Hi everyone! I'm building a new house, so I'd like to make sure I do my homework before wiring and installing everything.
Another FNG from Seattle
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SouthernYankee
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Run at least two cables to each location. For cameras plan on twice as many cameras.
Post a picture the property and floor plan of the house.
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My standard welcome to the forum message.
Please read the cliff notes and other items in the wiki. The wiki is in the blue bar at the top of the page.
Read How to Secure Your Network (Don't Get Hacked!) | IP Cam Talk in the wiki also.
Quick start
1) Use Dahua starlight cameras or Hikvision darkfighter cameras or ICPT Night eye cameras (https://store.ipcamtalk.com/) if you need good low light cameras.
2) use a VPN to access home network (openVPN)
3) Do not use wifi cameras.
4) Do not use cloud storage
5) Do Not use uPNP, P2P, QR, do not open ports,
6) More megapixel is not necessarily better.
7) Avoid chinese hacked cameras (most ebay, amazon, aliexpress cameras(not all, but most))
8) Do not use reolink, ring, nest cameras (they are junk)
9) If possible use a turret camera , bullet collect spiders, dome collect dirt and reflect light (IR)
10) Use only solid copper, AWG 23 or 24 ethernet wire. , no CCA (Copper Clad Aluminum)
11) use a test mount to verify the camera mount location. My test rig: rev.2
12) (Looney2ns)If you want to be able to ID faces, don't mount cams higher than 8ft. You want to know who did it, not just what happened.
Cameras to look at
IPC-HDW2231R-ZS
IPC-HDW5231-ZE
IPC-T5442TM-AS
IPCT-HDW5431RE-I
DS-2CD2325FWD-I
Read,study,plan before spending money ..... plan plan plan
Test do not guess
Welcome aboard!
As an addition to what @SouthernYankee has to say -
Look around your drawings and framing. Anywhere were you might want a TV, computer, desk, WAP, or any other network connection, add it now.
For camera locations, run two CAT6 lines.
For standard computers and other network device locations, run 4.
Camera CAT6 goes direct between the camera and the switch.
Other network locations need to be terminated on keystone jacks in wall plates.
Leave slack.
Label EVERYTHING in a methodical manner.
Also, think about CATV, surround speaker wiring, security wiring, and home automation wiring. Wire is cheap......and it's easy to do it all now.
Good luck!
As an addition to what @SouthernYankee has to say -
Look around your drawings and framing. Anywhere were you might want a TV, computer, desk, WAP, or any other network connection, add it now.
For camera locations, run two CAT6 lines.
For standard computers and other network device locations, run 4.
Camera CAT6 goes direct between the camera and the switch.
Other network locations need to be terminated on keystone jacks in wall plates.
Leave slack.
Label EVERYTHING in a methodical manner.
Also, think about CATV, surround speaker wiring, security wiring, and home automation wiring. Wire is cheap......and it's easy to do it all now.
Good luck!