TheWaterbug
Getting comfortable
The front door of my office building looks like this:
There is no residential doorbell wiring in that door frame, but there is 12V for the security entry keypad, and I have a string of Cat5e in the ceiling that I can run down into the door frame for POE.
Recommendations for a camera? I'd definitely prefer POE over WiFi, and it has to have the classic "doorbell camera" form factor to fit onto that metal strip (just a hair under 2" wide). I don't need any doorbell functionality, because the keypad has a doorbell in it already. That doorbell runs off of 12V DC, same as the keypad.
Reolink, of all people, has a POE Doorbell camera that advertises both 802.3af and RTSP/ONVIF in the specs. I almost don't believe it! And it's $90:
Dahua have this VTO2101E-P-S1 Villa Station, but it appears to be rare and expensive in the U.S. This Singapore-based retailer offers it for $110, but their online specs don't include either "802.3af" or "POE", although the model number matches exactly.
Aliexpress have the -S2 version for $155, but Dahua has no such model on their site, which is suspicious.
Hik has a competing "Villa Station," the DS-KV6113-WPE1, but it's not available at most U.S. retailers.
Did I miss any models worth considering?
There is no residential doorbell wiring in that door frame, but there is 12V for the security entry keypad, and I have a string of Cat5e in the ceiling that I can run down into the door frame for POE.
Recommendations for a camera? I'd definitely prefer POE over WiFi, and it has to have the classic "doorbell camera" form factor to fit onto that metal strip (just a hair under 2" wide). I don't need any doorbell functionality, because the keypad has a doorbell in it already. That doorbell runs off of 12V DC, same as the keypad.
Reolink, of all people, has a POE Doorbell camera that advertises both 802.3af and RTSP/ONVIF in the specs. I almost don't believe it! And it's $90:
Dahua have this VTO2101E-P-S1 Villa Station, but it appears to be rare and expensive in the U.S. This Singapore-based retailer offers it for $110, but their online specs don't include either "802.3af" or "POE", although the model number matches exactly.
Aliexpress have the -S2 version for $155, but Dahua has no such model on their site, which is suspicious.
Hik has a competing "Villa Station," the DS-KV6113-WPE1, but it's not available at most U.S. retailers.
Did I miss any models worth considering?
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