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Posted: **Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:48 pm**

Hi Im new here,

Im looking for a good but cheap pci card to use on zoneminder with centos.

On ebay there is a few

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/_W0QQ_dmpt ... &_osacat=0

I just dont know which one i should go for..?

Posted: **Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:13 am**

seriously stay off ebay utile you know what you want check out Edit: bluecherry.net

Posted: **Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:24 am**

kingofkya wrote:seriously stay off ebay utile you know what you want check out bluecherry.com

bluecherry.net

Common mistake!

Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:41 am**

Problem is i am from the UK. Is there a local supplier to me ?

Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:33 pm**

ok look for bttv chipset although none of the ebay ones seam to have that

Posted: **Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:32 pm**

World705 wrote:Problem is i am from the UK. Is there a local supplier to me ?

We do not have a local shipping facility to the UK. It is something that we've looked at but haven't made much progress on due to VAT taxes and figuring out how to pay taxes on those sales and if there's enough interest to pay for the upfront costs.

Thanks

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:35 pm**

what about this one ?

http://www.camsecure.co.uk/Camsecure808 ... Icard.html

Posted: **Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:05 am**

anyone ?

Posted: **Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:52 pm**

How about the ADLINK Angelo RTV, available in the UK here

http://www.amplicon.co.uk/MandC/product ... K-2383.cfm

available as PCI or PCIe. Some members use this one.

Posted: **Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:06 pm**

World705 wrote:what about this one ?

http://www.camsecure.co.uk/Camsecure808 ... Icard.html

Well after seeing your post I took a look at their site and the close-up of the 8 port card looked like the 'bt878 8 chip input' shown on this page -> http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... d_hardware So, I dropped an e-mail to the company on Saturday afternoon and received a response half an hour saying they were in stock and could dispatch one Monday.

Long story short - I ordered a card and it arrived this morning via Special Delivery. I've plugged it into my replacement CCTV server (the previous server died through motherboard failure) and as I type this I'm successfully fiddling with a test camera. gentoo with the 2.6.29 kernel recognises 8 video ports as /dev/video0 through /dev/video7 and the options line "options bttv card=77,77,77,77,77,77,77,77" appears to be the correct one as per the wiki:

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Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.206857] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:05:08.0, irq: 19, latency: 32, mmio: 0xbfefe000
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.206895] bttv0: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.206899] IRQ 19/bttv0: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.206946] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.207613] bttv0: tuner absent
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.207655] bttv0: registered device video0
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.207686] bttv0: registered device vbi0
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.207715] bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.229065] bttv: Bt8xx card found (1).
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.229084] bttv1: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:05:09.0, irq: 18, latency: 32, mmio: 0xbfefc000
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.229111] bttv1: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.229115] IRQ 18/bttv1: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.229159] bttv1: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.229261] bttv1: tuner absent
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.229306] bttv1: registered device video1
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.229337] bttv1: registered device vbi1
Jul 21 21:51:31 amd [13040.229365] bttv1: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
......

So initial impressions are thumbs up for the card and some fantastic customer service from Les at camsecure.co.uk.

Posted: **Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:40 pm**

So does that mean it worked lol ?

Posted: **Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:43 pm**

World705 wrote:So does that mean it worked lol ?

Yup, working quite nicely

The various chips run quite hot (50degC and above) so I've added a large heatsink (an old Northbridge cooler) to the central chip and smaller heat sinks to each of the 8 BT878s (purchased from http://www.dealextreme.com).

Posted: **Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:55 am**

The Linux DVR card also has record on motion, Email on motion and many other security functions. NOTE that this
proffessional DVR card takes control of the PC and the PC cannot be used for other uses whithout un-installing the card.

So its own software or does it work in linux ?

Posted: **Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:14 pm**

Do anybody knows about ZM with Angelo RTV-24?

codabiz wrote:How about the ADLINK Angelo RTV, available in the UK here

http://www.amplicon.co.uk/MandC/product ... K-2383.cfm

available as PCI or PCIe. Some members use this one.

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