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Hi All, So we have finally finished our new house, running BI but now comes the process of being able to monitor the cameras remotely and also get notifications when movement is detected. I was looking at the BI app which is $14.99 on the Australian App Store, we have 11 devices which need...

Hi All, So I took the plunge, I bought a Dell 7040 SFF with 16GB Ram, 250GB SSD and a 3TB WD Purple drive - installed Windows 10 Pro and got Blue Iris up and running but since actually having cameras hooked up to it, I am having problems. I started by logging into this PC using Team Viewer...

First of all, I would like to thank everyone on here for the immense amount of knowledge you provide, it is amazing! I work in the tech space and consider myself pretty in the know when it comes to tech but I realized that with IP cameras I basically know nothing and so I hope I can get some...

Hi All, So I have been looking at some Dell OptiPlex systems on eBay Australia, such as this one which comes with an SSD (Dell OptiPlex 7040 SFF Desktop PC Core i5-6500 3.20GHz 8GB RAM 256 SSD Windows10 | eBay) My idea is to add a 3.5" WD Red NAS 4TB (WD40EFRX) 64mb cache drive to the system...

Hi All, There is an overwhelming amount of information on this forum. I was wondering what are the Hikvision NVR's like? My parents new house will have 7 cameras around the house, 2 wall mounted iPads in the house for monitoring the cameras. From reading the forums, these seem to be the best...

Hi All, I have nearly been convinced to go with Blue Iris for our Hikvision cameras in our new home, vs. Synology Surveillance station or a Hikvision NVR.. except then I saw the iPad app... it looks terrible. I was wondering if its possible to use a 3rd party app such as this one ‎IPCams - IP...

Hi All, We are nearing completion of our new house and all the networking equipment is going into a 24RU rack - that is Unifi Switches, UDM Pro etc... Ideally I would really like to keep everything together but at the same time I would love to go Blue Iris. I have looked at some Dell Optiplex...

First of all, I would like to thank everyone on here for the immense amount of knowledge you provide, it is amazing! I work in the tech space and consider myself pretty in the know when it comes to tech but I realized that with IP cameras I basically know nothing and so I hope I can get some...

Hi everyone, I am new around here! We are building a new house and it is nearly finished. We are about to start selecting security cameras and installing them and I am now stuck. Do I get Hikvision, Dahua, Ubiquiti? There is so much to choose from.... The property will have 8 cameras, some...

Hi All, We are building a new house and the electrician / builder in installing a hard wired Paradox System. Having never heard of them, I went to their website and it is terrible, it looks like something from the 60's when compared to the sleek new systems like Simpli Safe and Google Secure...

Hi Everyone, Long time reader, first time poster. My parents are building a new house back in Australia and looking to install security camera's and a Video Doorbell. When they first gave me this project my initial thoughts were: 1x Nest Hello 6x Nest Outdoor 1x Google Home Hub 1x Nest x...