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It was nice coming from a very low dollar system. First time I've seen an HD over coax camera system since I've never used one. Didn't save the video

I don't do camera systems for a living but I have been doing them since the cameras had vidicon tubes in them. I've even repaired quite a few of them. I'm a tech consultant for a manufacturing plant now and handle all of the IT, control systems, and all of the facilities and electronics there...

yes, it's a crappy system no doubt. Her son installed it for her and I'm thinking he put a low dollar system in her house because she's on a limited income. She asked me to copy the videos to a flash drive for the police. I posted this because I bet most of the people with home NVRs don't...

OK, inside joke I guess. Is it the shootings or Zoneminder ?

The NVR acually caught the flashes from the guns. Lots of them. They didn't show up on the videos that were exported or downloaded.

I agree, one of those NVRs with a tiny circuitboard in a little enclosure, it was set at the highest frame rate and quality. Her son installed it a few years ago. Have you ever worked with an NVR that captured gunshots at night? Since then I wonder how good the exported videos are on a good...

Just a FYI, last year a friend of mine had 2 drive by shootings across the street from her house. When watching the play back video on the NVR you can easily see the flashes from the guns. However when I exported the videos the flashes didn't show up. This was a Night Owl NVR which I think is...

I'm no programmer but I have been using Zoneminder since 2005. I used to install DVRs & NVRs and I still prefer Zoneminder over them for myself. The versions in last few years work very well and are super easy to install. I have a Clonezilla image with Ubuntu server and defaulted Zoneminder...

Zoneminder uses percentages or pixel count for zone settings. This can screw you if you have min/max settings like 15% min 75% max and someone opens a door that lets in light that goes over 75% Zoneminder will not record that event. I've had that happen on a cpl of occasions in the past so I try...

I've been using Zoneminder since 2005. And as most people will tell you it has not been "Plug&Play" I've been updating a few of my Zoneminder systems to the latest stable VERs. It was so easy I thought I'd do a post on it. The 1.34.xx vers really surprised me with the very low CPU usage and WAY...

I've been following this thread for a cpl of years. I started using Zoneminder in 2005. I still use it for small systems for one reason. The time line view. VERY hard to beat Zoneminder's version of it. The fact that it uses a standard browser with out plugins is nice too. Another thing I...

This NVR has an internal PSU, similar to a pc supply.

The friend that i'm helping with the camera system already bought a APC

Anyone know if Dahua NVRs need pure sign wave UPS ? Would hate to pop it, this one wasn't cheap.

Hi Andy, I'm playing with the starlight domes we bought and they are great, Thanks. I forgot one spot so I need a bullet. > IPC-HFW5231E-Z can you get one for me ?

Thanks

giomania, Nice, thanks. I've been using Dahua for a long time. I picked the brand after reading just about every review from Networkcameracritic.com years ago. So I'm familiar with the ins and outs. That DOC is nice ! As far as that camera right after I told my friend to buy, I saw a mention...

I just bought 14 from Andy, to use with the NVR5416-4KS. right Before I saw someone mention to be careful not to get the E version. Will they work with the NVR I bought ? Edit: They did not get bought yet, my friend that was supposed to pull the trigger on them got busy. Still wondering if...

The setup I mentioned was a standard Verizon account. No Static IP. The VPN is what enables the access to the DVR.

I thought I'd throw in my recent experience one this. I needed to view a cheap DVR at a camp. Bought a used Cradlepoint MBR1200B along with a Verizon USB dongle that uses a SIM card. Put an ASUS router behind it running Tomatousb VPN 64k as a client. The VPN server is ASUS with same...

BTW once you learn your way around it it's pretty simple.

look at the zoneminder wiki to set up the ip cameras. It has instructions for most of the common cameras. ffmpeg will take just about any modern Rtsp H264 cam.

That is exactly what I use. Shibby's mod of TomaroUSB. The openvpn in that mod is great.

Yes I know all about cheap. And that's one reason I like zm because it does run on Linux. After playing with it yourself you can see how far I'll go to be cheap. I can't see paying for Windows and all the problems that come with it. I did try a zm vm. On my quad core laptop running...

I use OpenVPN on my android with android apps. works pretty good. OpenVPN has quite a few settings on both sides, server and client. Make sure you tell it to forward ALL ports / traffic. I'll bet you can get it working.

"It stores EVERYTHING as individual jpeg files." << this comes REAL handy when used in a business. You can export the High Def Jpeg for LEO.

One other thing, if.. you're using IP cams. Use a GOOD NIC. Intel hardware NICs are the way to go. Some MOBO use Intel, if not put one in.

How would you have me do that ? As I mentioned it's not for everyone. I have spent a good amount of time building Zoneminder a couple of times. Once I get it the way I like it I make an image of it and save it, One image, originally built by a guy on forums, has been used for 4 different...