Excuse the clutter, men working! IP camera install!...top 6 are new cams.
Finally cool enought to get up in the trusses and pull some cable.
Bottom right 3 are Nightowls.
( 1 Amcrest
AD110 doorbell bottom left)
Out with the old 5mp Costco/Nightowl cams, and in with some new Dahua's from Andy and also 3 from Amcrest.
I kept putting it off because I didnt have 8 cams to swap positions with the 8 old cams. So I saw the Amcrests were down to $47
So I grabbed 3 for light duty. So i have 8 IP cams now. 6 installed.
So for the time being,
I'm running both systems, and taking down, and putting up as I go.
I'm using the Amcrest NVR 4108 as a POE switch to BI.
But I gotta say, Pardon my bitching about NVR's in the past...
This model has a nicer timeline review/ more user friendly /more time efficient, than my Nightowl Dvr's and the Amcrest XVR.
So If I were to turn off the BI machine to do some work on it...I'm still recording somewhere.
" find/Inspect" was new revelation( see 2nd pic) with the Amcrest vs. the tough time I had getting a Nightowl to work with BI.
You can choose your cam channel and which substream! wow!
I used to hate trying to see anything on the old NVR's
That and the " onscreen display' for camera attributes in the analog cams were annoying.
Thats How I ended up here ( There has got to be a better way! Grrrrrr
Once I saw the functions available in the Dahua style IP cams. I was like" Someday You will be Mine"
Well Yesterday was the day. and today.
I've been swapping out Analog for IP over the last 2 years at the Condo,
and Now finally at home...Yay!
Now i can talk smack in the Forums...
Because I'm a card carrying IP cammer now mofo's!
