Spec me a CCTV System
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From my research, the footage can all be accessed through the web software, and when the card is full old footage will be overwritten on the video storage partition. Apparently a 128gb card will give you 5 days worth of recording which is a lot if it's only recording based on movement. You can review all the recordings through the web software and I assume choose to save any recordings you want.
Could a camera owner confirm please?
Isn't that part of the point? Deterrent first, evidence second.
Im confused
What would be the easiest setup for 3 or 4 camera system? id love something like nest but for external use? i dont really want to run it off a pc. Recording time doesnt have to be longer than a day or two as its just to use as a monitor more than anything really
What would be the easiest setup for 3 or 4 camera system? id love something like nest but for external use? i dont really want to run it off a pc. Recording time doesnt have to be longer than a day or two as its just to use as a monitor more than anything reallyI thought they changed that and started bundling two licenses following customer complaints?
Even my old 212J was given an extra license for surevillance station (1 was included originally) allowing me to run and record from 2 cameras.
Will let you know later today bud - my new 415+ has just been delivered
I hope its 2 - as thats the number of cameras I need.
Now where to sell my AvTech 792 DVR box, hmmmm.....
Hi guys, my mum had her car keyed 2 nights in a row so she's asked me to look into a CCTV setup to watch her car. I've had a bit of a skim through the thread, but I really have no clue what the various ways to go about it are. Any suggestions are very welcome!
From a bit of Googling that does seem to be the case. Unfortunately only the DS-2CD2032F model has the SD card slot out of their bullet cameras and I don't think that is EXIR as people recommended earlier in the thread. Most of their domes have SD card slots (look for the F at the end of the product name, and under "Network storage" on their website.
£70 for that model + £20 for a 64GB memory card + however much for the right powerline adapter. Not sure what we need on the Powerline side of things yet.
You start to worry me when you use words like "Powerline adapter". You need proper PoE for the cameras, forget the poxy memory cards etc, don't even think if injectors or any such malarky and piling up power supplies everywhere - get NVR with built in PoE switch, second hand HDD (the larger the better), then it's literally network cable between camera and NVR, RJ45 to RJ45.
Sorry, new to the terminology. It would have been a decent PoE plug I would go with rather than a dedicated NVR. The problem with the NVR is that it seems like overkill for anyone who wants just two cameras or less. Do you have any alternative suggestions?
PoE = power over ethernet, not power over electric. PoE provides power through the Ethernet cable so you don't need a wall plug. You do need a compatible switch/router that can provide this though.
Something like this provides 4 PoE ports.
Something like this provides 4 PoE ports.
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can you find out the model numbers please, very interested for a friend, thanks
You could say that, but then again doesn't it attract attention because your house has cameras?
You don't really need an all-in-one solution to be fair. Just connect the PoE switch to your existing access point / router / switch / network and it should just work fine
. I don't have any CCTV cameras but the basic principles of networking should apply here.At my house for example, I have:
Internet => BT Home Hub router => 8-port Gigabit Switch => PCs, laptops|Wifi router on the other side of the house etc
The only thing plugged into my home hub is a cable from my gigabit switch and any wireless devices that connect to it. Everything else is through one means or another connected to my gigabit switch. Everything can access the internet just fine, even the things which are cabled into the WiFi router on the other side of the house which have to bounce through that router, my gigabit switch, and my homehub.
So all you would need to do would be to plug the PoE switch into your existing router, connect your camera into the PoE ports and you'll still be able to access them from your phone/PC. The cameras will get their IP address from your normal router.
The only time it wouldn't work would be if you bought a fancy managed PoE switch which had built-in firewalls etc - generally, these are expensive though so it's unlikely you will. You would then probably need to turn the firewall off and/or open them up to allow the camera traffic in/out to your existing router.
Or just buy PoE injectors as suggested above.
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Was worried you were going to say that
Wiring Ethernet from my current BT Hub next to the front door to a separate PoE router then through an external wall on the opposite side of the house is a big pain in the bum. Might try to find a WiFi repeater that will do PoE too.
I can't believe I'm going to say this but you could use actual Poweline adapters to connect your PoE switch to BT infrastructure on the other side of the house.
As for the NVR being overkill. I think about it this way - if NVR with PoE switch is £120 plus HDD, and you have to spend £50 odd for a PoE switch alone plus £20 for a decent microSD card for each of the cameras, you are only saving about £30-50 quid. But what you are gaining is failure points. Next time the temperature falls below 0 and that microSD card stops working inside of frozen to the core camera, are you prepared to climb that wall and replace it? What if few weeks down the line right before your ten day holiday you decide you actually need more than four/five days of footage stored? Are you prepared to climb that wall, open the camera and replace it? Do it once, do it well, be done with it.
As for the NVR being overkill. I think about it this way - if NVR with PoE switch is £120 plus HDD, and you have to spend £50 odd for a PoE switch alone plus £20 for a decent microSD card for each of the cameras, you are only saving about £30-50 quid. But what you are gaining is failure points. Next time the temperature falls below 0 and that microSD card stops working inside of frozen to the core camera, are you prepared to climb that wall and replace it? What if few weeks down the line right before your ten day holiday you decide you actually need more than four/five days of footage stored? Are you prepared to climb that wall, open the camera and replace it? Do it once, do it well, be done with it.
Was worried you were going to say that
Wiring Ethernet from my current BT Hub next to the front door to a separate PoE router then through an external wall on the opposite side of the house is a big pain in the bum. Might try to find a WiFi repeater that will do PoE too.
If you have a power point nearby and an ethernet already in place (or one you can easily wire in) then just buy a PoE injector for ~£15 as suggested by zoomee
.Have a look at something like the TP-LINK TL-POE200 on the Rainforest place. In essence it's an adapter that "injects" a power feed into a normal cable.