The only thing i have learned is after having 17 cameras, i still need two more. SMHOf course. You are very detailed oriented and that is good. Get your self a 54XX camera and you will love learning about security cameras!
The only thing i have learned is after having 17 cameras, i still need two more. SMHOf course. You are very detailed oriented and that is good. Get your self a 54XX camera and you will love learning about security cameras!
Or 6 or 8 more lolThe only thing i have learned is after having 17 cameras, i still need two more. SMH
Too bad Google Voice AI can not distinguish "bye" from "buy"Was this a typo? Assuming so.
unsure if I said before, but feel free to ask questions about running cable. I run cable every day (my day job) and so do some other folks here that have done it even longer. There is an easy way to do it and the hard way. More questions that can be answered brings you into the easy way! Example: I have run 40+ Cat6 cables through out my 2 story house without a crawl space and to my outdoor lampost and future weather vane and additional bird houses, perhaps (can't think of what else to put on a pole that it's primary purpose is to hide cameras), on a pole.I'm sure by the time another year passes I'll have 8-10 cams online, if not more. The biggest pain so far as been running cable and dealing with the plaster walls in this old house!
The irony is at first glance I didn't notice "bye" since I was most curious about 5443Too bad Google Voice AI can not distinguish "bye" from "buy"
Assuming the area I'm interested in using a less-expensive camera does not have much ambient light at night, would there be any lower end cam that anyone here would suggest aside from IPC-T2231T-ZS-S2? This is the 1/3" sensor 2MP for $125.
The irony is at first glance I didn't notice "bye" since I was most curious about 5443
Thanks for the offer on running cable. I don't think you've mentioned it but I'll take the bait and look forward to you telling me just how difficult I've made my life! The house has plaster walls (just plaster/lath, no metal) and no existing coax or ethernet wiring worth mentioning, so setting up adequate wifi was job #1. Internet service comes into the basement via coax and provides service to my Unifi network equipment. As you probably already know, plaster REALLY REALLY kills the wifi signal.
This effectively gives one side of the house wired AP's on every floor, and works great. The biggest area to improve now is the second floor on the other side of the house. My plan for this area is the same - run two outdoor cables from the basement, through the brick to outside, and up to the second floor. One of the cables will go back inside directly to a switch in my office, which will turn it's AP into a wired connection. The second cable will go to an outdoor switch that will eventually feed a few cameras on that side of the house.
- The first version of home wifi was a wired AP in the basement, and several other AP's on the 1st and 2nds floors, all of which were doing mesh backhaul. Speeds when connected to an AP that's 2 hops away were barely serviceable.
- The second version was a minor improvement since I figured out a relatively easy way to get a hole through the first floor joist right above where the network rack is in the basement, which let me convert one of the AP's on the first floor to a wired connection. After repeatedly failing to find a way to get cable from the basement to the second floor inside the house, I finally decided to run it outside the house.
- For the third version, I ran two separate outdoor-rated cat6 cables from the basement through the brick mortar to the outside. One cable goes up to the 2nd floor and back inside to the master bedroom, turning another AP to a wired connection. The other cable goes to a 2nd floor height, and then wraps around part of the house to an area where I've since installed an outdoor switch, and AP. Eventually 2-3 cameras will be wired from that switch as well.
As someone else pointed out, "I'm very detail oriented", so sorry for the lengthy response, but I am genuinely curious if there are or were opportunities for a better solution or one that's easier to execute. I will say that the side of the house that remains undone is much more challenging to access.
You can try Amcres IP8M-TB2886EW-AIThe amcrests are in the laundry rooms. I turn off the IR because they hold color pretty good with the room lighting off. The audio is decent on them as well.
I also have the turret version of 1186 looking at the indoor garage in the middle of the Pic. . but they have no Audio.
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Anything will take a large hit compared to 5442. There's a reason it's the recommended camera.The IPC-T2431T-AS seems like a great option since it's almost half the price, but I know it will take a slight hit w night footage given it has a smaller sensor combined with the same lens and resolution
Which model numbers are for 8MP + 1/1.2" ColorVu/Full Colour Cameras?For areas with very good ambient light: use the 4MP + 1/1.8" or 8MP + 1/1.2" ColorVu/Full Colour Cameras (hikvision or Dahua)
Thanks for the amcrest mention. I'm just going to buy a few of these and compare for a few days during the return windowthe Amcrest 1179ew is $57 and quite few people have 1 or 2 in their system.
A turret version is on the horizon....A version of the 8MP 1/1.2" ColorVu/Full Color Camera (N85EFN2) that eliminates the speaker and is packaged in a turret (if possible) would lower the cost and make it smaller. At full extension, this camera is almost 12" long.
Excellent news. Thank you.A turret version is on the horizon....