Started 16 years with a simple b&w video camera plugged into a VHS video recorder, 'cos someone was kicking the wing mirrors off cars down our road, and we'd had milk pilfered...
Wired my own co-ax to various locations around the house, under floorboards and up channels in walls, and ran five cameras into a cheapo HDD set-up, and another since, but all too low-res for any sort of worthwhile use. Nice to be able to check the place is still standing when away, though.
So, just upgraded to a Hikvision DS-7208HUHI-K1 with five 5Mp 'Turbo' cameras. Rather good. Except... well, it just spent the day emailing me about untoward events , which I managed to sort out, just before iVMS declared the dvr 'offline' over our ethernet. Can still access it via mobile data though...
One thing it has in common with the cheaper set-ups is how dense is the manual, and how little it appears to relate to the actuality.
And how the menus on the direct monitor, the networked PC browser, and iVMS-4200, seem so unrelated.
And how the set-up suddenly decides to stop communicating over the wired network.
In anticipation of which annoyances is why I joined ipcamtalk. Even though I don't have any IP cameras.
I'm about to post my first HELP ME.
Don't suppose it'll be my last.
Unless having no IP cameras gets me disbarred.
Wired my own co-ax to various locations around the house, under floorboards and up channels in walls, and ran five cameras into a cheapo HDD set-up, and another since, but all too low-res for any sort of worthwhile use. Nice to be able to check the place is still standing when away, though.
So, just upgraded to a Hikvision DS-7208HUHI-K1 with five 5Mp 'Turbo' cameras. Rather good. Except... well, it just spent the day emailing me about untoward events , which I managed to sort out, just before iVMS declared the dvr 'offline' over our ethernet. Can still access it via mobile data though...
One thing it has in common with the cheaper set-ups is how dense is the manual, and how little it appears to relate to the actuality.
And how the menus on the direct monitor, the networked PC browser, and iVMS-4200, seem so unrelated.
And how the set-up suddenly decides to stop communicating over the wired network.
In anticipation of which annoyances is why I joined ipcamtalk. Even though I don't have any IP cameras.
I'm about to post my first HELP ME.
Don't suppose it'll be my last.
Unless having no IP cameras gets me disbarred.