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I am currently playing with Geovisions'
Multicam
digital surveillance card. It is an amazingly comprehensive system really
but
does have a few failings too. I am using a GV-600 model that is available
in
4/8/16 input versions and incorporates motion detection triggering and
recording
on selected/all channels simultaneously. There is a higher spec (full frame
rate) version as well.
Although the card is not cheap (£300+ depending on no
of
inputs) it seems to be the best value for money for the features. Actually
the
4/8/16 input cards are all the same with a dongle enabling the extra
inputs.
The plus features:
Price vs.
Features
Reasonable frame rate recording,
dependent
on # channels triggered.
Software supplied - superb -
multiplex
views, motion sensing with area masking, scheduling, recording,remote
monitoring
(network / modem) either standard web browser or custom full featured
app,
remote alarm reporting (inc telephone) and remote video recording. Multi
site
monitoring etc etc.
The negatives:
Poor response re support from UK
supplier
(product knowledge)
Manufacturer (Taiwanese) also poor
response / ignores emails
Upgrades despite only being dongles
are
not possible !
No developer access to software e.g.
COM
control etc to integrate with say HV or HS, also makes including video in
custom
web pages difficult.e.g. CWI / AWI
**No hardware triggers or alarm
contact outputs available - (actually there is but as an option that
costs
some £500 extra). You must use the motion
detection.
No audio
recording
The pan/tilt/zoom implementation is
non
standard and requires extra hardware (£500 as above)
I also considered ATM's VideoStar product - the
main issues I saw were that you could only record one channel at a
time,
there was no motion detection but there were hardware triggers e.g.
PIR.
The product is now discontinued but an EX (from memory) integrated 8 port
Unix
based recorder is their offering at £2K+ and 1 fps
:(
I am considering writing a full review - would people
be
interested, e.g. Mark for your site ?
Kevin
I’m going to be setting up an
intranet (possibly with a connection to the internet, possibly not) in the
new
house for control of all of the HA stuff using the iPAQ among other things.
The house has a number of video cameras, and I’d like to be able to include
live feeds from the cameras on the web site.
How do you manage feeding more
than one camera into a single video capture card (I was thinking of
replacing
my Radeon 8500 with a Radeon 8500DV)?
Tim.
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more information: http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
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