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We bought the house across the street from our current residence. I've enjoyed our current system, made primarily from cameras, switches, PCs, Blue Iris, etc., that I've learned about from the experts on here. I have a PC I'll use, and I'll put Blue Iris on it. But I'm sure cameras have improved greatly since I set up the existing system.
I'd also love to get a good PTZ camera with auto tracking, etc., for the new place, if only to play with it. We're on a corner, so it might be interesting and useful to let it be informed by several other cameras to allow it to know where to go to lock onto various people, critters, cars, etc. This is in town, but we get quite a few deer, mostly at night, so they'd be fun targets to track and zoom into.
Anyhow, for the most part, I'll mount fixed view cameras, and it's going to be something of a chore because most of the house has steel siding where I'll want to mount the cameras. We also have blasting winds here, so things will need to be very secure, and I'm not sure the steel siding will be very ideal. AND, for the most part, I will need to mount the cameras on the walls because the eaves are way too high up for me to reach or to capture anything but sort of aerial overhead views. So that means drilling right through walls from inside to outside to get to where the cams will need to be mounted. I tend to like lower camera locations to see under peoples' hoodies, etc.
The gal who owned the new house before us liked to leave her garage door open and use an entrance to the house from that garage for her and others. But that meant poor security for stuff in the garage. Our cameras, from across the street, caught good enough views of a guy stealing an expensive bicycle from her garage that the police here recognized the culprit, and the were able to bust him and some associates and get her bike back. But this happened in broad daylight. Had it been at night, the relatively poor night vision of these current cameras would have made the footage useless. So better night vision is something I would like to achieve with the new cameras.
Just for amusement, I'm currently using a pair of Unify GigaBeam PLUS 60 ghz band units to get what amounts to a wireless Ethernet connection between the two houses. It works like a champ, even shooting through windows on both ends of the connection. And this allows everything in both houses to be on our main LAN system. But all of my cameras are on a separate IP subnet, which had no direct internet access. I plan to set up the system for the new house the same way. This still lets me view cameras remotely when not on our LAN via a VPN that my router "hosts". That means that our main LAN is on a subnet that's not the usual 192.168.1.XXX so I don't run into address conflicts when viewing (or even streaming stuff) at work, for example.
Anyhow, I'm just curious about what you folks would buy for cameras and other gear if you were setting up a brand new system.
Thanks, everyone, I appreciate your time and expertise, and I WILL go back and re-read all of the WIKI type articles on here that have likely been updated since I was last keeping up with things more actively on here!
I'd also love to get a good PTZ camera with auto tracking, etc., for the new place, if only to play with it. We're on a corner, so it might be interesting and useful to let it be informed by several other cameras to allow it to know where to go to lock onto various people, critters, cars, etc. This is in town, but we get quite a few deer, mostly at night, so they'd be fun targets to track and zoom into.
Anyhow, for the most part, I'll mount fixed view cameras, and it's going to be something of a chore because most of the house has steel siding where I'll want to mount the cameras. We also have blasting winds here, so things will need to be very secure, and I'm not sure the steel siding will be very ideal. AND, for the most part, I will need to mount the cameras on the walls because the eaves are way too high up for me to reach or to capture anything but sort of aerial overhead views. So that means drilling right through walls from inside to outside to get to where the cams will need to be mounted. I tend to like lower camera locations to see under peoples' hoodies, etc.
The gal who owned the new house before us liked to leave her garage door open and use an entrance to the house from that garage for her and others. But that meant poor security for stuff in the garage. Our cameras, from across the street, caught good enough views of a guy stealing an expensive bicycle from her garage that the police here recognized the culprit, and the were able to bust him and some associates and get her bike back. But this happened in broad daylight. Had it been at night, the relatively poor night vision of these current cameras would have made the footage useless. So better night vision is something I would like to achieve with the new cameras.
Just for amusement, I'm currently using a pair of Unify GigaBeam PLUS 60 ghz band units to get what amounts to a wireless Ethernet connection between the two houses. It works like a champ, even shooting through windows on both ends of the connection. And this allows everything in both houses to be on our main LAN system. But all of my cameras are on a separate IP subnet, which had no direct internet access. I plan to set up the system for the new house the same way. This still lets me view cameras remotely when not on our LAN via a VPN that my router "hosts". That means that our main LAN is on a subnet that's not the usual 192.168.1.XXX so I don't run into address conflicts when viewing (or even streaming stuff) at work, for example.
Anyhow, I'm just curious about what you folks would buy for cameras and other gear if you were setting up a brand new system.
Thanks, everyone, I appreciate your time and expertise, and I WILL go back and re-read all of the WIKI type articles on here that have likely been updated since I was last keeping up with things more actively on here!
