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Huh, don't know then. If you're asking about a dvr system, I use and really like dahua and it's widely available. Easy to use and PSS software integrates multiple locations well too. My opinion, of course.

What's the deal with 4tb drives not being favored in nvr hardware units now? The dahua for instance, can take two 4tb drives for a total of 8tb but most vendors only offer 3tb now.

I did a video a couple years ago on installing my ptz somewhat like you describe. The wiper won't help with webs, in my experience. They don't usually make webs right on the lens. The webs wave and dangle in front of the camera beyond the reach of a wiper- frustratingly so. Sometimes a spider will just sit it's ass right on the camera lens and then a wiper could help, but in my experience that happens less frequently. 8eKPmVop1FU

To the OP- are you using DW cameras as well? It's probably the cameras, not the dvr. Are they star light type cameras? I have used and tweaked DW dome star light type cameras. They come defaulted to star light settings and some pretty heavy noise reduction settings and although it makes for a great picture, of course you get motion blur. I would suggest you look at the camera manual and turn the star light settings and noise reduction settings down. Your motion blur problem will probably clear up. Motion blur is usually a camera setting problem in an analog system, not the dvr itself.

As I said, the IP of your dvr is not in the same subnet as your router, as evidenced by your pictures above. So yeah, you need to assign a new IP address to your dvr. That can be done two ways- by doing it like I said or manually changing it by just typing in a new address and saving it in your dvr. The address must be in the same subnet as your gateway- your router, but it cannot match exactly and it can't be the same as anything else in your network, such as a printer or NAS, or there will be conflicts. That's why it's easier to do it the way I suggested earlier because the router will assign the dvr an address, as opposed to you looking through every address of stuff on your network to make sure you're not creating a conflict. This won't change anything in your router or other stuff you have networked. You're only adjusting the dvr. As I said earlier, the gateway field showing in your dvr- your router address, is at 192.168.001.001. The IP Addr field in your dvr- the IP address of your dvr, is currently 192.168.000.100. That is no good. It should be something such as, Gateway-192.168.001.001 [do not change this in the dvr] DVR IP- 192.168.001.002 [or 005, or 008, whatever] See what I mean- the numbers match except for the last three. Every number must match between the two addresses except for the last three. That gets the dvr in the same subnet as your router. As long as the new IP address of your dvr doesn't conflict with any other address of your networked stuff, you're on your way. You keep saying you're not doing this step, but this is THE most important one to do. Failing to get that done will never network your dvr properly for remote viewing. Then in the port forwarding stuff in your router, the new dvr address will need to be put into the port forwarding info for those three ports.

The wiper to me seems more like a gimmick than anything else. Not to mention, I wouldn't trust it to keep working long term. I use two domeless ptz's and one dome bosch ptz and the domeless type aren't any more prone to the lens getting dirty in my experience. What could a wiper be good for really? Rain? When it's raining it's raining- a wiper wouldn't do much to keep the image clear. Snow? Maybe, but domeless typically don't have snow build up over the lens. Dirt and dust? I surely wouldn't use a dry wiper for that. You have to clean the lens properly if you're gonna do it- a slightly damp shammy cloth or lens cloth. The only time it could be useful is right after a rain when water droplets haven't cleared yet. If that constitutes a huge need for you, rock and roll. I contemplated a wiper camera but after thinking it through, I passed for those reasons. My 2 cents. Also, my opinion is you choose a domeless because you need the strong IR they offer and the dome type when you don't need IR. And it's not like the domeless are truly domeless- they have a dome type face that covers everything. It's just that style allows the use of powerful IR, without getting the IR reflections back into the lens that often happens with a bubble type dome camera.

If by plug you mean power barrel connectors then yes, that might be a problem. You should wire directly from the camera to the DVR with no barrel adapters. I get what you're trying to do for like a quick disconnect, but that's probably the problem. Either that or try reversing the wires into the DVR or card. Wrong polarity won't send communication.

IP will be more costly. And from what you describe, you definitely want IR. PM me and I can suggest some places.

Low light or NO light? The problem with IR cameras is they will attract bugs- specifically spiders and the webs can make things a challenge. If there's enough light in there all the time, a camera without IR will make a huge difference in terms of upkeep with spiders. However, dirt and dust will have to be cleaned off occasionally for best viewing. Where are you located? This camera would be do the job perfectly and goes for around 1,500 from vendors- http://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/sd6982a82c-hn-306.html Something like this will go for around 600, and minus IR would actually be a great way to go provided there is light in there at night. IR would probably be best, but it comes at a price with spiders but perhaps even that problem would slow down in colder months- http://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/sd404242c212s-hn-456.html

Well depending, the office building alone could take 4 or more cameras. Is there a warehouse or anything like that too? In any case, as far as vendors I've bought from and have done well for me, they are mentioned in my videos in my signature link. Outside of Q-see and Openeye, which I wouldn't recommend in your case, there are three other vendors that I certainly would. Among the three you'll find everything you'll need- two of them carrying everything you'd need. Costco is another way to go, although I don't favor that personally. Wherever you buy, you might as well get a high def system. But within that is whole range of choices. There's hardware NVR's, software and computer NVR's, cameras ranging from 1-3 mega pixel, different brands, on and on. You know, a good place to read for a bit is here- http://www.networkcameracritic.com/ Once you're set on high def, that blog can help you fine tune what will be right for you. Personally, I favor dahua and hardware dvr's/nvr's rather than a computer for the task. But that's me. Hope some of this helps you get a grip a little bit.

Don't hold your breath on that one. Higher and higher resolution keeps coming to the consumer market. You have IP/MP, HD-SDI, and soon HDCVI will be easily available and somewhat the rage, I figure. If it were just for YOU personally, you could build a system that is as future proof as you can make it at the moment- a marvel of power and resolution. But for a friend who has a landscape nursery, to me the goal is to satisfy them and make it easy for them to keep their arms around long term without the need to drag you back into it for every little thing. It's amazing how it happens when you put a system in for a friend or family that YOU become the person who is called on to do the backing up, the exporting of events, the library of storage, and all manner of tweaks! So put in a decent system, but one they can actually manage themselves. First things first- what really is the need? Has there been theft? Is it likely there will be because of a bad or notorious area? What's the facility like? Is it well lighted all night or does it go dark? How many entrances are there? How well is the whole facility fenced in? How many long runs of cable do you foresee, really? Anything off of the office building will need to be trenched. Is 16 channels really anticipated, or is it more or less? On what will the cameras be mounted away from the office building? What really is the overall entire budget, including the installation costs- not just the cctv equipment? Is high def mega pixel an absolute want for them, or will analog suffice? Those answers will help define more the system you consider.

Yes, once logged in remotely you can do that, as well as save footage locally to your computer as well and just email what you need. CIF sub stream also plays nice with phone apps too, so the real time video looks fine and it's streams better too. I should clarify to say that in the case of dahua, for example, I can choose to remotely monitor in main stream D1 as well. Whether it's in PSS software or web service, I can monitor either or. In fact, in some situations it'll default to sub stream and then when you double click a window for full size it'll automatically change to your main stream settings. So it's not like you can't do D1 remotely- it's just easier on the networks on both ends and the computer itself to go with sub stream. But the choice is there, at least with my dahua. Good luck.

Hello Mr. Installer, I need service please. Have him resolve the problem.

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Why get hung up on a single IR camera? Analog IR cameras are extremely popular and plentiful, even in the mega pixel variety. Love IR and think it's the coolest? Have a gawk at these babies, which I'll wager are way better than the one you're stuck on- http://www.gadspot.com/c-89-800tvl-cameras.aspx Good luck.

Try a single separate 12v power adapter on one of the bad cameras. I'd guess a 12v-1.5a adapter would be fine. You just take one of the known bad camera power lines out of the panel and put a barrel adapter on the end of it, being mindful of polarity, and power that run from the separate adapter. If it clears up, put three more adapters in line and power those four cameras like that. Not an elegant solution, but probably the easiest.

You'd be amazed at how much more coverage you can get with a camera above the roof line. It can open up views to other areas of the facility, as well as adjacent property and roads. With ptz's, height can be might.

A spot output would allow you to get the viewing function almost there, although I'm not sure monitor two would respond to what you click on for full size on monitor one. Monitor two- the spot out- would either keep one full size image of any camera, or do a custom rotation of all. But your biggest problem is that a cctv system will not export recorded playback that is edited together on the fly as you choose camera channels on the fly. Each channel will record independently no matter what or how you choose to monitor in real time during the performance. So it will be an editing nightmare for switching camera angles, after the fact. And considering that most dvr's and nvr's have proprietary file extensions, file conversion also complicates the task in post editing work. Plus, cctv sound is not built for fidelity so you'll have to do that separately as well- more complications. You're really better off filming bands with traditional video cameras.

You have to start at the beginning of what I told you and work through it.

This didn't work because that is NOT the address of your DVR at the moment. Since you can't get any remote working at this point, there's nowhere to go but up. I would suggest you try what I suggested. The worst that can happen is it still doesn't work. If that My E-Video DDNS doesn't work or have no further information about how to set it up, what you'll need to do in your router is look at DDNS and see what options you have in the router. If it's newer, you'll probably have DYNDNS and No-IP. I would suggest using no-ip because it's hassle free, FREE. https://www.noip.com/sign-up You sign up for a free account and you'll get a host name such as mrwonderful.noip.biz, for example. Then in your router you put in your account details. Coupled with the process I layed previosuly, it should work out for you. It's comlicated to tell someone how to do the whole thing, yet easy once you've done it a couple of times. If it's just too far beyond what you're comfortable doing, seek out a friend or family who's good with networking stuff and they'll get you going in no time. But the lack of properly networking your DVR right now is what's holding you up from viewing on the phone, and on a pc outside of your home. Good luck.

The only unit I've used thus far with D1 as a sub stream choice is in fact an NVR, not a DVR- that being a dahua. I've never seen a DVR with D1 sub stream, but of course I haven't seen them all! Might be some. CIF for sub stream is perfectly fine for me, anyway.

You're talking about is a schedule in that example, not a tour. Some cameras will have scheduling or 'timing' as some refer to, and some won't. You set presets and then you make a schedule for certain presets to engage. If that's what you need, you have to confirm the ptz supports scheduling. The video you linked to was an example of a tour- a very basic thing that most ptz's can do. Although, even that feature can be different from camera to camera. I have a bosch ptz here at work that only supports one tour, which is pretty limiting. Ideally you want scheduling, plenty of presets to position, and up to eight custom tours that you can set for variety when needed- at least when it comes to those features. There's plenty of other features that a good ptz will offer too.

Is there anywhere within the dvr setup that has audio volume adjustment? If not, perhaps in the remote viewing software you may find something. Sometimes vewing software actually has a couple more controls than the dvr itself. But yeah, your old setup is amplifying the sound for sure. I wouldn't know which mic you should use to better the situation.

Huh, 6 months. Well if you like the nvr regardless, maybe just keep it in line anyway. Good luck.

They have up to 700TVL cams for what seems like fairly short bucks. Anyone have experience with them or other cameras from them? I'm thinking about upgrading from cmos 400tvl to maybe a 600 or more for an even clearer picture. I understand the different levels of quality- I'm simply interested to see if anyone has had gadspots of 600tvl or higher in line and what they think about them. Thanks. Dan