Bill Farhood of BF DataCom Inc Rip installing camera equipment i Marina del rey, Internet

Thank you ripoff report we have a settlement agreement - Bill Farhood/BF Datacom, Inc. its all good now can you take him off your site thank you

tony vera echevarria

just got it the court says he has to pay me $1000.00 and $ 140.00 costs on claim his claim on me he gets 0 i am not that happy with it but i will go with the court

I had court on tus the court will send in the mail if i win or lose thanks ripoff report

Alex sent me this from your emails today:Tony,I copied you on an email to Bill who is asking me to be a part of a lawsuit against you, while apparently blaming the situation on me. Ironic, but whatever. Anyway I told him I am not interested in being involved in this early today when he emailed me. During his install I was copied on his many emails to you about how much he knows about cameras, and how you shouldn't insult his intelligence, and how he knows more about streaming video and installing cameras than anyone. The "multi streaming" camera he chose with no sound has nothing to do with web streaming. Despite the hours of research he went on about, he skipped a huge detail and made assumptions about what the camera could do and was just wrong. He argued with me about it and I just didn't argue back because it wasn't my place and he didn't want to hear it from me anyway. When the camera wouldn't stream he didn't believe me. I called Samsung and they told me flat out it was not a streaming camera AT ALL and the only way to make it stream is to have custom software written which would be "a challenge". I told him that, and he still didn't believe me. Then he called Samsung and sent me an email saying to make it stream they could "maybe" write a patch and it would take 2 months. I have that email. He still couldn't admit he bought and installed a camera that didn't stream to the web. He scoffed at your attempts to make sure the choice in camera was right, disgusted that you would send him a Wikipedia article about streaming cams and the equipment you wanted. What a mess.I know, and you know that he solely made the recommendation for the cameras, ordered them, purchased them and installed them. Not me. Him. Wasn't my job. He really isn't one to listen to other peoples suggestions. His angry emails, personal insults to you and crazy rants are nothing I want to be a part of anymore the whole thing is ugly and mean. YOUR rants I am ok with (ha) but seriously people making me the scapegoat for everything they don't like is getting a bit tiring. I guess in a way it is amazing that I have that much control over everything, isn't it. Anyway good luck I hope the people of Venice support your efforts and help get the cam going. Good luck with the web site. I copied you on this email to Bill.Alex Bill,You are an individual, independent contractor. I told you that Tony was looking for someone to install cameras and suggested you talk to him. That is it. Your decision to take the job or not has nothing to do with me.My job was to take streaming video from a webcam, and embed it on Tony's website. That is it. I bear no responsibility that you chose a camera that does not stream to the internet to be the camera which had a sole purpose and intent of being his streaming web cam. In an effort to help, I offered to talk to people who could possibly try to write a patch to make it work. They could not get it to work without being paid for some pretty intensive software work. Again, that was not my job. I offered to try that in an effort to help resolve the situation for everyone. You, with your years of experience and knowledge chose the camera and installed it. Never, ever, was it my job to write software. Plenty of cameras stream video straight to the web. You chose one that didn't. Not my responsibility, or problem.Why you are trying to publicly blame this on me, and then want my testimony in court is baffling but that seems to be the trend. At this point Bill, the answer is no. As I asked you today, this has nothing to do with me as much as you wish it did. Leave me out of it.Alex

Just did a Complaint on Bill Farhood of BF DataCom with Contractors State Licensing Board i will keepyou updated

Just did a Complaint on Bill Farhood of BF DataCom with Contractors State Licensing Board i will keepyou updated

From: "William N. Farhood, Jr." 
Date: November 03, 2011 3:30:52 PM
I watched the "Burning Man festival" on ustream in September. They used a Speco Spectra IV camera. Believe it or not, you have a better camera. I was considering the Spectra IV but decided it wasn't good enough.

 On Nov 02, 2011, at 07:13 PM, "William N. Farhood, Jr." 
Tony - there will be little if any hardware additions beyond what you
>> see here. I will give you the bullet cam to look at the big cam and
>> when I get the bill for the DVR it will probably be less than $850 which
>> I listed here. I think I can even get the big cam on the DVR too -
>> we'll see. Also, you are getting the major components at exactly my
>> cost - Samsung cam, bracket, DVR, microphone. I have no desire to mark
>> up the hardware, and there's no money in it anyway when you have the
>> internet to compare pricing. I buy through ADI distribution so I get
>> great prices. Would it be possible to get another 4K progress payment
>> this week and the balance when the DVR and microphone are installed?
>> There will probably be a little more labor beyond this but not much.
>> The hardest stuff is over
On Nov 3, 2011, at 4:41 PM, "William N. Farhood, Jr."
It's all done.  When you are ready to stream for his web site i will set up the multicast.  I am still tweaking the system but for all practical purposes it is done.

my web girl

Awesome if you can email me the software and the login from outside and inside the network I will set up the streaming and the mirror thank you

Ok. What do you need to do with the router or what needs to happen that isn't happening

Alex - Tony is driving me crazy.  I need you to explain some technical things to him.  He doesn't understand that the router and port forwarding are critical to him seeing the camera.  If I hear one more time about his money I will scream.

You say Tony is sick and needs help and you work part time in a local dentist office that Tony visits regularly
Lets see some paper work with my name on it i back up all with Bill Farhood of BF DataCom emails texts show us something i to back it up come on show us 

He also abandoned the project and did not give me any written training or instruction on how to use the security system. no key to box wires all out  and no software  to look at any replay anyone can cut or pull out It is useless to me not using at all i am using my old that work very good this is his work

show us some paper work from you job with my name on it come on show us love to see

i go to UCLA show what i did to you on the web i would love yo see say hi to  Bill Farhood of BF DataCom for me 

well i have Dentures show us where on the web i did this you have to be bills friend nice try

I have had very similar trouble with this Tony person also.
I work part time in a local dentist office that Tony visits regularly. He ofter resorts to this type of Internet Terrorism with our office.. If we don't get him in the same day or if his order is not ready the very next day, he will have words with us..He will verbally threaten us that he will spread bad things about our office on the Internet, so we make an extra effort to get him out of our office quickly and if there is an order we have to fill for him we will pay extra to have it overnighted to our office the next day when possible.
I feel bad for anyone who comes in contact with him. He should be on meds to calm him down..

I will bring this to court I am gay this is his texts  nov 11,2011 1147 am you made a very big mistake tony you will be very sorry you talking to me like that this believe me i told him i would call the cops he said nov 11 2011 1148 am go ahead you atonal pot smoking dumb a**hole i do smoke eye diseases seeing a doc smoking helps me

iam gay so he said nov 11 2011 1148 am take that to LAPD you Cynthia i i told him you try it you will go to jail
he said nov 11 2011 1149 am you c*** i dont know this man the my web girl said he was good i have it all for court after the 3ed week he was not getting the roof cam up the job i needed done he told me day afer dat the ups is bring the roof cam paying him by the hr with my learning disability and my bad eyes and being gay black man he used that on me i have all the texts for court i showed it all to LAPD i am very sick inside dont know what this man will do to me it bad Mr. Vera, however, has yet to pay the final installment of $2,500, that not true i paid him in full , he says  He states that I was retained to install a Samsung streaming camera that would provide real-time streaming on his website.  That is untrue and he has no documentation to establish his claim not true look at all his emais my web girl put up ustream in 10 min on my site http://tonyvera.com/u-stream-channel/ he got the wrong cam ok thanks i will let you all know what the court says i need to get this live cam up for  Teena Maria Mural so you can see the mural being done its a very big part it called the teen marie cam day one i told him to go to abbey road cam he went to site told me he could do it http://www.abbeyroad.com/Crossing

photo of him

this is my last one he says he was never hired to write software but here is a email from he Axis P5534-EFrom:"William N. Farhood, Jr." <bfarhood@bfdatacom.com>To:TONY ECHEVARRIA <tonyvera@mac.com>Date:October 18, 2011 1:24:26 PM
OK - that Axis cam is $2700 without the bracket. I just sent you another email with a Samsung SNP-5200H for $2250 which has better software support, and the bracket is an additional $200-$250.

http://www.samsung-security.com/SAMSUNG/upload/Product_Specifications/SNP-5200H-Specifications.pdf 
The bracket will be the SBP-300LM on the same page.

on top of it all i am gay i have text messages calling me all kind of gay names telling me "William N. Farhood, Jr. Tony - you are going to be sooooooooooo sorry that you are tweeting all these lies about me. Trust me - you will really really regret it. Man get a life. You are totally pathetic. No one reads your tweets i dont need to lie i have all his emails and the lapd video he wanted to take cams but not give me my money back the cam is for the teena marie wall and me and mike tysin are friends now i have not had a beer in 10 weeks doing good i will let you all know how the court case ends up thank you ripoff love you

here is the email he sent me he selected the cam not me

m N. Farhood, Jr." <bfarhood@bfdatacom.com>To:tonyvera@mac.com <tonyvera@mac.com>Date:October 25, 2011 9:43:33 PMUser Manual_SNP-5200,5200H.pdf (4.5 MB)

Tony - I will speak with Samsung tech support tomorrow morning before I come over and make sure the specs are what I need for this camera.  I am not going to spend your money without thoroughly researching the capabilities to make sure it is what we want.  I have a meeting in Manhattan Beach at 9:00AM and then I will continue the installation of the cameras.  I need to stop at Home Depot for some steel weatherproof boxes for the vestibule etc., and more baluns.  Then I will be there.  I attached the manual for the Samsung SNP-5200H which I have been studying.  Check it out.  It is a complicated system! 

I have literally spent all afternoon researching the best cam and price/performance for you. I am going to take a break now and get some dinner. I am probably more concerned about spending your money than you are!

OK - that Axis cam is $2700 without the bracket. I just sent you another email with a Samsung SNP-5200H for $2250 which has better software support, and the bracket is an additional $200-$250.

http://www.samsung-security.com/SAMSUNG/upload/Product_Specifications/SNP-5200H-Specifications.pdf 
The bracket will be the SBP-300LM on the same page.

After careful consideration, the PTZ web cam should be kept separate from the surveillance system. You don't want to give out your public IP address of your router or have the bandwidth of your system eaten up by the megapixel camera. I like this cam. I looked at the analog 27X zoom 
version and the resolution is 809X700 or so. The camera below is IP based, the software runs on all PCs and Macs, it has PoE+ (power over ethernet) and has 20X zoom. It is an IP cam with 1280X1024 resolution.

http://www.samsung-security.com/SAMSUNG/upload/Product_Specifications/SNP-5200H-Specifications.pdf
I got a lot done today in just 4-1/2 hours. Check the northeast corner of the building and you will see the two new bullets. I am going to order some more tomorrow, then drive to ADI in Carson, pick up more cable and baluns, and Home depot for some more steel boxes. Think about where else you want to have eyes around the building. call me tomorrow when you get up 310-710-8304.

I am still looking for the best high-def camera with audio. The Axis camera that EarthCam was talking about is really nice is also 
$3500.!!!!! I will check with ADI and see what their price is. There are ones for around $2500 that do what you want them to do.

This one is less money - check it out. Look at the whole Axis line of outdoor PTZ high-def domes and tell me which one you like the best

http://www.axis.com/products/cam_p5532e/video/index.htm

he pick the cam not me i have all this for court

One more this why bring mike in to this why bring mike t and me  going off the wagon after 17 years back on now i have all his emails i paid him in full I am suing him court date 2/14/12 time 130 weg room 117 la court and he keeps sending me emails calling me a loser going lets see what this man tells the court i have all his emails you can see what king of man hie is wow just give me all my money back you take your cams we call it a day i am not going away

Tony - I was sending video over networks in the 90's.  Read all about it this article in "InfoWorld" from almost 17 years ago.  I had 9 computers in my loft and did demos of this concept all over Los Angeles.  I had 9 different video codecs that I was using.  You are using two.  Read the article about StarWorks and what it says about me.  I was a pioneer in networking video. 

http://books.google.com/books?id=pDoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=bill+farhood&source=bl&ots=nkJhzy-ipf&sig=uB_NvWFj26zi1-1n6O8a9PlzZFQ&hl=en&ei=ckfWSqeSDZPYsgOo6JnVAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCEQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=bill%20farhood&f=false

Please don't insult me by sending links about streaming video.

On 11/5/2011 3:20 PM, TONY vera ECHEVARRIA wrote:Streaming mediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media

This is a email from bill to my web girl  i paid him in fill i have all the emails Alex, you should already have the Samsung SNP-5200-H manual and the link to get the pdf is here if you don't.  

http://www.samsungtechwin.com/product/product_view.asp?idx=6460&cid=83&clvl=0#FL080000

Page 52 deals with the different ports which must be forwarded on the router and I would keep the ones I have programmed in there unless you have a problem because I got them from the manual except for one from Samsung Techwin which is different than the documentation.  Also page 65 and 66 may have something significant for your programmer.  I don't know  Pages 81 and 82 deal with security and SSL, I don't know if that is useful to you.  Also, these are the specs for the protocols below and it can be management compliant (SNMP).  I don't know if any of that helps you.

Ethernet RJ-45 (10/100BASE-T)
Video Compression Format H.264, MPEG-4, MJPEG
Resolution
1280x1024, 1280x720P(HD), 1024x768, 800x600,
640x480, 320x240
Max. Framerate 30fps at all resolutions
Video Quality Adjustment
H.264/MPEG-4 : Compression Level,
Target Bitrate Level Control
MJPEG : Quality Level Control
Bitrate Control Method
H.264/MPEG-4 : CBR or VBR
MJPEG : VBR
Streaming Capability Multiple Streaming (Up to 10 Profiles)
Audio I/O Mic / Line in, Line out
Audio Compression Format G.711 -law
Audio Communication 2-Way
IP IPv4, IPv6

Protocol

TCP/IP, UDP/IP, RTP(UDP), RTP(TCP), RTSP, NTP,
HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, DHCP, PPPoE, FTP, SMTP, ICMP,
IGMP, SNMPv1/v2c/v3(MIB-2), ARP, DNS, DDNS

Finally, Tony bumped his upstream to 2 mbps and was getting slightly less with a speed test.  Download is 10 times as fast.  Maybe you could limit the traffic of the Speco DVR or take it off Tony's Time Warner connection totally and let Alan get a Time Warner Business Line for the security DVR just like Avon Way for $64/month with normal speed and get it off of Tony's connection altogether.

On 11/25/2011 10:37 AM, Alex wrote:So the software to grab both the audio and video from the camera successfully has the signal. We are halfway there. Now the code to compress the signal and mux it to stream out has to be written and fully tested. That camera is not easy to talk to. The goal is to have that done by Sunday night, and then Monday I can send the video signal to Stream Host to mirror it out. I will let you know of any other relevant updates. There may be a bandwidth issue of streaming the camera AND if Tony wants to upload video or anything else huge that will sop up bandwidth. Won't know until the camera is fully up and can be tested... but that will just mean calling Time Warner to up the bandwidth. I will let you know.

when he came wthLAPD he did not wanr to give mr my money back just takr cams his email Tony - I know what the problem is.  I am waiting for UPS.  Please be patient.  There is only one way to do this and that is the right way.  I have been doing this a long time.  I spent another two hours this morning researching all the capabilities and reading the manual.  I need to get a microphone and also an SD card since it records memory within the camera itself.  It is extremely delicate and until all the wires are in it and power is applied, and the camera is configured, and the router ports are forwarded, nothing will work.  Just hang in there.  Nothing happens instantaneously.  I will be over after UPS gets here. 

Dear Reader:

I am writing in response to the false and unfortunate attacks made against me by Tony Vera on this site, and on his site tonyvera.com.  Mr. Vera retained me to install 11 high-resolution cameras and a start-of-the-art PTZ streaming camera system for $10,500.  Both of these systems function perfectly.  Mr. Vera, however, has yet to pay the final installment of $2,500, which is the subject of a pending lawsuit.  He states that I was retained to install a Samsung streaming camera that would provide real-time streaming on his website.  That is untrue and he has no documentation to establish his claim.  I purchased a camera that he selected and requested and charged him my cost, in addition to the complete surveillance system that I installed.  I was never hired to write software to stream video to a website.  Mr. Vera has engaged in a series of negative posts and tweets since mid-November.  I arrived at his home with local police and offered to return the camera.  Mr. Vera refused to return the camera and would not allow entry to the building.  I am a licensed, bonded, and insured C-7 California low-voltage electrical contractor since 1983 with a spotless record of service.  I have literally hundreds of cameras and dozens of DVR surveillance systems working flawlessly in the Los Angeles area in the past few years alone.   I do voice, data, video, fiber optics, control systems and all low-voltage work.  I have worked all over the country, including New York, Nevada, Utah, Washington state, and Arizona.  I do not provide web design, website software, or live-streaming software.  I have never had a dispute or insurance claim filed against me in 29 years of contracting.  I am thankful that we live in a society that protects freedom of expression.  However, it is also painful and frustrating that these constitutional protections can be used to attack individuals such as myself, because of ulterior motives.  Accordingly, I hope that you will evaluate any claim Mr. Vera makes with scrutiny.  Mr. Vera has also recently posted a video of himself while quite drunk, stating that he had "fallen off the wagon" following a settlement with Mike Tyson where it was alleged that Mike Tyson battered Mr. Vera as a result of being intrusive.  The site was live at http://venice311.org/2011/11/12/addiction-recovery-relapse-and-life-living-in-venice-beach-tony-vera-video/ but has since been privatized.  I am sorry for the battles that Mr. Vera faces.  However, I continue to provide top-quality low-voltage services in the Venice and Marina del Rey areas and should not be subject to baseless attacks.  Thank you for taking the time to read my response.