Hello all,
I am new here so let’s start with a little introduction. My name is Bob and I live in the Netherlands. I have taken up the task of planning and installing a security camera system round my inlaws house. They live in a house with a large garden in a residential area with a lot of trees and greenery. The houses are big and the people are generally old. A few years ago there was a series of burglaries into their house, even when they were at home.
After the burglaries the police viewed camera images of a house in the neighborhood that was not burglarized and had camera’s installed. On one of the camera images there was a man standing in the garden looking straight into the camera. This was a burglar and he was later caught by the police. So camera's do work, both for prevention and identification.
In the meantime my inlaws had their house secured (doors and windows) and an alarm system installed which is connected to an alarm company. This has helped, but recently they had an intruder in the house when they were at home, during day time. The intruder came in through the kitchen door, which was closed but not locked while my mother in law was working in the garden. In order to deter intruders I now want to install a camera system.
I am now in the planning stage: reading and gathering information, sourcing the equipment, planning where the camera’s should go, how to wire them and so forth. This website and the documents I found here, like the Cliff Notes and some PDF’s proved to be an excellent source of information and expertise. So thank you for that. I made a small donation to support the site.
The plan so far is to install a handful of camera’s, three or four 2MP starlight varifocal turrets and one 8MP varifocal turret, wired to a POE switch which is connected to an inexpensive NVR. The NVR will be 8 channel, so that we can add an extra camera later if needed.
Now for my questions:
1.Can I setup and install a Dahua NVR and access ALL functions without a keyboard and a monitor?
2. Is using motion detection an option or is this generally not advised? To be honest continuous recording of several camera’s 24/7 seems rather pointless and a waste of disk space when nothing happens?
3. I understand that you can place a SD card in the camera as a backup, and that some NVR’s have “Automatic Network Recovery”? Is this generally considered a “must have” ?
4, on reliability: If the network is down the camera’s will stop recording, since it is POE. So I guess you need to hook the POE switch to UPS?
Also, a SD card is, AFAIK, not really good for permanent read/write operations. How long will they last, as a rule of thumb?
OK, so far for the questions.
Thanks!
Bob
I am new here so let’s start with a little introduction. My name is Bob and I live in the Netherlands. I have taken up the task of planning and installing a security camera system round my inlaws house. They live in a house with a large garden in a residential area with a lot of trees and greenery. The houses are big and the people are generally old. A few years ago there was a series of burglaries into their house, even when they were at home.
After the burglaries the police viewed camera images of a house in the neighborhood that was not burglarized and had camera’s installed. On one of the camera images there was a man standing in the garden looking straight into the camera. This was a burglar and he was later caught by the police. So camera's do work, both for prevention and identification.
In the meantime my inlaws had their house secured (doors and windows) and an alarm system installed which is connected to an alarm company. This has helped, but recently they had an intruder in the house when they were at home, during day time. The intruder came in through the kitchen door, which was closed but not locked while my mother in law was working in the garden. In order to deter intruders I now want to install a camera system.
I am now in the planning stage: reading and gathering information, sourcing the equipment, planning where the camera’s should go, how to wire them and so forth. This website and the documents I found here, like the Cliff Notes and some PDF’s proved to be an excellent source of information and expertise. So thank you for that. I made a small donation to support the site.
The plan so far is to install a handful of camera’s, three or four 2MP starlight varifocal turrets and one 8MP varifocal turret, wired to a POE switch which is connected to an inexpensive NVR. The NVR will be 8 channel, so that we can add an extra camera later if needed.
Now for my questions:
1.Can I setup and install a Dahua NVR and access ALL functions without a keyboard and a monitor?
2. Is using motion detection an option or is this generally not advised? To be honest continuous recording of several camera’s 24/7 seems rather pointless and a waste of disk space when nothing happens?
3. I understand that you can place a SD card in the camera as a backup, and that some NVR’s have “Automatic Network Recovery”? Is this generally considered a “must have” ?
4, on reliability: If the network is down the camera’s will stop recording, since it is POE. So I guess you need to hook the POE switch to UPS?
Also, a SD card is, AFAIK, not really good for permanent read/write operations. How long will they last, as a rule of thumb?
OK, so far for the questions.
Thanks!
Bob
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