Setting up new system
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sebastiantombs
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Welcome to the land of video surveillance lunatics. Be sure to check the WiKI, in the blue bar at the top of the page. Study, carefully on a real computer, the Cliff Notes in there. There is also a lot of other good information for sizing a system and keeping it safe on the internet, foil the "phone home" features. Read, study plan, ask questions, revise plans and test before spending money. It'll save you time, frustration and money in the end. There's tons of reviews here on cameras, and NVRs to help confuse you even more when trying to make a decision.
Thank you very much Sebastian.
Welcome to the land of video surveillance lunatics. Be sure to check the WiKI, in the blue bar at the top of the page. Study, carefully on a real computer, the Cliff Notes in there. There is also a lot of other good information for sizing a system and keeping it safe on the internet, foil the "phone home" features. Read, study plan, ask questions, revise plans and test before spending money. It'll save you time, frustration and money in the end. There's tons of reviews here on cameras, and NVRs to help confuse you even more when trying to make a decision.
I'm going to ask my first question...
mat200
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Hallo Mat and thank you for replying my thread.
I'm going to explain my situation in a specific thread under "NVR's, DVR's & Computers" section but it'll take some time because I'm not fluent in english!
Anyway I've bought all HikVision cameras.
I've read about Blue Iris but at the moment I would prefer a NVR.
Later I'll give a try with Blue Iris.
SouthernYankee
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If your cameras are Hikvision then use a hikvision POE NVR. Get an NVR that has more ports than you need. If you have 8 cameras buy a 16 camera NVR.
A word of warning, Hikvision enforces geographic region restrictions, BY this i mean that if you have hikvision cameras from china that have been hacked to English (or Italian) , They may not work with a Hikvision EU NVR.
On an NVR pay careful attention to the incoming band width. There are a lot of NVRs that look good, but may only handle two 4K (8mp) cameras, then it is out of processing power.
A word of warning, Hikvision enforces geographic region restrictions, BY this i mean that if you have hikvision cameras from china that have been hacked to English (or Italian) , They may not work with a Hikvision EU NVR.
On an NVR pay careful attention to the incoming band width. There are a lot of NVRs that look good, but may only handle two 4K (8mp) cameras, then it is out of processing power.
Hallo SouthernYankee and thank you for your precious advices.
I've bought all cameras from Amazon Italy and I think that they are ok but I don't know how can I be certain of their geographic ID. They have CE certification.
I will link here my thread with all information as soon as I can (I'm writing it
).@sebastiantombs @mat200 and @SouthernYankee
here you are my new thread, hope you can reply.
Thank you in advance,
here you are my new thread, hope you can reply.
Thank you in advance,
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