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You may find this helpful http://www.sewerhistory.org/articles/maint/cctv_US_History.pdf

Germans kicked off CCTV by using them while playing with V2 rockets.

Make sure you hit apply and save and stuff after setting the IPs.

Agree with this. The 8133 is a little less intrusive and it's white. The Supreme Range model is white though, but more expensive due to the eWDR

So Vivotek's configuraiton software refuses to work unless it can "phone home" over the Internet? How annoying!! The good news is you don't need to use any special software to set up an IP8332 camera - just assign each one a unique (and fixed) IP address via your DHCP server and then connect to each one with a web browser. Hopefully your NVR software isn't also going to insist on "phoning home" before it will work... The bold part ... what? That's completely and utterly incorrect. I've set up hundreds of Vivoteks using the IPwizard without a net connection.

Looks good for wiring. I have a preference for Vivoteks. Price v Performance can't really be matched by anything else. But that's just my opinion of course. Admittedly, Vivotek doesn't really have a camera to match the M1104.

Just a thought. If the door is NC and it's power to open. Then it might be simpler to get a bog standard basic wireless circuit board which has an auxiliary that fires whenever the remote button is pressed. You could then run the REX system independent of the main panel.

Yeah, we were considering that because the chairman wants local recording... hybrid DVRs can mix and manage both IP and analog and then stream the data right? Thanks for the advice people, you've given me a lot to chew on. Our goal was (is) to keep the system as simple and streamlined as possible running from a remote central surveillance console without having to get new server hardware. Bandwidth is indeed going to become one of the main issues. Doesnt have to be an analog solution. The local recorder will compress any stream.

I don't recommend the offsite recording. As wireguys says above me, you'll kill any regular internet connection trying to do it. This doesn't factor in data costs etc. You're best to have a local DVR/NVR which you can access with a CMS. This will enable him to live view/view recordings without the bandwidth issues.

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I'm rebuilding my house. I had an old 1480 Geo system which I hooked up and threw a few cameras around the site. When I hooked it up, everything was hunky dory. Multiview, browser viewing all worked. A few weeks ago it had to be moved. Since it's been turned back on, Multiview no longer connects and using IE/Chrome/Firefox etc, it directs me to the mobile client of the DVR but won't connect to any cameras (either from my phone or browser). CMS works fine though. The net connection is through a Huawei 3G modem which has all the appropriate ports forwarded and the firewall is down. So I don't know what's wrong. Please lend me your expertise fellas

I checked on the services. All seem to have started.

Open Options. It's all IP based as well. Do not consider anything else www.openoptionsinc.com

Name some cameras you can setup without software in a static IP environment. If you only do a few cameras at a time then good for you. Try doing a job with hundreds of cameras from a web browser and constantly changing the IP address of your laptop. All of them. It's just a lot easier to use software at times. Vivotek for example, doesn't have an incremental IP changer in its camera finder software which means that you have to manually configure each one.

Dropped you a PM. Be interested to see what you have on offer.

Wonder if he's related to this guy who sells cell phones.

When you say integration software, what do you mean by that? Have you developed your own program or you've found a non proprietary way of putting text onto a Geovision system? I'd wager on the former because most companies doing the POS overlays these days require licenses for the POS overlay systems now as well to stop the above. FWIW I use the NUUO POS box system which I find to be a lot simpler than the GEo version.

Use megapixel cameras.

You leave money in the tills overnight?! Lighting should be enough at any rate. IN regards to the POS boxes, any till that can handle a receipt printer can work with those overlays.

If its in a retail store, why do the cams over the registers need to be D/N? Are they going to be doing transactions in the dark? If you're going with NUUO and you're putting cams over the tills, you may as well check out NUUO's SCB-C31a POS overlay boxes too. I can get them here in Aus wholesale at 350 each. My choice for all that given that I think Areconts are overpriced. YOu should be able to get a Sanyo 2300P for very cheap since theyre in run out at the moment for the front door. For the back delivery dock, Id use a vivotek ip8362 And for the cams over the tills, maybe some Vivotek MD7560s for low profile slim unobtrusive cams. I dislike domes as a general rule because they're giant ugly things.

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It's the same. The WDR ability on MP cameras is roughly between 60-80% as effective as any WDR analog. It's certainly not god awful and its a hell of a lot better than none at all, but if you're in need of serious WDR, go with an analog.

The Greens that are failing are about 12mths old. Blacks havent failed yet.