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I'm having a hard time finding an Axis distributor in Sweden. The biggest of my suppliers can not deliver Axis stuff, but the specs on the Sony SNTV 704 looks very similar. Hopefully this system will be up and running within a week (depending on the customers decision), and I'll be back with the verdict.

Jep, in this case I used Geo backup from the start menu. I will try viewlog \ tools \ backup to se if that makes a change. To bad the customers Geo machine is located a good drive from me, but I have to go there again for the staffs training anyway. I'll drop a note to Geo support and will post the result here.

rory: It is a frech install with Ver8. From clean disk. The full install was downloaded from Geos site 2006-03-23. Jasper: Good to hear that someone else had the problem. I thougt for a while that I was going bananas joey: Ok. Only thing to do is wait for the patch then. Thank you for the info.

Had a look at Milestone at my supplier today. It looks excelent! Looks like this mess is going the right direction at last.

Geovision main system starts fine after a reboot. TCP server and recording starts auto, just as it should, but Webserver fails (or to be more specific, does not start). Webserver runs fine if I start it manually, but it have to start auto if there is a powerfail.

This is the one we're going to use: Sony SNTV704 together with Milestone sw. Any comments? Good, bad?

There are software that takes care of the glasses/beard/fake nose problem, but what I know they are expensive and not possible to combine with the DVR system. It just would be nice to be able to add that extra sparkle to the DVR system. Well, back to motion tiggered troop mines idea then

hmmm...sounds like this is a dead end. I would like to have something that alerts shopstaffs of known troublemakers/shoplifters, but I guess that printouts are the only sensible option there is. Maybe Geo will implemet something in the future

There is a very good Swedish supplier that can provide me with Axis and Pelco videoservers that are similar to ACTi. The same supplier can provide me with Milestone. Actualy I am a programmer. I've worked with Visual basic, Python and Delphi for several years at a famous Swedish car manufacurer. But I'm having a hard time to find the time to develop something on my own.

The best, and we know about it

ahhh, I'm the first to write in this section Just signed up as a member, but I have looked in this forum for several month now. An excelent resource I must say. I'm running a small firm on the westcoast of Sweden that installs CCTV systems in shops and small industries. I'm using mainly Geo cards, and they usualy fits the customers needs. Also using Chance-I cards sometimes. Well, thats about it.

How do you guys secure the DVR or server hardware? Lock it in a steelcage and bolt it to the wall? Would be interesting to know how others do it. In my case I usually try to get the hardware in a seperate room that is possible to lock and if that is not possible, use a cage.

1 - That isn't possible in this case. 2 - Good. You confirmed my guessing. Thanks for that. 3 - Very true. the customer pays the bills so he's always right in the end. There is 9 cams in a three stories parking garage so wireless is out. All cabling and cams are in place. I will connect them to a analog to IP (Like ACTis stuff) and connect thet to the customers gigabit Lan via a ethernet switch in the building. Feels that this is doable, but it's going to cost. Those ACTi videoservers wasn't cheep

I told them what this means allright, but in the end you got to give the customer what he wants even if it is (In my opinion) a strange solution. There might be a change back when I present the pricetag for the solution

Thanks!

Do you got a modelname on that lockbox? ...or a picture?

Jup, that was the way I intended to do it in the first place. There is even a really good spot to place the Geo PC, but the customer (now) refuses to have any server placed outside the IT/security dep. And it seems that the IT dep. has got "IP survaillence" on their mind. I guess they read the word somewhere It would be possible to replace the cams with IP cams instead, but that would give me a lot of work taking the analog system down and from my experience IP cams need more light.

thanks rory! The ACTi stuff seems to to fix the analog to IP problem like I want it. But how is the image quality after a convertion? I would imagine that if I convert the streem back to analog again there will be a masive loss in quality? For your question why they want to go IP: They want to keep all servers in one spot so their IT/security departmet have all stuff in their building. There is no possibillity to run cables to that building but they have a gigabit Lan between all buildings. This demand came from their IT dep when all cabeling for the cams where done. The thing is that I don't mind. The order for the analog system was allready signed so everything extra will also cost extra