Hello from the Netherlands

[RoCam]

Just wanted to say hello from the country that just won the Eurovision song festival

Although I’m new to the ip camera world I’ve already learned a lot by reading the cliff notes and other forum threads. Very interesting.

I would like to build a 3-4 ip-cam setup that is connected to my Synology NAS and uses Synology Surveillance Station. Some of the questions I’m still trying to answer are; which cameramodel should I choose (starlight yes/no or just a bit more megapixels with a good IR) and if I should reserve a bay in my NAS with a non-raid purple surveillance disk or just add another NAS disk and make it part of my RAID5 array. I suppose, if part of the RAID5, it could have impact on other tasks the NAS does. For example, streaming media and sharing files.

 

[gwminor48]

Hello, welcome to the forum.

 

[j4co]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[SouthernYankee]

My standard welcome to the forum message.

Please read the cliff notes and other items in the wiki. The wiki is in the blue bar at the top of the page.

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, ring, nest cameras (they are junk)
9) If possible use a turret camera , bullet collect spiders, dome collect dirt and reflect light (IR)
10) Use only solid copper, AWG 23 or 24 ethernet wire. , no CCA (Copper Clad Aluminum)
11) use a test mount to verify the camera mount location. My test rig: rev.2

Read,study,plan before spending money ..... plan plan plan
Test do not guess