Hello All,
As I mentioned in my introduction post, I am building a small IP camera security system as a learning exercise for a future larger whole house system.
For this exercise I thought I would install a camera to monitor an outbuilding in the woods behind my home.
The building is about 250 ft. from the main house, with a partially obstructed line-of-sight.
The future system would also have some other locations to monitor at similar distances, so learning about WiFi cameras is one of my objectives, though I understand 250 ft. maybe on the edge of what is practical.
For a first camera I'm thinking of a Dahau SD1A204DB-GNY-W, or something similar, powered temporarily from a battery pack in the outbuilding.
Research on WiFi access points has started, but I haven't gotten far enough yet to make a selection (suggestions appreciated).
I have a Dell T340 Server which I would like to use to manage the camera and store videos (Intel Xeon E-2244G, 3.80GHz, with 2X 1TB HDD's, RAID1), though I am uncertain how capable this hardware is for handling multiple cameras in a larger system.
For now the system would be exclusively stand-alone and not connected to the outside internet.
Blue Iris sounds like the consensus SW favorite on this site, so I am going to start there when I get to looking deeper into the SW.
For this first phase, I would be very happy when I can do the following:
1) View the camera output on the computer monitor in real-time
2) Make changes to camera settings to adjust/optimize image quality
3) Control the PTZ functions of the camera
4) Store and retrieve video and still images
5) Set alerts based on motion detection, region-of-interest
All for now, and thank-you in advance for your suggestions and comments.
-WP
As I mentioned in my introduction post, I am building a small IP camera security system as a learning exercise for a future larger whole house system.
For this exercise I thought I would install a camera to monitor an outbuilding in the woods behind my home.
The building is about 250 ft. from the main house, with a partially obstructed line-of-sight.
The future system would also have some other locations to monitor at similar distances, so learning about WiFi cameras is one of my objectives, though I understand 250 ft. maybe on the edge of what is practical.
For a first camera I'm thinking of a Dahau SD1A204DB-GNY-W, or something similar, powered temporarily from a battery pack in the outbuilding.
Research on WiFi access points has started, but I haven't gotten far enough yet to make a selection (suggestions appreciated).
I have a Dell T340 Server which I would like to use to manage the camera and store videos (Intel Xeon E-2244G, 3.80GHz, with 2X 1TB HDD's, RAID1), though I am uncertain how capable this hardware is for handling multiple cameras in a larger system.
For now the system would be exclusively stand-alone and not connected to the outside internet.
Blue Iris sounds like the consensus SW favorite on this site, so I am going to start there when I get to looking deeper into the SW.
For this first phase, I would be very happy when I can do the following:
1) View the camera output on the computer monitor in real-time
2) Make changes to camera settings to adjust/optimize image quality
3) Control the PTZ functions of the camera
4) Store and retrieve video and still images
5) Set alerts based on motion detection, region-of-interest
All for now, and thank-you in advance for your suggestions and comments.
-WP