Yes, I realize most people start here asking pretty much the same - a suggestion for their use case. Here's mine.
Am trying to research an NVR and camera system for home surveillance. Home is a 1-story ranch, 1600 sq ft. with large covered front and back porches. I’m thinking a camera on each porch, one interior, and possibly one on the driveway. The floor plan is such that a single interior camera on a bookshelf in the living room would cover the living room and hallway to the bedrooms. The only room that wouldn't have any coverage would be the kitchen.
What I’ve really been going back and forth on is the NVR. Based on what I’ve read here and on a couple of similar forums, I keep coming back to the Hikvision 7604 or perhaps the 7108 Seems to be pretty solid, but I don’t know if I’m missing something critical or overlooking a better alternative. I’m also looking at a couple of offerings from securitycameraking.com. I’m a bit attracted to them because they appear to be a US firm building their own product, not a Chinese firm, with the support implications that entails. But maybe that’s a mis-placed phobia. It could also be that they appear to be more of a ‘custom’ shop and support and continuity might be an issue.
Based on my reading so far, here are my expectations, or “wish list”
- Minimum 4 POE ports, would consider 8 if the price is right.
- Minimum 1 Tb storage.
- Ability to offload captured footage to my laptop or a USB connected hard drive.
Nice to have:
So based on all of the above, I’m all ears for comments, suggestions, warnings, etc.
Am trying to research an NVR and camera system for home surveillance. Home is a 1-story ranch, 1600 sq ft. with large covered front and back porches. I’m thinking a camera on each porch, one interior, and possibly one on the driveway. The floor plan is such that a single interior camera on a bookshelf in the living room would cover the living room and hallway to the bedrooms. The only room that wouldn't have any coverage would be the kitchen.
What I’ve really been going back and forth on is the NVR. Based on what I’ve read here and on a couple of similar forums, I keep coming back to the Hikvision 7604 or perhaps the 7108 Seems to be pretty solid, but I don’t know if I’m missing something critical or overlooking a better alternative. I’m also looking at a couple of offerings from securitycameraking.com. I’m a bit attracted to them because they appear to be a US firm building their own product, not a Chinese firm, with the support implications that entails. But maybe that’s a mis-placed phobia. It could also be that they appear to be more of a ‘custom’ shop and support and continuity might be an issue.
Based on my reading so far, here are my expectations, or “wish list”
- Minimum 4 POE ports, would consider 8 if the price is right.
- Minimum 1 Tb storage.
- Ability to offload captured footage to my laptop or a USB connected hard drive.
Nice to have:
- Ability to ftp footage, especially on motion detected alert
- Ability to record to the NVR and to another network attached drive at the same time (thinking that if a burglar stole or disabled the NVR, images would also already be on another drive. )
So based on all of the above, I’m all ears for comments, suggestions, warnings, etc.
