NVR IP camera's will not work on one side of my house. Cannot find cause

apophis said:
they are metal framed. i tried wrapping a camera in 8 layers of foil, but it did not do anything
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Did you ground the Faraday cage?
 
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wtimothyholman said:
Nothing like an elegant theory ruined by an inconvenient fact. :)

The one other bit of advice that I would give is to buy a network cable tester, and confirm that the cables in question have full continuity, e.g.

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The OP has already ruled out cabling issues. He said that he can have a camera plugged in with a picture, and simply walk to that side of the house and the Image will go black. The simplest, and most logical explanation has got to be the alien theory
 
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Trax95008 said:
The OP has already ruled out cabling issues. He said that he can have a camera plugged in with a picture, and simply walk to that side of the house and the Image will go black. The simplest, and most logical explanation has got to be the alien theory
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I would never rule out cabling issues until I had performed a continuity check of a cable with it installed in place. A cable under strain may show a failure that a loose cable will not. Install the cable and camera, wait until the camera drops out, then disconnect the camera and check the cable without moving it.
 
If the cables are CCA then they may work randomly if the internal cables have been stressed but the OP had already tried a much higher grade cable.

From the new info, it does look like the cams are being affected rather than it being a possible cabling issue.
 
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I would get onto the gas supplier, reason being that they may have come across this problem before and may have a solution? For example the meter may be faulty and frying your brains in which case they’ll come out and replace it?
 
IAmATeaf said:
I would get onto the gas supplier, reason being that they may have come across this problem before and may have a solution? For example the meter may be faulty and frying your brains in which case they’ll come out and replace it?
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Above he said that he contacted them. They also didnt know that their devices are RF.

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SamM said:
Above he said that he contacted them. They also didnt know that their devices are RF.
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Dealing with RF interference from other devices is completely beyond the experience of most customer support types. Amateur radio operators learn about it, but there's a huge variety of electronics that are designed and manufactured in China with absolutely no provision or shielding against RFI. Outside of a particular environment the device in question will work just fine, so of course the person testing it will find no problem with it.

If it's not the cabling, then it has to be the cameras themselves. And one way to verify that is to get another PoE camera from a different manufacturer, and try it instead of the Night Owl camera. The question is whether the Night Owl NVR with work with another brand of ONVIF-compatible camera.
 
SamM said:
Above he said that he contacted them. They also didnt know that their devices are RF.

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Wasn’t that query in relation to a gas line run? Or is that the same thing?

Here in the UK we have a discreet meter but these use a mobile SIM to report the readings.
 
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