Recent content by harrijs

I just recently went through this for some installations that were against a brown/bronze trim. I ended up just getting some high temp/outdoor rated rattle cans and prepped the boxes and cameras before installation. Takes a little bit to mask everything off on the camera, but the finished...

Thanks. I will initially try to mount it with the stock mount. It would be nice to save ~$20 not needing to purchase one of those anderson boxes or a manufacturer made junction.

Can anyone tell me if the Hik or Dahua turret cameras can be mounted against a verticle wall and achieve a positive 90 degree view from ground being 0 degrees? The wall is a wood wall and I would like to be able to drill a small hole to feed ethernet through, terminate on the outside, then...

After some more information was obtained it appears the cameras have edge based analytics on camera. We are going to find out how well this works. The plan now is to record 24x7 from the cameras to our existing NVR and then have the edge analytics send events to the monitoring company when...

Has anyone had any experience with the VisualInt cameras? I am being asked to look at remote monitoring solutions and one of the vendors is pushing this line of cameras. I am sure their back end system is built around these cameras which is why they are pushing them. I should be able to...

Re: Need suggestions for a Hikvision baby monitor and (wireless?) surveillance monito The switch you linked to does not do PoE. You linked to the GS1910-24. For PoE you will need the GS1910-24HP. I can't find that model on newegg, but here it is on amazon...

I am going to assume that this doesn't have a SmartNet contract associated with it. Have you checked the firmware version and/or reset to factory defaults? I have a number of Cisco IPC cameras installed, and I have had constant issues with the exterior cameras from the IPC2xxx series on. The...

Alastair, I won't question the reliability of your NVR, but those load averages are horrible. I can't believe that thing is running well at all. Normally the simple review of load average is 1.00 for every CPU, with the ability to average N+1 as your ceiling. Obviously 1 min averages are...

Double check the permissions you set in your smb configuration. You will also need to make sure that you have the permissions on the mount point set to allow the user write to it.

“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” - John Wooden

Check Amazon. They offer a bunch of services called AWS and one of those services is remote disk. They even have different flavors of that in case you need something archived or need it highly available. S3 is available for remote access and can be coupled with their content delivery network...

According to the documentation it looks like these are stand alone. I don't see any indication that these are supposed to be integrated with any central management system. I am more interested in seeing 4 AA batteries lasting a year in one of these like the spec says. The other side of this...

The concept of using Windows servers for anything other than a Domain Controller for AD, a MSSQL box or possibly a DNS server is crazy from an OS licensing standpoint. IIS is a horrible web server. Why would I pay for a server 2012 license to run IIS for a web server when I could easily run a...

Horrible idea unless this is just for fun. Don't ever expect it to be there when you need it.

I figured that it might be better to configure the pi as a z wave master with an addon module and then control all the outlets and/or sockets via zwave. This is what I had been thinking about trying with mine. mi casa verde seems to have so many nitpicking issues I have decided against going...