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    Anyone tried Security Camera Warehouse (SCW) NVRs and Cameras?

    It defaulted to continuous recording on all cameras with a default bitrate and time, the latter which of course was incorrect. Naturally these had to be set to what I wanted, optimized etc. My point is, out of the box, an NVR gave you basic functionality, just like a Windows installation. You...
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    Anyone tried Security Camera Warehouse (SCW) NVRs and Cameras?

    Hi Fenderman, Re plug and play, I will tell you about my Hikvision experience. I plugged the cameras into the NVR, turned the NVR on, it found all the cameras and was recording automatically. It would seem that my experience is at odds with your, assuming of course that you have actually set up...
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    Anyone tried Security Camera Warehouse (SCW) NVRs and Cameras?

    My original post was on whether anyone had experience with SCM and if so, how it differed to HikVision or Dahua. I am appreciative that the CEO of SCM, Matt, chimed in. There are a lot of passionate people on this forum, a lot of information, a lot of opinions, and that's generally a good...
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    Anyone tried Security Camera Warehouse (SCW) NVRs and Cameras?

    I didn't mean BI on a laptop. I meant I run a VM on my personal laptop, because it running Linux, so I have to run a VM to run Windows to run Hik or Dahua's web plugin. Honestly I haven't looked too much into BI, having so far gone the plug and play route with NVR's. With mixed results. So a...
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    Anyone tried Security Camera Warehouse (SCW) NVRs and Cameras?

    BI probably won't work for me as all my access is remote. My systems are installed in Australia, but I live in California. I guess I could VPN in, then use Windows remote access to view, but I would need to do so under a VM as my laptop runs Linux. A bit kludgy. I already need to run a VM for...
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    Anyone tried Security Camera Warehouse (SCW) NVRs and Cameras?

    Yes, I know I will pay more than a grey market Hik. SCW cameras are $150-250 and the 8 channel NVR without a hard drive is $400. Authorized Hik through B&H is probably similar. I'd go Hik again but the ET Phone Home thing is a little discomforting. I may have a US consulate as a tenant in one...
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    Anyone tried Security Camera Warehouse (SCW) NVRs and Cameras?

    Ah. I don't really know anything about Uniview. Do you? How are their cameras & NVRs in terms of quality and functionality?
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    Anyone tried Security Camera Warehouse (SCW) NVRs and Cameras?

    What do you mean by "It does not record"? I read elsewhere that they were HikVision based, although I have no idea whether that is true.
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    Anyone tried Security Camera Warehouse (SCW) NVRs and Cameras?

    I have HikVision and Dahua systems. I have generally found the HikVision systems reliable and the software reasonably put together. I have found the Dahua Starlight turret cameras to have great night vision (Why I decided to try them on recommendation from Nayr), easy to install and the remote...
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    Unable to keep some Dahua NVR settings

    Smart PSS is just a Windows software package that provides a local interface that duplicates the functionality of the console. I already had line crossing or intrusion detection functionality working on the NVR and ever through the remote Web interface. So it should still work. I should not need...
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    Unable to keep some Dahua NVR settings

    Why would I need to use SmartPSS now that I am sitting right in front of the NVR and can use the console? I can't actually find line crossing in SmartPSS. Looking now.
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    Unable to keep some Dahua NVR settings

    I'm still having issues. I was getting hundreds of email pairs a day, but not third email with a photo. I realized tonight that I had checked the "motion detect" tab and by default, the entire image was motion activated. That's where the emails were coming from. Now that I unchecked that box, I...
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    Unable to keep some Dahua NVR settings

    Flew to the site. Trying all sorts of stuff now. Right at the terminal...
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    Unable to keep some Dahua NVR settings

    I have the gDMSS Plus app installed and just set up a line crossing push notification to see if that works.
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