Been doing a lot of research on this forum lately for a home camera system I'm planning to set up.
i was kind of set on an NVR until i read a thread about BlueIris and now I think I'm going to go that way...
Just wanted to reduce my install labor and ugliness outside with regards to conduit. I have an old 4 family brick building, semi attached, and cant really route wires through the interior walls (apt's rented).
I'm thinking i can get all of my cameras on the front and rear corners of the building and be okay and run the ethernet down in a conduit to the basement wall. that being said, i already have the entire basement wired with ethernet jacks that all goes to a server room.
do you guys think there is any issue hooking up 2 POE switches at both ends of the building, and plugging those into my existing network wall jacks, with a BlueIris PC wired in somewhere else on the network?
Would this type of setup also work with an NVR? or do the cameras need to be plugged directly into the NVR to work?
all my switches are 1Gbps (not sure if that matters).
I'm open to suggestions, since I'm in the planning stages of this.
i was kind of set on an NVR until i read a thread about BlueIris and now I think I'm going to go that way...
Just wanted to reduce my install labor and ugliness outside with regards to conduit. I have an old 4 family brick building, semi attached, and cant really route wires through the interior walls (apt's rented).
I'm thinking i can get all of my cameras on the front and rear corners of the building and be okay and run the ethernet down in a conduit to the basement wall. that being said, i already have the entire basement wired with ethernet jacks that all goes to a server room.
do you guys think there is any issue hooking up 2 POE switches at both ends of the building, and plugging those into my existing network wall jacks, with a BlueIris PC wired in somewhere else on the network?
Would this type of setup also work with an NVR? or do the cameras need to be plugged directly into the NVR to work?
all my switches are 1Gbps (not sure if that matters).
I'm open to suggestions, since I'm in the planning stages of this.
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