Hi folks, I'm looking for advice on which cameras to get? It is for a residential property. I have a few goals:
Here is a quick sketch of what I'm thinking of doing. The blue square is our boundary, the orange arrows are the cameras. There are a lot of trees and a pool fence along the front of the property which means if you want to see anything on the footpath or road, you pretty much need to have a camera on the boundary fenceline. On the plus side, there are streetlights on both sides of the property so there is a ton of light at night time.
I'm thinking of mostly getting these: EmpireTech IPC-T54IR-ZE-S3 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP IR Starlight Vari-focal Tur
Perhaps with a PTZ like this: EmpireTech PTZ5A4M-25X 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight IR Network PTZ Ca for the garage pointing down the driveway (although that may be overkill?)
I'm interested in the TIOC cameras but wasn't able to tell if you could control the red and blue lights to only turn on at certain times, e.g. if someone is loitering outside our house after 10pm at night, turn the lights on.
I looked at EmpireTech IPC-Color4K-T180 4K Full-Color 1/1.8" CMOS Dual-Lens Splici, but I think the fisheye effect is probably too pronounced for being able to identify unknown people.
For the controller, I was thinking of getting a pretty standard NVR without PoE, maybe this one? I'd like to also run Frigate and Home Assistant, so I'll need to be able to access them over the network without the NVR getting involved, so using my own PoE switch seemed best for that. I'd plan to have it recording 24/7, with space for ~7-14 days of footage.
We're an all-Mac household, so ideally I'd like something which can be configured on a Mac, though I can get a Windows VM if it is just for configuration. Monitoring on the NVR needs to be Mac capable though.
Hope that's helpful, let me know if you need more info.
- Deter people from breaking in to the house or cars parked on the road
- Record 24/7 footage in case there is an incident
- Person detection for people coming to the house, e.g. courier, friends
- Not appear like a fortress, or make people feel uncomfortable walking past our house
Here is a quick sketch of what I'm thinking of doing. The blue square is our boundary, the orange arrows are the cameras. There are a lot of trees and a pool fence along the front of the property which means if you want to see anything on the footpath or road, you pretty much need to have a camera on the boundary fenceline. On the plus side, there are streetlights on both sides of the property so there is a ton of light at night time.
I'm thinking of mostly getting these: EmpireTech IPC-T54IR-ZE-S3 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP IR Starlight Vari-focal Tur
Perhaps with a PTZ like this: EmpireTech PTZ5A4M-25X 1/1.8" CMOS 4MP 25x Starlight IR Network PTZ Ca for the garage pointing down the driveway (although that may be overkill?)
I'm interested in the TIOC cameras but wasn't able to tell if you could control the red and blue lights to only turn on at certain times, e.g. if someone is loitering outside our house after 10pm at night, turn the lights on.
I looked at EmpireTech IPC-Color4K-T180 4K Full-Color 1/1.8" CMOS Dual-Lens Splici, but I think the fisheye effect is probably too pronounced for being able to identify unknown people.
For the controller, I was thinking of getting a pretty standard NVR without PoE, maybe this one? I'd like to also run Frigate and Home Assistant, so I'll need to be able to access them over the network without the NVR getting involved, so using my own PoE switch seemed best for that. I'd plan to have it recording 24/7, with space for ~7-14 days of footage.
We're an all-Mac household, so ideally I'd like something which can be configured on a Mac, though I can get a Windows VM if it is just for configuration. Monitoring on the NVR needs to be Mac capable though.
Hope that's helpful, let me know if you need more info.
