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Recommendations on a Home video surveillance system

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Sephire

Sephire

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1. Wireless - the video feed should be wireless.
2. DVR
3. Web (remote) access with portable devices like Android or iOS.

I have tried Night Owl but its a piece of crap hard to operate. Not to mention mediocre video quality.

There are some that is stand alone cameras like Logitech or D-Dlink but it would be nice to have the system pre-configured and ready to go.
 
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Your going to be making a lot of concessions by going with wireless cameras. Is that a non-negotiable item?
 
I put in a wired 8 cam system. Cameras need power so your going to have wires one way or the other. Forget about the vuezone wireless cam system. Ok for fun but totally unreliable for security.
A wired system is not only night vision, but the one cable supplies both video feed and power to the cameras. One wire to each camera. Two off mine have 125 feet of cable and works perfect. I was worried long cables would reduce video quality and or the wire resistance would not supply enough power to the camera. Not the case.
And the dvr records all three at once 24/7.
Night view works great. IR up to 50 feet.
 
sportage said:
I put in a wired 8 cam system. Cameras need power so your going to have wires one way or the other. Forget about the vuezone wireless cam system. Ok for fun but totally unreliable for security.
A wired system is not only night vision, but the one cable supplies both video feed and power to the cameras. One wire to each camera. Two off mine have 125 feet of cable and works perfect. I was worried long cables would reduce video quality and or the wire resistance would not supply enough power to the camera. Not the case.
And the dvr records all three at once 24/7.
Night view works great. IR up to 50 feet.
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What system did you use? Link?
 
might not be what you are looking for but I like the push video of the cameras by this company.

http://www.avtech.com.tw/

They have wireless, i think they have dvr option but i've never set it up. I just ftp the video to my ftp server. And it pushes the video realtime to your iphone whenever there is a trigger. comes in both wired and wireless models.

Are you sure about wireless? even though its wireless, you still have to run power to the camera which is a pain. And if you are running power to the camera, you might as well do wired.
 
Sorry I forgot to add the power cables is fine its how the transmission of the video feed that has to be wireless.
 
I'm a little concerned about online based systems. You never know who is watching your property, and you never know when information (about you not being home) might make its way to potential burglars.
 
I setup a half dozen D-Link Wireless IP cameras and connect them to my fileserver, which runs ZoneMinder on Linux. Works suitably well for covering the interior of my home. I'd need some better cameras if I wanted to put them outside, of course.
 
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