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David

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi-
Well, I'm an older alarmist, but I still play around with this stuff at
home.

Just a question about the JWIN JD-VR70 computer recorder card for the PC.
Any of you guys tried this POS? :)

Installed it a few months ago, what a nightmare of a user interface- looks
like they designed it overseas somewhere. Hardly anything makes sense.... I
wrote my own user manual and keep it on the PC and add to it when I learn
something.. I'm recording the video on a Maxtor 120 Gig USB drive.

FINALLY got it all working... choosing the drive/amount of drive space and
recording the audio were tough parts. I understand it's possible to control
this JWIN card over the internet, to see what's going in your house from
anywhere in the world- amazing... I haven't played with that part of it
yet, don't think I will either.

Sure beats using a VCR..

Anyway, one of my cameras is a cheap pinhole type that I disguised as the
lower screw on a normal, but disabled, AC switchplate in the kitchen.
Completely undetectable, even looking right at it, up close. Another one is
one of the newer half-inch square types, looking out through a window at the
front porch and driveway. Neat. The $13 "preamp microphone" I'm using has
unbelievable sensitivity- recording (unneccessary) conversations from across
the street.

Many of these cheap cameras can see infrared- friends are amazed how an IR
tv remote will visibly flash when pointed at a camera.

One thing I'd like to see is more inputs on this card. I don't think I'd be
able to add another card to the same PC.

Anyone use other cards like this they're happy with?
-Dave
 
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Bob La Londe

Jan 1, 1970
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I have played with the Lorex Card and it appears to work ok. I recently
puchased one of the cheap cards off of Ebay froma a Hong Kong distributor.
Physically it looks just like the Lorex card. I have not had time to
install and test it yet.

Remote access to these PC cards is basically done if you have an always on
internet connection such as cable or DSL. For the practical application you
should have a static IP address, but it can be done with a dynamic address
if you set up an account at some place like dyndns.org and run an
application on one of your computers that periodically pings the dyndns
server. Then you can logon onto your dyndns account and see what the
current IP is from anywhere or you can simply use a URL alias from dyndns
instead of the actual IP address in your remote software.

Its pretty easy stuff. If you have ever set up a router for on-line head to
head gaming you can set up port forwarding to access the video application
on your PC. It also works the same as PC Anywhere or any number of remote
access apllications.

P.S. It is usually much faster to use the appropriate application on your
local machine and access the remote video site directly than to use
something like PC Anywhere and operate or view the application remotely.

I have experimented with all of this fairly extensively. Most have no way
of dealing with a firewall, so you either need to have hardware firewalling
that negotiates the security, or you have to turn off protection on the port
you are using to access the video remotely. No big deal since the most
anybody can hack into is your video recording software. Then they could
view your video too. Big deal. If you change your password or IP address
they have to start all over again.

Anyway... let us know how well your card works after you have had it going
for several months.

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David

Jan 1, 1970
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Thanks for the reply. I have a lot to learn about that stuff...
 
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