Spec me a CCTV System

psd99 said:
hey guys I am looking for a CCTV system for my house. These are the requirements:

- 4 cameras outdoor ones
- budget £300 in total including all equipment
- app that can allow me to look back at footage from before on my phone or macbook remotely
- night vision would be a good plus

I saw this earlier:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weatherpro...71784160&sr=8-2&keywords=cctv+system+ethernet

is that any good do you reckon?
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I think you would be disappointed with the image resolution of a 1Mp camera, but if that's your budget you'd have to go with it.
 
Guys, looking at some of the comments here it's a minefield! I'm not sure what I want either, and I wouldn't know that 1MP would not be good enough...

I also need:
-2-4 outdoor cameras
-Good enough quality to see faces
-Night vision
-Ability to log on externally (from work/abroad) and check the situation and look at old footage
-Budget???
 
anyone have some experience with synology NAS (surveillance station) and Hikvision DS-2CD2042WD-I

Fresh out the box

I search for the camera and it finds it but i use the test connection and it states disconnected.

I am missing a setting either on the camera or on the the NAS but i cant figure out what one.
 
wilber said:
anyone have some experience with synology NAS (surveillance station) and Hikvision DS-2CD2042WD-I

Fresh out the box

I search for the camera and it finds it but i use the test connection and it states disconnected.

I am missing a setting either on the camera or on the the NAS but i cant figure out what one.
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Have you setup a schedule ?
 
dmsims said:
Have you setup a schedule ?
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No, i have just installed surveillance station and connected the camera to my network.

I can log onto the camera and see that its working

when i try to add the camera to SS it finds it but if i press the test button i get this error

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if i click finish SS tries to connect to the camera but says disconnected.
 
I pressed that and it autofilled the camera details in.

I found the answer, I had to enable NFS in file services on the NAS
Then set up a NFS rule for the folder the SS app created.

all working now.

Thank you for your help
 
How are people setting up the recording on their synology NAS with SS, are you setting the motion detection recording up from the camera or the SS app?

I think i have it set up on both so having having lots of recorded files this morning.
 
Housey said:
I am currently considering some CCTV for my home but need some advice please. My garage block is not attached to the house, it is around 50 meters away across my driveway and I want a camera inside the garage that can provide a full 360 degree scan with movement recognition. Ideally I want something discreet but high quality with ful night vision capability and to add to that I want something for the rear and front of my house as well. We don't live on a street but I do have a building with various covenants so ideally I would prefer something I can mount inside the house beaming out, or something very small and discreet but again with a 180 degreed scanning capability and high quality night and day ideally all linking back to a box or PC application that will tell me if movement is sensed.

I don't live on a street and have a fair chunk of land out back but I want to check no one is having a nose around when I am not there as I fear someone is. Don't know where to start and budget is what it needs to be to do it right.

Thoughts welcomed.
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360 cameras wont be small. better off putting in multiple cameras. the dome type work well from hikvision. You get night vision by the camera having IR lights in them. Most do, and they turn on automatically when it gets dark.

Once you have the cameras, you need to consider how they are going to be wired back to the recording device. The best way to do it, is to use cat5 for both network and power using PoE. The cams are just IP devices so will sit on your network fine.

Another hurdle is how to get the network back to you house, where i guess you will have the recording device. Leave that with you.

Last thing is the recording device. My choice is a synology NAS. does all the recording, recognition and will alert via email and has a mobile app.
 
I really need to keep the costs down but I simply can not afford to not have my bike protected by camera with all the local thefts going on so my question is...

Have any of you purchased your kit piece by piece? What did you get or what do you recommend?

I have the worlds worst CCTV installed :D So I was thinking of buying myself a good dvr and 1 camera to start with (I only need to cover my motorbike in the shed)

It doesn't need to have fancy bells and whistles but it does need to have good night time quality recording. And then adding to it if and when I need to down the road?
 
wilber said:
How are people setting up the recording on their synology NAS with SS, are you setting the motion detection recording up from the camera or the SS app?

I think i have it set up on both so having having lots of recorded files this morning.
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I don't use the motion detection (mine just record 24/7) - From previous research however I think it's better to use the Synology motion detection as the algorithyms are far better (or so I read somewhere - sorry I think it was the Synology forums somewhere)

More here: http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/features/2384-synology-surveillance-station-motion-detection-setup/ - looks like your better off with motion detection on the synology box if your cameras are compatible as there are far superior options that can be configured for the motion detection element on the synology side.
 
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wilber said:
No, i have just installed surveillance station and connected the camera to my network.

I can log onto the camera and see that its working

when i try to add the camera to SS it finds it but if i press the test button i get this error

if i click finish SS tries to connect to the camera but says disconnected.
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Try using a different camera preset, this has been flakey for me as well.
 
lennshow66 said:
Try using a different camera preset, this has been flakey for me as well.
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I think they've borked it since the latest SS release. The previous version worked fine for me too, but I just had to rebuild my NAS and funnily enough SS couldn't auto-detect my UK legit Hikvision cameras but auto-detected my dodgy imported one only lol!

Defo somat wrong in this new version that needs addressing.
 
Also looking to get a system set up asap. Few questions if someone can help.

I would like to cover routes in and out and most of a farmyard/my flat so probably looking for 6 cameras and up.

How does it work with POE? Do the cables need to physically connect directly to the receiver or just any hub on the network?

Reason I ask is I have one wired network in the flat, then it is beamed to the other side of the farmyard a few hundred meters away using a ubiqiti nanostation m5. Would it be easy enough to have cameras connected both sides without all cables returning to the flat?
 
Depending on the speed of the wireless network you could probably do it by connecting the cameras at far side of the farmyard to a POE switch connected to the wireless link.

IIRC you can get an 8 port (4 normal, 4 POE) switch from about £50.
 
Hello...

I need to put 3 outdoor IR dome cameras in 3 seperate locations, so 3 banks of 3 cameras = 9 cameras in total. I'm unable to run wires to connect them all up to 1 DVR box, so they will have to have seperate DVR boxes which makes the job dearer I know... Is it possible to be able to connect all 9 cameras over 1 network to locally and remotely view the cameras? Unfortuantely there's no internet connection at the locations, but ideally I would like to have them connected to 3G so I can login remotely to view them.

How would I do this, and any idea what hardware would be the best solution?

Thanks
 
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tang0 said:
Hello...

I need to put 3 outdoor IR dome cameras in 3 seperate locations, so 3 banks of 3 cameras = 9 cameras in total. I'm unable to run wires to connect them all up to 1 DVR box, so they will have to have seperate DVR boxes which makes the job dearer I know... Is it possible to be able to connect all 9 cameras over 1 network to locally and remotely view the cameras? Unfortuantely there's no internet connection at the locations, but ideally I would like to have them connected to 3G so I can login remotely to view them.

How would I do this, and any idea what hardware would be the best solution?

Thanks
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Do the locations share power?
 
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