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    Reco please for an IP camera trained on driveway 125 feet away

    (the forum ate my post! :( ) Modules do add up. I tell my wife every component whether switch or controller add an extra $50. But I couldn't be happier with the functionality. Not cheap. Had to do a fair bit of work, but we did not want the lights to be on all night or throughout the course of...
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    Economic solution to view IP CAMs on TVs

    You are welcome :) I've never had trouble with a VGA port one a vizio, going on 10 years, I figure. One thing I'm still not clear on, is if you have had live dual screen output from the nvr? Beyond that, I guess you'll be forced to look at trying an "official" long cable or a more involved...
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    compatability

    Welcome, BlueIris is PC software "System requirements: Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows 8, 32 or 64 bit" so you'd need to run windows via Bootcamp, which is a bit of a waste of a mac. Or you'd have to run it as a virtual machine. But given that BlueIris does video analysis for motion detection...
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    NAS (NFS) configuration problem

    By the way. The above you describe is exactly what Hikvision iVMS pcnvr software did on my video storage drive. Pre-allocating about a 1TB worth per folder, in 256MB chunks of sequentially numbered MP4s till it filled up 2TB, close to 8000 of them iirc. If you look at the drive, thinking you'll...
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    Economic solution to view IP CAMs on TVs

    Interesting. Does the VGA work knowingly, whenever a screen is attached? Does any display show anything you unplug and replug the cable? Straight VGA cable from the NVR to the PC monitor? Or does it have be attached first, then it needs to detect it, maybe have to set the resolution, ... Is the...
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    Computer for Blue Iris

    And new hardware releases put downward pressure on existing equipment, so even if you don't get the latest greatest (which can be quite poor value / very cost ineffective if under utilized from the get-go), stuff keeps sliding down the scale price. ( I'm way out of the loop though to give...
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    Economic solution to view IP CAMs on TVs

    (PS2) This is relevant too with regards to wire gauge and length distance, even if it covers HDMI. They don't cover this for VGA and others. And typically with VGA cables you get shielding and ferrite cores too on the cable ends. Not something you get when you extend using ethernet. So it may be...
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    Economic solution to view IP CAMs on TVs

    The link is 404 for me, but I know the type of product that you are talking about [ category link ] How many feet of cable did you try to use? Have you tried a shorter end to a regular computer monitor? How exactly are you feeding that link to the TV? (extra pc port, duplicated port, ...)...
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    Reco please for an IP camera trained on driveway 125 feet away

    PS: I just realized what you meant regarding all fixtures, that power to the lamp post is not on its own circuit or that you have multiple lights tied to that circuit. Since you are controlling it with insteon, I think you could probably add a micro controller to each fixture or post, without...
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    Hikvision local recording to Micro SD SDXC SDHC. Recommendations?

    Yes, it takes a bit of time to format the card. I looked at a few clips from the past night. I just so happened to default at midnight with three raccoons walking through! Without previous next button I had to scrub back, and oddly enough, right before that one of our cats was out, and made a...
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    NAS (NFS) configuration problem

    I understand. Everybody's needs and desires differ. I was just seconding the idea that local on camera storage seems viable for short term storage till you get things sorted out and the syno comment was for milkisbad :)
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    Reco please for an IP camera trained on driveway 125 feet away

    What a development overnight. You have 110 and insteon? And a lamp post! Fantastic! Do you have an ISY? Or do you link and switch manually? Do you have an electrical outlet on the post? Where would you mount the camera and additional IR lighting? Covert? Or doesn't matter? Wifi antenna...
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    NAS (NFS) configuration problem

    Yes, you can do local recording on that dome. 64 gb sdxc works. Just tested it today. Synology with surveillance station is the easiest surveillance setup I've come across. Unfortunately I can't help with unix linux etc.
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    Reco please for an IP camera trained on driveway 125 feet away

    By the way, speaking of driveway lights, do you have 110 power along the driveway? Or is it an extended run of 12v "malibu" lights?
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    PC Hardware Issues - Frame Rate in Preview (on a laptop)

    3x ;) I've got pretty decent wifi speeds and coverage inside and outside of my house, with multiple access points, but you'll find me plugging laptops into ethernet (if physically possible) for anything serious or sustained.
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    Some great deals at Cyberpower

    Some of us have shared locations where we bought stuff, purely for informational purposes and the benefit of other people. A few members are employed by some stores, run their own business or have family in a store they mentioned, and have property disclosed that. So, I think you can share some...
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    Hikvision local recording to Micro SD SDXC SDHC. Recommendations?

    I hate the storage manufacturers for that. The difference just keeps on growing as we move up in capacity. Even back when the gap was smaller, it stunk, because storage space was so expensive. I was just including it for completeness, really, so others remember that 64GB will hold a chunk...
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    25mm Lens for ds-2cd2032-i Mini-Bullet

    Do you concur the 25mm to be about 1/2 the fov of the 12mm and thus ~11 degree horizontal field of view? And showing ~20ft wide at 100ft? (according to the jvsg calculator) I might have to have a go at that for one particular camera. On the other hand (being that the spouse prefers domes)...
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    Zmodo & FunLux (WTF-I'm confused). Is this the same company?

    Maybe funlux is a new sub-brand or product line zmodo is starting up? http://trademarks.justia.com/863/19/funlux-86319536.html Don't know either one, but the above suggests at first glance zmodo is filing for the funlux trademark name and trying to expand in automation and alarm. Not the...
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    Hikvision local recording to Micro SD SDXC SDHC. Recommendations?

    As you might have guessed I wasn't right back. Nothing is as simple as it seems in my ipcam endeavor. Physical stuff is pretty easy. If you can add the card before you mount the cam is of course easiest. Had to take the dome off, obviously, remove black shroud, had to horizontally rotate the...
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    Hikvision local recording to Micro SD SDXC SDHC. Recommendations?

    Well, I'm about to get the ladder out ... crossing fingers. Just ran a couple quick tests on the 64GB Samsung Evo SDXC card. Bit tricky to gauge the speed as my usual tool with real time data flow fuel gauge is giving me a java headache under the next version of OSX. So, had to find some poor...
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    Hikvision local recording to Micro SD SDXC SDHC. Recommendations?

    Two above that, this link: http://www.networkcameracritic.com/?p=1968#comment-7826 (couldn't fetch that url on the ipad, pc is handier ;) ) But yes, that was what I recalled, there was a dual option, in this comment conversation (copying for completeness): I hope it works, otherwise I have a...
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    Hikvision local recording to Micro SD SDXC SDHC. Recommendations?

    Took me a bit to find the snippet, read the article, skimmed the comments, repeat, ... Comment #73 and 74 at http://www.networkcameracritic.com/?p=1968 My hope (?) is that if you have the pcnvr or anything setup looking at the cameras, that trigger channel continues to work on what one has...
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    How-to guide - Using DS-2CD2432F-IW PIR sensor with BlueIris

    Thanks for sharing. If only they had such a sensor on more systems.
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    Computer for Blue Iris

    I think the Acer will serve you well. Certainly won't disagree with the fact that cpu power, ram and storage are good to have in supply and reserve; but I typically don't see a need to go above 8 or 16GB RAM in general. In terms of the single task that the nvr system I assume is dedicated to...
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    Computer for Blue Iris

    But you don't need a big gaming pc (like that cyberpower) to do nvr duty. Options are cool, but many of us strive for something a bit less flashy, more compact and more power efficient. Rather than feeding the electric meter ;) That acer bundle would be hard to beat, unless you can find a...
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    Thank you for all the great info!!!

    I understand where you're coming from, with certain kinds of questions. Probably why they created LMGTFY (let me google that for you) :D We all have our pockets of experience and expertise, but some people are more resourceful than others, whether by nature or upbringing. I typically try to...
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    Foscam is creating huge ".dat" files. Screens attached.

    Which goes back to emailing the developer. There may be some room for optimization do deal with his usage scenario, as in purging the database older than nn days but keeping the jpgs/clips, not having any previews, ... But, it sounds like the OP basically wants: - motion triggered jpgs - stored...
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    DS-2CD2332-I time issues

    Mine did that too. I set time sync up to all of them, so the times on screen would match (some were off by 10-20secs) was running perfect initially; but now they're all running an hour behind. Guess I need to double check settings.
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    Network cabling issues for POE cameras

    Well, I'm glad that mystery is solved and worked out in the end. Does highlight the importance of matching components. Even if it all looks a bit generic and standardized, more of the same stuff, it doesn't take much considering a couple variables of wire gauge, insulator and jacket thickness...
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