BI & Geovision GV1240A Card

[Repairman-Jack]

Previous owner of our house left his 16 camera Geovision system. I've bee slowly purchasing IP cameras to switch over from the old analog system. The main PC that holds a DVR card for 8 of the cameras and the Software to watch the PC holding the other 8 in the shop has enough HP to run BI so I installed Blue Iris 5.x yesterday. I can add my IP cameras no issue but until I've switched over fully to IP on the house I'd like to add the 4 analog on the DVR card.

Has anyone had any success adding a Geovision card to Blue Iris? If so can you share what settings you used?

I've toyed around this morning and I keep getting "Error:8000274D(refused; check IP address and port)0 This error message was not real helpful.

 

[fenderman]

Previous owner of our house left his 16 camera Geovision system. I've bee slowly purchasing IP cameras to switch over from the old analog system. The main PC that holds a DVR card for 8 of the cameras and the Software to watch the PC holding the other 8 in the shop has enough HP to run BI so I installed Blue Iris 5.x yesterday. I can add my IP cameras no issue but until I've switched over fully to IP on the house I'd like to add the 4 analog on the DVR card.

Has anyone had any success adding a Geovision card to Blue Iris? If so can you share what settings you used?

I've toyed around this morning and I keep getting "Error:8000274D(refused; check IP address and port)0 This error message was not real helpful.

Do you have the proper drivers installed for the card? how did you add the card to BI?
you are best off using a cheap dvr as an encoder

 

[Repairman-Jack]

Do you have the proper drivers installed for the card? how did you add the card to BI?
you are best off using a cheap dvr as an encoder

The drivers are installed on the PC as it was already running all the Geovision software. I try an add the IP of the PC as an IP camera. I tried Generic and also the Swann NVR7200, no luck. I was hoping this was somewhat simple, even though it is temporary as my end goal is all IP cameras, while some of the features in the Geovision software are nice last time I checked they wanted about $100 per camera a license.

 

[fenderman]

The drivers are installed on the PC as it was already running all the Geovision software. I try an add the IP of the PC as an IP camera. I tried Generic and also the Swann NVR7200, no luck. I was hoping this was somewhat simple, even though it is temporary as my end goal is all IP cameras, while some of the features in the Geovision software are nice last time I checked they wanted about $100 per camera a license.

That will not work. In the camera settings >video tab, you need to add the card as a usb/analag camera.

 

[Repairman-Jack]

That will not work. In the camera settings >video tab, you need to add the card as a usb/analag camera.

Nothing in the drop down box, so I'm guessing BI doesn't recognize the card

 

[Repairman-Jack]

After some tinkering I remembered that browsing to the IP of the Geovision PC has a default webpage to view the cameras, one of the options was MJPEG. I pulled the link location from on of them and it opened in Firefox on linux, so I ended up installing a generic IP camera on BI and setting it to MJPEG and bingo I'm in business, wasn't my ideal way as the Geovision software also has to run for the feeds, but I have 5 of the 8 replacement cameras so I plan to have them switched over before spring as I doubt I really want to be pulling CAT6 to the attic in hotter months.

Many thanks for your replies fenderman!