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[bluerdg]

I've browsed a bit and searched and I'm not seeing anything that addresses this issue, hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.  I've had a pretty diverse system of cameras, automation, and security set up for the past few years with no issues. However recently I'm experiencing a problem with my camera's. I have an independent receiver for the wireless cameras set up on a flat screen that I'm able to control via CR14a remote that allows me to change cameras and control a ninja unit on one with no problem.  However, when I use the AHP platform to view cameras, my #2 camera seems to override the other two cameras. Regardless of whether I turn cameras on via their individual icon, or by tab in the viewer the #2 camera signal is the one that is active.  As I'm writing this, I pulled up #4 on the flat screen via remote, and adjusted the ninja unit.  The icon for the #4 camera shows as on in AHP, but the view is of the #2 camera.  It looks as if communication with the CMA15 is functioning as the various cameras show to be turning on and off in the icon view. I forgot to add that I have a second receiver entirely for the computer that AHP is running on.  AHP shows the various cameras turning on and off, but only appears to be receiving one signal,  independent receiver cycles properly through the cameras as they are changed.  At first I thought I had a camera issue but now I'm thinking it's an issue with AHP.  Either way, the loss of control through AHP has rendered all my camera related security macros useless, as motion sensors on two cameras are sending e-mail with snapshots from a camera that has no sensor related to it.  The entire system, components and connection locations are exactly what they have always been, and there have been no new electronics put in place so I'm pretty sure it's not a noise or interference issue from anything in house.

[dave w]

 The entire system, components and connection locations are exactly what they have always been, and there have been no new electronics put in place so I'm pretty sure it's not a noise or interference issue from anything in house.

I will take a guess. If I understand correctly, it boils down to your #2 camera power supply is not turning off as it should when another camera in the series (1,3,4) is turned ON. So my guess would be either the #2 power supply is defective OR something has changed and the #2 supply is no longer seeing the ON command for one of the other cameras (noise). BTW CFL bulbs can become noisy as they age, so "nothing has changed" cannot be counted on.

[Brian H]

Is the CR14A using the CM15A as its transceiver to power line switch the camera supplies or a separate transceiver?

[bluerdg]

Is the CR14A using the CM15A as its transceiver to power line switch the camera supplies or a separate transceiver?

  Not sure exactly how it's communicating commands. I've got both set up since the cameras are set across the house. What I can tell you is that I can cycle through the camera selection on the CR14A and I can see the switch take place watching the components on AHP (online status will change to correspond with remote command). As I said I can use the remote and cycle through all cameras when viewed on independent monitor and receiver yet when I attempt to change cameras via AHP - I can disconnect # 2 and cycle back and forth between other cameras and continue to so until # 2 is turned on, then regardless of which camera is selected camera # 2 doesn't want to turn off. Others are apparently turning on and off as I can select one of the other cameras and the picture blurs a bit, then cleans up if I select # 2 again.  A similar issue happened to me with a set of Ninja bases when they were set up in the #1 and #3 locations a couple years ago, but then neither remote nor AHP would turn off #3, Tech support said it was a bad power supply and sent me a new one but it did the same thing. Right now that same camera is still mounted to the ninja base bypassing the base and plugged into it's original power supply in the same outlet the base was plugged into and it works fine.