Hello everyone!
I have been browsing the site and reading many threads and resources over the past few days. My wife, I, and our seven children, will be moving into a new home soon. I had the contractors run 1" conduit from the unfinished basement to every room in the house, and to all 4 corner soffits in preparation to run my own Cat6 Ethernet and also POE cameras and AP's. Building a house has been a long and daunting process, but now that we are almost complete, the time has come for me to get serious about research and planning for my camera setup!
Current plans in the works:
- Mikrotik hAP ac² as router and depending on need, up to three TP-Link EAP245 for WiFi
- Blue Iris dedicated PC (Something like this -I already have four used business pc's similar to this in use in other ways and have had nothing but positive experiences going that route!)
- I already own a TP-Link 24 port Gigabit Switch, but will be adding a POE switch dedicated to the cameras and AP's
- Gradual growth of monitoring capabilities. ( I intend to purchase an additional camera every couple of months until I have enough to monitor what I want - approximately 7 outdoor and 4 indoor - this is where the research led me to this forum!)
Anyway, I have read through the cliff notes twice; interestingly, some of the information I had already found a while back (like the aluminum sheet metal as a mounting point for the POE cameras - my wife and I were super excited about using this method!), but for the most part it is a well written and helpful document.
I will continue to browse, and plan to ask a few questions, but thought I would introduce myself and say hello for now!
I have been browsing the site and reading many threads and resources over the past few days. My wife, I, and our seven children, will be moving into a new home soon. I had the contractors run 1" conduit from the unfinished basement to every room in the house, and to all 4 corner soffits in preparation to run my own Cat6 Ethernet and also POE cameras and AP's. Building a house has been a long and daunting process, but now that we are almost complete, the time has come for me to get serious about research and planning for my camera setup!
Current plans in the works:
- Mikrotik hAP ac² as router and depending on need, up to three TP-Link EAP245 for WiFi
- Blue Iris dedicated PC (Something like this -I already have four used business pc's similar to this in use in other ways and have had nothing but positive experiences going that route!)
- I already own a TP-Link 24 port Gigabit Switch, but will be adding a POE switch dedicated to the cameras and AP's
- Gradual growth of monitoring capabilities. ( I intend to purchase an additional camera every couple of months until I have enough to monitor what I want - approximately 7 outdoor and 4 indoor - this is where the research led me to this forum!)
Anyway, I have read through the cliff notes twice; interestingly, some of the information I had already found a while back (like the aluminum sheet metal as a mounting point for the POE cameras - my wife and I were super excited about using this method!), but for the most part it is a well written and helpful document.
I will continue to browse, and plan to ask a few questions, but thought I would introduce myself and say hello for now!
