I'm looking to add a camera that will cover my driveway, which is 45 feet long.
Most houses in my neighborhood have mini-domes in the soffits for this purpose, but my house came with soffit lights in this area, so that seems like not-a-choice for a mounting location.
I'm looking for a camera that isn't too obvious when people look at the front of the house, and was thinking of using a turret-style mounted vertically where the red arrow indicates in the picture. That's a height of about 16ft, and there is CAT5e pre-run to that area.
Not sure if this matters, but at night, this driveway isn't entirely dark. The light in the center of the garage is on from sunset to sunrise. The soffit lights throw a good amount of light, and they are on from sunset until 9PM. After that, there is an Insteon motion detector under it that will turn on the soffit lights back on for five minutes when motion is detected. There is also a street light on the other side of the street, about lined up with the front door.
Playing around with the IVPM calculator, it shows (if I did it right) a Hikvision DS-2CD2342WD-I (6mm) mounted there would give ~58 pff at 45' feet away. I'm confused about if this camera can be fully adjusted if mounted vertically. because with a 6mm, I'd have to do some angling to get everything in. This camera's stats show adjustments as: Pan: 0° to 360°, tilt: 0° to 75°, rotation: 0° to 360°.
From reading other threads, it seems like a Dahua Starlight turret would probably be the best camera, but I think it would be a harder fit into my existing setup. I have two Hikvision cameras already in play, with a Synology as the NVR. Event detection on the Hikvision cameras (motion, line crossing, intrusion detection) can trigger recordings on the Synology (as well as things like doing a HTTP GET, which can notify my home automation setup that an event occurred). The Dahua IVS features look awesome, but they can't trigger events on my NVR which is a major argh. Also, the family currently uses the iVMS-4500 app on their phones to get a live view of the current cameras, .. I'm guessing they'd have to use a separate app if I got a Dahua. A Dahua isn't out of the question, but it seems like a rough fit for me. Trying to figure if the pros of it outweigh the cons (in my setup).
I'm curious to hear what others would do in this situation.
Any comments/suggestions/advice would greatly be appreciated!
Most houses in my neighborhood have mini-domes in the soffits for this purpose, but my house came with soffit lights in this area, so that seems like not-a-choice for a mounting location.
I'm looking for a camera that isn't too obvious when people look at the front of the house, and was thinking of using a turret-style mounted vertically where the red arrow indicates in the picture. That's a height of about 16ft, and there is CAT5e pre-run to that area.
Not sure if this matters, but at night, this driveway isn't entirely dark. The light in the center of the garage is on from sunset to sunrise. The soffit lights throw a good amount of light, and they are on from sunset until 9PM. After that, there is an Insteon motion detector under it that will turn on the soffit lights back on for five minutes when motion is detected. There is also a street light on the other side of the street, about lined up with the front door.
Playing around with the IVPM calculator, it shows (if I did it right) a Hikvision DS-2CD2342WD-I (6mm) mounted there would give ~58 pff at 45' feet away. I'm confused about if this camera can be fully adjusted if mounted vertically. because with a 6mm, I'd have to do some angling to get everything in. This camera's stats show adjustments as: Pan: 0° to 360°, tilt: 0° to 75°, rotation: 0° to 360°.
From reading other threads, it seems like a Dahua Starlight turret would probably be the best camera, but I think it would be a harder fit into my existing setup. I have two Hikvision cameras already in play, with a Synology as the NVR. Event detection on the Hikvision cameras (motion, line crossing, intrusion detection) can trigger recordings on the Synology (as well as things like doing a HTTP GET, which can notify my home automation setup that an event occurred). The Dahua IVS features look awesome, but they can't trigger events on my NVR which is a major argh. Also, the family currently uses the iVMS-4500 app on their phones to get a live view of the current cameras, .. I'm guessing they'd have to use a separate app if I got a Dahua. A Dahua isn't out of the question, but it seems like a rough fit for me. Trying to figure if the pros of it outweigh the cons (in my setup).
I'm curious to hear what others would do in this situation.
Any comments/suggestions/advice would greatly be appreciated!
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