Hi there,
We are in the process of moving houses into my parents old house. The basement isn't finished now (it's a ranch), but will soon be with a drop ceiling. Currently that house is "vacant" (i.e. we're in and out a lot but my mom passed away in early 2018 so no one is living there) so we put up some quick inside D Link cameras which have worked ok, but since they're sitting on window sills against glass, there's really no nite vision given the glare. Now that we're moving in, I'm wanting to put up some outdoor cameras and POSSIBLY see something down at our barn across the street.
The driveway is about 250 feet long. 3 car attached garage on one side, then the house goes to the right from there. I plan to put up at least two cameras to start, one to get the front door/long porch area out towards the driveway. One for the back area to get the back doors/deck area and a bit of the back "yard". The house sits on 90 acres so think of a lot of open space. I may in the future put one up above the garage to get more of the top of the driveway past the front porch/walkway. The other thing I'd like to do is get some vision on a barn we have across the street, roughly 1 football field away from the house. That barn has power as well as a dusk/dawn light that illuminates the whole front area where I'd most like a camera ("parking area" there, so people are not likely to come in through the field that's off the back side of the barn). It is across the road tho, so that presents a problem. i.e. can't go over/under it.
I'm wanting to do PoE cameras but I have no idea about resolution (I understand more pixels aren't always better for nite vision), I'd like to get decent nite vision and I need to be able to access from my phone and get some motion alerts. Sound would be nice (my d links are 2 way sound) but I suppose not critical. We just upgraded our alarm system so our security company is of course pitching all kinds of crazy things and the one camera they mention (Hunwha LNV-6071R) for 3 of them plus an 8 channel NVR with 2TB HD and install they're looking at about $1,500. I do like that the cameras have zoom as I would like to be able to do that but I don't know if that's a "like" vs a "need". They're dome cameras which I always thought were for open spaces vs install up against walls or where these would be, under soffits.
We are handy so I could do the install myself as we have a nice blank wall in the house where I can get cat 5e from attic to basement and then over to the "safe" room that's being built where I plan to put the NVR. The tech said you don't need a PoE switch, just take the camera lines down to the NVR and then a line from the NVR to the router, which is in a different room but easy enough to run cameras to. None of that would solve my need at the barn since that seems to be a big mystery to everyone (the barn doesn't have internet and I have no plans to pay to put it there).
Any advice you can give a newbie would be much appreciated.
thanks!
We are in the process of moving houses into my parents old house. The basement isn't finished now (it's a ranch), but will soon be with a drop ceiling. Currently that house is "vacant" (i.e. we're in and out a lot but my mom passed away in early 2018 so no one is living there) so we put up some quick inside D Link cameras which have worked ok, but since they're sitting on window sills against glass, there's really no nite vision given the glare. Now that we're moving in, I'm wanting to put up some outdoor cameras and POSSIBLY see something down at our barn across the street.
The driveway is about 250 feet long. 3 car attached garage on one side, then the house goes to the right from there. I plan to put up at least two cameras to start, one to get the front door/long porch area out towards the driveway. One for the back area to get the back doors/deck area and a bit of the back "yard". The house sits on 90 acres so think of a lot of open space. I may in the future put one up above the garage to get more of the top of the driveway past the front porch/walkway. The other thing I'd like to do is get some vision on a barn we have across the street, roughly 1 football field away from the house. That barn has power as well as a dusk/dawn light that illuminates the whole front area where I'd most like a camera ("parking area" there, so people are not likely to come in through the field that's off the back side of the barn). It is across the road tho, so that presents a problem. i.e. can't go over/under it.
I'm wanting to do PoE cameras but I have no idea about resolution (I understand more pixels aren't always better for nite vision), I'd like to get decent nite vision and I need to be able to access from my phone and get some motion alerts. Sound would be nice (my d links are 2 way sound) but I suppose not critical. We just upgraded our alarm system so our security company is of course pitching all kinds of crazy things and the one camera they mention (Hunwha LNV-6071R) for 3 of them plus an 8 channel NVR with 2TB HD and install they're looking at about $1,500. I do like that the cameras have zoom as I would like to be able to do that but I don't know if that's a "like" vs a "need". They're dome cameras which I always thought were for open spaces vs install up against walls or where these would be, under soffits.
We are handy so I could do the install myself as we have a nice blank wall in the house where I can get cat 5e from attic to basement and then over to the "safe" room that's being built where I plan to put the NVR. The tech said you don't need a PoE switch, just take the camera lines down to the NVR and then a line from the NVR to the router, which is in a different room but easy enough to run cameras to. None of that would solve my need at the barn since that seems to be a big mystery to everyone (the barn doesn't have internet and I have no plans to pay to put it there).
Any advice you can give a newbie would be much appreciated.
thanks!