Todd

If you email Geovision Support with the serial number they can tell you. I think I might have even called usa geovision and they gave me an answer. Or was it quick chat... grrrrr can't remember. But they can/will tell you.

I just loaded 8.7 on to a pci slot (not pci express) 1480 using windows 7 home premium (32 bit) and it worked fine. That card is probably 5 years old or more.

I have Verizon, 4G and a Galaxy Note 2. No problems. Worked fine on an S3 as well.

I believe if it's not Geovision, you will need a dongle/license. You do not need a license if you buy the Geovision camera.

I will give that a try today as a matter of fact. I'll report back later.

Thanks

I've got the analogs fairly shut down now. cpu is around 25-40%.

I'm on motion recording only. Using advanced detection, noise tolerance etc. May try upgrading firmware but I think I did that on some of them already last year. Will check version.

I'm on 8.5.3 I think. I have a copy of 8.5.7 since I just built another one today and that was in the box.

I also turned off pre record on the hdd and went to ram. I just cancelled the post record as well. I think that is helping a bit but still not perfect. I've gone so far as to completely block an aisle off with some small windows to trigger motion detection if they walk through.

It's been kind of a pita.

The problem is with the included GV-CB220 cameras. They record constant. I have used advanced motion detection, masked like crazy and they still record.

Open to suggestions. Each camera has it's own power supply.

I've got this on one system as well.

If you have a master password and a user password you might find it's only happening on the user password and not the master.

I haven't checked that out yet but I think that might be the reason. Switch to the master and see if it's there. The software might think it's looking at a face. That's the only thing I've come up with.

Sorry, I just realized you had a box. I'm using it without a box.

I have a new box sitting here and there is a disk in it that says data capture V3E.

Other than that, I'm pretty ignorant. I decided since my registers were networked it was easier to do with the Usb Dongle.

It's part of the geovision software. You will also need a dongle on your server.

Check hard drive(s). Data is being sent to drive but it can't take it all so it basically backs up and system jerks once data goes through.

You may be able to test it simply by stopping monitoring (recording) and seeing what happens. I had something similar and can't remember exactly what ended up tipping it off, but I would look into that.

If you are attempting at view this system from a computer off site that "used" to view the system, you may be in for a pickle. You have to completly uninstall everything including do some registry edits to get rid of all pieces of the Geovision software.

It's a pita but it worked for me. I'll look and see if I can find the instructions on how to do it.

The Geovision card you put into the computer needs a power connector (normaly called a molex connector) plugged into it. After that, install the drivers on the CD. The card should show up in the device manager as a dvr card.

Without power, it won't see it.

The new GV1480B cards don't need the power connector anymore but must have a 4X pci e slot or larger.

That picture looks like PAP (picture and picture). Are those photos all from the same camera? or is it a mix? If single camera, right click image and see if PAP is checked.

I am having a problem with many cameras recording constantly. Day or night, motion or nothing.

Things I have done:

Turned sensitivity to 8

Masked entire screen except a few "trip" areas to enable motion.

Advanced detection and did same thing also increased the "noise" reduction. None of that worked.

For the life of me, I can't stop them from recording. I don't want to change the detection to less than 9 or 8 since it won't pick up someone standing in the middle of the aisle at 40 feet or so.

Any ideas what I should look for. This is happening on ALL the IP cams and about 1/2 or more on the 16 analogs.

I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks as always

In the web server setup on the video tab. There is a setting for normal, large and actual size if memory serves me correctly. This is on the DVR.

My android phone looks very nice. I looked on an Ipad and it wasn't too great though.

Have you adjusted the setting to "actual" size or "larger" size in the network settings for the Iphone or android?

I've run up the line with all Intel chipsets and have not seen any issues. The latest H67 and H77 have been fine as well.

Not sure why this is happening. I'm trying out my first Ivy bridge cpu as we speak. So far (7 hours) no issues.

No reflections. Happens in daylight. It's masked so much I can't see how a reflection is even possible since the are that is "open" is behind a wall of trucks. That's what has me so frustrated.

I'm trying to set up an area behind my store with an outdoor camera to trigger an audible alarm in multiview if someone is there. Seems we have a gas siphoning problem in our rental trucks.

I have been using motion detect and sounding an audible alarm with single viewer from home to alert me and that will work but I have to mask everything else off or the alarm sounds constantly. I'm actually ok with that but one of the issues I have been having is a car can drive by in a masked area and it still is detected. Why isn't the masking working properly. It's only on the extreme edge that it seems to detect.

Is there any other way or a better way to accomplish this? Why isn't the masking feature masking?

What I have been doing is sleeping with a laptop very near by and when something enters the detection zone the audible alert wakes me up and we can view the crooks and call the police.

I'm open to suggestions. I've tried some advanced motion detection but as soon as I enable it..... nothing seems to get detected. Also, there is the counter intrusion alarm but I don't think that works over multiview or single viewer.

Thanks

The better solution is upgrade your processor to resolve this problem.

 

I concur.

16 core CPU and 32GB Ram

Huh... Why 16 core and 32 gig?.... I was going 32 core and 16 gig. Every answer just seems to open more questions...

BTW, appreciate all the answers out there.

I'm going to semi hijack my own thread. I have a customer who is going to do 16 analog and we could end up with as many as 16 ip cams. I understand the Q6600 isn't the newest chip out there, and I will upgrade my own soon, but will a 2500K even push that? There really isn't too much bigger out there unless we look into dual chip configurations.

Should we recomend mostly 1.3MP cameras with few 3MP cams? Are there any guides out there that might suggest how much can one cpu push. Or is it just a matter of using the dual stream and really shutting the cams down in live view?

Since I plan to upgrade my own stuff, I might as well plan for the future. I'm out of analog space so it's all IP for me from this point on.

Yea, That's a little too bad actually. Can't believe you can move cameras around in multiview but you can't do it live on the main screen. We can set a playback order with different cameras but not live.

There must be something technically difficult that they don't provide that provision in the software.

Yea, HD's are faster. I just benched my Revo drive at over 1500 MBS per second... that's smoking fast. I did Windows in about 10 minutes.

XP always loaded for a while and then you got the "install will finish in 39 minutes". Seemed like it took forever. Probably just the systems.

I could do a fresh install. But the problem is all the other networked items i'm using on that computer. We have a time clock, a color matching computer, a retail inventory system that hooks to a server and the paint matching computer also networks with a another computer to do yet a second paint matching system to dispense colorant.

So while I totally agree that a clean install is super duper and really want that..... I can do an image, reinistall drivers and be done in less than an hour I hope. The other method would be an entire day and many minutes/hours on with help desks getting their stuff to function again. It really is yuck!

I didn't know Sysprep was native on XP. And I didn't know you could do an image that you could restore from within XP in case you drive goes down. I gave that a shot with an extra ssd just to try it on win 7 and it went like clockwork. Pretty happy with that. Let's hope it works. Otherwise I will have to consider the other option.

Does it drop out when it's not recording? See how it does when not recording.

Had a similar issue and it was all hard drive related. System would freeze for just an instant and then come back online. We found the hard drive was bottlenecking everything when it hit a bad sector or whatever it was doing and then it would back up video making the system appear to freeze. Once it started writing again, all was good.

It looks like Windows 7 has the solution built in for us!

 

This will remove all the drivers and put the OS in an "out of the box" state. Essentially you just reload your drivers and it's finished.

 

You can do that with XP also.

Thats not really the solution though.

The idea is to have a complete image ready to go to restore a computer in 5 minutes or less.

Otherwise almost the same as just installing the OS then installing the drivers.

I do have a complete image but those images have the installed drivers present. I do not believe XP can do an image without using third party software. Xp will also not back itself up every night unless i'm mistaken. I suppose it might be possible to use third party software to pop a driverless image onto a hard drive but you would still have to load drivers. I'm looking at taking Windows 7 off of a Nvidia chipset and plopping it on a board with an Intel chipset. The sysprep function looks like it will do that without missing a beat in a fairly simple fashion.

You can do a repair/install with XP and it will work. It takes as long as installing XP which is considerably longer than 7. Then you have to load drivers to XP as well.

It looks like Windows 7 has the solution built in for us!

This will remove all the drivers and put the OS in an "out of the box" state. Essentially you just reload your drivers and it's finished.

Take a look at this link:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/135077-windows-7-installation-transfer-new-computer.html

I know there are a lot of XP fans in here, but i'm so "pro" on Windows 7 vs. XP now I can hardly use XP anymore. Whether it's things like the auto backup/image system, this new sysprep function and the fact I've forgotten what a blue screen looks like just makes me more and more a fan every day.

I'm sure there are a lot of cons but no more than any other OS.

I will be giving this a try. Not sure when I will get around to it, but hopefully within a month or so.