Recent content by standon

Once I messaged them to ask what thread screws were needed for the rack ears, I had lost them. And they told me to contact my certified installer lol.  My MCA C5 is going strong, although it can't keep time to save it's own life.  

I'm unsure. I can tell you that with: 1x of my 3mp cameras enabled (running at 1280x720, 30fps) I'm running at 11Mbps on network /O, 62% memory and 15% CPU. 2x 3mp cameras running (both same resolution as prior) I run at 17MBps network I/O, 25% CPU. 3x Cameras: 38% CPU, 25Mbps Network I/O. 4x...

  11 cameras total. 3 are the 3mp Hikvision set at 1280x720. I also have an Arecont camera set to the same 1280x720 resolution. The rest are at 640x480. Almost all the cameras run at 30fps, record clips on motion with pre-trigger frames and 3 of the cameras email me a snapshot and clip on...

Late to the game, but I've been buying my Hikvision cameras to replace my Acti cameras from about 5 years ago.  Back then I paid several times more than my current Hikvisions, and the IR is much better. For about $120 on aliexpress, I've been converting my cameras one at a time. I use BlueIris...

If I remember correctly, the Monoprice baluns strongly recommended using shielded. I don't know if it makes a huge difference or not, but since I was going to pull a new cable anyway I went with it. I had some electricians install more lights in the ceiling so there was a lot more power cables...

I use the ZAP products for my Rain8 system. http://tmanufacturing.com. Had an issue a couple years ago with that and my pool controller.  So far so good (fingers crossed). For my Jandy I use a BB Electronics opto-isolator. It just protects the indoor pool controller and the serial communicator.

I use it to send HDMI to my projector, pretty great stuff. I had the cheap Monoprice $20 wall plates first, they worked well but I felt that every hour or so there was some sort of buffer issue because it lose picture for a second then return. Then I wanted HDMI 1.4 while I upgraded so I tried...

I have an older QNap 8 camera NVR. I hardly use it but for backup.  It uses ActiveX which I didn't love. I was going to try to take advantage of the easy expandability but another box would have cost me about $1200 with hard drives and my older model was phased out, so I went with Blue Iris...

That really could get annoying, lol. I had to turn off my Garage camera alerts because a tree grew much larger than last year. You could have it trigger an Arduino and have the Arduino output to a monitored zone in Elk M1. Not sure about the HTTP Requests though.

I have had this experience too! In my case the MAC address changed to something that made me feel pretty certain that it was going to die...it was something like 8B:AD:BA:DB:AD:BA:DB:AD, spelling BAD over and over.  It certainly does not match the MAC address printed on the XEP sticker.  But it...

It seems to be made in the Makerbot 3d printer.  Not exactly impressive to me.

Work2Play, I just send you a PM.  I think I'm in definite need of some help figuring out what to order.

I'm kind of interested too... My house has some dead coverage areas.   I think someone on here is an authorized reseller?

Looks really handy, I spent $40 on a regular trendnet cable tester.  Too bad the $100 package is sold out.

I have a C series kit with all 8 zones in use, and maybe 8 subzones.  Zones 1-6 are put into our most frequently used zones, with keypads.  Then zone 7 is the outdoor pool zone, zone 8 is all other zones.  I use Panja PLB-AMP8 4 zone amplifiers from eBay (about $150 shipped each off of eBay)...