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Thanks for the detailed response, and the great links! Reading through them, I'm thinking I should start with a nice moderate resolution varifocal camera (thinking the 5442-ze 4mp) to cover the area I care about most (front porch/door), and then I can wire up other locations, place it there...

I'm moving into a house in a residential area of a city, and am planning out my first ever home security setup. Based on prior reading, I figured I'd go with IR cameras rather than full color, since I don't want to have to keep floodlights on all the time. I was looking at the cameras on...

I think that just winds internet explorer up in a chrome tab wrapper, and there's no way I'm running an ActiveX app on my work laptop. I think a windows live boot USB or just a temporary VM will be fine, assuming modifying settings is essentially a one time thing.

Thanks happy to be here! As an update, it looks like with the system I'm planning I wouldn't be using any if the built in AI systems if the camera. But I can't find any non-AI or non Dahua products with similar specs at a lesser or even equal price. 4MP cams seem to all use 1/3 sensors instead...

Thanks for the welcome! I've skimmed the wiki but will be sure to give it a more in depth read. I'm still leaning away from running a separate machine. The added electrical overhead, the lack of FOSS, and the annoyed looks from my wife when she see's another black box pop up are all pushing me...

Hey there. I'm planning to buy a house soon and looking to source and build my first security cam system to secure it. I went from googling, to reading reddit posts (should have jumped straight there...I swear SEO has ruined practical web searching), and saw this forum mentioned as a good...