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  1. ThomasPI

    No audio a deal breaker ?

    Friend of mine thinking about adding a few cameras but he is on a limited budget and not overly considered about audio capability. Anyone install cams without audio and regret it after the fact? He may go for a cam say at front door with audio.
  2. ThomasPI

    What’s in your garage ?

    What cam are you using in your garage? Garage in house we are building is 30’ x 40’ give or take. 1’16’ door and a 9’ door. One entry point into the house from garage. I’m thinking 1 cam at the entry facing towards the garage doors and the 2nd in the far corner facing the entry door to catch a...
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    Rooftop Camera ?

    Anyone ever mount a cam up on their roof top with any success? In looking at a few pics of various PTZ cameras, I came up with what is probably a dumb idea but what the hell. Our new house sits on the bay, well directly across the street. In measuring, the top of my roof is about 25'above the...
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    WD Purple ?’s

    Who is your go to supplier for drives aside from Amazon and Newegg? Just going to spot check prices. 18 cam system going in with BI optimized and I’m thinking 2 4TB Purple Drives splitting cam recording evenly between them.
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    Dahua DORI vs real world ?

    Curious about your experiences with real world use vs the Dahua DORI distances. Using the IVPM calculator and our address with say the 5231R-ZE for example it would appear the Dahua DORI data is overly optimistic. We plan to use predominantly the 5231R-ZE on our new house and about 12 of those...
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    18 cameras: Monitor suggestions ?

    Slowly putting things together for a planned 18 camera system, all Dahua 2MP for most part. I’m thinking 27” monitor would be a minimum. The only use this monitor will get is with dedicated BI system so I don’t need the latest and greatest. I did look into using a TV but in reading it appears...
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    HP EliteDesk 800 G4 SFF i7 8700: eBay snag

    I've been watching eBay now for the better part of a week plus for an Elitedesk and scored an EliteDesk 800 G4 SFF i 8700 with 32 megs of RAM, 1 256MB SSD and a second 512 SSD. Having been a Mac user for 30 years plus, it took a lot of digging but grabbed it for $650. Seller had 2 and both sold...
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    Dahua test cams via the Hong Kong Express

    Ordered 5 Dahua cams for testing on our new house build. Andy AKA the Hong Kong Exoress shipped them Thursday afternoon at 1.30, I signed for them in today, Friday at 7:30 pm! Unreal Andy, you’re the man! Another 13 cameras to order as we progress. Thank you !
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    Hong Kong Express

    Andy shipped my cameras Thursday afternoon at 1:30 from Hong Kong and they arrived Friday evening at 7:30 in Florida ! No words, other than UNREAL !
  10. ThomasPI

    Garage PTZ inside or ?

    Looking for suggestions for a couple of Starlight cams for inside a garage. New construction and breaking ground in a month or so. 3 car garage and workshop area, wide open space. Garage is 26’ deep x about 40’ long. I was thinking one mounted in the workshop area close to entrance into house...
  11. ThomasPI

    PC suggestions

    Need input please. I’d like thoughts on a good solid PC to run BI. I’m a way out yet and building a new house. Plan is for about 15 to 16 total cams. I don’t mind spending a bit more to have a future proof machine. I’ve been a Mac User for 30 plus years and a bit lost when it comes to a PC...
  12. ThomasPI

    Camera selection help...

    Looking for some guidance from the brain trust for actual camera selection based upon our layout and known distances. This is a new construction, the known distances are identified in red. For example, from the cameras to the rear of the house to the road are 150' from the road. The rear cameras...
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    Location location location...

    We are fairly close to starting our new house, it's been quite the process. None the less, I've got my thoughts together on camera placement. Thoughts ?
  14. ThomasPI

    Network closets: Your pics and....

    Let's see your network closet setups.... We're close to starting to build our new house and the plan is to prewire for cameras while we build and do the install on cameras once we are in. House is 3 stories and we're going to have a cable chase that'll run from the ground floor right on up to...
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    Router opinion needed...

    Looking to the future for a new BI setup and the fact the Apple is getting out of the router business as in they'll no longer be producing the Airport Extreme, I started to search for a new router that would work well with my current setup which is using an Apple Airport Extreme. It Airport does...
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    Starlights and illumination

    Question, in looking at reviews of specifically the 2MP Starlight cameras they produce some great nighttime lights out images. A big thanks to @nayr for your efforts and the information and guidance you offer up. A question concerning illumination, are any of you folks using additional IR or LED...
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    Dahua mounting, one like this?

    Due to the way our new house is laid out and heights of floors and mounting location, when we prewire during the construction we will end up actually placing the mounts on the outside wall of the house. That's ok but I really want a mount bases that offers good adjustments. Is there anywhere I...
  18. ThomasPI

    Prewiring, mebbe a dumb question but....

    Ok, mebbe a dumb questions but here goes. Once we finally start to build our forever house later this year, we are going to prewire of all of our cameras. I have a really good "general" idea on where they'll be placed and we will run Cat6 to every location. However, until we are actually moved...
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    Prewire Guidance:

    Planning now for a system for our new house. I frequent a boating forum and it's been recommended to me that I run Cat 5, Cat 6 and Coax to every camera location. Thoughts? Also, we are in the FL Panhandle and property is waterfront. We have the usual daily summer thunderstorms here and some are...
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    New guy, new house and new system...

    Reaching out for some general advice on a new system. We are in the planning stages of building a new house so the idea is to get a new surveillance system installed as we build since it'll be very easy to run wiring etc. As for the system, I definitely want to go POE and skip the wifi...
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