 Hey guys, Shaber1000 here. Today we're gonna be checking this out. This is my monitor for our security cams. They're not recording. I'll show you what I mean. Okay guys, I can tell it's not recording because down here in the corners, there should be record buttons. Excuse me, this should tell me I'm recording and I'm not. So, let me see if I'm bringing in a little bit. Excuse me, I'll show you what happens. I'm gonna log out of this. I'm gonna reboot. Gotta get my password in here. All right, now I'm gonna speed you up while that's rebooting and then I'll show you what it's doing or not doing. Okay, so right here it says working HDD is not available. Now I know I've got a hard drive in here because I put one in here when it was brand new. That's been three to four years ago. So I think the hard drive's bad. But even if the system is bad and I gotta buy another system, they don't come with hard drives. So I figure I'll try the hard drive first. If that doesn't do it and then I'll get another system and I will already have the hard drive because either way I was gonna have to buy a hard drive. So there's a problem there. So you can see everything's working. There's somebody walking. There's cars going past. So, what are they doing? Okay, so I don't know what that was about. But anyway, as you can see, HDD is not available. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and unhook that. I'm gonna get you out here in the light and we're gonna put a new hard drive in this system and we're gonna check it out and see if we can get it working. Okay guys, so there's screwdrivers we're gonna use. My knife to open this up. Doing this out here in the kitchen because all my garage is really a mess on the sides. Anytime you're messing with hard drives, whether it be a DVR or a computer or whatever, you wanna try to keep it as clean as possible, okay? So we're gonna go ahead and open this up and then I'm gonna put something down here. And they usually come like this. If it's open, send it back. So let's go ahead and open this up. Here's our warranty card. And here's our hard drive. Like I said, in my last video, I can't remember if I got a two terabyte or one terabyte. It is a one terabyte. I don't know what's in the other one. I think I just got the cheapest one that they had. And here's, this is a card they want your opinion. It matters to them, I guess. So here's some, you can also run this in a Windows, this terabyte hard drive. I should put this in my old computer and put the hard drive out of my old computer in here, which I may make that happen. But this is for desktop computers and this tells you how to hook all this up. So, but this was like $37 for one terabyte. I may get one for my old computer because we still use it. It just can't, it just can't handle the 4K editing stuff. So yeah, so you can put it in a laptop, HDD clone. That's optional. You can put it in a Mac desktop or a MacBook, CCTV, DVR, which that's what we're gonna be using it for external enclosure or HDD docking station. So you can use this for all kinds of stuff. But this is it here. So let me get something put down here. So we can try to be as clean as we can on this because I'm gonna have to clean this up and everything. But the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna open this up. Now this is really dirty, nasty. It's been in the garage for like I said, three to four years. So I didn't wipe it off because I just wanted to show you now. I remember there was a screw missing there. It is right there. And it didn't give the screws to put inside. So it's kind of rattled around a little bit. But when it's just sitting still, it'll be fine. But I got something to take care of that with the other hard drive there. So let's go ahead and take this apart. So normally you'll have like on this one, yours may vary. Got a screw there, one there and then two on the back, which it's only got one on the back right now. But it may vary, but they're pretty much, they're all pretty much the same. There's really, you really can't mess it up. So I'm just gonna put that down in there. I'm gonna mess that up. Cause a lot of people will buy these. I may have to get a bigger screwdriver. Okay, I gotta get a better screwdriver. Hang on guys. Okay, so like I was saying, a lot of people will buy these things. They get them all hooked up. And, excuse me, they can't figure out why it's not recorded. Well, that's cause there's no hard drive in them. Very rarely do you get one with a hard drive. You can order them now. They'll give you an option of, you know, if you just want this, how many cameras do you want? You know, one terabyte hard drive, two terabyte hard drive, blah, blah, blah and all that. But some of them you just order this thing and you go, cool, you know, I get an eight channel DVR with four cameras and they, like I said, they get them hooked up and they're not recording. They can't figure it out. Well, that's cause it needs a hard drive. Now this one, when they say channels, what that means is how many cameras you can put in here. This is just a four channel. Later on, I am gonna upgrade to, you know, probably an eight. And down in here, there's our hard drive right here. This is only a 500 gigabyte. So, hey, there must have been one screw. There is a screw on the bottom. Oh, that's what I did. Okay, I remember now. I used this screw to help hold this hard drive in. Now, at the time, we did take this somewhere with us once to a haunted hotel down around Tampa area. And I did use it there, but other than that, this thing just sat in there on the shelf. It was never moved. So I'll probably do this again. I'll put the one screw in and then I got some double-sided tape that'll hold it. There we go. On for force. And these screws, you gotta watch them because we got tile out here. And then this tile, that thing will bounce like you would not believe. Okay, so I'm gonna take this and we're gonna unplug this. We're gonna unplug this here. And I don't think this one was being used if I remember right. So I think this was the problem here. 16 MB cache, you know, or like this one, it's gonna be one terabyte. And it's got a 32 MB cache. Okay, so max digital data, what this one is here. So this is the old one. I don't know why that looks like that. I'm not sure. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna blow this out. I'm gonna go blow this out with compressed air, wipe it down. This is the battery that keeps your settings. And one setting I noticed that never stuck was, it's supposed to be 1080 and you put it on 1080, it wouldn't save. It kept reverting back to 720. So I don't know what that was all about. I think maybe the cameras are only 720, I don't know. But you would think it'd still be 1080 in here. But, so like I said, I can't, I don't think this was in use. I can't remember now. But every once in a while, you know, I could unplug it and reset it and it would record for a couple of days and then stop. But it would only hold two weeks. You know, I could only go back two weeks because then it would start recording over again, so. But, so anyway, let me get this all cleaned up and then we'll be back and we're gonna put this new one in. And then we'll, they feel about the same. This one may be a little heavier. Like I said, this was just the cheapest one I could get at the time, just the cheapest. So I think this was only like 10 or 12 bucks. So what I wanna do is clean it up and we'll get back with this. We'll be back with this here in just a minute. Oh, I know what this is for. This goes over here. I think it's an IR for remote control, which we don't have. I think that's why I did not plug it in. I don't know, I will plug it in. But anyway, right now, let's go ahead and get it cleaned up. Okay, guys, I zoomed in a little bit more. See, just so you can see a little bit better, but let's go ahead and mess this up. You know, you don't want these around moisture if you gotta hang on to it for a couple of days before you use it, you don't want them around moisture or anything like that. Now we're gonna put the, we're gonna plug the big one in here. This is your power supply, this is your data cable and it's gonna go right there, just like that. So what it is is the yellow and black and red wires will plug into here, the long one, and then your data cable will plug into here. Real simple, if you have to take pictures, nothing wrong with that. So what I'm gonna do is, I am gonna put a screw back in there, but first, before I do, I'm gonna grab something real quick. Okay, so I got my double-sided sticky tape, it's 3M, it's pretty good stuff here. It's not gonna take a lot of it. But the problem I'm gonna have is to line these holes up and stick that on there without getting it too far off. So, yeah, they should come with screws, but they don't. So when you get one of these guys and you have to buy one of these, you know, you're gonna need screws. Or this stuff here will be fine, because like I said, this thing just sets on the shelf, it doesn't go anywhere. If we, when we go to the haunted jail, I may take it for that investigation, we'll have to see. So, the only bad thing about this tape is getting it started to come off, you know? There we go. All right, let me get this, there we go. All right. Now, let's say I'm going to, I don't wanna cover any of this up. So I think what I'm gonna do is just come over here in this corner. Just like that. I'm gonna turn this upside down, get it lined up, and then I'm gonna push it on there. I'm doing, I'm just looking for the screw holes, because I am gonna put one screw in it. Okay, so now, I think I'm gonna put another piece of that right up here, and then we're gonna put it back together. So let me get this tape on there. We'll come back. All right, so now that I've got this in, I've got this wire plugged back in. It may have came off when I took this out, but this is still not the best, but it's just gonna be sentin' on a shelf. So let's go ahead and put this back on here. Get it the right way here, there we go. These just usually slide right up in there. So like if you have a power outage, and you know you just gotta keep your set and your time and date on this thing, it's that right there, it's that little battery. So just like a little watch battery, or button cell battery, we call them. Get this up in here, just like that. So I'm gonna start this screw in. Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and put it in. So hopefully this will take care of the issue. If not, then I'll just buy an eight channel. I've already got four cameras. I'll buy an eight channel with four more cameras, and I'll really, cause I got two cameras in the house here, but they're both in this room. If I put one up there in the corner, which that's what I'm gonna do, it'll cover the whole room, then that'll, and I've got two out front, and three if you count the ring doorbell, and then I'll take one and I'll put it out back, out in the backyard, and then we'll pretty well be set up. Never be too careful, especially if we're all gone. And you know, her mom's elderly, so she doesn't know who to let in or anything like that. So we just tell her don't answer. And what we do is we answer the door through the ring doorbell. So, all right, so we're all set. Good to go. Everything's staying good. I might try to find another screw. My holes are still lined up there. I'll try to find another screw and put in it. But let's go back in. I'm gonna hook this back up. All it is, is I'm just gonna hook my cameras up into here. And then I have a, then I got my power, and these are my USB slots. That's just for my mouse, and for when I take footage off of here. This is for my network cable. In case I wanna run internet through this. This is what I've got it running out from. This you can run like a regular monitor, VGA. This is output. Shoot, what's it called? Anyway, you guys know what that is. Gosh. But then I've got audio, but like I said before. So this just runs out into the TV and I forget what that is called. So anyway, so let me go ahead and get this hook back up. It's real easy. This here is for an alarm if you have an alarm set up. So it's pretty simple. The bigger ones, they do look more complicated, but they all do about the same thing. So let's go in and let's get this hooked up and we'll see what we got. Okay guys, so I didn't have to do anything. All I did was plugged it in and it came on. So I mean, I didn't have to log in. I'll have to log in like if I wanna check over footage and all that stuff or change any settings. But let me show you what I'm talking about here. This, that little R down there, that's for record. That's record and movement. There's my microphone, which I do have a microphone on one of these and let me get you down here and I'll kick that on and we'll see if we can hear it. This is just a TV. It's not actually a monitor, just a little TV. So I can't remember which one of these has audio. I think it's this one. So, well, I guess I better plug my mouse in. Like I said, it just kicked on so I didn't have to do anything. So I didn't plug my mouse in yet. So I'm gonna go ahead and do that now. And I got the light turned off so you guys can see better. So now, there's my little mouse rolling around. Let's, I think it's this one that's got sound. Now I'm gonna have to turn the TV up and let me find my remote. Okay, I found my remote. It was right there where I was looking for it. So, I think it's, is it this one or maybe it's this one? These, one of these has audio and it should have been in one of these here. Okay, so let me see, let me see what I got going on here while the audio is not working. Okay, you might be able to hear me in that. So, anyway, that's, we got it. See that's the audio, it's gonna feedback because the mic is actually only about five feet from this thing, so it's gonna feedback. Okay, so, let's see, I'll go out here and I'll show you the recording. All right, so this one here should be the one with the mic. If I got them hooked up right, I actually had them hooked up the wrong way. I had, sorry about that, I had the, I don't know if you guys noticed, but yeah, I had them wrong because I did not label my camera leads. So yeah, all right, so let's check out some of the footage and make sure it's recording. So, what we're gonna do is I'm already logged in, I'm gonna go to playback and this is how long it's been recorded so far. And there it is. That is, that's our, let's turn the mic on, make sure it was recording. Yeah, it was recording. So, and then we'll know. What I wanna do is I'll throw that footage in and you can check the footage out. So, that seems to be working fine. Nice clarity. I can't hear that hard drive running so I think I might go ahead and get me one for my old computer for the price of it. And yeah, so that's pretty cool. All right, guys, there you go. Shea Barely Mythman Legend, gone for now. Hope you guys had a great weekend and stick around for more videos. And that's where I was switching them around the cameras. So, yeah, there we are. Monkey came in, asked if I was done yet. There are her and her moms outside so. Wow, let me see here. But, so I'm gonna throw these clips in here. A couple clips of these and the one with audio and see what you guys think. But I think it's working fine, it is recording now. So, that's good, well, that'll work good. That moved up there because I was tapping the microphone to see which one of these I had on mic. I think I ended up changing them. But there we go. So anyway, enjoy the clips. Thanks for watching, appreciate it. We'll see you guys soon. Bye bye and take care. Are you done? To burst my cell phone. The recording, right, so this one here should be the one with the mic. If I got them hooked up right, I actually had them hooked up the wrong way.