DVR USB 2.0 CCTV Card

[keith_irl]

Hi Guy's
Excuse my lame attempts to find an answer to this question using the search button, I have tried honestly, I have a usb dvr card for use with my cctv camera, Windows will recognise the hardware but doeasnt have any drivers for it, however once I install the driver that came with the dvr on cd rom its fine.

My Problem is I cannot get Ubuntu Karmic Koala to recognise the device is even connected nevermind the drivers... I am completely new to linux , I have the zoneminder software working all I need now is to be able to detect my DVR Card!

Any help please? The card itself is unbranded, Ebay!!

[coke]

picture of the card (usb 2, is it a card or a box)? Any results from an "ls -l /dev/video*" ? If not, try an "lsusb" and post the results.

[littlej]

search easy cap on google, i had one working but picture its crapy...

[keith_irl]

Thank's for the replys, above is a picture of it, it comes with a cd with superdvr software on it and some windows drivers.

Anybody have royal any experience with this card?
Heres details of lsusb

@royal-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 14cd:6700 Super Top
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04b4:8613 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C68013 EZ-USB FX2 USB 2.0 Development Kit
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
royal@royal-desktop:~$

Thank's in advance!

[adamjseed]

I am after the same question. I have this USB DVR and would love to use it in ubuntu 9.10 on a VM machine...

I have not tried to plug mine in but will do soon... I didnt have much luck in the past tho.

[adamjseed]

well, this isnt looking good. i must have spent many hours on this one now

I even took the thing apart to discover that all the chips have had the writing scrubbed off... looks dogy to me.

i cant even get the dam thing to work in windows 7. it looks like the company have gone or were never there :\

anyway what i dug up from the internet is that the drivers should be available from: (Windows) http://www.usbtv.com/drivers/superdvr.zip

so its back to the drawing board... as i say im trying to get zoneminder working on a guest machine. Need ip cameras or some vm capable of pci passthrough.

[coke]

Can someone post a sticky that buying random unlabelled devices from china on ebay isn't worth the hassle?

[curtishall]

Can someone post a sticky that buying random unlabelled devices from china on ebay isn't worth the hassle?

PHPBB needs a 'Like' button

[cordel]

Can someone post a sticky that buying random unlabelled devices from china on ebay isn't worth the hassle?

PHPBB needs a 'Like' button

Agreed

If anyone has a good idea for an appropriate post, I can sticky it.
I have no finesse as you know and just say it flat out so my post would look like:

Buying products from ebay gives no guarantee to have functioning equipment and has been my experience that many of the products either omit needed specifications whether intentional or not concerning hardware (as it relates to drivers) or does not implement standards very well due to a lack of experience I would suspect. Thus leaving the buyer what was considered a cheap device which is now an expensive paper weight.

Lets see how my people I make mad with that one
Maybe I'll just split these posts out and sticky them.