While the live feed is down on the website, the camera's still record here at the site. The camera's are never without power unless the power is out at the house. When the feed goes down at 10am, the K.L.R.P. server restarts itself and after restarting, begins moving recorded video's into their proper folders for archiving. This can take about 3 hours to complete. Once all files have been moved, the server then crates the new folders for the following day. This takes only about 45 minutes to complete. The server then goes into shutdown mode, closing down all running software.
Here is a brief pictorial of the K.L.R.P. server hardware.
This is the Motherboard installed on the K.L.R.P. server, It's a p5w DH Deluxe.
Below is the Heat-sink for cooling the processor
The server itself is a fairly strong computer system. Running Windows XP Pro SP2 this system runs very smooth. These above listings are what came factory on the server. Below is the DVR card that seems to work better than any other card I have found. I used a picture from the Mammoth Technologies website.
If you were to try to create a live feed like I have setup here, You will NEED this card. No other DVR card I have bought will work with all the software required to run a live video feed over long periods of time. This card works very well with almost everything I have tested it on. So if you plan to create a live video feed, this card is where you want to start. It is sold now for about 114.00 on the Mammoth Technologies eBay page.
To make everything work properly, you will first want to start with a clean xp install. Once you have installed all the device drivers for your computer, you can then insert this card into the pci slot and turn your computer back on, insert the installation disk that you received with the DVR card and wait for the "install new hardware" window appears. Click to "not search online" and click next, You will find that when you install this driver, another one will pop up in its place wanting you to install it as well. You will need to install this 8 times before it finishes. Once it is finished, restart you computer.
Now we are not going to use the DVR software that came with the card, we are only using the drivers on the disk, so go ahead and take this disk out now to avoid any confusion.
If you haven't already you will need to update your Adobe flash player for viewing the video display.
Now we need to install some software to let us pull the video signals away from the DVR card. What I use is Argus DVR software. The reason for this is simple. Most web-cam software wont pick up the video signal from a capture card. And most capture cards are designed to only be used with the company's software. But in our case, we cant use the company's software because it wont let us detect the video signals with encoders. So after trying and buying many different video viewing software, I found one that did everything I needed it to do, and more. Argus DVR software. Argus website.
Once you download this software you will need to install it, just follow the direction as it installs and let it do a "recommended" install. Once it has finished, go back to the Argus site and download the Conexant Driver..Download here...Driver..
Once you have installed Argus DVR software, and installed the Driver, restart your computer again.
Once your computer has restarted you will want to open the Argus DVR software and click the Add camera button, search local camera's and then connect each of the cameras as they show up. If the camera's dont show up, no problem, Just shut down the software and reopen it. I have that problem every once in a while.
Again, connect your cameras and once you do this you can close Argus out.
Now, we need to get some software to help us to edit the video signals and allow us to be able to stream the video feed. Again, I have bought a lot of different programs to do this with and again, only one that I have found works. Webcammax. This software is really great because using it, we can seperate all the camera's into single signals so we can edit them differently. Download and install this software. Once installed, you will want to open it, and choose "tools" and then "options". Once the settings box opens, you will want to click the "source" tab, and change the Pinp sorce count to the number of camera's you have.
I only use 4 camera's, but I choose 5 on this count instead of 4. I do this because I want the first source tab to be only a black background, this makes the video views appear clearer.
After you choose the number of camera's you are using, click OK and then click the "source" button just under the video box in webcammax. When you click this you will see a tab for every camera you have. Click on each tab and choose "camera" for each of them. This will display the camera's in the video box above. Once you have them all showing, click the "effects" button and choose "clocks". Add whatever clock you wish to use. Once you have your clock set, simply minimize the Webcammax console.
Now we are going to need an encoder to stream this signal from Webcammax to out website. I choose Adobe Flash Media Encoder. Unlike the other software we are using, this one is free. You can download Adobe Encoder Here. Once you install this software, open it and choose your settings. The video you want to use will not say camera's, it will say Webcammax. Webcammax is now the name of your camera's as long as it is open. Choose Webcammax as your camera source, and choose your audio(if any). To stream the video, you will be using the right side of the encoder screen. Here is a great walk thru for setting up Adobe encoder..walk thru.
Once you have Adobe setup the way you need it, you are finished.
I went a little further by also adding Actmaker. This software acts like a auto mouse. You can program it to open and close other programs for you. I use this to stop the recording, and restart it making the recorded video 1 hour each, makes it a lot easier to find a certain time in a recorded week. I also use it to start and shut down the server at 10am and at 8 pm. Actmaker is great software if you simply dont have time to do a lot of things, as it can do them for you.
If you tried this with all the same hardware and are having problems, please feel free to email me and I will be happy to assist you. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you enjoy the live feed as much as I do!
Thanks again
Kyresearcher
