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I am looking to put together a mobile surveillance platform to use in a parking lot, or on a building site. I am looking at NVR's at the moment. Mostly because they can handle the Heat requirements I need. I am going to be using probably 4 cameras to get what I am looking for out of the unit. I jsut need recomendations on each and why. There are so many choices and i'm getting confused. The NVR can do 30fps of 2mp at H.264 recording. Live view is less than half. I will have remote access with 3g at this time. For the cameras I was thinking of buying 5 and using 4 at any given time. 1. Need a PTZ that has good Optical zoom and is 2MP and works day/night. 2. Need 3 bullets that are 2MP and are also Day/Night the lense can be verifocal to about 9 or so. 3. Is my optional licens plate Camera also 2MP day/night. V/F lense as well I was looking to stay on the MP side if at all possible just to be up on technology and have the ability to digitaly zoom in on an image after the fact if need be. I am not opposed to analog, but I would like it to at least be progressive scan, and I would have to convert it to ip to use the NVR. I know this is kind of vegue and I apologize for that. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

Thats too funny. One of the sponsors adds on here has exactly what I am looking for with the 4D1. Just need to know how well everyone likes Dahua now...

Does this even Exist in the DVR world or do I need to go with PC based to do it. I need to record 4 Ch at D1. I look around on the net and all I find is creative wording with 4D1 in the title of a DVR name and they justify it with 4 ch at D1. Is there such an animal? Cheers.

Looks like I have it narrowed down to 2 cameras. 1. Pelco CC3751H-2 that was mentioned earlier 2. JVC TK-C925U They both look comparable. JVC showes more Lines of resolution, Pelco does better with low lux.

Yes the original equipment seemed to be a Pelco Package PTZ setup. We use the PTZ through our DVR. Being I have this Panasonic camera deployed in supar conditions and it is a temporary solution. I need to come up with a replacemant for it. Could you guys suggest a replacement. Unfortunately money is an issue. I know it don't seem like it with the $1k camera in it now. But, money is very tight around here these days. It obviously needs to be a box type needs to fit in pelco inclosure Day/Night Auto Irus Wide Dynamic? It does get some sun in late afternoon towards sunset 480 Lines at least.

did some research. Looks like my Pelco unit was never intended to be a Day/Night camera. That is why it Never worked properly. As for the Bad AZZ Panasonic in there now. I am told by panasonic that it is because my Pelco zoom is ment for a 1/3 camera and I have 1/2 on it now. I knew it was different. I didn't think it would have anything to do with the situation. I just figured it would show the circle of the smaller adapter in which it does and that was fine for the time being. Any ideas on this?

Thanks for your answers. I want to clear up the model types in my post. I was way off. The camera is a Panasonic WV-CL924. It specs out 480 lines C/L 570 B/W 0.3 lx (0.03 footcandle) at F1.4 (C/L), 0.02 lx (0.002 footcandle) at F1.4 (B?W) It has multiple sutter speeds from 1/60 to 1/10000 The lense is a PELCO unit all I know about it is that it was 5.6x112 zoom. It has no other distinguished marks on it at all. The original setup was done by a security company. I believe the particular camera, zoom, and PTZ was probably a package that pelco typically uses. Months ago. The original Pelco camera cc3700h-2 stopped working. While it was working it gave us the same picture at night. Fine during the day crap at night. I would like to think this should have worked like we were told it would by the installers some years back. It never did, and never was fixed. Someone told us it was a setting and it would be no issue to fix. So once the camera stopped working a little while ago we put in the very nice Panasonic unit that should have smoked the older pelco. Turns out to have the same issue. Wonder if I could play with some of thye shutter speeds or somethign to get it to work?

I am not at work so I don't remember the specific model # of my camera. However it is a Toshiba. It has crazy low light capabilities. The lens is a Computar 20x so it is 5.6-120mm powered zoom. It is a 4 pin lens. The camera works well during the day. However at night things get out of wack. Fuzzy out of focus etc. I know it did this with our previous Pelco camera that was in the enclosure. It died, so we grabbed one of our high dollar low light cameras and stuck it in there. We were hoping the fuzzy issue at night was just part of the previous camera going bad. However replacing it with the current Toshiba, it has the same issues. Any ideas. I figured it had to be a setting or something.

Thanks for the info...cctv_down_under rory and I have been PMing back in forth. He was looking into my IP for me. As we were doing this I learned a valuable lesson. I figured out that I had my router behind my Vonage phone modem. So the IP that I though was me wasn't and I couldn't get past the modem. SO I unplugged everything re ran the cords cable modem-router-DVR-Vonage. I rechecked my IP it was different. I typed it in and BOOM there was my DVR on the world wide web. Thanks rory and everyone else here on the forums. You guys are fantastic and their will be many more questions that I will have. Know learning the hard way. I should be able to do this on other customer sites now, or at least much closer to doing it. I am sure I will have to add the IP address to some firewalls to be allowed in. Cheers,

The port works. The site said it was stealth. I am guessing that is not good? I removed the first port of 80 and tried my IP again. It takes me rite to my Motorola log in screen....

I see what you are calling a virtual server. DO I need to remove it? You can see my ports on the bottom. Private IP Protocol Schedule Virtual Server FTP 0.0.0.0 TCP 21/21 always Virtual Server HTTP 0.0.0.0 TCP 80/80 always Virtual Server HTTPS 0.0.0.0 TCP 443/443 always Virtual Server DNS 0.0.0.0 UDP 53/53 always Virtual Server SMTP 0.0.0.0 TCP 25/25 always Virtual Server POP3 0.0.0.0 TCP 110/110 always Virtual Server Telnet 0.0.0.0 TCP 23/23 always IPSec 0.0.0.0 UDP 500/500 always PPTP 0.0.0.0 TCP 1723/1723 always NetMeeting 0.0.0.0 TCP 1720/1720 always DCS-900/DCS-1000 0.0.0.0 TCP 80/80 always DCS-2000 0.0.0.0 TCP 80/80 always i2eye 0.0.0.0 TCP 1720/1720 always DCS-2000/5300 0.0.0.0 TCP 800/800 always DVR1 192.168.0.53 TCP 80/80 always DVR1 192.168.0.53 TCP 1104/1104 always

Ha Ha Ha.... Thats funny you chimed in here. you are the reason why I am here asking questions. Not in a bad way. I origonally used your sticky. I wasn't doing something right and my Dlink customer support pointed the finger at my modem company and my modem company pointed the finger at Dlink. So I came back to the forums to try to figure it out. I went into my Dlink and opened up ports 80 and 1022 or what ever it was on the second one. They are opened and forwarded to the IP of the machine. What I am not picturing is what does my IP to my cable modem have to do with it. That is the cable modems IP. What is telling it I actually want the IP of the DVR. Do I need to type in the modems IP with something else behind it to say you need to look for the ports that support the DVR address?

Ok sorry its been a busy week at work. I just started getting back to this old DVR issue. I tried the whatismyip.com thing. It told me the IP. I typed it into my browser and It looks like I hit my cable modem. It brings up a log in screen to Motorola. That is my cable modem, and also my vonage but the vonage is after the Dlink switch I have. Am I doing something wrong. One more thing. Being I know my (outside IP) what is telling/forwarding me to the DVR. Shouldn't their be some kind of validation of where I am actually trying to get. IE I understand the internal network stuff a little now. The whole 192.0.0.0.0 and so on That is the address to the machines on the network. What does the modem IP have to do with it. Something has to tell the modem to point to the router then the router says ohh you are looking for port 80 and 1024 or what ever here you go. I feel that I am missing a little something. It sucks trying to type this out. I am very hands on. I need to see it. Visualizing isn't always there for me. I am a little hard headed. Please fill me in on what I am misinterperating.

I have been doing searches and even checked out the sticky on it in this forum. I can view from my LAN but not through the Internet. I have a D-link router. I opened up the 2 ports and forwarded them to the DVR. My DVR requires 2 ports it is an old unit. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is my Routers (outside) address. All I find on my router is my 192. address. I don't know where to get the outside address. I don't even know the correct terminology for what I am asking. I have a Comcast Cable modem. IT is a Motorola surfboard. From that I go to my D-Link out of the D-Link I hit my DVR and my Motorola's Vonage device. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel that I am so close to figuring this out and it is killing me.

OK, things have changed here. I am now at the point of adding a second PC instead of trying to get my media PC to do everything. IP Computer is a 2.4 core 2duo processor 4GB total memory Raid 5 partitioned 500GB c: drive 1.5 TB D drive Intel graphics accelerator This seems like a very nice setup for the money. I spoke with Axis and he helped me put together these specs. He wants me to record to the c: drive for a few days then archive to the D: for backup. Axis has me using their dome. It is the 225FD. for my application. The only think I fear is that I am spending Good amounts of money on an IP camera and it isn't even 1.0 MP. The owner of the house wants real nice stuff. He isn't against spending money. I just don't want to know that I could have given him a better picture with an analog camera. I really want something that is at least 1mp. I just don't like what I have to do with an Axis camera to get that. I don't want bread boxes around a multi million dollar home. They are going to want something that is not way obstructive like a bread box. A nice 1mp. IP dome would be great if I could find one from my distributor. Any ideas on other brands please shoot them to me.