Chronologically old (especially after crawling around my attic) but definitely a noob when spying back on the world
Glad to be here.
Glad to be here.
Hiya from beautiful downtown Zoo Jersey, USA
- Thread starter ralphmouth
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Welcome to the form...paw around here and you will learn a lot, lots of experts from different industries and walks of life.
bob2701
Getting comfortable
SouthernYankee
IPCT Contributor
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