Spec me a CCTV System

Craigius · 27 May 2015 at 15:39

newbiejim said:
Arrived yesterday, working fine. I asked the seller to mark it as value $25, I got text from DHL saying payment of £3 was required .

Are the images what you expected?

newbiejim · 30 May 2015 at 14:31

Craigius said:
Are the images what you expected?

Sorry I was slow was waiting to get it fixed on to soffit etc (not too bad a job, used POE injector), images are ok in daylight however I would say if night vision is important the size and limited IR capability of this camera may not suit, its only rated at 10 metres IR. The microphone however works better than I expected, I`m not snooping on neighbours but have an ongoing dog barking nuisance. Daylight snapshot HERE

Incidentally, on reading ipcameratalk forums I see the "fix" to get English language is available. LINK, as most of these imported via AliExpress are China region-ed and if u upgrad FW it reverts to Chinese.

Vimes · 30 May 2015 at 15:38

It seems that Hikvision have made some new cameras available.....

http://overseas.hikvision.com/en/products_157.html

the EXIR type look nice.

The new ones which can be seen from the above link are 4MP and offer 120db WDR.

newbiejim · 30 May 2015 at 18:32

Vimes said:
It seems that Hikvision have made some new cameras available.....

http://overseas.hikvision.com/en/products_157.html

the EXIR type look nice.

The new ones which can be seen from the above link are 4MP and offer 120db WDR.

Nice Lux numbers too.

Vimes · 30 May 2015 at 18:58

^^^^from what I am reading they also support a true 120db WDR function, usually found on their more expensive cameras. It would be nice to see some comparative recordings, especially at night.

DJMK4 · 1 Jun 2015 at 12:22

Can anyone reccomend me a decent but cheap single CCTV IP camera? I have had experience with Y cams in the past.

What I need

- Something thats not expensive
- Something that will work over wired and wifi
- Something that has good video quality
- Store to micro SD card
- Store to tftp server or network file storage
- Something that works well in the dark and light
- Soemthing that is built for outdoors

hit me up

lmfy2k · 16 Jun 2015 at 10:37

hi all

my cousin is after a simple setup

1 camera at front of house, going into a DVR of some sort and ability to view the camera remotely

anyone spec me please?

nutcase · 25 Jun 2015 at 08:35

I'm probably being dumb, but I can't get the Hikvision PCNVR software to start automatically if the PC reboots. I've even tried making it a service, but because it takes so long to load it just times out

Any ideas please as it rebooted the other day and I didn't know and so I wasn't recording for a few days.

footman · 3 Jul 2015 at 16:15

I'm about to buy a home cctv system form CCTV42 and I'm looking for the best method to connect the DVR, which will be placed in the loft, with the router.
This can be either wired or wireless.

Beans on toast Dave · 3 Jul 2015 at 16:38

nutcase_1uk said:
I'm probably being dumb, but I can't get the Hikvision PCNVR software to start automatically if the PC reboots. I've even tried making it a service, but because it takes so long to load it just times out

Any ideas please as it rebooted the other day and I didn't know and so I wasn't recording for a few days.

i stuck mine in the startup folder and used autologin, works fine with that

dmsims · 3 Jul 2015 at 18:33

footman said:
I'm about to buy a home cctv system form CCTV42 and I'm looking for the best method to connect the DVR, which will be placed in the loft, with the router.
This can be either wired or wireless.

Why would you want to buy low res old tech ?

footman · 3 Jul 2015 at 18:42

dmsims said:
Why would you want to buy low res old tech ?

explain

nutcase · 3 Jul 2015 at 18:58

challengedavid said:
i stuck mine in the startup folder and used autologin, works fine with that

I don't really want to do that as it's a server that does other stuff as well

Vulcan · 3 Jul 2015 at 19:44

footman said:
explain

There's no point in getting old low resolution cameras, they aren't good enough to pick out faces, or number plates. Spend a little bit extra and get a decent HD camera.

footman · 3 Jul 2015 at 20:00

Perhaps you could help with specifics. What exactly is old and low res about their cameras?

trentlad · 3 Jul 2015 at 20:46

Thoughts on Dropcam?

Quality is insane, just google "cell phone store robbery punch" and that first video is filmed on this tiny little camera.

Vulcan · 3 Jul 2015 at 20:57

footman said:
Perhaps you could help with specifics. What exactly is old and low res about their cameras?

Anything less than 1920x1080 resolution really.

Have a look at this page: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18568132&page=12

The camera in post #333 is about £100 and uses an ethernet cable rather than BNC/RCA cables.

footman · 3 Jul 2015 at 22:08

Longbow said:
Anything less than 1920x1080 resolution really.

Have a look at this page: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18568132&page=12

The camera in post #333 is about £100 and uses an ethernet cable rather than BNC/RCA cables.

Thanks, something to work on.

footman · 16 Jul 2015 at 12:47

After some research I'm going to go for a Hikvision POE setup using a mix of EXIR dome and bullet cameras, 4 domes and 2 bullets.
The cheapest I can find seems to be http://www.cctvkits.co.uk/ cheaper than ebay.
I'm still uncertain whether to go for the 1.3MP or 3MP cameras.

dmsims · 16 Jul 2015 at 12:57

The 3MP camera are much much better

and there are 4MP ones now as well