Stumbled on this forum a couple of days ago and have been reading through various post, wiki, and cliff notes. Glad i found this fourm as i knew nothing. Was ready to pull the trigger on a WGCC system on amazon. Those plans have changed........torn now between NVR and Blue Iris..............will keep reading
Newbie from Tennessee
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SouthernYankee
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Welcome to the forum.
Smart move reading the cliff notes and other items in the wiki.
Read How to Secure Your Network (Don't Get Hacked!) in the wiki also.
Quick start
1) Use Dahua starlight cameras or Hikvision darkfighter cameras or ICPT Night eye cameras (https://store.ipcamtalk.com/) if you need good low light cameras.
2) use a VPN to access home network (openVPN)
3) Do not use wifi cameras.
4) Do not use cloud storage
5) Do Not use uPNP, P2P, QR, do not open ports,
6) More megapixel is not necessarily better.
7) Avoid chinese hacked cameras (most ebay, amazon, aliexpress cameras(not all, but most))
8) Do not use reolink or nest cameras (they are junk)
9) If possible use a turret camera , bullet collect spiders, dome collect dirt and reflect light (IR)
Read,study,plan before spending money ..... plan plan plan
The select between an NVR and BI is a personal decision.
If you want all the equipment for a single manufacture, then go with an NVR.
If you want to support different manufactures of cameras then BI is the way to go.
If you like playing around and improving things then go with BI, bi has growth potential.
Smart move reading the cliff notes and other items in the wiki.
Read How to Secure Your Network (Don't Get Hacked!) in the wiki also.
Quick start
1) Use Dahua starlight cameras or Hikvision darkfighter cameras or ICPT Night eye cameras (https://store.ipcamtalk.com/) if you need good low light cameras.
2) use a VPN to access home network (openVPN)
3) Do not use wifi cameras.
4) Do not use cloud storage
5) Do Not use uPNP, P2P, QR, do not open ports,
6) More megapixel is not necessarily better.
7) Avoid chinese hacked cameras (most ebay, amazon, aliexpress cameras(not all, but most))
8) Do not use reolink or nest cameras (they are junk)
9) If possible use a turret camera , bullet collect spiders, dome collect dirt and reflect light (IR)
Read,study,plan before spending money ..... plan plan plan
The select between an NVR and BI is a personal decision.
If you want all the equipment for a single manufacture, then go with an NVR.
If you want to support different manufactures of cameras then BI is the way to go.
If you like playing around and improving things then go with BI, bi has growth potential.
