steve6690

I use Geo and find it very stable with Windows XP Pro. The hardware/software is very good. There is a consensus that Geo as a company "sucks" in some regards but their products are fine.

In your position I would probably let pricing decide for me.

More juice at night ?

If your client produces a cd/dvd for the police using Geovisions backup feature all the software and codecs needed to play the footage are automatically written to the cd as well. The software should auto-run on the pc when they put the cd/dvd into the pc drive. If it doesn't auto-run, Explore the files on the cd and then double-click on the file named "EZViewLog500.exe". This will install the codecs and run the viewing software.

Steve

I just bought a Zyxel router. It's been on 24/7 since I turned it on just over a week ago and hasn't dropped the connection once. Cheaper than the Draytek too.

Fantastic ! what a pain that was. Thanks for your help. I wonder why your clients upload is so slow. I know some ISPs don't like you running a server and do things to discourage it. I would have thought they'd just disable inbound connections on port 80 if that was the case though. Might be worth clarifying with OneTel what their policy is. One way round it might be to try configuring Geo to use another port for the webcam feature. I'm using 81 but I've heard 8080 is a popular choice.

Update : I've changed the webcam port to 8080 instead of 81 - in case anyone wants to have a go.

no it was the router firewall. I had set up port forwarding correctly it seems but hadn't set a firewall rule allowing requests on the relevant ports from the Internet into the LAN. It worked ok then so I turned the rule off and now it's not working. I've just turned the rule back on so I am hoping it should be working again.

I see what you mean - it is very slow. Almost like I'm viewing it over dial-up. Can I be cheeky and ask if mine is still working please. I've tried disabling the firewall rule I created.

It's a 1Mb connection with Pipex. 256k upload. I have been playing with firewall rules. I bet I've buggered it up again now...

No, I installed SP2 a couple of months back and I only installed the router yesterday. The routers firewall has not been switched off. I was using XP's firewall until yesterday but I've switched it off

Yes its Xp Pro SP2

Basically I have changed to Geo http server to port 81. I have then gone into Dos prompt and typed IPCONFIG. It returned 192.168.1.33 as the ip address of my pc. I have then forwarded ports 81, 4550, 5550, and 6550 to 192.168.1.33 . If I understand correctly the webcam should now be viewable at http://81.86.129.112:81/ With my PCI modem I used to be able to type that address into my browser and it would work. I don't know if I can get away with that now so I had a friend try to access it and he couldn't. Have I ****ed it up ? thanks for your help

Help ! I have just ditched my PCI ADSL modem and bought a Zyxel P660HW wireless ADSL router. It works great but my Geo webcam server is not viewable on the web anymore. I suspect it is a port forwarding problem but the manual is less than helpful. Does anyone have experience of the Zyxel routers setup with Geo ? I changed to a router so I can build a dedicated pc for the Geo and have both pc on a wireless network.

Thanks in advance....

Steve

I'd have to agree about the Windows firewall. I had been using the Bitdefender suite not knowing that the firewall is useless and leaves ports open. The Windows XP2 firewall is much better. I also turn Indexing and Themes off and use Diskeeper 8.0 to keep the C: more or less permanently defragged.

Is it a bullet camera ? I had exactly the same problem with my IR bullet. I couldn't see any dirt on the glass front but I unscrewed it anyway and polished it inside and out which cured it.

I had a few issues with upgrading my GV250 to V6.1 from V6.05. Firstly the upgrade refused to start at all, requiring manual editing of config.nt, autoexec.nt.

The upgrade then ran ok but the GV system would not boot up and kept on trying to boot. After uninstalling GV and wiping every reference to GV from the registry I reinstalled V5.4 from the supplied CD-ROM and then ran the upgrade to 6.1. It's now running fine. I believe the problem was due to trying to upgrade to 6.1 on a system that had previously been upgraded from 5.4 to 6.05. I think DVR-Expert has previously referred to this potential problem. I would have started with a clean installation of 5.4 but wasn't sure if you could go from 5.4 straight to 6.1.

All good fun !!

update : I have no button icons in ViewLog. It's never easy is it ?

My Gv250 runs ok with SP2.

I've been using Xp Pro SP2 for about a week now and have had no problems.

I'd recommend a good quality UPS. Go for one that has voltage regulation as well as line conditioning. I use a Belkin Regulator Pro Gold 525VA and I'm very happy with it.

Ensure you have efficient cooling.

The Geo card will not provide an extra output to your TV unless you buy an optional display card (GV-DSP). I wouldn't rely on the TV output from your graphics card as the image will probably not be very good.

Xp Pro is a good choice of operating system.

Try re-installing the Geo software. It will ask you whether you want it to automatically start when the PC boots (I forget the exact wording). I have also tried dragging a shortcut to the Startup Folder and that also works ok (with XP Pro). Don't forget to set Geovision to auto login.

Seems ok to me. Do you have any machines that contain cash ?

Because it's still not working...................you need to fix it !

Have you enabled the Webcam feature ? I couldn't access it.

I use 400w Macron in my PC. It has run 24/7 for a couple of years now with no probs. You get what you pay for and it's money well spent. Antec, Enermax, Tagan, Zalman or Macron seem to be highly thought of. Q-Tec are cheap rubbish I'm afraid. Not suitable for any decent quality PC. If your PSU goes "tits-up" it can fry motherboard, CPU, graphics card, hard drives.........

Are these any good ? How would they compare to Baxall for example ?

thanks

Steve

Ant,

did you get the kit from y3kcctv ??