Recent content by JoelJ

Thanks guys. I will set something up to test the angles later this week. However, electrical will only be roughed in at that point, and the soffit lights will not be installed. There really won't be a good way to test a camera next to the light until after it's all up and running. Is it safe...

I was actually hoping there is a way to do this. I've got the one HDW5231R-Z ordered and on its way from Andy already. I should have it in plenty of time to set up a test rig and try out a few locations. Is there an easy way to just view the camera from my laptop temporarily? As for the...

We are building a house, and this coming weekend I'll be running all my CAT6. There is no drywall up yet, so now is the time to get all the cable run while it's easy. The plan is to eventually get 5-6 cameras on the exterior, but in order to keep immediate costs down, I am starting with three...

Assuming you have an eBay account and are signed in, just do your normal search. On the left side you should be able to click all the check-boxes for the criteria you require. There should be a little green plus sign that pops up above the search results and says "Follow This Search". If you...

I'm not sure if you've found what you're looking for yet, but I know it took me a while to find my computer. Eventually I just saved a search on eBay with all the specs I wanted/needed, and just checked it every morning until the one I got popped up. I never did find that $300 computer...

Exactly what @fenderman and @tigerwillow1 are saying. I can get a 1000' roll of CAT6 off monoprice for $10 more than CAT5e. I'm using it for fiber internet as well throughout the house in addition to cameras. CAT5e "might" be good enough for that, but I know CAT6 will be for sure...at least...

I can't say I disagree with you about ADT as a company. Just like everything else, I've researched it to death, and they don't always get glowing reviews. I guess the one thing I have going for me is I'm not dealing with ADT directly. We have a local service rep who does the installs and all...

Thanks. We will be putting in a wired alarm system as well during that stage. Door sensors, glass break detectors, CO/smoke detectors, etc. I'm not thrilled with signing a contract for an alarm system, but it was a compromise I had to make with my wife. I get the cameras, she gets ADT...

Hey all. I should have done this a few weeks ago before I really got into the forums and started asking questions. My name is Joel. Professionally I'm a civil engineer, but in my spare time I guess I would call myself a jack-of-all-trades, and master of none. My dad always said, "Never pay...

This is awesome! The Dahua HDW5231R-Z's are the cameras I've been looking at installing at the house I'm building. I was thinking of setting them up in exactly the same location as you are here; right under the soffit in the corners. Is that a separate mounting base that you have there, or is...

@tacocat , did you ever get an answer to this question? This one just came up this morning on my search. HP ProDesk 600 G2 SFF i5 6th Gen 3.20Ghz 8Gb Ram-DDR4, 128-SSD + 2 TB HDD Win 10 | eBay i5-6500 3.2GHz 8GB Ram 128GB SSD 2 TB HDD Windows 10 Pro installed. This seems to be checking...

The first and third ones don't have Windows 10 installed. What does it mean on the second one where it says Windows 10 "Sealed"? Also, I'd like to make sure I have at least 8GB. But thanks for the suggestions. I have a search saved on eBay that's updating me when new items pop up that meet...

Shoot yes, I knew that sorry. Thought I was getting lucky for a minute. Thanks.

Here's one that just popped up...thoughts? Dell Optiplex 7020 SFF, 3.60GHz Core i7-4790, 8GB RAM 1TB HDD, Win 10 Home | eBay

I have been reading the threads, but I guess I'm just trying to piece together all the specs that everyone is listing. One of the first systems you recommend in this thread has a hard disk drive, but elsewhere I see that SDD is the way to go to run BI, and use a HDD for recording. I read...