Spec me a CCTV System

On the Dahua recorders you are limited to the number of cameras so if you KNOW you’ll never want more than 4 cameras buy a NVR2104HS-4P-I or if you think you might want more cameras in future get the NVR2108HS-8P-I.

For TiOC it has to have the H and end in -I.
 
Anyone have the Eufy home base 3 and 4k cams, are they decent?

Was thinking of getting 2x 4k cameras, the 2k door bell (says it's compatible, but not the dual one) and a 2k cam for inside the garage.

Also seen a Lorex system, all 2k wire free, seems ok, but not really heard of them. Anyone had any experience with them?
 
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Anyone have the Eufy home base 3 and 4k cams, are they decent?

Was thinking of getting 2x 4k cameras, the 2k door bell (says it's compatible, but not the dual one) and a 2k cam for inside the garage.

Also seen a Lorex system, all 2k wire free, seems ok, but not really heard of them. Anyone had any experience with them?
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Lorex is Dahua OEM. Just don’t pay too much for 1080P cameras.
 
Haven't even looked at 1080p

Did consider a wired system, but I think the cable routes are a bit awkward! I have all tiles around the top half of the house.
 
So it seems the 2K/4K/5K thing refers to roughly the number of horizontal pixels. So 1920 x 1080 = 2K, 3840 x 2160 = 4K and 5120 x 2160 is 5K. They even seem to have extended this to the vertical pixels now as Ive seen a couple of monitors referred to asc5K2K.

So if your 1440P is 2000-ish pixels wide then you are indeed correct.
 
I have Arlo doorbell and also a mix of their 4K, 2K, 1080p cameras. All linked to a Arlo base station wirelessly or home WiFi if located too far from the station.

I don’t have subscription so all footages stores on USB drive attached to the base station.

Expensive but everything works as it should. Battery life sucks but we do have a busy house and activation and recording is very frequent. Doorbell and driveway camera is powered by mains. Garden ones is attached to solar panels which charges itself with direct sun light.

Studio/shed is on battery and connected to shed WiFi.

Alexa enabled but useless for showing footage on echo shows as it takes ages to connect to video feed. Phone app is much better and usually connect straight away, 1s max delay with good phone internet and useful when talking to delivery drive not to leave delivery right by the door for everyone to see ….
 
Was comparing Arlo to eufy, Arlo seems to be the better of the two, but more expensive.

How bad are the batteries, months or days?
I could feed the garage on off the mains, but not door bell.
More thinking....

@bensonchi if it's connected to your WiFi, I assume the recordings find their way back to the base station?
 
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Door bell battery is the weakest as it will have the most traffic. I have it powered via the old wired door bell wires, it will take AC 18v etc.

Camera battery really depends on traffic and activation and the manufacturers really stretch their claim on those, even the on in my garden which only activate once or twice a day will only last 3 months....... charging them is easy enough and I don't even dismount them, I use a big power bank and a longer cable and a pole to reach. Since it is magnetic it will clip on and charge up in a few hours.
 
I have a few people asking me about why they are having Hik-Connect issues remotely with regards to connection streaming errors and they can’t seem to view their cameras on the HD option. Runs ok on SD but they aren’t happy with the quality especially at night viewing.

Cameras are running of a 4G router and connection speeds for upload seem to be perfect.

Does anyone know what settings on the camera is determined by HD,SD and Basic from Hik-Connect?
 
If you are viewing remotely you should be using lower res, same with viewing locally on a spot monitor, the only time you need HD is for playback and what is being recorded.
 
But SD is poor. I logged into a few setups today all running HD in Hik-Connect and they’re on a broadband connection of less than 1mb upload and all working fine.

HD must be determined differently depending on the camera setting configured which I need to locate.
 
Doesnt matter if SD is poor, think about what the system is actually doing with the streams.

You have your main stream which is what is recorded, however many cameras all chucking footage back at the recorder (usually a single drive being used for each stream, even in a multi drive system unless you start getting funky with the config where one set of cameras write to a drive and the others to another), this is what is important and should be the best quality.

Anything else is just for keeping an eye on stuff so lower res and lower frame rates on spot monitors and what is being streamed remotely.
 
Yes but not all my installs are focused on recording. Remote viewing is the focus so like I said, SD is poor and again I said the systems I checked yesterday are all working in HD remotely in low broadband connections.

Cameras are different so might investigate that route.
 
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