Recent content by Darid

Maybe I am paranoid, but I suppose people think that anyone who would put cameras all over the outside of their house is paranoid... Yet the market for residential cameras seems to be growing.... I had thought about a 2nd NVR and that may be the most cost efficient route for me at the moment...

Okay, so I am looking to have a backup plan should someone break into my home and they steal my NVR or smash my cameras. I thought about doing cloud storage but I've seen a couple posts where people advise against this. I thought about building my own server, but the idea of dropping $3k+ on a...

All cameras up and operational, VPN is working great. Thanks to the info/people on this site, I could not have done it without their help!

Thank you both for responding to a n3wb, I am able to view my cameras finally... now to start making adjustments lol @Solar Deity you are a rockstar man, thank you for your patience and ability to dumb it down for me to understand. I owe you a drink or 3

Thanks SD, I will do that now and see what happens.

Thats what I thought as well but the camera I found does not have that IP, my camera is 192.168.29.115 which might be my PoE switch but I did not think it would have its own IP? With 1 camera plugged into the switch I have tried both the "default" and this other address and it just says it...

NACL web plug-in

Okay, I am in over my head and hoping someone can help me start treading water again heh... Any chance of getting a conversation started with someone that can give me a few step by step instructions to get me started? I am trying to get everything working without the NVR since the one I got...

Thanks for the responses, I have more studying to do on this but I will move forward with setting up a VPN ( may have to get a new router since I dont know if my netgear has the ability or not) and then setup a firewall, Im sure I will have many more questions, hope yall dont get overly...

Okay, I am a complete n00b at this stuff but I am trying to learn so please bare with me. My wife works from home and has to connect through a VPN that her work uses (only her laptop connects this way) we use netflix and amazon fire stick for TV. So my questions are, If I set up my router with...

Currently waiting on my first surveillance system to arrive... Reminds me of being young and waiting for Christmas morning!

Complete N00bie, but we all gotta start somewhere.

Thanks for the reply Shaoib, I have not ordered yet but I am pretty sure those are what I will start with. It may require some custom mounts but I think that will be a fun and interesting problem to solve. Sorry for the quality of pictures, gloomy day and I am sick so this is the best I can do...

Hey y'all, So my wife and I have been looking at getting a surveillance system at our house, and after researching many of the big box store kits *ie: wasted a lot of time* I ended up here. Here's what I am looking to start with and a few questions that I have about them.... NVR: Dahua NVR...