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    Covert night camera - recommendations

    https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/your-privacy-rights/surveillance-and-monitoring/security-cameras/ From the looks of this, then yeah, you've nothing to worry about even if you're filming in other people's gardens. Bloody hell lol
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    Covert night camera - recommendations

    You don't have to display signs if you're only recording on your own property, this thread is about hidden cameras filming a shared public space.
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    Covert night camera - recommendations

    I'm no lawyer but I install cameras for a living and I know that here in the UK you're breaking the law if you even have a bright red camera with flashing lights on it boutside your house filming a public space unless you have a very good reason and public signage. Privacy may be more lax in...
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    Covert night camera - recommendations

    I'm not sure about the states, but in the UK recording the public areas around your house is fairly common, but we have to display a sign that cctv is installed. Though in fairness that sign can go anywhere so you can stick it on your back fence and technically you're OK. It's the covert thing...
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    Covert night camera - recommendations

    Unless the whole street belongs to you, it's property that isn't yours. Essentially you're talking about constantly recording everyone around their homes, without their authorisation, with hidden cameras. I'm not saying you'd definitely get in trouble, but if I wouldn't want to be trying to...
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    Covert night camera - recommendations

    Be very careful about installing covert cameras covering property that doesn't belong to you.
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    Recommendations for a showy camera (maybe WIFI) or even a fake

    Bloody hell. I can understand it for low voltage stuff like mains but not elv like cameras. Oh well, I suppose it keeps the professionals in a job lol.
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    Recommendations for a showy camera (maybe WIFI) or even a fake

    I mean fit a poe network switch and plug it in, then run new network cables back to it. Is that really something an electrician needs to do?
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    Recommendations for a showy camera (maybe WIFI) or even a fake

    If you have power and a little room where the existing camera is, you could just fit a 4 port poe switch and cable any new cameras from there.
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    Hikvision G1 Firmware on DS-2CD2185FWD-I space on micro sd

    Modern compression (like H264/H265) will vary in how much data a scene takes depending on how much changes from frame to frame. As for the actual storage vs stated storage, that's going to be the same for all cards unfortunately. The better ones will (in theory) last through more write cycles...
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    IP POE Dome Camera Issue

    Known in the industry as percussive maintenance. Works with all manner of things.
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    LPR Feasibility

    Loads of hik and Dahua cameras have the slot. a 64gb sd recording on motion only will give you months in most domestic uses. That's why I specified well installed. I install alarms for a living but they have to be done properly, the panel should have tampered immediately upon the lid being...
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    LPR Feasibility

    In regards to your last question - most ip cameras can be set up to record directly to either an sd card or network storage. I always like to have the cameras record to a separate nas, on top of the normal nvr recordings, but only on motion or alarm. Another step could be to have your switch...
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    Add microphone to camera

    If it's an IP camera with audio capabilities (even if through an external mic) then it will reach the nvr as part of the camera feed, though you may have to enable the audio on that channel on the nvr side as well as through the camera properties. You also usually need to actually click on an...
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    Pole mounting something like the Dahua IPC-HDW2231R-ZS from a commercial ceiling joist

    You can get the fancy looking ones like that, but the standard mounting base is also threaded to the rear so you can thread it straight on to the conduit https://www.dahuasecurity.com/uk/products/productDetail/1089 Or worst case scenario, you thread the conduit into a galvanised terminal box...
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