CCTV Help

Maacck

Maacck

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So in the past month, we've been burgled twice now ;(

First they broke into our house and stole a few hundred pound from a suitcase upstairs and under a bed inside a draw. They left all other stuff in-tact, including blue-ray player, xbox, PC, t.v's.

The second time they broken into the shed at the bottom of our garden took £1000 motorcross bike. So we wants get some CCTV hooked up, and I want to somehow link it to my PC ( if it is possible).

I was wondering if you guys could maybe help by recommending some good setups and tell me if it's possible to hook it up to my pc?

thanks, mack ;)
 
Cash stolen from specific hidden locations and expensive electronics ignored? Inside job methinks?

(Sorry, I don't know about CCTV.)
 
CCTV has progressed to the point that you can buy a DVR with a network interface, that way you have the dedicated device for recording and you just log in on your normal computer using a web browser or an application to review the footage.
 
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Sounds very odd.

However, just look for a system with multiple camera sources and a network port and various recording formats. We've got one for the shop and if the alarm goes off at 2am we can check the cameras first.
 
Sorry to hear you got burgled, really sucks. Had it happen to me a few months back and lost about £4k of gear.

First point, get a burglar alarm. Statistics vary but even the least optimistic say that approximately half of burglars will steer clear of alarmed properties. Modern systems offer phone connections that will phone you if the alarm goes off, they can also be hooked up to 24hr monitoring stations with police response. If you get a system which supports wired and wireless, you can have the house wired for reliability and the shed with a wireless PIR.

Second, I purchased one of these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280540856656&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT It's a chinese made IP cam, but it has a lot of functions. Upon motion activation, mine emails me and starts uploading images every second to the cloud, it also records on my pc but no point doing that if they nick the PC too! It also supports DDNS so you can login remotely and control the camera. This one is an indoors one but the same seller has outdoor ones as well. Work over wifi or ethernet. You can have something silly like 12 cameras on the go.
 
If they broke in twice it sounds like your perimeter security is weak, fix that first. Better locks, hinges, door surrounds, lighting, window shutters. Nobody wants to hang around with a 1000watt halogen lighting up the whole neighbourhood.

Next, burglar alarm and fill the house with piezo soundbombs, if they can't hear themselves think, then they can't hear a police siren either.

Then think about a hidden DVR, next time they might take your PC.
At best you are only going to get a date stamped picture of a skinhead in a hoody - not a great deal of use in practice.
 
bitslice said:
If they broke in twice it sounds like your perimeter security is weak, fix that first. Better locks, hinges, door surrounds, lighting, window shutters. Nobody wants to hang around with a 1000watt halogen lighting up the whole neighbourhood.

Next, burglar alarm and fill the house with piezo soundbombs, if they can't hear themselves think, then they can't hear a police siren either.

Then think about a hidden DVR, next time they might take your PC.
At best you are only going to get a date stamped picture of a skinhead in a hoody - not a great deal of use in practice.
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Yeah, CCTV isn't the best deterrent as it's a simple job to cover your face.

If you beef up your locks etc and get an alarm fitted which includes window/door contacts, if they try and force a window/door the alarm will go off and with better locks it'll take longer for them to get in. Worst case if they do still get in with the alarm going off they aren't going to hang around long to search for stuff, they'll just grab the nearest few items and leave.
 
Maybe you'd be better off trying to stop people breaking in rather than trying to catch them afterwards? No burglar is going to break through one of those reinforced steel doors, considering the police can't.
 
Energize said:
Maybe you'd be better off trying to stop people breaking in rather than trying to catch them afterwards? No burglar is going to break through one of those reinforced steel doors, considering the police can't.
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Not just doors though, windows are an easy target. If it comes to it they can just smash the windows so where do you draw the line? Steel security shutters? Wire reinforced glass? Your place will end up looking like a prison.
 
Windle said:
Not just doors though, windows are an easy target. If it comes to it they can just smash the windows so where do you draw the line? Steel security shutters? Wire reinforced glass? Your place will end up looking like a prison.
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You can get those plastic safety glass coverings, it adds a minute to the break in time and they will mostly just run off. It does not look blurry and it costs about £5 on that rainforest site
 
GeX said:
just to folow this up.

bought a DVR CCTV recorder, 4 channel input, 25fps recording rate, network interface too. couple of 1/3" sony cameras with IR leds around the outside, some cable, some plugs and now have this watching the drive.

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total cost ~£150, which was less than it cost to have the damage on the car repaired last time. the cameras work fine at night and emit a faint red glow.

was chatting to my dads neighbour earlier, and we're looking at mounting a wireless camera on the edge of his house, watching both drives and linking that into the recorder.
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14174852&postcount=5
 
get a dog :)

In all seriousness though, remember, you've only got to make your house harder to break in to than a neighbours house. They will always take the easy option.
 
Sorry about what happened. However, how on earth would they know to specifically look under a bed and in a suitcase for money, whilst leaving behind everything else?

I think you better get your family on Jeremy Kyle for a lie detector test. :p
 
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