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  1. Posted

    Hi all

    I am doing a ruff setup on a new GenIV DCXT DVR at my home that will be installed in a laundry mat next week. I have two cameras connected to the DVR for this setup. I am about to finish up and would like to delete the video files that were recorded in my house while doing this setup. I did the same thing a while back and remember formatting the HDD to delete the files but I can't remember how I did this.

    Does anyone have the procedure for doing this.

    Thanks

  4. Posted

    Hi All

    I am installing a 6 camera video surveillance system in a small club and I need to add a spot monitor near the bar. This monitor will be powered on for around 9 hours every day. What would be the best choice, PC monitor or LCD TV, for this spot monitor? I plan on using a BNC to VGA converter if I go with the PC monitor and a BNC to RCA adapter if I go with the LCD TV. Also if I go with the PC monitor would it be best to put the BNC to VGA converter at the DVR or out by the monitor? Distance between DVR and spot monitor is around 60 ft.

    Thanks

  5. Posted

    Hi everyone I have been tring to setup my dvr to be able to access it from a remote location, for many moons, but have not had much luck. My present problem is when I try to log into my DVR locally, using my lab top, the web service page that comes up does not look normal. There is a message that reads THIS WEB PAGE IS IN CHINESE. There is a translate button on the far right of the screen but when I click it nothing happens. I have tried both wired and wireless.

    I do have a desktop that is hard wired to the same netgear router that the DVR is wired into and I can access the DVR locally from it with no problem.

    I am tring to get the labtop to access the DVR locally before I take it out to try to access the DVR from a remote location.

     

    Notes: I just got this Wireless Netgear router a few days ago. My old router was a linksys (not wireless).. I got this Labtop from my daughter. It is about four yrs old. Running windows7 on labtop. Running XP on desktop. I am thinking this might be an activeX problem but not sure. I am still a little green on windows7. I went in and enabled all of the activeX options. I did this while talking to a tech from netgear who helpped me setup portforwarding. The DVR is an Intellicam JS-8XLA series.

    Does anyone have any ideas for getting the web service page to come up normal on my labtop.

    Thanks Smokingjoe

  7. Posted

    Hi everyone

    I probably have an easy question for most.

    I have someone with a 3yr old PC base DVR with two NV3000 cards.

    Only 7 channels are working. One of the video ports on one of the cards stopped working. I have a NV3000 card, I bought about 3yrs ago, that I used it in a different DVR for a while and took it out. I am sure it works fine. I would like to use this card to replace the bad card.

    Can I just swap the cards and expect it to work or will I need to use the disk that came with this used card to load the drivers again.

     

    Thanks Smoking Joe

  11. Posted

    Thanks for the reply. I did get it to start recording but I am not sure if it is back 100%. I went to system and found the list of hard drives.

    Folder Name-----Free Space-----Disk Space(Used)------Status

    E:\STORAGE------203.50G------- 203.50G(0.01G)-------Error

     

    F:\STOEAGE---------465.54G------465.76G(0.12G)------Error

     

    I right clicked on the F:Storage and when I clicked off of it the ERROR went away. Now is says NORMAL under Status. But I can't get the E:\STORAGE to do the same. It still says ERROR. I checked and now it is recording. Maybe this is normal?

  12. Posted

    Hi everyone. Having trouble with a nv3000. It is about 2 years old and been working fine. The other day I went in to search for some recorded video and found that my DVR had stopped recording. There is a flashing red message at the bottom right of my screen that says FREE SPACE = 669.16GB. When I try to record manually it records for about 2 seconds and a window pops up that says (WARNING!!! Free space is to low, please try to remove some unnecessary files!!!). I had it set up to record over files after 14 days. I changed this setting to record over files after 2 days but it did not help. Was wondering if anyone has any idea how to fix this problem.

     

    PS I check the saved video files I have stored on the HDD, 2.1GB.

    Thanks Smoking Joe

  13. Posted

    Trying again

     

     

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    Think I got it. Thanks for the help

  15. Posted

    Have some of my pictures uploaded to Image Shack.

    Giving me options for web address.

     

    LINK

    Forums xxxxxxxx

    Sites xxxxxxxxx

    Friends xxxxxxx

    Direct xxxxxxxxxx

     

    THUMBNAIL SIZE

    Forum xxxxxxxxx

    Site xxxxxxxx

     

    Not sure which one I should use.

    Some are pretty long and contain my password.

     

     

    (ADD) OK I was wrong about containing my password. It is my user name in there. This my be normal.

  21. Posted

    It works

     

    I just called my daughter and had her type in the g4 address and she was able to see my cameras from her house.

     

    I do have one other question.

     

    Should I change my port forwarding numbers from the default numbers? Wondering about how secure the default port numbers would be.

     

    Thanks so much for everyones help.

     

    Tim

  22. Posted

    OK

    Going through and checking all of my port settings.

    I can access the DVR from my computer by typing in the IP address.

     

    Do have one question.

    The manual I am using for my DVR settings, tells me to set the ports to default.

    The default settings on the network page of the DVR is:

     

    TCP Port is 37777

    UDP Port is 37778

    HTTP Port 80

    What I am wondering about is the manual gives a list of default ports for setting up port forwarding for my G4-XLA Series DVR and the reference list is :TCP 80 and 8000. But (37777 is NOT IN THIS RANGE) ??

     

    I just logged onto canyouseemee and they tell me port 37777 and port 80 are open. Port 37778 they could not see.

    I looked at the IP address and it is the same wan address I have.

     

    I guess the next thing to do is go to a remote location and try it.

     

    According to this manual all I should have to do is type in the user name and g4ip.com. Example abcdefg.g4ip.com

    If this don't work I will try typing in my wan address.

     

    Will do it this afternoon. Any suggestions before I go let me know.

  23. Posted

    OK here is what I have.

    Now my modem is set in bridge mode.

    I have one patch cable going from my modem to the router.

    I have one patch cable going from my router to my computer.

    I have one patch cable going from my router to my DVR.

    I have DHCP enabled in my DVR.

     

    I can connect to the Internet with my computer.

     

    What do you suggest I do next?

  25. Posted

    I am back.

    Sorry it took so long. Not sure if this makes sense but I had trouble connecting to the Internet after disabling DHCP on my modem. I was unable to log back into the modem to change it back. I called my ISP and let them know what was going on and they tried to fix the problem remotely but had no luck. A service tech came to my house and was able to get DHCP enabled again. He also replaced the modem. He said he did not think the modem was bad but he replaced it anyway.

    He seem to know what he was doing and was a very nice guy so knowing that it really was not part of his obligation I talked him into checking out the problem I was having with port forwarding.

    He said that the way my Internet service was set up through my ISP that he did not think disabling DHCP work for me. He put the modem in bridge mode. He made sure that ports one and two on the modem were set up for Internet access. We connected a patch cable from port two on the modem straight to my DVR. He enabled DHCP on my DVR.

    After enabling DHCP on the DVR there was no IP address showing on the network page of the DVR. (The next part is a little confusing to me, not sure if I got it exactly right.) He told me that the ISP only aloud three IP address changes in a 24 hour period. When he installed the new modem I got a new wan IP address. I have a dynamic IP address but this was the first time my IP address had changed in years. He said that in 24 hours my DVR should pull an IP address and it should show up on the network page of the DVR. All that I should have to do would be type in my IP address from a remote location and I could access the DVR. No port forwarding involved.

    I checked the network page on my DVR today; there is still no IP address there.

     

    Not sure if I should call him back. Like I said before it really was not part of his responsibility. Also, I live in a small community and my ISP offer security cameras instillation as part of their service. Not sure how they feel about working on someone else’s stuff. Don’t want to get him in trouble for trying to help me.

     

    Hope I got this all straight and did not confuse anyone.

    Does anyone have any suggestions?

    Thanks Tim

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