RE: Geovision

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would sound to me like the motion detect settings aren't quite right.
Would the 'intruder' have been very small on the other cameras that didn't
pick him/her up?

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Brian G. Reynolds
> Sent: 17 March 2006 21:38
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Geovision
>
> Hi Paul, thanks for your help.
>
> I have gigabytes of HDD space left over so it is not that.
>
> What happened is all the cameras did record but only 1 had the guy on.
> They are set up for motion record.
>
> At the moment I have 6 recorded days but still setup for 5 days but
have
> got 2.5GB of HDD space left over so that could answer why more days.
>
> None of the cameras record all day just on movement and some only
> between certain times, i.e. at night for the Meerkat cages otherwise I
> get hours and hours of Meerkats running around.
>
> There are no masks on these cameras either.
>
> I am not too sure about the sensitivity settings as I do not want to
> stop the recording so as to check the settings.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> B.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 17 March 2006 07:25
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Geovision
>
> The cameras that recorded nothing - do you mean that they didn't
record
> at all or they recorded but you couldn't make out the suspect?
>
> If they didn't record - how have you set the recording up - are they
set
> to continuously record or record on motion detect only? If motion
> detect, there are lots of settings that need checking such as
> sensitivity and detect areas (masks).
>
> Let us know how they are all set up.
>
> As to the recording of 3/5 days - maybe there isn't enough HDD space
to
> record 5 days? How big is the CCTV drive? I believe Geovision frees up
> blocks of space by deleting whole days when it gets to less than 500MB
> free space. If you're recording 24/7 continuously on several cameras,
> you're going to eat up space rapidly.
>
> Paul.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Brian G. Reynolds
> Sent: 16 March 2006 23:31
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Geovision
>
> I have just watched a "hoodie" walk very suspiciously past
my van on the
> camera that watches my front door.
>
> When I check 2 other cameras which cover the same area but are zoomed
> out a lot more I get nothing!
>
> I also have a PTZ camera that I zoom into to cover my van when home
and
> that also has nothing!
>
> I few weeks ago there was a van stolen from outside my house (ish) and
> when the owners asked me to look at the cameras they had only recorded
3
> days worth of movement despite being set for 5 days!
>
> I am getting very untrusting of Geovision....
>
> Could anyone shed some light on this?
>
> At present the system has 6 days or recording and has 7GB of HDD space
> remaining.....
>
> The OS is W23 Server STD - SP1, P4 2.4GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM.
>
> I have GV-650 with 12 cameras running and this server also runs an ACE
> client.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> B.
>
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