How I've kept my Night owl ( Nite Owl ) DVR dvr-ahd10 working for three years
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2018
- If this video has been helpful, please leave a comment, click the like button, and help me out by subscribing to my channel. Now that it's Halloween, has your Night Owl DVR stopped working? Or is it working but the hard drive stopped recording? Mine has at least 2 times in the past three years, but here's how I keep it working. See the detailed instructions on my blog: bobhowto.wordpress.com/2019/1...
I would recommend a replacement power adapter, but its been hit or miss for me, some of the switching power adapters will put noise lines into the recorded video. If you got one from amazon that doesn't make any digi hash (digital noise) leave a comment with the amazon link
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WOW!!!! You could have easily resolved your problem and not shared with all of us, but you didn't. You shared and it is a priceless share. Well, actually. . . . .it was a $300.00-$600.00 share. That is precisely the amount of cash you saved me by making this video. I felt safer knowing I had camera's running to add security to my home. My DVR stopped working weeks ago, but I just discovered this a week ago. Immediately, I was bummed out and I began researching the price for a new dvr/camera set. It's Christmas season and a new NightOwl set would have put a strain on my gift shopping. I ordered the power box but I was so bummed when it arrived that I let it set in the box for a week before actually trying it. Today I put on my man panties and decided to give it a try. Initially the red light did not start flashing for the first 10 secondes. I dropped my head and was disappointed. I looked away to focus on something else, turned back to look at my dvr and holy bat smoke bat man, it was working! I share all of this to say, THANK YOU BROTHER!!!!
Thank you so much!! My DVR wasn't recording,I replaced power supply and hard drive worked immediately!! Thanks again!!
Was about to buy a new HD, but thanks to your video I just bought a new power cord and now everything is working fine. Thanks a lot!!
You my friend just saved me from purchasing a new security system. My AHD-10B-81-RS stopped working due to disk error. I purchased 2TB 7200 rpms WD purple edition hard drive as suggested by Night Owl Tech Support. The system would not power up - kept getting the night owl logo blinking off and on. Contacted Night Owl Tech Support once again asking what may be causing this issue. Performed all the troubleshooting steps he suggested, and it still didn't work. Claimed it was a software issue and stated the system was DEAD. He recommended to purchase a new system since my system was obsolete. I just couldn't wrap my mind around how the system worked perfectly fine before swapping out the hard drive and now it no longer works?! Searched "night owl ahd10b-81-rs no power" and your video popped up. Grabbed a power cord from one of the gaming systems from my kids room and it worked!!!! Night owl never mentioned this could be the source of my issue. I can't thank you enough for your video!
I'm glad I found your video before tearing my Night Owl unit apart. My video feeds stopped working and I too lost the red blinking HD light. I replaced the power cord to my recorder and all the cameras came back online along with the red HD light flashing. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Thank you...I was getting ready to get on the phone with Night Owl which I wasn't looking forward to. My brick wasn't bad but it wasn't plugged in all the way where the unit was receiving full power. After correcting those issues everything is working great again.
Thank you I really appreciate you, you saved me time, money and a headache. I had to replace my HD and was also having issues with other cameras. I had no signal on 1 camera (farthest/longest cable camera) and had trouble with the night vision blinking on 2 other cameras. I watched this video and noticed that 3 of the 4 cameras that I had issues with were powered by 1 power brick on my 8 channel system. After ordering a replacement power brick from Amazon all cameras are working again, thank very much.
Thank you for the video! Fixed my problem with the dvr!!
My ethernet port wouldn't light up. I did your typical troubleshooting and tried replacing ethernet cord and trying different ports on the router. After watching your video I tried a different power supply and that fixed my issue. The old power supply would power the unit up but it wasn't putting enough power out to make the unit work properly. Thanks for the video you saved me money!
Thank u so so much for this video. U saved me from having to buy a new system. It cost me less than $20 bucks to get a new power adapter. It started working again. Thank u again for posting this video.
It did exactly what you said , I tried and old core and light did came on all smiles from there. It not strong enough so new and stronger power brick definitely. Thanks 🙏🏽 a million
Thanks for the video I just switch the block and is working now I appreciate that 🙏
Thanks for the video. I was about to buy another dvr but all I needed was a new power supply chord. You saved me a few hundred dollars.
Calm and informative!
Your suggestion fixed my problem! Thanks.
Thanks for the video. This saved me time and money.
Going to try this easy fix. I didn't notice, but you were right about the hdd not spinning. We'll see how it goes.
Thank you sir. This really helped me save a lot of money I really appreciate you.
Thank you so much i’m going to buy the power adapter to see if that works but I really appreciated my cameras stop working.
Thank you got a new power plug and it worked
Thank you for sharing this video. My system stopped working and I found another power source sitting around my house not being used and walla, system up and running. Thanks again.
Man u are the man greatest help
awesome video !!! Just fixed mine!
You just saved me $300 dollars! Thank you so much!
I’m going to give it a try thanks
Thanks had the same problem change power cord and is fix now
You are the boss!!!!
Thank you so much! You just helped me save my dvr & not spend money on a new one!
Thank for your video it solve my problem thank you
People will replace the hard drive thinking it went bad but yeah, try the power supply first, saves you a ton of trouble and money if that's all it is. The power unit does have enough power to power the board and throw out a signal to the monitor but will NOT power a hard drive if it's going bad or failing to output all the juice it's rated at.
video very helpful fix the problem nite owl dvr thank!
Thank you sir!!!!!!!
I did what you said and it worked. The charger the system comes with fails. It is a piece a junk.
Thanks
Thank you! I watched your video and it was a perfect solution and a quick fix! The power brick had failed and when I replaced it the system came back on and the cameras came back on. This video was right to the point and greatly appreciated.
I did, but there are 2 out of six cameras that doesn’t show image, but you can see a red light on it at night. Do you it might be the cables?
All this happened after a thunderstorm ⛈
Can the HHD be upgraded to a SSD? I have an older model Night Owl that currently has a 500GB 2.5in HDD that I’d like to upgrade.
mine has been working for about 6 years, got the transformer damaged due to a lightning storm, got exactly the same problem, just replace the transformer and is still working fine
You can take top cover off and drill more holes in it to keep cooler. My dvr is hiding in a compartment I built into a piece of furniture up and under a shelf with very limited space. I also taped off the lights so if a burglar opened the cabinet doors they cant see the unit.
I drilled more vent holes to keep cooler. !
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Just like when you make sure to keep anything covering your cable box on top of TV to prevent overheating.
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I drill holes in top and put a computer fan on it.
I am trying to monitor a remote location. I am getting txt notifications on my smart phone, but How do I get a sound, or alarm or ring tone or something to wake me up, letting me know I have an intrusion. Can the night Owl surveillance system do that ?
Good luck getting a hold of night owl technical support their "live support" is a misnomer. It is rumored that they do have technical support its just that no one has actually talked to one. You just spend days after days of waiting in Queue. Then get booted back to the end of the line when you get to first in line.
Fudging A, thank you Sire, you just saved me $300 buckaroos with a capital B! 😃
You saved another user from blowing money on an entirely new system, sir. Thank you! The power supply... who (but you) would have though of that???
I was hoping to get more info about a larger box & or fan. This thing is running very hot, so I have the box up on a spacers. Still I had the drive die after 3 years.
I live in a desert. My first unit overheated once and I mitigated that with a high speed barn fan pointed at it. It died officially just days ago...and yesterday my bike was stolen right out my yard. I had a second nightowl DP8 sent via ebay, and swear I successfully set it up...but trying to put it to use today proved pointless. I'm locked out and u already know support doesn't help at all. Their app has decided I never bought the first unit and therefor I can't log into the app to reset password or pair my new device with the app...never ran it on internet, just checked feed when things were amiss. Wired, 4k cameras. Attempting to find a yone that knows of a non nightowl deck that runs the nightowl cameras.
I'ma try this. I think my problem is the power adapter because I can see the blue light on but that's it, thanks huge thanks
You can also use the cameras power adaptor just to check, the cameras power adaptor has 12v 1.5A
Totally saved me! traded my power brick with the brick for my cameras and both work now! Going to replace that old system brick anyway but in the meantime, I have my system back! What causes the brick to go bad?
I think it's the heat that's got a lot to do with it. I had a power strip and had four power bricks on it they were almost touching each other, two burn up around the same time. They were very hot to the touch. I got a bigger power strip and now they are space between them, not have had one go out since about 5 years now.
I have the same system. I recently updated my modem and now my device manager will not connect to my Night Owl HD phone app. Can you give me any assistance?
My cameras lag alot. I have 3 cameras that are 12v and 5 cameras that are 15v. The 12v work perfect and the 15v lag alot. Not sure what's wrong
Do I need both adapters, my screen will flash a picture now and then of each camera shot, but won't stay on. I can't seem to get the screws out from the box, so I need a special tool ither than a phillips to get them off. Thank you for the advice.
Just a phillips will do.. follow the checks int he video, I talk about the most common reason these things fail
Glad to see you kept it going for 3 years... I can't say I've ever had a problem with it or it ever getting too hot even though it's running 24/7... but then aain I've only got 4 camera's running on it... What's the name of the PC APP Called ? I've just got my monitor plugged directly into the back of the unit...
its on the nightowl website support.nightowlsp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000308248-Night-Owl-HD-CMS
Any idea why I can see all 4 cameras on live view and view recordings directly from the DVR but I cant view them from computer?
you have to add them on the setup panel, you pick the channels you want to see from the left and hit a button in the center of the panel to move em over to the right
@@bobhowtoandtravel9551 hey I got a new tv and I hooked my secerty camera s up and on the tv it shows the first part of the picture as it's booting up and then nothing a black screen on the tv can you help me please I don't know what to do
i just buy the sysrem two days ago and its not working the box said it has a 2 tb disk but it says no hdd so its not recording what should i do
Ok!
Just had to erase the hard drive by having windows delete all partitions and formatting it. then I stuck it back in the night owl dvr and it reformated it and it was working
How do you do that?
@@corylaney516 on Win 10, start -> type the word drive, then select create and format hard drive partitions when it pops up.. be sure which drive you are deleting partitions on, you could wipe your computer by accident
Curious, have you had issues viewing the playback on the phone app? Mine will show a certain day with say 130 videos, but only lets me view 20 of them. Stops at a certain time as I scroll down through the day's videos. Frustrated.
Yes, the phone app is not the greatest to review the footage. Both the PC app and the phone app will freeze up if you click too many times on the timeline
Seems like you're using the night owl x, for you to be able to pull up the rest of the videos just refresh the playback screen, it will pull up 10 at a time... And yes, the app is not the greatest.
My model look the same except I don’t have a fan on the heat sink and power led.
It constant reboot or at least I think it reboot endlessly because I see the night owl logo reappearing every 10-20 seconds.
Yep, sounds like you got a problem. Could be a bad power brick, or something is fried on the circuit board, night owl is always happy to sell you a new dvr...
It was the power brick + HDD. I test it with an amplifier power brick same stats (12v 2a). But the original HDD was causing a problem.
This time I use a 2.5" HDD for lower power consumption. Also added a fan in there to cool the heatsink. The DVR original HDD works fine on my PC.
Try disconnecting all cameras to prevent the system from trying to record and try to power it up with the DVR power supply or the cameras power supply, if that works access the menu and format the hard drive sometimes the Hard drive gets stuck and makes the system reboot like that. Maybe you need a hard drive replacement.
@@elautor3656The problem was the 3.5" HDD. I couldn't do anything because there was no picture at all so my guess is the Power Supply is also failing. I try to format it with Windows but then I hears CLICKS coming from the HDD. Since I couldn't repair this i have to let it go.
I switch it out for a 2.5" HDD (for less power usage) that solve the issue because then I was able to get pass the OWL logo.
I also replace the old Power Supply because I don't want to risk having the the HDD dying too due to insufficient power.
I have that same DVR with a bad lan port, I wonder if it’s possible to repair that.
I have no idea, I believe I saw on a message board that niteowl will replace the DVR for $130
If the power supply is the issue, wouldn't the DVR fail to turn on? Mine is on (lights up) but cameras say no signal.
Usually the voltage regulator burns up in the power pack, so the voltage drops to a point that theres just enough to get the cpu going, but not enough to power the hard drive motor or video digitizer
@@bobhowtoandtravel9551 appreciate the response. gives me something to consider. thanks.
I’m gonna try this tomorrow when my power brick comes in. Maybe a month or so ago, my HDD wasn’t recording anymore and with my Nightowl it usually just records over itself after 3 months.. but it stopped working.. but I could still view my cameras on my phone and my tv.. just didn’t record.. well 3 days ago the DVR stopped working. No power to it at all. So hopefully it just needs a new power brick.. I will let ya know
How is it that tech for home security about 3 years ago used a spindle drive?
It has a longer lifetime when continuously recording data. From what I've read most SD Cards, Flash Drives, or SSD's would fail after 100,000 writes to the same spot
i have nightowl too but keep black screen when i check on the app in ios . is that the power supply ?
Most of the time. Try a new power brick and see what happens
I testing out a brand new night owl system, it works well, just that the dvr gets real hot within a half hr, I don't tink this is normal, I turn it off an is seeking a technician advice
Did you half to replace both power supply cord.
I only replaced the one going to the DVR
Okay I need help my night owl has went out I'm not for sure if it's the power source or what can you please help me
95% percent of the time its the dvr power pack, 10% of the time its the hard drive, 5% of the time is the camera power pack... find a powerpack thats 12v 1.5amps from one of your other gadgets in the house and see if it works..
I got a new tv and I hookey HDMI cable to the tv and turned my tv on and my secerty camera on and it shows the first part and the system beeps and the nothing just a black screen on the tv can anyone help please
Have you had a problem with your cameras burning up night owl I just had 6 cameras went out out at 1 time
Is your power adapter
Mine wont get past the boot screen with the nightowl logo. Any ideas?
Usually a power problem.... watch the video
Thanks for the video, but the background music made it impossible to hear the hard drive when you plugged it in.
How to ruin a "how too" video. Put music in it. This video is a perfect example.
That made power come on yay but still showing disconnected
I ve changed the power supply and still did not work ..what would it be next??????I still get the message no HDD
1.5 amp 12 volt power pack? sometimes if its not the power pack then the hard drive is bad, try replacing it next
Yup...my original just gave up August 24. Bike stolen yesterday. Garbage.
I must ask what causes video loss?
Most commonly: camera power pack could be bad, hard drive could be bad, dvr power pack could be bad, or there was an electricity blackout
So what should I do, buy two new camera's or buy a new security system?
I dont have a light and mine doesnt look like that its the 720p DVR 😫😫 we just had it installed and its only been 3 months already nothing
Try a different power pack, they are usually the first to fail
@@bobhowtoandtravel9551 its plugged into the surge protector
My system has no power at all, any idle what might be wrong..
that's why i made the video
i got a problem with my nigth owl 2 camera wont work
Yup, happens to them all.. probably the power brick for the camera's failed, you'll need to replace it
My husband changed night owl password right before he filed divorce and moved out. So I can't recover password. Is there a way to do this internally through dvr?
nope, there is no way to recover, or reset it, you will have to replace the dvr.
ask him for the password
Do you know how to reset the password if you don't know it?
I bought a night owl for 200 dollars and I don't have the email to reset the password. There's no way except that way according to tech support. Have I lost 200 dollars and now have to throw it away?
Its true, there's no way to reset the password in the unit.
Yay I bought an ebay mistake too!
video shows up on monitor but says connecting on cell phone and never connects
if your using it in local IP address mode, it means that you have the wrong IP address. eveytime I power cycle my router the night owl will wind up with a different IP that I have to find by looking in the routers list of addresses
mine does not sound like a G string
Thks. I removed the music, it's not helping
Any one knows how to bypass the password?I forgot mines
Not possible, and there's is no way to reset it. if you contact night owl they will sell you a new dvr
Night Owl have a few temporary password generators that can give you access to the system and let you change the password.
Just had another power brick fail on me... this one lasted two years and then bye bye
Hey Bob, Do you record audio by chance? I have a zmodo and noticed the video and audio are not in sync. Appreciate any help you can give
Mine suddenly won't connect to the internet. I can see my videos on the TV, but I can't get then to show on the app on my phone. The error says unable to connect to wifi gateway. I have a new ethernet cable coming tomorrow... praying that will fix it!? If not, I am about to throw the piece of @%#$ in the trash!
So what is it?
the recorder for the night owl video camera security system
Oh ok thanks, I wondering because I thought it was some Tv cable. Sorry if I sound stupid
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whatever you set it to when you first turned it on... theres no way to reset it unless you have it connected to internet via night owls cloud service. support.nightowlsp.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015728547-HDA10-Series-DVR-Login-Issues-Password-Reset
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