yakky

Learned something else. The Hikvision camera apparently needs a minimum NFS volume size. I have seen another post that says greater than 10GB. I know it won't work with an 8GB thumb drive but it does work with a 16GB drive. The symptom is that NFS passes the connection test but the "format" function does not work. Format quickly returns "complete" but still says uninitialized. If you end up with those symptoms, try a larger NFS volume. So to add some more search words to this... smaller smallest minimum too small bigger.

Thanks for posting this up and the previous post on the export parameters, I finally was able to get my Annke 8 channel hybrid DVR working with NFS. I was testing with a small 8gig mount thinking I'd make something small and quick. It saw the mount but failed after 20%. It took a 17 gig file to work in my case, nothing smaller would work. I ended up using a loopback file system instead of a drive or quotas.

Another thing I noticed was that after a few failed mounts, nothing works, you have to reboot as the NFS client on the DVR gets hung.

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I believe you won't catch (recognized) any face with existing analog camera + DVR,

those analog system only let you know the human or animal or car etc... that's all you could get..

Completely wrong. You can get very good facial detail over analog. People have been getting put in jail for years with low def analog cameras.

You need to configure port forwarding on your router.

Holy crap are criminals getting stupid. Lets build something to look blurry because I can't find where mommy put my ski mask....

 

 

 

hi Specs are what sell cameras ......some people go over the top with sales crap....... what make are the cameras

So true. The CNB 24VF series cameras have mediocre specs. But in real life, they are some of the best analog cameras.

IMO a fair offer is around $100, maybe $150 tops. I can get a HDE2412 brand new for $250

I think a lot of people say 100 meters is max recommended but there are people who have gone way over that. I see the Gem baluns recommended frequently as the best, I have some mid priced generics from Amazon and they seem to do ok.

This is a good wakeup call for all of us. I'm sure there are plenty of other exploits for the other branded DVRs that aren't well known yet....

it doesn't work on qvis machines much so i use the routers ddns facilities and it never fails using dyndns is what iuse

Agree, when available, using the router's ddns clients a more reliable method, and most routers have more options available as far as services.

Yakky, I have googled the model number, found the manufacturers website but it requires registration to download the manual. Did that yesterday but still awaiting a response for that membership. Hence my post this morning. Maybe I missed something?

Your post indicated you weren't even sure of the mfg, indicating you hadn't looked anyway, at least to me.

Dennis, I don't think you've applied yourself. Using that model number, the first hit in google is the manufactures site which has manuals.

IMO, its very hard to beat the Qvis EYE-34N. ~$70 each, good IR, even at wide angles, great DSP and good night vision.

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You can see it compared to other various cameras on my channel.

I'm sure if you dropped your price down to $100, it'd be gone quick as it really is as good as it gets for non-ir analog cameras in the budget price range.

Great camera, but they can be had new for $132 shipped from an authorized dealer.

It will always increase bandwidth 1x per user, there is no way around that. I think what you could accomplish is the place the server somewhere where the aren't bandwidth restrictions is what you will need to do.

[CCTV DVR]-----(RTSP Stream)------>[VLC Server]--------->Clients

As long as you have your VLC server somewhere that isn't bandwidth restricted, you will be able to accomplish your goal.

Yep, sure is.

You can do that with many systems. You will likely have to piecemeal several software packages or write your own. And yes, more viewers means more bandwidth used. Unless you are giving people a user account on your DVR and letting them use the DVRs web interface, this will not be a simple exercise.

They aren't real baluns, lots of people have been tricked by those, including me and several other forum members. They are balun like adapaters. A real balun has circuitry inside, those are just a terminal.

I believe the UTP thing is a misprint, regardless you should still get something on the screen. I'd recommend picking up a powersupply from amazon, they are $6 for the videosecu brand for CCTV cameras. It is possible you have a bad camera.

Don't discount Dahua video motion detection. I've been blown away by how well it works, it literally gets black cats at night but no lighting change induced falses during the day (I was plagued with those in ZoneMinder). Only thing I get now is wind triggers on bushes if it gets really windy.

You should have to open outbount ports unless you specifically block them. Shoot me a PM with your email, I can send you a good pdf on how to setup a dahua with gmail.

Its mostly trial by fire. The majority of new blood here starts with either a no-name ebay unit or one of the entry level brands like Night Owl, Zmodo, Qsee, etc. You've wisely pondered the store brand kits are a good value. IMO they are much like a value priced pre-built computer from the store. Not really good at anything, but just gets the job done. You are much better served if you roll your own system. Your budget will be the biggest issue along with how many cameras you need. Then your next for in the road is analog or digital. Analog is the value leader right now, but digital is getting much cheaper, though camera selection isn't nearly as good (in the budget realm).

Let us know your budget and what features you really need. Also will you be installing this yourself?

How would the DVR do any better than your computer at resolving what your observed to be a network bandwidth problem?

What is your budget?

You also need to change your method of thinking, to do what you want, you are going to need a DVR with alarm inputs. Most of the budget ones don't have that feature.

Are you having a hard time finding one with a name brand or something?