Recent content by donminter

Thanks again to everyone who helped, including those who made fun of me. Because of your assistance, I now have two cameras running at 2% CPU usage. It was my BI settings, or at least when I changed those, the CPU usage plummeted. I will continue to operate for a few days until I get around to...

The PFA111? EmpireTechAndy sells it.

I bought the computer in 2014 because the one it replaced wasn't able to play a bluray without pausing/skipping. (I travel a LOT.) I told the kluge-makers what I needed, and they assured me it would work. It did. While setting up the cameras, I once checked it, seeing it was an i5, dual core at...

Can you get a ceiling mount for this? I need to hang it from my soffit if at all possible.

I don't think this is the problem. Computer is ...0.100; PTZ is ...0.99; Cam 1 is ...0.10; Cam 2 is ...0.11; Cam 3 is ...0.12. I think I set name server to ...0.200. Masking is the typical 255.255.255.0. The PTZ runs as ONVIF, as it isn't "recognized" by BI. I forget where I saw it was...

Router is 192.168.1.1. BI computer and cameras are all 192.168.0.NN. I cannot connect to the same switch, as the PTZ is high wattage. I go from the "main switch" where all the other cameras are connected, to the "high wattage switch," and from there to a POE splitter, as the other camera...

Hey, as long as I get the information, I can handle a few veiled or not-so-veiled insults. If the cameras work reasonably well when done, then everything came out well in the end. I also have an internet-troll filter on my computer. Not one person who has made internet threats has ever made it...

When I had that camera set up, it would run fine for maybe 10 to 15 seconds. After that time, it would start to respond very, very slowly. All of the other cameras would also start to respond extremely slowly. Eventually, the PTZ would lose connection. When it reconnected, it would just rotate...

Thanks for the suggestions, and I truly mean that. Later on this post, I ask for computer and camera suggestions (see what follows). I still don't know why my port scanner wasn't finding the cameras, but using a few of the suggestions I was able to finally set up three of the cameras I had. One...

I am not computer illiterate, but I'm certainly feeling that way right now. I have been trying to connect to my cameras locally, but now I cannot even get the port scanner to see anything. I have purchased 3 cameras from EmpireTech via Amazon. I selected 1 eyeball camera and two varifocal POE...