Ok folks I have a task to complete for my aging parents (a few hundred miles away) and I am not sure what the best route is. Bear with me here this is a bit of a novel (sorry)
My goal is to have 7 cameras operating with as little maintenance/ complication as possible. I have been maintaining their system but I'm not often on site and they don't do technology very well. I'd like them to have a stable system that they don't have to fuss with much, if at all. I can be there 2x a year to fix and maintain but it would be best if they don't have to touch it.
Currently they have a handful of older POE cameras and one wifi camera (more on that in a bit). The cat5 is very old and degraded from rodents and UV. I am going to install new cameras, and if necessary run new POE cable. Before I get into the actual question(s) let me paint the current situation:
They have an ancient amcrest NV2108E NVR. A handful of 5-7 year old amcrest POE cams run into it. This connects to their network via an amazon wifi extender (Brostrend AC1200 dual band wifi extender) because the router was relocated too far away to run a cable and it does not have wifi capability. They have one location that needs a camera 120' away. The cat5 died somewhere underground so I hacked together a solution (this is where it gets wacky). From the wifi extender I run a hard line into a 5 port switch. From that switch I connect the NVR and a Netgear AC1750 model R6400 nighthawk. Somehow my undereducated persistence managed to get the wifi camera ( ) to hit the nighthawk as an access point(I think), which then sends the signal to the NVR via ethernet. It works....somehow.
Questions:
1-Would removing the POE cameras and dropping in several new wifi cameras (via the nighthawk) work?
1a- Can the router handle multiple wifi signals in and out to the NVR via ethernet?
1b -Will this be unstable?
2- If that is even viable, are there wifi cameras available that will transmit the signal 60' through a two story house to that router? (the 120' distance only has one large window between camera and router)
3- If this is still on the table are there doorbell cams that will play nice with this setup?
4- If that is a terrible plan, I will run all new ethernet for POE- unless one of you more experienced folks has some kind of better solution? (maybe a new NVR with wifi capability can handle all wifi cams at these distances?)
4a- If you have a more elegant solution should I run a separate standalone doorbell cam entirely or will something in the same amcrest/dahua family work with this solution?
money is *a factor, but it is not a huge factor. They're old but are willing to spare a bit of change for a stable, long lasting system.
**I do NOT want to run new ethernet... but I will (the 120' run is underground and hits salt-groundwater about 80' into the run).
any help you folks can offer would be incredibly appreciated.
My goal is to have 7 cameras operating with as little maintenance/ complication as possible. I have been maintaining their system but I'm not often on site and they don't do technology very well. I'd like them to have a stable system that they don't have to fuss with much, if at all. I can be there 2x a year to fix and maintain but it would be best if they don't have to touch it.
Currently they have a handful of older POE cameras and one wifi camera (more on that in a bit). The cat5 is very old and degraded from rodents and UV. I am going to install new cameras, and if necessary run new POE cable. Before I get into the actual question(s) let me paint the current situation:
They have an ancient amcrest NV2108E NVR. A handful of 5-7 year old amcrest POE cams run into it. This connects to their network via an amazon wifi extender (Brostrend AC1200 dual band wifi extender) because the router was relocated too far away to run a cable and it does not have wifi capability. They have one location that needs a camera 120' away. The cat5 died somewhere underground so I hacked together a solution (this is where it gets wacky). From the wifi extender I run a hard line into a 5 port switch. From that switch I connect the NVR and a Netgear AC1750 model R6400 nighthawk. Somehow my undereducated persistence managed to get the wifi camera ( ) to hit the nighthawk as an access point(I think), which then sends the signal to the NVR via ethernet. It works....somehow.
Questions:
1-Would removing the POE cameras and dropping in several new wifi cameras (via the nighthawk) work?
1a- Can the router handle multiple wifi signals in and out to the NVR via ethernet?
1b -Will this be unstable?
2- If that is even viable, are there wifi cameras available that will transmit the signal 60' through a two story house to that router? (the 120' distance only has one large window between camera and router)
3- If this is still on the table are there doorbell cams that will play nice with this setup?
4- If that is a terrible plan, I will run all new ethernet for POE- unless one of you more experienced folks has some kind of better solution? (maybe a new NVR with wifi capability can handle all wifi cams at these distances?)
4a- If you have a more elegant solution should I run a separate standalone doorbell cam entirely or will something in the same amcrest/dahua family work with this solution?
money is *a factor, but it is not a huge factor. They're old but are willing to spare a bit of change for a stable, long lasting system.
**I do NOT want to run new ethernet... but I will (the 120' run is underground and hits salt-groundwater about 80' into the run).
any help you folks can offer would be incredibly appreciated.
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