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Having the cameras and nvr on a PoE switch will isolate the traffic from the rest of your network, so no need to worry. Axis makes good cameras but no NVR. Milestone sells an NVR. Other names that come to mind are NUUO, Synology Surveillance Station, QNAP, AverMedia. Depends on your budget. I personally prefer to use a PC with NVR software as it separates the investment in license and hardware. So if it breaks, I can just fix it myself or get a new PC without impacting my software license investment, so I use Milestone XProtect which works well with Axis but there's others like Exacq and Luxriot that have been around a while. To view the cameras remotely on the 50" TV, you'll need some sort of computer to run client software or web browser to view the cameras at the remote location. I use a tiny Android computer, usually sold for way under $100 and connects via WiFi but if that's not possible, they have adapters or some with Ethernet ports. Then I run one of the many Android apps that lets you view the cameras directly via their sub-stream.

I checked around and really not much about them at all but appears to sell very low end cameras from China. I have not had good success using cameras in this price range, they don't last, they have poor optics, little to no support, immature firmware. If you are OK with this, some people have had good experience with Dericam. Also understand that when you don't have anything decent to compare to, what you have does not look so bad.

What are their prices like compared to other U.S. distributors? Also, they only provide a 1 year warranty where the Dahua OEM distributor in the U.S. we use provides a 2 year warranty.

My electrician does a rough patch of the holes he makes, I come in after and sand it smooth, apply a skim coat over it, then apply texture myself. But each contractor is different.

It is less expensive by the pound than other Dahua cameras though. Will keep an eye out for it's baby brother, maybe Dahua will be at the ASIS show in 3 weeks.

They have flexible drill bits that are 8-12' long and many times they can drill to a point, make small hole to drill further and then patch the hole up with 5 minute patching compound and quick sand and spray texture, never know it was touched. The best alternative and not necessarily cheaper than an electrician is to use Powerline adapters. I'm currently using the Trendnet version with that has an outlet in the front and I plug a wall plug style PoE injector into that. Works for me as I have couch in front of it to hide it. Powerline requires that both outlets be on the same leg of the 240VAC coming to the electrical panel. Wireless is possible, but more involved as Powerline is plug and play, wireless requires some amount of setup work. What you need is a router than can act in "bridge mode". What I did in another home is get the extremely tiny Edimax BR-6258n micro router and put it in the wall in a flush enclosure that has an outlet in it in a closet. But with wireless you still need to get AC to power it and you still need a PoE injector, so not less messier than Powerline, just different.

LOL, that's what I thought too. I have a close-up view of a busy lake in So Cal, I can sit and watch people water skiing from my desktop all day, not sure anyone would pay for that though but maybe someone like a realtor would pay to use that live feed to draw people to their site, not that I want to, but something like that would make more sense due to the proximity to the action. If I had a lake view a mile away, it would not be as interesting.

LOL, some people here are passionate about their brands. I get passionate when something cool comes out and then 3 months later it's the latest new toy. Seriously, install them all, same PC, run them for their trial period and see. I have BlueIris, ACTi NVR3 and Milestone XProtect all on one PC, an old i3 at that.

Use the old coax to pull the new Ethernet cable. As for drywall, it's meant to be cut and repaired easy peasy. Find a good electrician and they have specialized tools to minimize damage to drywall. People get squeamish about this but it's not that bad. You are not destroying it, just cutting it up into pieces and then putting it back. You should see the amount of holes I put in a new high rise condo to install outlets for two wall mounted TV.

I find Milestone doesn't use up more CPU than ACTi for ACTi cameras, for other brands like Dahua yes. But back to NVR3, by default, the recording schedule is set to constant record, you need to change that by clearing it and then selecting the light blue event recording. Also, check the cameras to see if they the motion detect zones are setup and change the 10% number to something lower like 6%.

Today, it's 97F in the shade here in So Cal and it was 69F this morning so I feel what you are saying and not liking it one bit.

They had one for several months now, the IPC-HFW3300C, I believe Maxicon has the same one. Has the ability to record on an SD card and playback directly from the camera, very cool.

If the red lines show up it recorded something, you should be able to move the timeline under the red lines and click the play button.

I would imagine that it can stream via RTSP any single camera channel, just find the URL for it, it's been discussed several times. This is totally different than what you are thinking of that's the HTTP URL to view from a browser. Then you just need software to re-stream RTSP to RTMP to put on a website.

Actually, all these comments that originated from John Honovich of IPVM fame are not new, they are from 9 months ago on his rant on Avigilon and was discussed here 9 months ago. So maybe, just a wild arse guess, can A*worker be John?

Must be limited by firmware because it used to be 15fps, and the latest Dahua firmware (May 2013) allowed it to go to 20fps.

To confirm, since I was not home yesterday, the 3MP Dahua bullet that I have does 3MP at 20FPS.

18 degrees doesn't seem like much of a variance. I don't have that specific camera, but I have several brands of varifocal and fixed lens cameras in So Cal where it's not unusual for temps to vary by about 30 degrees between early morning and mid-day and I've never seen that so certainly a design defect. Hopefully Swann will be able to adjust their design and fix this.

I posted on my blog on how to do this from a Dahua camera, but I would imagine if you have the RTSP URL for the NVR, it would work the same way. The first step is figuring out how to get the live stream via RTSP using an easy to use program to test like VLC.

What do you mean by a vide transceiver? Do you want IP cameras that have Ethernet and video out?

What's the temperature difference between the two shots?

Is Fair Do's a British or Australian term? Just looking at YouTube of videos from a 5MP Avigilon that wasn't put out there by Avigilon as some may perceive that as biased. The video is in full 5MP if you click Original for the YouTube resolution. I asked them in English, but if someone speaks Portuguese, maybe we can get a model number.

Because nobody will post anything better, that's the point.

This is an image from a post a few month back on the 5MP Avigilon bullet, not judging, just posting because people are curious about the image quality from these cameras.

Are you trying to access it via the WAN address from within your home network, because that doesn't work with all routers.