Cctv systems

[tommyboy1289]

I spent the majority of my night shift trawling through camera forums, eBay and aliexpress. It's a mine field. If I had hundreds to spend then I'd be well away but when you're trying to get quality for not much money, it's alot harder. I've narrowed down to either a Hikvision or Dahua camera but I want to be able to record locally. I also don't want to have to remove the SD card to get the footage. I'd be installing the camera about 10ft high so I want to fit it and leave it..

@rusty2009 that system looks good value for money.

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These are the cameras that I'm interested in. You'll notice that they're all Dahua cameras. The camera forums seem to rate Dahua over Hikvision. I've also thrown a cheapy in there.... A Sricam. They tend to get very mixed reviews.

Sricam - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361663364059

Dahua 1320 (Has SD slot, not wifi) - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321968968613

Dahua 1120 (Has SD slot, is wifi) - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/272299309306

Dahua 4300 (No SD slot. Is auto focus and not fixed lense) - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262381714885



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I've got an SRICAM, paired it with the blueiris software and seems to be working very well, multitude of settings through said software means I can get it performing exactly how I want it too

Ahh, that's interesting to know thanks. What's the camera quality like at night? Is your camera the one I linked to? How to you record?

Sorry for the list of questions.

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This is the one I have https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01H...UTF8&psc=1

It doesn't have SD card capability, comes with it's own app which is shite, fairly decent daytime quality night time isn't too bad, I'll trip it off tonight and upload the day and night footage tomorrow so you can see.

As for recording that's where the blue iris software comes in, you have to pay for it, but it's a bloody good bit of software when it's up and running, basically you add the camera, set the times you want it to turn on and off, you can grey out areas that you don't want movement monitoring, for example we've got a conifer in the garden so I've greyed that out so it doesn't trip the cam everytime the wind blows.

The downside is you need to leave a PC running with the software on, whenever it detects movement it will start recording or taking snapshots, however you set it up, mine saves the files to the PC and also emails to my phone a couple of photos and a 10 second snippet of the footage, if the camera looses connection I also get an email, the only problem with IP cameras is the WiFi, this will be a problem with any IP camera, but a long ethernet cable and some powerline adapters soon sorts it out if your not close enough to the router.

It's also worth bearing in mind most of the cheaper cameras like this have a small adapter 6-8 inches from the camera, this has a power socket and ethernet socket on, this needs to be waterproofed before installation, I've just got a waterproof junction box, had to cut it to get the bit in, extended the power cable and stuck alot of silicone sealant around the junction box just to be safe.

Any more questions feel free to ask.