Spec me a CCTV System

Thebug · 16 Oct 2019 at 10:44

Take a backup of the nvr, upgrade it, if it dont work you can allways downgrade the firmware

ddoubleep · 16 Oct 2019 at 11:02

Thebug said:
What 2.8mm cameras do you have though? Its the field of view you need to look at, the 4mm in colorvu has a 94 degree fov but my old 2.8mm 2332 turrets had a 80 degree fov at 2mp

I have these (DS-2CD2363G0-I) all around which states 2.8 mm, horizontal FOV: 97°, vertical FOV: 63°, diagonal FOV: 120°

The new ones being mentioned are:

2.8 mm, horizontal FOV: 109°, vertical FOV: 55°, diagonal FOV: 138°
4 mm, horizontal FOV: 94°, vertical FOV: 48°, diagonal FOV: 115°
6 mm, horizontal FOV: 57°, vertical FOV: 31°, diagonal FOV: 67°

The colour one could make it easier to see the cars and any shift characters that walk past checking if the cars doors are locked. At the moment in the night number plates can be reflective and the face obscured due to the street lights.

Biz.Kid09 · 17 Oct 2019 at 08:08

I have been looking at the home automation and security I want to get when I move into my first house, I had been initially planning on just using the Nest system. The cameras are expensive but its a pretty nice solution.

Would anyone be able to recommend a relatively decent setup with 2/3 cameras for £300-400 (what 2/3 nest cameras would cost roughly) just to give me another option to think about.

Scream · 17 Oct 2019 at 23:35

£300-£400 won’t cut it in my opinion. Say £100-£150 per cam with £50 Poe switch. A few hundred for NVR+HD and that’s a hell of a better setup than the Nest.

ddoubleep · 18 Oct 2019 at 09:20

Scream said:
£300-£400 won’t cut it in my opinion. Say £100-£150 per cam with £50 Poe switch. A few hundred for NVR+HD and that’s a hell of a better setup than the Nest.

Found out the last same year before going on Hik. Once I looked past all the marketing hype on Nest and co a traditional camera set-up worked best and been running well since.

Only checking this thread and seeing the ColorVu stuff has perked my interest on replacing one of my cameras with a simple swap out.

maschio · 18 Oct 2019 at 21:09

Have ordered a third one of these colorvu cameras. Also learnt they are not compatible with my existing Hik wall mounts so have had to replace those also.

norm · 18 Oct 2019 at 21:20

Any chance of some screenshots of these colorvu cameras in action at night?

maschio · 18 Oct 2019 at 21:56

norm said:
Any chance of some screenshots of these colorvu cameras in action at night?

DM me

SexyGreyFox · 19 Oct 2019 at 13:33

Last week I bought a Blink XT2 camera and I'm that impressed I bought an addon camera this morning

Scream · 19 Oct 2019 at 22:00

Don’t want to be rude but the image quality in those photos look poor. Better spending a few dime more and buy a proper cctv cam, then you will see the difference.

SexyGreyFox · 20 Oct 2019 at 00:45

Scream said:
Don’t want to be rude but the image quality in those photos look poor. Better spending a few dime more and buy a proper cctv cam, then you will see the difference.

They look awesome played on VLC, those are just still pictures for setting the cameras up, they are not film.

maschio · 20 Oct 2019 at 00:52

Are those electrical cables or a washing line?

SexyGreyFox · 20 Oct 2019 at 01:38

maschio said:
Are those electrical cables or a washing line?

I've been meaning to make them neater since 1987 - one is an aerial cable and the other is a satellite cable

maschio · 20 Oct 2019 at 02:11

SexyGreyFox said:
I've been meaning to make them neater since 1987 - one is an aerial cable and the other is a satellite cable

Fair play maybe next year then.....

SexyGreyFox · 20 Oct 2019 at 11:12

This is the low quality video on the Blink XT2, I'm made up with it and let's face it, out of the 1000s of 'Can You Identify This Person' CCTV footage that comes up on Facebook or Newspaper sites that quality is way better than what you usually see - www.dmpoole.co.uk/mp3/blink1.mp4

I also like how all the video goes straight to the cloud where my mate has paid a lot of money and all his go on an SD card.

andy_mk3 · 20 Oct 2019 at 22:43

Blink cameras are fantastic. But they're no good for live viewing which is what we wanted, the worst thing being the 10-15 seconds it takes to load the stream. Replaced them with Unifi cameras, can now ask Alexa to view a camera and it pops right up,which has massive WAF.

b00merang69 · 21 Oct 2019 at 00:27

Ubiquiti prices are ridiculous (read the comments in the Big River place that sells them) though they are good you can buy profession gear for that or even less put me in mind of Apple where they are using the brand to jack prices.

SexyGreyFox · 21 Oct 2019 at 07:31

b00merang69 said:
read the comments in the Big River place that sells them

AMAZON

Firestar_3x · 21 Oct 2019 at 11:35

Wonder if you power the Blink camera from USB instead of battery you avoid the delay?

adwol48 · 21 Oct 2019 at 15:21

b00merang69 said:
Ubiquiti prices are ridiculous (read the comments in the Big River place that sells them) though they are good you can buy profession gear for that or even less put me in mind of Apple where they are using the brand to jack prices.

watched a video the other day by bitwit on youtube he had uniquiti send him out like 5 cameras a switch and the cloud key2 and when he said it was a $2k system I couldn believe it, my ezviz cameras are more than good enough for my needs.