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I'm looking into installing a cctv camera at home overlooking my driveway. Ideally I don't want to be spending a lot of money. I've seen some on various sites for £40+.
From what I've learnt from my research, I'll be wanting an IP camera, but I'm confused as to how these record.
What systems do you guys have? And what would you recommend?
Aha no way! I spent a full day researching these last week! Ha.
The half decent ones can be found for about 40 to 60 quid ok amazon. The ones without SD card only stream live to your phone or laptop and from there it's up to the software you use (or whatever the seller recommends) to take care of recording. Now the software they recommend usually gets slated as saying it's not very good, I'm not sure if alternatives work and are better...
The models that come with sd card are the better options and they stream live as above and also can record to software and apps as above. These though also record to an sd card built into the device which stores the data all the time and then loops when it's full... If you want data from a few days ago, pull the card and find the data from that day
22:nd-Aug-2016, 16:42:32 (This post was last modified: 22:nd-Aug-2016, 17:00:32 by bhalay207.)
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.
(22:nd-Aug-2016, 16:42:32)bhalay207 Wrote: 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.
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
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
(22:nd-Aug-2016, 16:42:32)bhalay207 Wrote: 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.
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?
(22:nd-Aug-2016, 16:42:32)bhalay207 Wrote: 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.
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?
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.
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
This is the daytime sample, excuse the messy garden it's work in progress, I got it to protect the contents of the shed, the wires of the camera could easily be cut as my installation isn't great, but to cut the wires they've got to approach the camera so if any burglars are going to be seen at all then the PC will capture and save it
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
As promised heres the night time footage, not 100% but for the price of the camera I don't think it's too bad, last night was a busy night though, a spider decided to make a web across the lens resulting in alot of false alarms
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
(28:th-Aug-2016, 09:35:58)bhalay207 Wrote: It's nice to have proper user feedback on these cams and not this 'I was paid to give an honest review' malarkey!
The night footage isn't working just yet to see
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Strange that it's working on my end. I'll take another look later. I'm one of those paid to give honest review people haha but if you see the footage you can make your own mind up on it
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
(28:th-Aug-2016, 14:17:56)bhalay207 Wrote: Well this is it. Incidentally how do you get into that paid to review thing? Don't they give you items to test? Do you have to send them back?
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Sent you a PM dude
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
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