Discontinued alarm panels and parts seem to fetch really good prices in our industry.
I admire the get it fixed mentality, we unfortunately live in a throw away society and to get things repaired isn’t always financially viable and repair cafes.
If you measure the battery, power at the panel...
Can you provide a picture of the cables for the analougue cameras including termination
The cable is important, concerned it will be very thin and poor quality and won’t be up to much.
But if your really lucky, they have wired in cat5 and use baluns and in that case you may be looking at...
Do you want to upgrade the HIK cameras or just record them along side the reo?
1. What HIK DVR/ HVR do you have now?
(Some DVRs have IP channels on top of there analogue ones).
2. What Reo and HIK, cameras do you have and how many?
3. As you have a HIK DVR, is this connected to your network...
apparently discord doesnt allow PS% only folk to chat.... but I have no idea so was hoping someone could point us in right direction, its effectively a lump of parts all because he cant chat to his friends!
Check settings via keypad.
If they are correct and are not working as expected contact Texecom Technical Support.
Note: user plus engineer. Only requires you to put user code in once a day, unless you disable engineer manually with user code.
Would need to see event log for the engineer set...
Windows gaming PC bought for the nephew isnt being used because his friends are on PS5 so he’s still playing on that.
I downloaded a remote play, but can’t get it to pair with the PS5 and don’t know why.
I am not a gamer and not local so I can do a remote connection to the PC or arrange to go...
Hmm not convinced Camlocus is a cost effective solution and will be using a fair bit of bandwidth unlesss its its on its own seperate connection.
I will take a deeper look at what it actually does and how it utilises resources.
Basically uses a hardware adapter between the NVR and the...
It’s difficult to say as a lot of things have changed since this thread started.
Smart com versions
Panel versions
And app versions
To look into things we would need app code and engineer code.
Recently had to replace smart com as the smartcom had not been upgraded as time evolved
So had a quick look at ha frigate
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/setting-up-frigate-in-2025/894542
Shows the streams command lines, obviously you need the specifics for your cameras/ DVR
Not family with HAs frigate but would expect that some on here do use frigate and maybe able to give more specific information on it.
I keep saying I will look into frigate but never seem to get round to it, my understanding is frigate can be used for some advanced analytics of the video data...
The cameras on your DVR could possibly use command lines.
So you DVR is on up address 192.168.x.x
Each camera is on a channel 1,2 and 3
You then have users name and password for the DVR.
So the command line will be something like
IP of DVR + Channel of cameras plus username of DVR plus...