Johnathan Powell

I’m looking for some advice on managing video storage and syncing between NX Witness servers in remote field setups. Let me explain with a couple of scenarios: Traffic Monitoring Camera: A munici...

Summary On my client, I frequently get cameras stuck on the "three dots" where some cameras will not load on the layout. For example, this morning three of the 36 cameras did not load until I close...

Briefly, my use case: Using DW Spectrum in a jail with two monitoring stations. I set a Perimeter Intrusion Analytics Event so that when a car pulls up to be let in to our bays, the Spectrum client...

Do you ever think something is going to be easy, then after spending a week trying to sort it out, you realize how over your head you are? I'm there right now. I bought an Elgato Stream Deck and ha...

I'm running DW Spectrum 5.0.0.35746 on Windows 10 servers. Reproducing the bug: Open the server webpage in updated Chrome or Edge. Go to "View" and select a camera. Select the gear icon, then "Cam...

This may be outside the scope of this forum, but I'm not sure where else to ask. I have an AXIS Q6135LE that I'm trying to connect to the VMS via a Pepwave LTE modem. I can connect to the camera wi...

I'm trying to get an Axis Q8752-E to work with my Spectrum install. I've been going back and forth with Digital Watchdog and Axis, and they both say the other has to fix something. I'm hoping you c...

I'm getting a lot of loading screens, pretty constantly. Any recommendations on where to troubleshoot? My server has an Intel Xeon 4208 CPU, 32 GB memory,  9x 10TB hard drives (4 recording, 5 backu...

I have a Windows server with twelve hard drive bays. 2 bays are taken up by mirrored SSDs running the OS/VMS and 5 bays have WD Purple 10 TB drives, set to Raid 5. I've currently got 35 cameras run...

Being a US user, I'm limited to using Digital Watchdog Spectrum. Unfortunately, they don't offer an ARM version of the server. I have an install that will be solar powered and am trying to keep it ...