mike_va

Yes, I think the person who created that example, needs to review my working example. Don The person who created that is banned from the forums. Does work well with Axis Pansonic Arecont. Axis has some examples also if you contact them, looks very similar. Don't know about Acti as I gave up on that brand...along with Arecont...

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Axis 2400 are dirt cheap these days maybe $30

The other problem which is a PITA is that the new LED's high power surface mount even at 940nm give off a red glow... The old 5mm 940nm devices had a tighter spread on wavelength and were not visible.

VitaminD is phenomenal if you want to know what is going on and get useful notifications, and/or don't want to spend your life reviewing footage each day... I also run other VMS recording continuous, don't know if they work with USB devices.

No, I think we are saying the same thing essentially. I have been fighting a bit of a migraine today...

No prob, but the setup interface is also provided by the camera server.

At night the bandwidth will be greater, especially if there is not enough light. So the camera's server is perhaps struggling.

One was enough for me, periodic artifacting and also a reset. Luckily was able to return...

That is not a good picture at all, but for some reason the leaves are OK in the upper right. Is the IR pointing to where the person is? I have a similar problem with a blacktop driveway, took a while to dial in. One thing that can help is adjusting the AGC down, if you have excess light. That does not look like this problem though.

That video was done by a very active & helpful member here who did a first time CCTV install for his home. Actually not bad for a first time DIY job in my opinion. I'll second that. He also provides some much needed perspective and with the tight shots actually has better coverage where needed than some of the "nightly news" shots. I'll take usable shots over a few temporary wires anytime...

Yep, if you have light not too bad at night. On it's own it is nowhere close the others. Colors drive me nuts during the day though with no ICR...even the wcm is not that great. Bosch WZ16 has a nice day pic, but no OSD.

only two of the pics are WBL... CNB has a dome w IR that is not bad can't remember the model

Here's a few more pics, I think the wz16 may have had a loose connection or something but you get the idea

I did not have good luck with the WBL20 at distance. WCM is a good camera, as are WZ16 and even some cheap qsee we have. Pics attached are camera IR only, dark otherwise.

add a transistor, driving a relay (diode across the coil). you can probably buy a small board with all that stuff on it somewhere. that gives you a contact closure. you are not "directly" controlling the motor. parallel the relay contacts across the switch we use the sensors in our alarm system also to prevent the system from being armed at night with the doors open. hope this helps

while you are out there screwing around you might want to add alarm sensors to the garage doors, I think it would not be too hard to get into houses that way...we added some like this

Mine is just contact closure. I have several systems that can open the garage door, but have not tied it to a camera (yet...) Don't know about exacq, only played with it briefly but you can have the output show on the 3346 liveview page, or add button that maps to an http command. You can also make a different button put it on your phone and have it send the http command.

Generally, CFL cannot match IR since IR is a tighter angle usually 30-60 degree output which helps greatly. PAR CFL's aren't bad, we use one out back. Have it switched with an X10 timer, X10 pro switch. We have normal CFL's on the side of garage 2x ~30W ea to get our 3MP camera enough light, 8W white LED on side garage for some analog cams, Raytec and Bosch elsewhere. Would prefer to run IR on the front, just because I can get near 100 yards with my units, but believe it or not the red glow was actually attracting people out checking car doors at night up our driveway...we garage our cars...someday will build something truly covert but unfortunately the only LED's that are truly covert and don't glow are the 940nm 5mm units which don't put out that much...

The MP lenses are worth the expense, even more so with a 3MP camera. I've tried one standard lens that looked good on a MP camera, the rest looked so-so. Lenses really need looking at carefully. Especially if using with IR, some make the image look like it does not have as much contrast. I think the average person gets concerned about megapixels, whereas crappy lenses, firmware/hardware issues and limited dynamic range (and/or poor exposure) should also be considerations. Similar to a very good DSLR vs. a cheap point and shoot...

Man, what a hassle. Would not be surprised if they are up to something... My neighbors like me having a camera. I send them videos of people checking for unlocked car doors in the wee hours...now one of the neighbors is asking what it takes to get a system like mine. Some pinhole cameras see well with low light, KTC has one B&W that is pretty good. Good at close range anyway, and for overview.

I have a 528 which was $300 on sale at Costco with 4 cameras (not bad cameras either). So, not that expensive. Updated the firmware a while back, which did work. The catch to that is I cannot access any longer on an old mac 10.5...

I think this started a few weeks ago when I installed a new Intel SSD (cloned with Acronis). Then Avigilon periodically would crash, seemed to need new locations for the config and storage etc. Once I reset those it seemed to be OK for a few days. Now it says no license file, when I try to add the license it says it is in use on another computer (it isn't the old hard drive is not even hooked up). Tried hooking up the old drive to see if maybe I needed to uninstall it from that first (disconnecting the SSD) and get the same message. So no luck with that route. Any advice appreciated. FWIW, all other programs (Axis Camera Station, VitaminD and Milestone are all still working fine on either drive).

Update: reactivated the license per their instructions and back to normal.

I could have, but they said this was normal operation and I was not happy with the construction. In my mind took some unacceptable shortcuts with the adhesive attachment of the power devices to the heatsinks. Works fine now but after thermal cycling and absorbing some humidity they just don't hold up. There are also some solder splashes remaining from the original assembly. With some of the cameras on there I really don't want to have to replace them if something goes bad. Hard to beat Lambda linear supplies for quiet and rock solid reliability. Pretty expensive new, that came from work where they sometimes fill the dumpster with perfectly good stuff...also how I ended up with ten HP and Tek scopes in my lab...