Okay guys, I"m FINALLY getting around to putting up some cameras at my not-so new to me anymore house I've had for a year. I haven't had any issues out here yet but petty crime is picking up in the area and I want good footage for when it works it's way out here.
I've posted some pictures of my house, with a red x and approx direction camera would look with what I'm thinking. Once again, don't be getting jealous of my editing skills please. I currently have a 5442 LED looking at the driveway, which is circled instead of an X. I have one blue X, which is where I'm thinking I should put the 5214E-Z12E, zoomed in back towards the barn 100 ft away watching the doors. I have a 5442 vari focal that is not put up, and a couple 2.8mm Amcrest 4k cameras I could put up for some overview pictures as well. Anything else I'd need to buy.
After using a wireless bridge to send my cameras in town to my moms house to put on her NVR, my Blue Iris machine is freed up and will be brought out here, most likely working in conjunction with one of my NVR's like I had before, with the NRV doing the bulk of the work and Blue Iris recording movement clips.
All cameras will be mounted to the soffit, which is about a foot higher than I'd like but it's what I'm dealing with. With that in mind, the guttering on corners and some sort of grounding cables ran all janky from the roof to the ground on 2 corners factors into my camera placement. I used to have a cheap little PTZ at one corner but that cable.....
Please ignore the fact that I need to trim my grass, any old bundles of cable you see ran and lying around, and all the dead areas from where I cut down trees and dug some ditch. Also, I already know I'd have to make a cat comment (pretty sure some are in the pics) if it was me so I'll get ahead of it saying they are some rodent killing machines and very much needed at this house sitting right out in pasture land! Cats outside are better than rats inside!
Okay, with all that said, lets pool up some knowledge and expertise and get me to a decent starting point. We all know we never get to an ending point when it comes to camera security so we will get to a start and go from there. Oh, and the side of the house in the last pic, where I only indicated one X on that side, is about 400 ft of yard before the driveway and about 30 trees. I'm probably going to end up with some kind of PTZ over there to watch my driveway entrance but they've gotten really expensive and I haven't worked at all this year (for pay at least) so I'm trying for the basics first and the rest later.
I've posted some pictures of my house, with a red x and approx direction camera would look with what I'm thinking. Once again, don't be getting jealous of my editing skills please. I currently have a 5442 LED looking at the driveway, which is circled instead of an X. I have one blue X, which is where I'm thinking I should put the 5214E-Z12E, zoomed in back towards the barn 100 ft away watching the doors. I have a 5442 vari focal that is not put up, and a couple 2.8mm Amcrest 4k cameras I could put up for some overview pictures as well. Anything else I'd need to buy.
After using a wireless bridge to send my cameras in town to my moms house to put on her NVR, my Blue Iris machine is freed up and will be brought out here, most likely working in conjunction with one of my NVR's like I had before, with the NRV doing the bulk of the work and Blue Iris recording movement clips.
All cameras will be mounted to the soffit, which is about a foot higher than I'd like but it's what I'm dealing with. With that in mind, the guttering on corners and some sort of grounding cables ran all janky from the roof to the ground on 2 corners factors into my camera placement. I used to have a cheap little PTZ at one corner but that cable.....
Please ignore the fact that I need to trim my grass, any old bundles of cable you see ran and lying around, and all the dead areas from where I cut down trees and dug some ditch. Also, I already know I'd have to make a cat comment (pretty sure some are in the pics) if it was me so I'll get ahead of it saying they are some rodent killing machines and very much needed at this house sitting right out in pasture land! Cats outside are better than rats inside!
Okay, with all that said, lets pool up some knowledge and expertise and get me to a decent starting point. We all know we never get to an ending point when it comes to camera security so we will get to a start and go from there. Oh, and the side of the house in the last pic, where I only indicated one X on that side, is about 400 ft of yard before the driveway and about 30 trees. I'm probably going to end up with some kind of PTZ over there to watch my driveway entrance but they've gotten really expensive and I haven't worked at all this year (for pay at least) so I'm trying for the basics first and the rest later.
