Over the past while I've been giving some thought to installing up to four IP cameras at my home - two outside and probably two inside. The principal reason is to be notified and to make available recordings if anything untoward should happen while we are away from the house. The two inside will both be for high wall mounting. One of the outside cameras will be under a porch while the other will be high at the gable end of the house.
Apart from normal in/out activity there can be some prolonged periods when the house is unoccupied, probably three or four times in a year and frequently up to three or four weeks at a time.
As shown elsewhere on the forum I can see that even a large SDCard would not have sufficient capacity for storage and therefore presumably a NAS Storage device is the next most affordable solution.
Despite what I said regarding the use of SDCard storage I see no reason to record constantly from the cameras. I would however like to have Push Notifications sent; both SMS (through a web system) and Email. While out of the country I can not always connect to email and anyway would not normally have data roaming activated. I would also like to have 'live view' available if necessary.
HikVision and Synology are two names that are frequently seen together and look as if an affordable solution might be feasible using those manufacturers. Hikvision seem to have a huge range of cameras and I wouldn't know where to start on picking suitable models. I do have a PoE router available so that should help somewhat in the installation.
I can see from browsing the forum that this area is laced with major pitfalls for the uninitiated, so I am hoping to capitalise on some of the experienced brains here. I would be very grateful to receive any comments or suggestions on the above, especially on any flawed thinking that I may have in my proposal. In particular suggestions with actual model numbers would be great as the range of equipment from even one manufacturer is bewildering. - Dave.
Apart from normal in/out activity there can be some prolonged periods when the house is unoccupied, probably three or four times in a year and frequently up to three or four weeks at a time.
As shown elsewhere on the forum I can see that even a large SDCard would not have sufficient capacity for storage and therefore presumably a NAS Storage device is the next most affordable solution.
Despite what I said regarding the use of SDCard storage I see no reason to record constantly from the cameras. I would however like to have Push Notifications sent; both SMS (through a web system) and Email. While out of the country I can not always connect to email and anyway would not normally have data roaming activated. I would also like to have 'live view' available if necessary.
HikVision and Synology are two names that are frequently seen together and look as if an affordable solution might be feasible using those manufacturers. Hikvision seem to have a huge range of cameras and I wouldn't know where to start on picking suitable models. I do have a PoE router available so that should help somewhat in the installation.
I can see from browsing the forum that this area is laced with major pitfalls for the uninitiated, so I am hoping to capitalise on some of the experienced brains here. I would be very grateful to receive any comments or suggestions on the above, especially on any flawed thinking that I may have in my proposal. In particular suggestions with actual model numbers would be great as the range of equipment from even one manufacturer is bewildering. - Dave.
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