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n3wb
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This lurker is finally posting, hi everyone!
OK so Im getting into this as half hobbyist and half with mind of home security (to keep an eye on my car as people keep messing with it.) Im a noob, but Im an IT person by day. I started out with some indoor Foscams, and before y'all groan, for the price and 3 years later they are still going strong. But after finding this site and reading, reading and reading some more, I knew when it came for outdoor cams, I would step up to better cams. (dont care, still like my foscams for anything inside the house, until they die at least)
Ok so narrowed it down to hikvisions vs dahua, Im not opposed to the "china" versions, however my OCD makes me twitch a bit regarding Firmware, I mean Im also a if it aint broke kind dude but a bit of piece of mind always helps...this whole forum raves about Andy over at empiretek and that made me feel a bit better and helped me to finally choose Dahua and seems like the Starlights are the way to go! (thanks to Nayr's reviews cheers dude) Gonna go the Blue Iris route, as a vm with a dedicated HD for direct to disk (through Hyper-V.) So its down to the HDW5213R-Z vs the HDW4231EM and due to budget constraints right now (have to buy cam, blue iris, HD, poe switch or injector), probably gonna go with 1 cam to start, with intentions of possibly in total 3 later. Few questions:
I park my car at the end towards one side so the wife and back out of the garage. Our garage is a 1.5 size, however the driveway can fit 4 cars (to give idea of scope)
Since Im starting with one, I want to try to get the most of it, meaning keeping an eye on the both the driveway and car. In terms of camera placement, should I center it to the garage (mounted high up in in the middle of the door) or should I install it more towards inline with the car? ( was thinking center to get "more use" of it) Should i bite the bullet and splurge on the 5213 or would the 4231 suffice? What does the motorized lens get you?
In terms of camera and its POE, its full blown right? I dont need one of those injector splitters, if the ethernet cable is plugged into a POE switch or intector that should be good enough right?
Id probably start with a single POE injector before i got POE switch/more cameras. Ideally I wanted to just run one ethernet cable to the garage to a POE switch, but the summers can get pretty hot here in Toronto albeit short lived. Dont think a POE switch would last long in there, gets pretty warm in there (30C/86F) but you think injectors would do ok in there? I can save myself some cash that way as I already have a non POE GB switch not in use.
Sorry for the novel folks, but thank for looking!
OK so Im getting into this as half hobbyist and half with mind of home security (to keep an eye on my car as people keep messing with it.) Im a noob, but Im an IT person by day. I started out with some indoor Foscams, and before y'all groan, for the price and 3 years later they are still going strong. But after finding this site and reading, reading and reading some more, I knew when it came for outdoor cams, I would step up to better cams. (dont care, still like my foscams for anything inside the house, until they die at least)
Ok so narrowed it down to hikvisions vs dahua, Im not opposed to the "china" versions, however my OCD makes me twitch a bit regarding Firmware, I mean Im also a if it aint broke kind dude but a bit of piece of mind always helps...this whole forum raves about Andy over at empiretek and that made me feel a bit better and helped me to finally choose Dahua and seems like the Starlights are the way to go! (thanks to Nayr's reviews cheers dude) Gonna go the Blue Iris route, as a vm with a dedicated HD for direct to disk (through Hyper-V.) So its down to the HDW5213R-Z vs the HDW4231EM and due to budget constraints right now (have to buy cam, blue iris, HD, poe switch or injector), probably gonna go with 1 cam to start, with intentions of possibly in total 3 later. Few questions:
I park my car at the end towards one side so the wife and back out of the garage. Our garage is a 1.5 size, however the driveway can fit 4 cars (to give idea of scope)
Since Im starting with one, I want to try to get the most of it, meaning keeping an eye on the both the driveway and car. In terms of camera placement, should I center it to the garage (mounted high up in in the middle of the door) or should I install it more towards inline with the car? ( was thinking center to get "more use" of it) Should i bite the bullet and splurge on the 5213 or would the 4231 suffice? What does the motorized lens get you?
In terms of camera and its POE, its full blown right? I dont need one of those injector splitters, if the ethernet cable is plugged into a POE switch or intector that should be good enough right?
Id probably start with a single POE injector before i got POE switch/more cameras. Ideally I wanted to just run one ethernet cable to the garage to a POE switch, but the summers can get pretty hot here in Toronto albeit short lived. Dont think a POE switch would last long in there, gets pretty warm in there (30C/86F) but you think injectors would do ok in there? I can save myself some cash that way as I already have a non POE GB switch not in use.
Sorry for the novel folks, but thank for looking!
