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If you choose to build your own PC for this DVR card, we strongly recommend that you.

.. Do Use...

  • Genuine Intel Pentium 4, 478 Socket CPU, Preferable 1.6 Ghz or greater.
  • Either an ASUS P4B, P4T, P4B266 - OR - Gigabyte P4 Titan Motherboard.
  • A true 4x AGP Card such as an AOpen TNT2-M64 or Nivida MX200.
  • Use at least 256 MB RAM for best Performance.
  • Try to keep your system in the Pentium 4 range.
  • When all else fails, read the manual!

Do NOT Use...

AMD K62, Duron or Celeron CPU's.
Amptron, Matsonic, EliteGroup. VIA, ECS or PC Chips Motherboards. Basically, if it's a "Cheap" lower-end Motherboard, you get what you pay for and it will more than likely give you trouble. Trust me. ;)
A 4x/2x compatible AGP card SiS Chipset based motherboards.
Do not run anything else on this surveillance computer - keep DVR card and computer running smooth and don't bog down the resources.

 

If you choose to purchase a complete DVR, instead of a DVR card. Then click here for complete DVRs.

 

 

 

remote surveillance

This is the main viewing screen that appears when the DVR is started. From this point, you may watch all the cameras, view the date, time and storage capacity indication meter. You may also set the recording schedule, turn the recording on/off, select the video playback, activate the remote webcam, remote viewing, IP Multicast as well as the remote storage center application. You can view & record the video at 320x240 or 640x480, make selections for preview performance or recording performance.

 

geovision

From this section, you may select the time and interval of the camera that you wish to put on a recording schedule. This is a very flexible and sophisticated menu. For instance, you can select camera #1 to perform recording on motion detection between the hours of 8AM and 5PM, while at the same time, set camera #2 to perform recording continuously. You can set every camera to perform a different function at different times if needed! Or, just set the system up to record all the cameras at once. With this system, you are put in complete control. Since this a very efficient surveillance system, most owners of this system usually just set the system up to record on motion detection without the aide of the scheduler featured above. It is very simple to install the DVR card!

 

 

 

DVR cards

This area allows you to specifically configure each individual camera. All features can be modified by you, the user. Motion detection or "Round the Clock" recording, motion sensitivity adjustment control, camera Brightness, Contrast, Hue & Saturation. You can adjust the recording quality and name the camera based on location & need. You may also set it here to play a .WAV file in the event that motion is detected. If you have an area that you do not wish to trigger the motion detection recording mechanism, you can easily 'Mask-Off" a specific area that is in the field of view. This way, motion that is detected outside of the area that you have "Masked-Off" will trigger the recording, and unwanted video behind the mask will not trigger the recording.

 

 

 

How do I use the Remote Viewer or Webcam?Is it easy to setup? What is a Static IP and where do I get it?

Getting setup is just a few clicks away! All you need is a DSL or Cable Modem service with a STATIC IP address. A static IP address is basically a fixed or "stationary" address or location on the internet that is provided by your internet provider. So for example, if you are at a remote location and you want to check in on your place of business over the internet using a browser, you would type in your IP address in the form of "http://68.15.173.82" - the numbers indicates your place of business on the internet and you would make the connection.

A Dynamic IP address is an address given to you by your ISP that changes every hour, day or week - not good when you want to connect to it on a regular basis! Some DSL or Cable Modem providers charge a little extra for a static IP while others give them to you for free, you need to call them and ask them for one. If you have some PC experience and don't mind "doing it yourself", check out Http://www.DynamIP.com and they offer a unique, cost-effective service that will help you keep that static IP stay put for your WebCam!!!

 

What if I have a Router like a Linksys Ethernet/DSL router? Not a problem!

If you have a Linksys Router on your network, (Linksys Ethernet/DSL Router No. BEFSR41 - the best selling router in the USA) you can still, easily set it up. What you will do is what's called "Port Forwarding" Open up a web browser and login to your router's web-based configuration. By default the IP address for configuration is set to http://192.168.1.1/. Enter the username and password, click on the Advanced Tab. In the advanced section, click on the Forwarding tab. Your Webcam will be running a web server on 192.168.100.2 so you need to enter 80 in both boxes on the Service Port Range fields and 192.168.100.2 for the IP address. For the Remote Viewer, enter 3031, 4450 and 5550 respectivly. Next, click apply and you're done!

 

If you choose to build your own PC for this DVR card, we strongly recommend that you.

.. Do Use...

  • Genuine Intel Pentium 4, 478 Socket CPU, Preferable 1.6 Ghz or greater.
  • Either an ASUS P4B, P4T, P4B266 - OR - Gigabyte P4 Titan Motherboard.
  • A true 4x AGP Card such as an AOpen TNT2-M64 or Nivida MX200.
  • Use at least 256 MB RAM for best Performance.
  • Try to keep your system in the Pentium 4 range.
  • When all else fails, read the manual!

 

Do NOT Use...

AMD K62, Duron or Celeron CPU's.
Amptron, Matsonic, EliteGroup. VIA, ECS or PC Chips Motherboards. Basically, if it's a "Cheap" lower-end Motherboard, you get what you pay for and it will more than likely give you trouble. Trust me. ;)
A 4x/2x compatible AGP card SiS Chipset based motherboards.
Do not run anything else on this surveillance computer - keep it running smooth and don't bog down the resources.

 

dvr cards

Real Time Display Card/ Audio Recording Card The Geovision Real Time Display card is a high performance real time display card that works conjunctionally with the GV series video capture card. With the addition of DSP card, you can now display live video from 16 cameras at 30 fps NTSC or 25 fps PAL quality. The TV-Out connector allows you to feed real time video on to a TV display.