Greetings! I just discovered this forum and I'm already learning a lot. I have a security camera system already, but I suspect I've made some mistakes, so I'll be revisiting it this year.
I have a dual system, indoor and outdoor. The indoor system is mostly Wyze cameras. I have grown a bit disillusioned with them, specifically after discovering that they can't be accessed via ONVIF without a beta firmware update (which I tried on one of them, didn't care for the results).
The outdoor system is Reolink. Mostly 5MP bullet cameras, with one optical zoom bullet camera. All mounted about 10 feet up, all POE. I've got some of them routed through my external garage, which has a Powerline connection to my server room in my home. It does actually work pretty well.
I failed to seal my ethernet terminations well enough when I put them up outdoors and a few have failed due to corrosion; my bad. However, that gives me an opportunity to revisit the entire setup.
Being a Linux geek, I tried various open source NVR solutions, but so far, I'm not thrilled with any of them. I don't really want to run Windows, but it seems Blue Iris is the way to go, so I may have to bite the bullet there.
I'm looking forward to continuing to learn from you all.
I have a dual system, indoor and outdoor. The indoor system is mostly Wyze cameras. I have grown a bit disillusioned with them, specifically after discovering that they can't be accessed via ONVIF without a beta firmware update (which I tried on one of them, didn't care for the results).
The outdoor system is Reolink. Mostly 5MP bullet cameras, with one optical zoom bullet camera. All mounted about 10 feet up, all POE. I've got some of them routed through my external garage, which has a Powerline connection to my server room in my home. It does actually work pretty well.
I failed to seal my ethernet terminations well enough when I put them up outdoors and a few have failed due to corrosion; my bad. However, that gives me an opportunity to revisit the entire setup.
Being a Linux geek, I tried various open source NVR solutions, but so far, I'm not thrilled with any of them. I don't really want to run Windows, but it seems Blue Iris is the way to go, so I may have to bite the bullet there.
I'm looking forward to continuing to learn from you all.
