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  1. Posted

    Hi guys,

     

    Thanks for your prompt replies. tomcctv - I've not used baluns for one simple reason - I have no idea what they are! CCTV is not my area of expertise as you've probably gathered. I've put my years of graphic design experience into good use, and attached a detailed, accurate wiring diagram Both cameras are running through one CAT 5 cable (the diagram is deceiving).

     

    The cameras were bought from the same place, I have several others yet to install and I guess this is going to become a big nightmare, so if you have any suggestions as to how to eliminate it, you would save me a big headache.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Danster

     

     

    hi danster. no baluns will be your problem. so you have two options either buy 8 baluns (i each end of your cat5 ) you only use 1 paire. or replace your cable with rg59 (coax) and use the existing cat5 to power your cameras. if you let me know what area you are in i will post your closest balun supplier.

     

    have you cut the bnc off each camera ???? how did you do the connections.

     

     

     

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  2. Posted

    Hello peeps,

     

    Just wanting some advice regards a couple of cams i've just thrown up. Basically 2 x cheapo ebay cams from our friends in Hong Kong. I've wired them to CAT5 running about 15 metres or so. Each cam being powered from a seperate 12v adaptor. As you can see from attached pic, there's intereference on both cams that scrolls from left to right on one camera, and vice versa on the other. When I unplug one of the power supplies, the interference disappears on the other cam and picture quality improves, and vice versa. Any ideas on how to eliminate this interference will be much appreciated.

     

    Thanks guys!

     

     

     

    hi danster. you have not said if you have used baluns on your install . and did you get them from the same place.

  4. Posted

    thanks for the advice guys

     

    i have changed my mind on the DVR ,

     

    im thinking of getting this one , it says it will record at 25FPS across all 4 channels on d1 spec

     

    any comments on this one guys ?

    doesnt seem bad for £140

     

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350445286286&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:GB:1123

     

    or if you had a £170 budget , which DVR would you chose ?

     

    thanks again

     

     

     

    £140 sounds like a good price. or does it ...... sata H/drive £65 that makes your dvr worth £75 and for that price it is going to have problems. the main problem will be getting your footage off lots of post on here about not getting the footage off cheap dvrs. thats why they are cheap. and support .... does not matter what they say on ebay you will not get any.

     

    the heart of your system is the dvr. you dont want to be buying it twice. if you are on a budget then build your system in stages.

     

    just buy a brand name dvr ... look at avermedia or the apollo dvr (dahua) both can be updated and both have support.

    a cheap dvr from ebay does not give you basic Requirements needed with you being in the uk. http://www.cctvengineer.com/home%20office.pdf

  6. Posted

    Dear All,

     

    We have installed 40 cameras in 3 DVR of 16 channel each. The dvr brand is "X-Per". When i access it through my IE it installs a Active X know as 'DvrOcx.cab'. I am form a very long time searching software that i can use instead of this DVR OCX. I had purchased a software know as ''Pro Surveillance System". It requires some Admin Name but i dont know any as the software "DVR OCX" has only option to set password and not any user. Each time i have to keep a watch on 3 IE windows to manage as there r 3 dvr each with its own IP address.

     

    PLEASE TELL ME SOME SOFTWARE THAT I CAN USE AS WE NEED TO MONITOR OUR WORKERS ELSE IN A LONG RUN IT MAY BRING PROBLEMS.

     

    Thanks a lot.

     

    JP

     

     

     

     

    there is not much you can do with that dvr. x-per is just a rebranded Sentient/cmn/maplins mass made. big install with 40 cameras that dvr was a bad choice to use.

  7. Posted

    Hello everyone.

     

    I am a total newbie at cctv so please excuse me if I ask silly or obvious questions.

     

    I have a villa in Spain with electric gates, I would like to mount an IP wireless camera by the entrance to monitor for movement, however, due to limited bandwidth available I would like a camera with built in memory card like SD etc, so that when movement is detected it records the images to the card.

     

    I have found a camera on eBay that has the in built card but is NOT wireless, it would need to be connected via a Cat 5 connector which is not ideal as it would mean running the cable all the way to the house. I have mains power at the gates.

     

    Any suggestions or recommendations please, I don't want to spend too much, maybe about $200?

     

    Thanks

     

     

     

    hi. how far are you from the gate to your house. the problem with being in spain is everyone has something wireless 80% of home alarms are wirless and them alone will give you problems.

     

    you must be one of the lucky ones to be able to get broadband in spain (silly money) you say you have limited bandwidth. this has nothing to do with you recording a camera .... only if you wish to watch your system over the internet. other than that you will not have a problem running a cable from your house to gate. what part of spain are you in.

  8. Posted

    it should always overwrite the OLDEST footage.

    That is certainly how I would have designed it. This would not be the first thing to make me think it is not well designed, though it is certainly the worst.

     

    I don't know what has happened. My guess is that having filled the disk, it has reset and "wiped" the disk.

    If that is what happened, then it is a really stupid design, but I can't think of another explanation.

     

    But, unless you take a considerable effort to do so, when a disk is "wiped", it doesn't actually destroy the data, though, as you say, if it has been written over, it becomes very difficult to recover.

     

    Maybe I am wrong, and it has just had a very busy few days that has filled up the disk.

     

    Either way, I still want to find an alternative means of accessing it, as the interface they have provided is rubbish.

     

     

     

    Hi its just ther way the dvr is......... made in mass and sold cheap. once the H/drive is full they format. it is another part of dvr specs that customers need to see or ask ....... is it 30 days recording or 30 days continuous recording.

     

    as far as finding alternative accessing and new interface. that just cant be done with a $45 (without H/drive) dvr.

     

    this is what a lot of guys try to get people to understand cheap mass produced dvrs do not work. i bet you spent more than $45 for 1 smoke detector in your home.

  9. Posted

    also down to the lens type if you use over 3mp or over with a cmos lens then you do see the problem as much.

     

    1.3mp cmos then you see it all the time you can only focus the centre of the image and you start to loose focus at the edges.

     

    cmos lenses are getting better but ccd still just takes the edge.

     

    Tom I think you are referring to CMOS vs CCD sensors not lenses. I was talking about the sensor in the camera not being aligned properly. CMOS vs CCD has nothing to so with image focus. Take a look at Avigilon CMOS cameras they focus perfectly.

     

    I have a job with 26 Arecont 5MP Box cameras all with the same fixed 4mm 2/3 lens and some can be fully focused and some can not.

     

     

     

    yes sorry sensors (i was looking at when you buy cameras complete) cmos or ccd.

  11. Posted

    Thanks for your response. Camera is about 12 ft from Receiver/dvr with a brick wall in between. I bought on E-bay and am trying to contact Seller.

     

     

     

     

    hi. dont expect alot from 2.4ghz devices. and this is from sentients spec sheet. transmission range with clear line of sight' is the only true measurement of distance that can be given. Passing signals through Walls and other materials is not quantifiable as the composition of the material and other factors (such as moisture metal content of a wall) will affect the attenuation of the signal. Also proximity to similar ambient frequencies in the location may affect the transmission range and / or signal quality

     

     

    so not much you can do if you are expecting to go though walls. you will also have problems with wireless door bells not just your but everyone who has one in a 100m range including bluetooth devices / wireless routers / baby monitors / other 2.4ghz cctv systems.

  12. Posted

    hi. it depends on what your budget is. and remember google is a very powerful tool. do a check on both of your links. the camera site ..... no contact numbers do a ip check and he sells from home. so what is the support going to be like. you cant even pick up its all post. so just that alone i would walk away from that camera.

     

     

    the avtech dvr you could do better for a few £££ more. have a read though the forum for a few days plan your system take a look at camera snapshots in the forum

  13. Posted

    Anyone want to make me an offer for the camera ?

     

    Thanks

     

     

     

    Hi peter. i take it you are in the uk. the head unit cant be used in the uk anymore. so your best bet is to remove the camera and lens from the head unit and just sell the camera and lens together. but the other problem is not having a control unit. and no one is going to spend good money on a camera so old.

     

     

    the only way to make any money is just sell the computar lens on its own

  14. Posted

    What a small world! I'm in Vicars Cross at the moment!

     

    Must admit, I'm very grateful for all the help. Do have you any more ideas?

     

    Did the version numbers give you any idea of what's wrong?

     

    It's very odd that I can't get to the DVR you sent earlier either, but I can get to that DVR through the web using /mobile to see the handy viewer jpgs.

     

    My understanding is that the app simply takes sequencial refreshes of the handy viewer jpgs rather than an mjpeg stream, so since on the SA series, handy viewer does not use a username and password, maybe the app is not compatible with the SA implementation of handy viewer?

     

    This would explain the authorisation problem since there is no authorisation protocol in the SA handy viewer and yet the app is trying to provide one?

     

     

    no all avers run with the app and it is live stream and not refresh java. it is h264. if you pm me your address i will call and look ............. i have never come across anyone having problems with remote viewing. something simple in setup is stopping you (on your phone) because the link i sent of another dvr does not work either.

     

    how far are you from the spar shop in vickerscross

  17. Posted

    Ok, now it gets weirder!

     

    I was fully expecting that to give me images, but it's just the same as when I log into my dvr, giving the "no authorized!" pic. I can tell you have a 16 cam dvr, but no images.

     

    The odd thing is that I can use the app to connect to the demo site at live.dss.com.tw on port 80 absolutely fine and watch the Taiwanese motorbikes!

     

    I have also tried connecting to your dvr on my ipod touch using both wifi through my isp and also through a mifi(on T-mobile) to prove it's not my local network - and I get the same results.

     

    Now I'm really puzzled.

     

     

     

    on your iphone 4 do you have updates turned on........... were are you based ???

  21. Posted

    I figured it was a user rights issue, so good to hear that confirmed.

     

    The user Mark and of course admin are both administrators and so have access to all cams.

     

    Mark and admin work perfectly using web access and remote console for all cams.

     

    I have tried logging in as admin, also I have tried Mark with and without the correct password for that user and also tried admin with and without the password.

     

    I have also tried creating a new login called user which is not an administrator and assigned all cameras and that does not work

    either.

     

    Kinda puzzling!

     

     

     

    take a look at your network page and top right see if all cameras are ticked

  22. Posted

    Yep - Handy Viewer works perfectly on a web browser, both on Lan and Wan.

     

    Attached is a screenshot of Handy Viewer working ok (dark outside!) and also pics of what I see on the iPhone app:

     

     

     

    i see your problem. you do not have vieiwing rights with your password ........... just type admin and not mark

     

    or go into users and edit your name and you need to tick cames you wish to view. the symbol on your iphone means its on but you dont have rights to watch.

     

     

    just change mark to admin first.

  23. Posted

    Sorry, yes, my mistake - I have setup the Webviewer Port as 300, and the Console port is 5550 which means I can use Handy Viewer on both 5550 and 300.

     

    I changed the webviewer port from 80 to 300 since I didn't want port 80 open with Handy Viewer on the Wan as there is no security on Handy Viewer (and my current router does not do port translation).

     

    I have the latest iPhone app installed (v3.1.0.0009)

     

    Mark

     

     

     

    can you just do a quick test on your pc. please enter http://yourlocalip:5550/mobile and see what comes on your pc screen

  24. Posted

    Hi! Thanks for the reply.

     

    I tried port 5550 first, but out of curiousity tried the Handy Viewer port as well (in my case 300) and both show the same behaviour.

     

    It's an iPhone 4, but I get exactly the same problem with an iPod (2nd Gen I think) and an iPad,

     

    Mark

     

     

     

    hi .... everything is port 5550 on the avers ...... port 300 has nothing to do with handy viewer. also a new app for the iphone app was released. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/averdigi-iviewer/id336316715?mt=8

  25. Posted

    Hello,

     

    Just found this forum so this is my first post. I've looked about but not found a post regarding this particular issue.

     

    I have an Averdigi SA5108 and I can't get the iPhone app to work.

     

    I have Handy Viewer enabled, I can view via Handy Viewer and the full web viewer and the remote console both on Lan and Wan. All ports are forwarded correctly Wan to Lan.

     

    When I connect with the iPhone app, it connects to the server, and the appropriate number of channels (8) for the DVR show as active (although I only have 5 set as viewable) but no video shows and under the video window there's a message "No authorized!"

     

    I get this message if I use either the Handy Viewer port (300) or the console port (5550), and it gives me this message whatever username and password I use, including valid users and administrators.

     

    However, if I get the IP address or port wrong it gives the message "Connect Failed!" as you would expect. This is why I know it's making the server connection, just not showing video.

     

    I'd be very grateful if anyone can help out,

     

    Cheers

    Mark

     

     

     

    Hi mark. you only need to portforward port 5550 for everything. and which iphone do you have

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