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  1. Hi all, I installed a very nice JA series video intercom (Door station + 3 internal video stations) a few years ago, and have been thinking about how to make it remotely accessible. I am wondering if anyone here has found a way? Basically, I'd like to be alerted to doorbell ring, and access the door video unit remotely (tablet/phone or laptop). (FWIW, I'm aware of some of the newer devices that do this, but would like to leverage my existing, installed infrastructure if possible. I also have Vivotek ip cameras, but looking at the video intercom specifically.) Any thoughts/ideas are most welcome! .//A.
  2. Been using the Solstice for a year now with 2 HD Vivotek's streaming to it. - Been pretty reliable, easy to use, small form factor. - No hangs, lockups - UI for accessing the stored video is pretty straightforward. Java applet a bit of a memory hog, but that's Java... - **Can't access stored video from iPhone/iPad, can only see the live stream. - would love it if it had an HDMI output so I could easily have it show on my TV - SMART drive diagnosis reporting a failure in disk integrity, but NVR still working fine. Tried to reset the warning diagnostics, but the fault report persists. Have to figure that out. - New Firmware was recently released, so shows some ongoing commitment to the product. All in all, not sorry I got it as most of the IP NVR products are either way too physically large, or are meant for commercial 10+ camera installations. Nothing else terribly interesting in the home IP security market. At least that I know of. This is a good, solid product for the home security market.
  3. Update on the following issue: (still can't access the PTZ controls, tho.) "- Can't get the email SMTP settings to work. Saves fine, but never sends an email, just a cryptic error message." Well, I did get the email sending to work. And wow, what a bizarre way to set up email... - I noticed in the log that there was a sendmail failure: sendmail: 554 5.1.8 - Domain of sender address root@MYNVRNAME.MYNVRDOMAINNAME does not exist - Weird, as I had set up my email settings/smtp/sender address correctly. But I recognized the MYNVRNAME as something I set elsewehere... - the MYNVRNAME is what i set in the Solstice Network Config as my Hostname and MNVRDOMAINNAME is what I set under Domain. - those two settings, for people familiar with routers, arte typically used as an easy identifier on a LAN, and nothing to do with an email address (or even an actual domain, for that matter in most residential uses, as it is for running local DNS). - the NVR's sendmail system was ignoring what I entered on the Email settings page and pulling in the Hostname and Domain from the Network config. - to fool it and make email work, I put my ISP email address Domain in Hostname and the ".com" in Domain. For example, if my email address was mickey@disney.com, I would put "disney" in Hostname and "com" in Domain. No periods. - Solstice sendmail then concatenates the two fields and presents them to the SMTP server as a valid domain name. I then started getting emails from admin@disney.com (note: that's not the real email address). Wow. Bizarro. If I would have put something nondescript in the Hostname and Domain fields, don't think i would have ever suspected that setting for the email failure. Have a few triggers set up (Motion, camera disconnect). Works fine. Can customize the email that is sent. Plain text. However, haven't found a way to email me the snapshot or video clip from the camera when motion was activated.
  4. Nah, I'll be the guinea pig! Just received one this weekend (4Ch, 3TB). I'm a Mac user and was looking for something that had Mac-compatible web access (no more ActiveX pls...) Have it hooked up to a Vivotek FD8162 (2MP) running over my LAN. Actually, the Vivotek cam is connected to a small dedicated 802.11N access point via Cat5, and the AP then connects to my LAN wirelessly. Been running a few days, no troubles. - iPhone/iPad app works pretty well for streaming, but no access to settings/recordings via the apps - Pretty nice Web UI works in Safari and FireFox (better in Safari). - Able to see any of 4 live streams (my camera supports 1920×1080 and down with H.264 or MJPEG encoding. - System streams fine at 20+ FPS. For security recording purposes, I only record the 8-10 FPS stream. - Adding 2 more cameras next week. - Easy to setup, discover camera. Concerns: - Don't know long term support/reliability/viability. - Can't get the email SMTP settings to work. Saves fine, but never sends an email, just a cryptic error message. - PTZ controls don't do anything. Cam has a digital PTZ (at 2MP, it's actually useful) and I can pan/zoom from the cam's UI, just not from the Solstice. All in all, nice little unit. Enterprise grade? Not likely, but works for my purposes. Wished the thing had a simple IP Decoder and HDMI out, so I could just have it attached to a TV as well...
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