It is my first visit here, forgive me if I am in the wrong place.
I have a 4 channel DVR which I want to use to link up 4 wireless security cameras. My question is: if they all operate on the same frequency, will they conflict and cause interference? As the DVR will be hidden and locked away, I want to access the hard disk via my office computer ie a network; how do I do this? I now realise the machine does not have a USB port fitted in the back, just input sockets and loop throughs.
I live in a grade two house and therefore reluctant to run too many wires. I am afraid I rushed into this rather too quick after seeing the DVR deal at Maplins last weekend, I thought I could sort the camera work out afterwards, but all is not as it seems........
thanks
Charlie
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Yes. Make sure that you get wireless links with channel select switches and put each link on a different channel. Get 6 channel units, if you can (see below). There is also potential conflict with other wireless devices - cordless phones, computer links, etc.
Two solutions: You don't. There is no easy way of putting your DVR on a network. What you needed was a 4 channel card for your computer (or a computer) and use the computer as the DVR. Having got the data in the computer, it is easy enough to move it around a computer network to where you need it.
You work around it. You use another "wireless link with remote extender", taking the video/audio from the DVR and "broadcasting" it to near to the computer. You take the video/audio from the other end of the link into the computer (you will need a suitable video input (say a TV card, or equivalent). Now you can sit at the computer, remotely controlling the DVR (using its own remote via the extender) and watching/re-recording the output on the computer or sending it onward through a computer network (or putting it on a web page, for instance.
If you wanted to be really cool, you could use the computer to generate and send the remote control signals to the DVR, via a small IR-out dongle pointed at the extender. But it needs to be the right dongle (don't just buy one and hope..)
However, if you can only get 4 channel wireless links, you will only be able to use 3 cameras, plus the "wireless link with remote extender".
Well, there is a work round, this time. Sounds a nice place..
HTH Sue
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