like this might help you. This neat, compact recording box has full digital video recording functionality but, instead of recording to a hard disk, it records video footage to SD card. Time and date stamping, motion detection recording (sensitivity adjustable), scheduled recording, real time recording speed (adjustable between 1-30fps), 640x480 VGA resolution recording, recording overwrite option, takes up to 16G SD card and if purchased with our 12v rechargeable battery pack it is a truly portable and covert CCTV recording option (supplied as standard with 12v mains power adaptor). It's a one channel recorder and will even give you an estimation of recording time left on your SD card. You can connect to your TV for playback or simply remove the SD card and playback on your PC or laptop by using an SD card reader.