Home Surveillance System (Outdoors)
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Also, how do you know WHERE to put the cameras? Obviously it's on a case-by-case basis, but say I have a regular rectangular house. How do I cover the entire outside while also keeping an eye on all the cameras?
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@BRRABill said:
Also, how do you know WHERE to put the cameras? Obviously it's on a case-by-case basis, but say I have a regular rectangular house. How do I cover the entire outside while also keeping an eye on all the cameras?
Do you need 360degree viewing?
Most systems will have a software viewer, just install on a PC and let it run. Also some will have mobile apps.
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I would say just cover main entrance(s), car maybe if on a drive by house. Then any side windows?.
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ring.com is a nice addition to a surveillance system as well.
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Trendnet sells some very reasonably priced cameras, and gives away a Windows-based Server to manage multiple cameras for free. You can also use Zoneminder on a Linux-based system to manage them, I believe it works with all of the Trendnet models that are out there. Hikvision also makes very similarly spec'd devices at a much cheaper price and I believe you can use Zoneminder to manage those cameras as well.
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How outdoors are you going? Pole mounted - fully exposed, or eaves of the house?
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@scottalanmiller said:
I don't have direct experience with these so take it literally when I say "check these out" just because I know that they look interesting...
Ubiquiti and Netgear have nice looking options and are vendors that I otherwise like. If it were me, I would start there.
I need to add a few here, and I am leaning towards Ubiquiti.
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@gjacobse said:
How outdoors are you going? Pole mounted - fully exposed, or eaves of the house?
Not sure?
We have a roofline, so I could put them up there under that.
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Something to think of also,.. some cameras have the ability to have SD cards in them... Great and yet not so.
Do want a NVR for the cameras?
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Yeah I imagine I'll get a NAS and store to that. Or some sort of storage like that.
I'm not climbing up on my roof to retrieve footage.
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I live out in the country so I would recommend doing what a lot of people out here do - but trail cameras. It's just a fancy name for motion-activated cameras. They have a range of X and if anything moves in that range, they start recording and store all the footage in an SD card. You can get fairly decent ones for pretty reasonable prices at any sporting goods store or right on Amazon.
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@Awkward-Gamer said:
I live out in the country so I would recommend doing what a lot of people out here do - but trail cameras. It's just a fancy name for motion-activated cameras. They have a range of X and if anything moves in that range, they start recording and store all the footage in an SD card. You can get fairly decent ones for pretty reasonable prices at any sporting goods store or right on Amazon.
They are really tiny too with good picture quality. You can hang them just about anywhere. A family member has 10-12 of them on his property.
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We have friends who have them back in NY. Half the time they just catch drunk neighbours pissing in the woods.
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@scottalanmiller said:
We have friends who have them back in NY. Half the time they just catch drunk neighbours pissing in the woods.
I'd to catch that for some good blackmail.
"I need to see a case of Bell's on my doorstep by 8PM or this video gets released..."
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@coliver said:
@Awkward-Gamer said:
I live out in the country so I would recommend doing what a lot of people out here do - but trail cameras. It's just a fancy name for motion-activated cameras. They have a range of X and if anything moves in that range, they start recording and store all the footage in an SD card. You can get fairly decent ones for pretty reasonable prices at any sporting goods store or right on Amazon.
They are really tiny too with good picture quality. You can hang them just about anywhere. A family member has 10-12 of them on his property.
That is what I am looking for, but wired into a storage system in the house.
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@BRRABill said:
@coliver said:
@Awkward-Gamer said:
I live out in the country so I would recommend doing what a lot of people out here do - but trail cameras. It's just a fancy name for motion-activated cameras. They have a range of X and if anything moves in that range, they start recording and store all the footage in an SD card. You can get fairly decent ones for pretty reasonable prices at any sporting goods store or right on Amazon.
They are really tiny too with good picture quality. You can hang them just about anywhere. A family member has 10-12 of them on his property.
That is what I am looking for, but wired into a storage system in the house.
You may be able to find some of those as well. To stay on the low-cost side of it, search for trail cameras, not surveillance cameras. People in marketing know they can charge more for home security than they can for deer tracking so they price accordingly, even if both products are the same except for the label.
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They are also camouflaged, pretty cool.
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Axis has some good cameras, we've used in few places, office, boss's home etc
When we shifted our office to a new building all those axis camera was given away and i got one too, the p1346 http://www.axis.com/global/en/products/axis-p1346
These are very good cams from my experience, might be bit pricey. When you look at outdoor cameras need to make sure what kind of temperature those are exposed to. Check the product selector and see if anything matches your price range. http://www.axis.com/global/en/products/product-selector#/
Some models have options like vandal resistent, day n night etc and most of these would be a rotating camera.
Now regarding the recording part, Axis does have some management softwares, personally i use uViewer for Axis camera, which actually monitors my dog in the house, and that can be set to trigger recording when there is movement (in my case that cant be used as my dog keeps moving!
), or set it to an audio level increase etc. Moreover, the cam also has an inbuilt web server, i believe most cams now has that, enabled with port forward and using a mobile client to watch it from outside.
speaking of pet cameras, i really like the new nest cam and might get one, simple small and i can talk through the cam in case i need to keep my dog under control even outside!
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