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np willie, I'm finally setting up the replacement system today, I decided to try and clean out our old system and see if I could get it working, was able to get it to limp along the last couple months, well it finally gave up the ghost, will let you know how it goes

it's the one I had ordered this spring, while waiting for it to be delivered I messed with cleaning out our old one and was able to get it going again, only thing that stinks is the cameras are different connectors so I get to get up in the attic and rerun the wires all day, oh joy

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quick thoughts so far, got the wires ran and hooked everything up,

success so far

the pic above is with all lights on, so I decided to turn them off

the only ambient light in the pic above is coming from our pos monitors, the entryway in ch 1 is about 25 feet away from the camera, like I said in a earlier post, our restaurant is broken open into sections so our needs are less than 30 feet viewing. Channel 2 is looking out the back door to the parking lot, it's hard to make out but the black thing in the top left is our animal trailer which is about 50 feet away. Not a horrible pic, but I wish the field of view was better, I am going to upgrade this camera for sure.

it is all controlled by this

with the brief amount of time I have been playing with it, this is probably the simplest interface I have seen with dvr's that I have used, the one we have for our house you have to enter your password everytime you want to do something and is a major pain in the ass. Plus entering search parameters for playback is insane. This one, you hit menu

you arrow over to playback and pick the date you want, the dvr records in 60 minute blocks, so you just pick the block you want to review

only issue right now is setting up the router to allow viewing through my cell phone and Ipad, I followed all the directions for port forwarding on the router and set up a server for the dvr, but am getting a log in error, they have 24/7 support so I am going to call them now to see what's up, the only other complaint I have is the manual, I hate when they put a manual in pdf and just give you a disc, I want a book that I can hold and read, other than that pretty happy so far