thewireguys

As soon as I hear from my software guys I can let you know the specs I would need. Looking for something small, rugged able to be used outdoors. It could even be running linux and use a large capacity solid state drive. It would need to have a network port. I don't think I would need video as long as I can remote in the machine and set it up. If it could fit in a camera housing like this with Arecont camera that would be great.

You can set it up to switch at any lux you want. You can display both images if you want. You can order the M12 with two 3 mega sensors with different lens one wide and one tel. The lux resolution is .0 This camera will make your head spin with all of its features.

I can do that what lux level would you like That'd be real helpful. Can you get it around .5 lux? See I kinda want to get away with the day/day model if possible. Might not work out too well, and at 1100 a pop it sure would be an expensive anchor for the canoe. And I'm assuming that by lux level you are speaking of enviromental measured and not one of the many internal controls of the camera? This is great...thanks man! I was going to use the built-in lux meter. At some point I will get a LUX meter to compare it to. Just so you know the camera by default switches to B/W mode at 10 lux.

All of their cameras have built in storage. What is your goal of the camera?

wow...... please ban him

These guys have some cool Mobotix solutions http://www.cctvhire.com.au/index.htm

Thank you Ken

What are you talking about..... If you want to push your product buy some ad space or start a thread on your product. I am trying help this guy out...... I don't thnk you even know what spamming is

I can do that what lux level would you like

From what I have read you don't need a PBX. It says in the manual you only need a SIP account if you want to make phone calls to land lines and cell phones. I would like to see how to setup the camera to call my cell phone or be able to call the camera. I was able to setup a direct connection using a free softphone I came across.

Anybody useing the VOIP features of the Mobotix cameras? I would like to test it out but I don't know what SIP provider to use or which softphone to try. For those of you that don't know Mobotix cameras are also phones. You can add them as an extension to your VOIP phone system or sign up for a SIP provider and have the camera call your cell phone so you have 2-way communication with the cameras mic and speaker and control the automation functions.

Depends what you need the system to do. The Mini will do anything a pc system can do for less money. Your limitation with the Mini is the number of camera per server. But that can be over come with their CMS software. The Mini is a great solution for small megapixel systems.

I can give you support...... I use teamviewer. The ACT 4711 will work for you. If the image isn't as good as you would like at night then you would have to add more light and you could use white or IR light. I could hook you up with a 4 channel NUUO miniNVR with up to 4 Acti cameras and you will have a simple easy to use megapixel camera system.

www.Mobotix.com

Are you happy with the 1231 image at night?

check these guys out http://www.sunsurveillance.com/index.html

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OK.... how impotent is the night time image to you? I can recommend the ACTi ACM-7411 for you price range. The 7411 is the same camera as the 1231 but it is in a vandal dome and it doesn't have the built in IR For more money you good go with Areconts dome cameras. I you like to opportunity to earn your business if you decide to order the cameras. I have 3 new 7411's I need to move.

Are you looking for megapixel domes?

I also should add you can view and control the M12 from a Blackberry Bold.

Well put

How much do you want to spend per camera?

Yes outdoor camera require routine maintenance to operate at there full potential.

So here are my thoughts on the Mobotix product after 5 days. Mobotix is the most powerful and customizable security system I have ever seen. I have been in the business for more then 10 years and I haven't used anything more feature rich. So if you want a top of the line anything you can think of system this is it. Only problem is you have to read the manual. The feature set on the Mobotix camera makes Axis look like a baby toy.

I spent the last 2 weeks with zoneminder (ZM). I used the same hardware as I use with LuxRiot (LR), just different Hard drive. Unplug one HDD with windows, plug in another will Linux. Makes comparison more fair (I was not writing to disk for most of my comparisons). After nearly succeeding with ZM (frame rate too low 1/2 what I was getting with LR), I decided to go with LR (placed order today). My main complaint with LR was slow frame rate and somewhat variable record rate (plus I don't like $300 for 4 cameras when I'll likely only have 2). After using wireshark on both windows and Linux with both the 3130's built in web page using firefox, and LR on windows, and ZM on linux, I've concluded a number of things. The 3130 uses TCP for communication, which means its speed is a function of how fast the destination gets back to it with acknowledgments. The fastest rate I could get for 1 image fetch (using HTTP/1.1) was about 28 Mbps, which is a long way from the advertised "up to 55 Mbps". Yet this may be the fault of either my switch as "thewireguys" suggests, my motherboards Ethernet NIC, or the underlying TCP stack. Using firefox on both linux and windows, I noticed vastly different performance. On windows, with a frame rate set to just 1 fps, and using wireshark, you could see all of the data was there for a 1280x1024 BW frame (130kbytes using the settings I had), in 45 milliseconds(~22 fps). But on linux, while it took the same time for most the data, the last acknowledge from the host to the camera took an additional 20-40 ms. I blame this on the TCP stack, but it might be something else. The same was true when using LR and ZM. The HTTP commands to the 3130 were identical. The data transfer times were very similar except for the last acknowledgement from the host (on linux with ZM an additional 20-40 ms). This meant I could get around 24 fps using LR on a BW frame at 1280x1024. But only around 5 fps with ZM. At any rate, I've ordered LR and will see it I can live with that. My reason for high frame rates is actually gone (I bought an IR led, so can use short exposure high SNR captures), so I will likely end up with about 5-10. I just want 1/60 sec shutter speed. Now for the rant: I do not believe TCP should be used for IP cameras. Rather, extremely simple UDP, with a fixed (programmable) frame rate. Power up the camera, program the IP address of the host, port number, frame rate, other parameters, save them on camera NVM. Then on power up, the camera and the camera spits out constant UDP datagrams with no user programming. They fall on the floor if you have no program listening. (Just like a traditional camera's video, if you don't plug it in). User program simply opens a socket and starts reading. Header in UDP datagrams says what's in each datagram. (e.g. could define each UDP datagram to be 1 line of image (up to 20 kpixels/line of 3 byte each). Header would include camera settings, # rows, # cols, shutter speed, time tag, line number. If your software could not keep up, just lower fps. You will not drop data on a small network (with proper network settings). End of rant I would like to see the results if you where using Areconts software. Tried it tonight, it uses TFTP with the host acknowledging each packet, and the results were: with a 1280 by 1024 BW frame, with 43 by 2, 1486 packets =128 k bytes in 0.02803 seconds or 36 Mbits/sec (timing first packet to last ack, not time between frame requests). Funny thing was, the sequence was full frame, half frame, full frame ... being transfered. I don't know what that was about. I had the recording disabled. I like what your doing. I have seen my frame rates on the 3105 to 13/14 at full res. Try setting the camera to D1 res and see how much bandwidth it uses. Could you help me with Wireshark and I can run the same test on my Linksys switch. See if we can duplicate your results.