Recent content by justFred

Hmmm... Looking through Amazon reviews, I see a fairly high percentage of "quit in about a year." I'm fine with paying Tripp Lite prices for something that works forever, but there are enough questionable reviews there that I am a little bit nervous.

The attic is insulated at the roof line with foam... so the attic is actually quite cool. It is usually within about 5 degrees F of the house temperature. Max temp up there is probably 80F.

My NVR his hidden in an attic space and I like to have the console wired to my main TV. I have had HDMI over CAT5 converters for this purpose. I have used the JTech converters and have tried the Avedio converters. My problem is: they just don't last. One lasted a year... the other only about...

NVR: LTS LTN8708-P8 (seems to be rebranded Hikvision DS-7608NI-I2/8P). cameras: LTS CMIP8242W (seems to be rebranded Hikvision DS-2CD2042WD-I). I feel like I am missing something. The cameras have a lot of tweaks you can make to them if you use their web page directly. These tweaks do not...

I have an LTS LTN8708-P8 NVR (which seems to just be a rebranded Hikvision DS-7608NI-I2/8P). I can ssh to the nvr ... but the shell I get is a useless wrapper with a few commands. I would like to actually get to the OS. I have several things I'd like to do on the shell level, but the most...

Followup to my own thread with what I've managed to learn so far for alert strategy. I'm new at this, so this may apply to my own equipment and may not generalize. * the camera software does better at alerts than the NVR software -- even though they are written by the same company and have...

That is what I would have thought. I did that a couple of days ago... but it still beeps with great abandon at failed logins. I will probably just end up unplugging the speaker from the mother board.

I have an LTS LTN8708k-P8 nvr, which appears to be just a rebranded Hikvision ds-7608NI-I2/8P. It has an annoying beep when you have an invalid log in attempt. I have the box locked in an upstairs closet, but have the video piped down to a downstairs television. I am imagining that if...

Yes, I have both a line crossing and an intrusion zone. The intrusion zone is set as low as I can get it (and still gets false alarms). The line crossing is set super high. I am now getting triggers on that with the line where it is ... but the photos are a little late. For example, I will...

This is my view... and I'm already considering either moving this cam or putting a second up that has better facial line-of-sight. (I didn't really want to look at them, esthetically... but if I'm not looking at them, no one else is either.) I have the motion detection sensitivity at zero and...

I am just starting camera placement with LTS CMIP8242W cameras. (If my google-fu is correct, I believe this is a rebranded Hikvision DS-2CD2042WD-I camera.) I currently have just one camera up and mounted and I've been toying with line-crossing alerts and motion detection alerts. I've found...

I've just acquired an LTS NVR (LTN8708, which is a rebranded Hikvision). I'm trying to sort out a method of notifying on exceptions beyond sending email. My monitoring software runs on a linux platform... and I've tried enabling snmp traps, but that does not seem to send notifications on...