CCTV Design

Same reason I am buying them from china in the first place, and not from some distributor in my country: It will be presumably 30-50% cheaper from the original manufacturer, than these other suppliers. Right?

If you can find the true manufacturer, they will not deal with you for less than 10 units anyway. More likely 50+

The camera is tight enough but obviously needs to be looking a little higher.

However the resolution of the DVR or NVR is crap and will never give a good image.

This advise is without any support if you break it.

Open the DVR (powered down), remove the battery that holds the BIOS.

If there is a super cap, short it out.

This can sometimes cause a clean restart.

Im not exactly sure what you are asking but if you use an IP camera or DVR that can send a JPG image, you can easily do this with a script on the page.

Just FTP the images to the web server from the camera and then load them.

I have written software to do time lapse recording via this method.

Tim Norton

Where do you live and what would you like to learn?

Chances are neither are the original brand.

The practice of OEM allows Asian manufactures to sell much larger volumes by branding them for multiple companies.

While the product may be OK, the support on this kind of sales is often 0

If you buy from a recognised name (a manufacturer) it will often cost more but you will get on going support.

Tim Norton

Ask questions and you will learn much

Welcome,

I would love to offer you some support as I have 23 years experience in this industry.

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Tim Norton

Not in any PTZ I have ever used.

What is the brand & model?

Tim Norton

800m on cat5 UTP is a long way and I suspect the voltage drop you are getting on this cable is going to be too much.

If you have a multimeter, measure the voltage at the camera when it is meant to be running. If it is lse that 11.5 volts, that is the problem.

Because you have 2 nice IR lights and the camera to power up, UTP is not a good option.

Can you move the power closer to the camera and only use the UTP for the video?

Tim Norton

I'm not an installed but have been in the past.

I now spend my life as a consultant giving advice based on 23 years in this industry.

Anything I can help with ?

Tim Norton

In short No.

You can use a Mobotix camera on a 3rd party VMS along with other cameras.

Common VMS brands that accept most cameras are Genetec and Milestone

Tim Norton

You typically need to setup a port forward of the ADSL router to be able to access it from outside the LAN.

Do you have access to the router config pages?

Tim Norton

Welcome NY from Australia

Tim Norton

Hello and welcome.

There is a lot of knowledge both here and on the users web sites.

Please let me know if I can assist you

Tim Norton

It is definitely possible.

Here are a couple of cameras built into the car mirror

http://spycamerasforhomehq.com/products/carcamerasrecorders

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