CCTV

mattyg said:
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Stop before you flame me.

I have just installed a 3 camers PRO setup at my house for under £600. using the right gear.

I'm using 3 ENEO colour Camera's in dennard heated housing and being recorded onto a Panasonic WD-hj500 16 ch DVR.(which retailed @£2500 3 yrs ago) which is networkable


look under catagories. under security and narrow search to used equipment.

That way you shouldnt get many cheap nasty Hong Kong bits.

If your lucky you could get a 365 DVR which will record 200mhz across all channnels
Although to be honest 5FPS is all you need.

Mine has 2 140gb HDD and will record non stop in a main and slave format.
1st HDD records from 20 may-30 may
2nd records from 25 may - 4 june

That way you get extra time to realise you need to playback and find a recording.

As you can see I can get at least 10 days in super fine quality continuous recording.

HTH
Matt
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are you using any [FONT=arial,arial,helvetica]IR Illuminators with this set up mate [/FONT]
 
I have now been asked to price building a computer to do the job and I have been looking at something small like a shuttle type. The one thing I have read is I should fit a hard drive designed for video as ordinary computer hard drives get too hot for the job. Is this true?

What OS should one think about installing as I want stability becauses the machine will have to run 24/7 without any downtime or interaction from the owner.

I know a computer might be cheaper but a dedicated NVR would do the job much easier.

Cheers.
 
The Seagate SV35.5 are CCTV "specific" SATA HDs and the 1TB models aren't that much difference in price from a regular 1TB.

I've got CCTV servers running joly old XP Pro. Bar the odd reboot for patching, they don't give us any trouble as we picked decent hardware.
 
Hi all,

OK I now have two companies needing CCTV with two cameras (one close to main building, one further near entrance) so am looking into this again.

Got to survey them first to find out what they need, but it seems I can either go web cam based (cheap but not good quality in relative terms), IP camera (not too expensive and better quality) or traditional camera based.

Will let you know more when read up on the options :)
 
I still haven't progressed much in my dilema. I have been hit with another prob lem and that's to do with the the cameras running on homeplug adapters. If I was to add another camera, I can't be sure if the adapters would be fast enough to handle multiple camera feeds. Also, the outdoor ip cameras have no powersource so I was wondering if poe could be used with homeplugs?
 
I am looking at doing something similar

Need a camera to film martial arts lessons so downstairs in the gym they can see and if are interested can go upstairs to the fight school

becuase of the distance will have to be an rj45 camera plugged direct into a pc and then the image shown on the screen of the pc

any ideas have about 150 max
 
An IP camera is usually connected to a router via cat5e cable. The router is used to assign an IP address to the webcam. You then login to the camera for viewing by entering the IP address of the camera into your internet browser i.e. http://192.168.0.50

Thats how the IP cameras I have used works.
 
I went for a pack deal "N10GN" in the end (can't give link as they are competitor). They are traditional BNC cameras rather than IP ones which were too expensive. Will let you know how it goes next week.
 
I installed them end of last week - went well and had call from the customer this morning to say they are very pleased.

I put in the 4 cameras and in addition replaced the 250GB drive with a 750GB, which is quite a cheap upgrade really. Also bought the BNC to VGA adapter and 19" TFT.

The DVR pack is great and easy to set up. It is plug and play. There are two cables per camera (attached to each other) for power and video (BNC connector). Just run each one back to the DVR and use an adapter to plug the DVR into a TFT or use the included SCART for a TV if you wish. Use the on screen menu to set up recordings, i.e. which cameras to record from, brightness/colour settings per camera, quality setting, passwords etc. You then just need to install the software for a PC and connect up via USB (included but short cable - best to get a longer one (A-A USB not A-B btw)). As long as you're not recording, you can play back video and either capture still images or video and save to the PC. Nice and easy.

Its hard to comment on image quality as I'm not experienced enough, however the customer said it was much better than their previous system (some years old but looked like a more expensive solution than this) and were happy with night vision.

Overall a great system for the price. Might need to upgrade the odd camera if you want longer range or something but for general use they are great. The only thing that takes all the time is running and tacking the cables back. The set up of the system (which I did prior to install) only took 5 mins at most and some minor tweaks onsite.
 
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