Dome cameras on a wall

[mickmcpaddy]

More tales of woe. The cameras are now sorted, they are definitely only 2 axis ones, managed to find the model number and get the instructions which confirm this.
so we opted for the brackets and fitted them on Friday.

The next problem is the NVR, its up and running and recording, its this model.

http://www.cctvkits.co.uk/hiwatch-nvr-208m-a-8p-8-...

My first surprise is there is no IR remote in the box and I'm not sure if it even is remote control, the second problem is the instructions, it came with a CD rom and a quick start book but neither seem to relate to the NVR in question.

So instead of going down the pub I'm sat here trying to find some info on it, don't you just love customers who insist on buying their own gear.

[lennshow66]

Easiest way to get it setup is to connect it to a PC or directly to the router using the Ethernet port and configure cameras through that, no need to logon to each camera individually unless you want to change default username/password.

You can then configure the IVMS app on the users PC/Smartphone as long as they have one. You're probably best using the default admin user on the NVR as we have issues when adding extra cameras, the accounts need totally reconfiguring.

If you have any issues with the IR at night you can tape over all or some of the IR emitters on the inside of the camera and use external IR emitters.

[Initforthemoney]

Looks like another trade sticking his fingers in to something he knows nothing about and then relying on the internet to get him out of the st.



Seriously Mr Paddy, what is your profession?

[mickmcpaddy]

Initforthemoney said:

Looks like another trade sticking his fingers in to something he knows nothing about and then relying on the internet to get him out of the st.



Seriously Mr Paddy, what is your profession?

This is the problem you see ,I'll admit I don't fit cameras for a living although I know a bit more than nothing about them. I do however carry out domestic and commercial electrical installations and the client just wants you to do everything. The house we are doing at the moment is a full re-wire, alarm system, speakers in every room, networking and all the other usual stuff.

Now they could get every different trade in to do all the different jobs and have a complete nightmare of trying to coordinate all those different people, who incidentally charge a lot more than me for something that isn't that specialist. Or they just get me to do the lot. Granted they might not have the latest cutting edge all singing and dancing system but then again not many customers want a £3K Base-T matrix system to watch Coronation Street in bed.

Also I've found with other trades like alarm fitters or TV guys they might have the latest tech but the wiring infrastructure is a complete mess. At least with me every cable will be in the correct zone and all neatly done, the last pharmacy we wired every cable we put in had proper containment, the CCTV and alarm guy turned up and just threw the cables across the suspended ceiling, exposed connectors above the ceiling and the DVR just chucked on top of our data cabinet.

So who do you choose to do the job, an electrician that will do a nice neat job and be a lot cheaper or a CCTV cowboy that will do a messy job and sell you a camera well beyond your needs?


Edit : whats the problem with looking to the internet for advice, that's where 90% of the information is stored nowadays, it would be stupid to go to a library and ask if they had the instructions for a Hikvision NVR. I'm not a plumber either but I fixed a boiler the other night that a so called gas engineer couldn't, so who do you get to fix a boiler - me or the plumber? Other trades ain't all that.

Edited by mickmcpaddy on Sunday 26th November 13:43