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  1. Posted

    No problem

     

    Anybody??

     

    We have been testing the unit in our shop for the past couple weeks. The unit has excellent color accuracy and WDR. Like its predecessor the unit is extremely easy to install and setup. The onboard software is feature rich supporting 4 independent video streams, edge recording and much more. Being a Supreme series camera it uses a new faster CPU that will support the SVC codec in the future. For the price I don't think you can find a better camera with the features the Vivotek IP8362 has.

     

     

    Thanks, I have really had some good luck with Vivoteks. They are easy to setup...I wish they would develop some higher MP cameras though, like a 5MP

     

    They have the 3MP FD8171V Fisheye!

  2. Posted

    How many feet away from DVR can you go with a HDMI cable before having problem's.

     

    15-20m shouldn't give you any issues even with "El-cheapo" HDMI cables. If you want to push beyond that, you'll need to start investing in the higher quality stuff.

     

    That's about 50ft if you're American

  3. Posted

    that car wouldnt last long here

    actually they rent those to tourists here ... but that camera would be gone in a flash!

    and to get the camera, they'd just take the whole car and strip it.

     

    btw whats the crims, is that like a UK version of the crips?

     

    Criminals ... unless you were being funny then... HAHA

  5. Posted

    Better quality, better everything, always will be, its for that type of signal, cat5 baluns etc are just work arounds or hacks. If you can save considerable money using cat5 then do so, otherwise stick with what is proven.

     

    I don't think that Cat5 is unproven as a viable alternative to coax.

  6. Posted

    The video server:

    http://www.geutebrueck.com/microsite/cam2ip/index_en.htm

    i just bought can use PoE in accordance with IEEE 802.3af

    When i look online, there are PoE injectors, PoE switches and PoE adapters

     

    Which do i need to use power over ethernet to power my video server?

     

    Also, my video server itself will provide power to the camera when using PoE

    Does powering my camera w/the video servers PoE use a different PoE?

     

    PoE has been standardised.

     

    A PoE injector is usually a single port PoE power supply.

    A PoE switch is a switch which has PoE capabilities in its ports.

    A PoE adaptor is a splitter and outputs power back into its own wire again.

     

    So to power your VS, a PoE switch or a PoE injector will do the trick. You won't be able to finangle the adaptor to do it though.

     

    And judging by the tech specs and data sheet, you should be able to power the camera direct from the VS's PoE output so no it doesn't to answer the question.

  9. Posted

    lastly.

    anyone that has problems with public CCTV cameras must also have problems with it in stores and also problems with cell phones and digital cameras - cant have it one way and not the other.

    If you want to get rid of CCTV cameras then also get rid of cell phones and digital cameras, and go tell wall mart take their cameras down as its impeding on your privacy.

     

    Camera phones aren't surveillance, wal mart is private property and used mainly for asset protection (most are dummy cameras anyways in my experience). Two completely different beasts... cameras in public paid for by you and me with the sole intent of finding us breaking some random law nobody even knew existed or tracking us in order for the gov't to make a buck is a problem.

     

    I'm fine with cameras on cop cars too because again, it's for asset protection (mainly preventing costly lawsuits).

     

    When the gov't starts spending money with the specific intent to invade my privacy but claim it's for public safety... then I have a problem.

     

    What privacy is being invaded? You're in public... you have no privacy. Why do people think they have rights to not be observed in public. And despite your protestations, the government does not have an army of bureaucrats watching cameras all day long to find any sort of miniature trespass. It has better things to do than allocate funding to some old biddy watching for people who litter.

     

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  11. Posted

    @Fa Chris.

     

    I find the... "this is the beginning of a very slippery slope" argument illogical.

     

    It's a classic "What if" scenario. It's akin to saying... we shouldn't allow mining because Company X will make steel out of it, and that steel will be used in the manufacturing of an atomic bomb, and then they could nuke the world. Yeah it's an extreme example but the principle still holds.

     

    CCTV in public does not automatically lead to wire tapping and you're not going to have MI5 or the NSA or CIA or what ever sitting there listening to everything you do or following you around covertly. You aren't significant, you aren't being investigated. Stop being paranoid! You don't have any reason to be and you aren't sacrificing any freedoms!

     

    If it was say... Google doing it so they could target you with advertising then yeah, I agree but it's not, it's the sodding government and that's an inefficient bureaucratic nightmare which couldn't tie its own shoelace!

  18. Posted

    yeah we're starting to get tired of the issues. Like you, we had no issues in the early 8.x days, worked great. My ghost image used that for a long time, then we FINALLY changed to the latest in our ghost... now we have issues constalty

     

    PTZ's on mini-servers stop working via the web

    These damn location errors constantly

    Software stops running for who knows what reason, just closes and the DVR is left doing nothing

     

    All these are new issues and nobody can seem to give me answers at geovision

     

    I found the best answer was to stop using Geo and use something else

  21. Posted

    Crimping rj45 connectors with your teeth... That's what I thought at first!

     

    Yea, one pair for +, one for - is a good way to go. Then one pair for video, and another for data (or as a backup pair).

     

    The weakness of the conductors is a little frightening to me, although they are copper, so they can be bent around a lot. Fingers is the way to go for me - buying a tool to do that seems silly!

     

    They don't need to have much in the way of gauge to carry data and power. And if I were to crimp rj45's with me teeth, I'd hope to have teeth like Jaws from Bond (not the shark)

  24. Posted

    That only specifies private residences. That makes no mention of public places which is what your camera would be focused on.

     

    In fact, given that the section you quote explicitly makes no reference to surveillance of a public place means that other laws apply to your cameras (I think) I'm willing to bet that your cameras on the shopping centre and the park are in fact illegal.

     

    **EDIT**

     

    Talk to a civil liberties group or a lawyer, they know about these things more than anyone else.

  25. Posted

    IMPORTANT

     

    Before you embark on this endeavour, you appear to want to focus on quite a few areas outside your own home. Check that this is legal first with which ever country/state you live in. Using your camera to see the shopping centre 2 streets over is probably not legal given that you'd probably have views into neighbours yards.

     

    Otherwise you might end up forking out for some expensive paperweights!

     

    Other things to consider. Your FOV's on your camera are determined by the lens, not the camera.

     

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