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Home pics here - Camera
Can someone review these pics and recommend what 2MP/4MP (PTZ?) camera would suit best? All the pictures are taken from where the camera would be mounted but the pics are high-res taken with a new iphone. As you can see. Unfortunately, the mounting position is 12ft from the ground and cannot be changed as I already paid someone a year ago to pull the cables and didn't know they should be mounted a max of 8ft for accurate identification. My main goal is get alerts through Sentry when someone approaches the entry door. A good secondary function is license plate recognition but I've read that you need to dedicate a camera for just that purpose. I guess HDBW4231F-E2 with dual lens could do that but the thread on that points to many bugs with that camera. As you can see, I have some ambient light at night from a nearby light pole and lack of trees allows moon light to come through as well so wondering if color night vision would suit better here. On the same side of the house but the other corner, I plan to mount a second camera but this camera would be better suited to reading license plates since the space between cars is maximum (as the pics show, the parked cars block the view of moving cars) and in 'night view moving car.jpg', you can see a moving car's lights between the white and black light.
Distance between camera and front of steps which is optimum place to ID face - 26ft
Distance between camera and passing car - 56ft
Running any cables in this very old house is quite expensive so if there are decent non-buggy IP cameras with dual lenses, that's the route I'll like to take - one lens for facial and another for license plate. IPVM tool isn't working for me as no matter what I do, it keeps pointing to the street and house across and doesn't show my front yard
thanks
Home pics here - Camera
Can someone review these pics and recommend what 2MP/4MP (PTZ?) camera would suit best? All the pictures are taken from where the camera would be mounted but the pics are high-res taken with a new iphone. As you can see. Unfortunately, the mounting position is 12ft from the ground and cannot be changed as I already paid someone a year ago to pull the cables and didn't know they should be mounted a max of 8ft for accurate identification. My main goal is get alerts through Sentry when someone approaches the entry door. A good secondary function is license plate recognition but I've read that you need to dedicate a camera for just that purpose. I guess HDBW4231F-E2 with dual lens could do that but the thread on that points to many bugs with that camera. As you can see, I have some ambient light at night from a nearby light pole and lack of trees allows moon light to come through as well so wondering if color night vision would suit better here. On the same side of the house but the other corner, I plan to mount a second camera but this camera would be better suited to reading license plates since the space between cars is maximum (as the pics show, the parked cars block the view of moving cars) and in 'night view moving car.jpg', you can see a moving car's lights between the white and black light.
Distance between camera and front of steps which is optimum place to ID face - 26ft
Distance between camera and passing car - 56ft
Running any cables in this very old house is quite expensive so if there are decent non-buggy IP cameras with dual lenses, that's the route I'll like to take - one lens for facial and another for license plate. IPVM tool isn't working for me as no matter what I do, it keeps pointing to the street and house across and doesn't show my front yard
thanks
. At minimum, the cameras should be mounted around 8ft for appropriate identification/ID purposes. Whereas 10ft is a good height for an overview camera. 
