Q-see cctv software

On Monday, June 1, I am instructing all of my clients to return their units, I hope to hear from you by then. Any updates?

I too am looking for an alternate viewing solution. I was hoping I could leverage an API like you guys were discussing. I have been trying all sorts of things to get the feed on my Blackberry Storm. I have even tried my SlingBox of course they do not have a working client for the storm There has got to be a way to hijack this feed!

Well, no updates yet. Did you contact Q-See and harass them? It works really well for remotely accessing a system or server from outside the machine, and I figured I could use it to access the Q-See.

I did get a video stream from it, but the keyboard and mouse connections did not work properly with the Q-See, so really all I could do with it was watch the available video stream. The more who know about the problems it is having the better. Any suggestions? Sounds to me like a switch problem. Is it a network switch? A simple network hub?

A port on a cable or DSL modem? Also, another issue might be port speed. I just bought and installed the L and upgraded the firmware to the latest release with all the same issues as far as only being able to connect remotely from certain select computers. I am pretty frustrated that so many people are having the same issue which means q-see is making money from purchased units but they are not supporting the revenue source.

I did send them a message and will gladly return this lemon if the problem is not resolved soon. Would have thought there would be some other way than using the sling box mentioned above to access and view. So if anyone happens to find out a solution to this I would be happy to hear from you. I bought the same camera Q-See Coscto special about a year ago and am thoroughly disappointed with the software. The fact that they released this product with a lousy web interface that forces the user to install an unsigned control speaks volumes about the quality of their products.

Just a word of caution though; CMS may or may not run on your Windows 7 system. It seems they could care less about Win 7 and their customers. Also, if you have an HTPC attached to your big screen running Win 7, CMS will error on startup because it thinks your monitor is running at less than x My HTPC is running at x Another huge disappointment.

I like the DVR, the cameras are pretty decent, but the whole setup is really worthless because of lousy software. I use this machine for alerting and remote monitoring, as well as off-site transport of video files, just in case an arsonist burns my house down or something.

It is interesting to know I am not alone with problems with the q-see product. I bought mine from tiger direct not costco and paid It was actually a Q-see employee in cust service who told me about costco being cheaper. It arrived in a 16 chanel box but had a 4 chanel faceplate, the chassis was missing screws, the IR receiver does not work, no remote and the thing shuts off recording on its own whim. The mouse is really jerky.

I ran an IR scan and the remotes are not the problem. Q-see says it will repair the unit, but in light of how many problems a 3 week-old DVR already has, I opted for an exchange.

Both Tiger and Q-see refuse to honor exchanges, Tiger claims because I paid with Paypal there are no exchanges. I have other DVRs by q-see, one blew a PSU 3 months after purchase, I installed an old atx unit on top and it works fine 3 years running.

Really have to wonder if this Q-see digital peripheral solutions is the future or the past for me. But, if I look at the price for 16 cameras alone, with no DVR, you can see why the Q-See is such bad quality… to bundle the DVR with the cameras for almost the same cost as the cameras alone, it makes sense that they have no funding for quality development and still retain any profit margin.

I have the same concerns as all of you… would love SKD. Finally they released on last week and it works excellent. Make and released by Hikvision…. After loading the iPhone app search iVMS on app store decided to look at other client viewing solutions, and on Hikvision site Eglish tab there was a client also called iVMS Thanks for posting Jeff!

In any event, the software looks nice, if I could get it to work. I tried both HC and ME modes and got errors. Meanwhile the browser based ActiveX management solution works fine on that machine. Oh, one final question, did you have to update your DVR firmware to the latest version to make this work?

What version firmware are you running? I had already installed this prior to loading client. Just installed client and it worked, not configuring other than pointing it to the IP of my box and using port which all the clients seem to require. Wow, I must have been really tired this morning. It actually is the iVMS package I installed.

Heya guys, Tim here again. It has couple of new features but no real bug fixes or true Win 7 support. I ran into this problem with earlier releases and it usually requires a complete registry purge of anything CMS related and a re-install to fix.

There might be something useful in there. If so, that could open up some interesting possibilities. I opened up my QSDL today to see what makes it tick.

I tried all baud rates, parity, and flow control settings but no joy. It was designed for digital video solutions like the QSDL. This means it can accommodate three hard drives or two hard drives and a DVD burner. Eventually I am going to build an x86 based DVR, install Win 7 and Argus, and drop kick this thing into the nearest dumpster. Really nice work! Have you used Argus before?

Have you looked into any other solutions? PCIe capture cards from Bluecherry. As for Argus, I was using it with a single wireless camera I installed in my detached garage and did have trouble with it crashing once in a while. I was using an older version without the facial recognition feature, and was hoping the new version was more stable.

That camera is now used for Lego Mindstorms projects since I can run it on battery power for quite awhile. Instead they released a minor rev with a new feature or two. Why is it that surveillance equipment is so expensive, yet the lowest quality form of electronics out there?

I once owned a Lorex system that was a lot worse than Q-Sees, a lot worse. And when it broke six weeks after I bought it, Lorex wanted me to pay shipping and handling to and from there only service center in America, New York! Both cause the same problem. Who knows though, it may be the fact they are IP cameras.

Maybe they put their really stable code writing skills into hardware capture card routines. I purchased a L with 8 cameras from Cosco back in Jan Evidentally, the image chips were bleeding badly to adjacent pixels. Q-see replaced all but one camera in June and August , but now April the cameras are faded again.

I had many many communications both TS online and phone about this issue and back in they were sympathetic and responsive. My cousin also purchased the same system in Jan and had the same camera fading issues. Anyone seen the same? Are your cameras made by QSee? Yes, Amal. The 8 cameras were their own make. I have since added 4 more Sony cameras and they wre just fine. I am yest to hear from their TS. Joram, is the sun hitting your cameras at any point in the day? Seems like you are a fan of Open Source development.

I used Zoneminder for about three years before buying the Q-See system. While ZM works pretty well, it can be a bit maintenance intensive and difficult to troubleshoot when something goes wrong. And things do go wrong, usually with the database. The Q-See has been the most trouble free for me despite some issues with the client software.

I attached a second monitor next to the TV for monitoring the cameras. The Bplayer program for the blackberry is only downloadable onto your blackberry through Blackberry Desktop Manager. Hope this helps, and good luck. Their SW design is crap, their support is crap, their products are crap… ok… this sounds like a rant.

Interesting… it looks like you have to sign up for an account to download. Progress has been made regardless, though, and ftp has been ported. In the good old days, Microsoft had its own media software that you could hook up using a PC in your living room beneath your TV and have a great time. Now, with Windows 10, you can't do that as easily, and while there are ways to access Media Center, it's not going to be supported into the future.

Luckily, there are Windows-friendly alternatives, some very good alternatives at that. It works with the most popular tuners on the market, is incredibly easy to set up and at the time of writing, is in the middle of a live TV rollout. One of the strong points for the Plex DVR is that it has an integrated TV guide and rich metadata built in, so all you do is set it up, tell it where you are and it will do the rest.

You can run Plex on a wide range of hardware, too, not just PCs. There's a lot of flexibility and it has client apps for basically every platform you could imagine, so you're never far away from your favorite recorded shows.

As an all-rounder for the home media center, Emby is a great alternative to Plex. Setup is easy, and if you're using a compatible tuner it takes only a few moments. The only drawback here is that Emby asks you to provide a source of TV guide data.

Without it, you just have a list of channels with no idea what's actually showing on them. This could bring an extra cost if you're using something like Schedules Direct, but there are free options out there depending on your location. Once you have Emby, you have a great DVR setup with client apps to use on a number of platforms and one that hooks into the popular service Kodi really well. With that, you get a product with almost no setup that is super simple to use.

You just download an updated version of the installer program to your PC and point it at a storage location, and that's it. What you can't do is integrate as easily with your home media library. But if you just want a slick, simple to use DVR, this is one of the best. Tablo is a little different in that its latest product, the Tablo Dual, is both a tuner and a DVR that you can access through Windows applications.

It doesn't connect directly to a TV, it still uses your home network, but its biggest convenience is having a built-in hard drive. That means using the Tablo apps, you can both watch and schedule recordings of live TV.

The built-in storage isn't massive, but you can also attach an external hard drive to give you more space. But if all you want is something fairly straightforward that lets you watch TV and record it across devices on your network, this little box might be the next great thing.

NextPVR is free to use and while it has its own apps for Windows and mobile devices, it's perhaps a better shout for folks hooking into something like Kodi or Emby. It supports all the major TV tuner types and has an interface designed to be enjoyed on the big screen. You can use it to watch and record live TV, and it has a full TV guide and a web scheduler for setting up recordings.

It feels a little like Kodi, and if you're not keen on the default interface you can switch it out for something new. It's not too difficult to get set up, and it has great support from its developer.

MediaPortal is a free, open-source media center, often described as an alternative to Kodi.