I don't have a video system at home yet, because there are a couple things I need to understand first. Currently, my plan is to get an 8 channel NVR, Lorex NR9082 (although not totally married to that).
Most of my house is wired with Cat 5e, so I'll primarily use POE cameras, quite easily. There is, however, a remote location on my property where I cannot (reasonably) run any new cable. I have electrical power out there, though, so my hope is to be able to just use a wireless camera at that location. What I haven't been able to understand yet is if this is doable.
It seems that NVRs are driven to record from the 8 specific ports on the machine. If this is the case, it seems that I could use a wireless camera if I can find what I'll call, for lack of a better term, a wireless network cable. (Not a wifi extender, or anything like that, but something that literally broadcasts a specific network device from point A to point B, such that it effectively acts as though it's an invisible network cable. Does such a thing exist?)
Alternatively, if NVRs have the ability to just record a stream from a camera that is on my network, not physically plugged into the NVR itself, then it seems I could basically just say, "Hey, NVR. For channel 5, record from IP 192.168.1.23," where that is the IP my wireless camera. Does it work that way, by chance?
I think either of these two solutions in my head will work, but I'm trying to confirm if my head is just wrong or missing something here that makes them not doable. Or, if there's a different solution I don't know of.
Thanks
Most of my house is wired with Cat 5e, so I'll primarily use POE cameras, quite easily. There is, however, a remote location on my property where I cannot (reasonably) run any new cable. I have electrical power out there, though, so my hope is to be able to just use a wireless camera at that location. What I haven't been able to understand yet is if this is doable.
It seems that NVRs are driven to record from the 8 specific ports on the machine. If this is the case, it seems that I could use a wireless camera if I can find what I'll call, for lack of a better term, a wireless network cable. (Not a wifi extender, or anything like that, but something that literally broadcasts a specific network device from point A to point B, such that it effectively acts as though it's an invisible network cable. Does such a thing exist?)
Alternatively, if NVRs have the ability to just record a stream from a camera that is on my network, not physically plugged into the NVR itself, then it seems I could basically just say, "Hey, NVR. For channel 5, record from IP 192.168.1.23," where that is the IP my wireless camera. Does it work that way, by chance?
I think either of these two solutions in my head will work, but I'm trying to confirm if my head is just wrong or missing something here that makes them not doable. Or, if there's a different solution I don't know of.
Thanks
