PaulsonLaw

Well.... & I only play a professional on the internet If you can only handle 6, make 1 a PTZ & make one a fish eye 180 degree 180 cam example only.... Clover HDC500 Panoramic E.T. Color Camera CCTV camera - fixed - weatherproof Good luck This assuming your DVR can auto scan w/ the PTZ & has motion tracking option....

I ran 4 coax wire up a corner of the siding to the eve, just tucked them in, fit fine.....

Try to keep your cams to your eves. Once you get the wires to the eve, feeding them is a breeze. If you only have 2 eves, consider running 1" conduit (painted?) up the 2 sides of the house to the eves, or if you have eves all the way around, just run 1 1" conduit up the outside to the eve & go from there.... * When feeding you can easily run 8 bcn/power coax up the 1" conduit, just step tape them* If it's your first pro set-up & the wires are provided, and long enough, then stick with them for ease. Always consider a remote location of your DVR, google an IR/Video over cat5. Then you can place where ever safely & just run 1 cat5 cable to your tv.... ** Most good DVR's will have least 2 video outputs, so for your home, your can use 2 IR/Video over cat5, one for your living room, one for bedroom. Here's a pic of what I'm talking about. If you don't feel it's worth the money, consider a scrap yard that just had their safe stolen, the perps also took their dvr....

154 fracking cameras!!?!?!?!?!!! GEEZ!!!! Can I come work for you? lol That's insane, post some pics!

SO here is what I have coming for testing the alarm set-up on the dvr, it will be mounted at the DVR location, 2miles deep into the earths crust gru-ha-ha..... Just asking for any advice on the set-up or the units for a dvr... My end goal is when the motion alarm picks up on certain cams, an outside siren/strobe comes on for a moment to scare the crap out of trespasser & alert the compound, lol, the farm, to an intruder.... I had an extra factory power/video cord & used it for the power/signal line outside to the unit, just dont have an outside unit yet....

SOB!!!! The cheapo $10 siren/strobe came in from china fraking broke! The strobe worked for a minute until the main capacitor fried itself! Will PM you on the good UK ones!

Will post pics if this test siren/strobe I ordered 3weks ago I think ever get here ???? The SS Crydom relay is only for protection to the dvr, cause ya never know.... Plus, I have "century" units, they are a 12v/1ma sharpie marker sized unit that fires off a 12g blank round. So I plan to use siren/strobe, but want the option to hook one of these up LOL I'm quite sure siren/strobes will scare the living out of a perp & wake up the hill, but a blank shotgun blast added to it might give it that special sound I'm looking for. I may put it on a delay so it fires 5 seconds after the S/S so as the perp is running away at top speed he thinks he is being fired on.... GRU HA HA! Will post pics, but might be a week out....

Not that I would have what you need here.... but what DVR & iphone app & what not are you using?

Not that this is related, but our problem was the cable tv signal coax, the rg6, not being grounded by the installers back when. So this was grounding thru the tv to the rca input & all the way back thru the dvr.... Grounded nicely & all is good....

http://www.ubnt.com/toughcable the Ubiquti touch cable

SO...... & I'm no pro..... Sry, but to make sure you are not leaving the house w/ any cams right? Need some pics.... If the runs aren't over, "100'<?" or so & you have cat5 running to each location, it may be just as easy to forget the rg59 & just run power up 3 pairs & video back down the 4th<? Are they 12vdc or 24vac? I am only guessing question that will help the pro's when they get on here later lol..... Try taking pics w/ your phone, they tend to be lower size & maybe just load one at a time per post?

whew, you have a lot of research ahead of you. Interesting your house is prewired! Could you reply to these questions for........ Can you post a picture or 3 of this prewiring? Is the coax rg6, rg5, rg59, other? Are they bare ended or have connections? How far are these runs with-in25' ? How many cams do you have, how many coax lines? How many cat5 lines? easy details would be a great help

Jacket shielding really isn't relevant, since the pairs are all inside the same shield... Not running giga so you say just leave the orng & grn pairs alone huh? Well, assuming standard T-568A/B wiring... as musher notes, some cable may use different colors, but those are the most common (the others being blue and brown pairs). If it were me, I'd probably be punching down to a keystone jack in this case, and just leave the blue and brown pairs out - split them off and splice the video run(s) to them directly, or connect them directly to baluns. YOUR AWESOME!!! Thanks! May be a week, but will let you all know!

Just wondering if anyone has ever ran a camera video signal down a current active internet cable... TC-L2 cat5, 300' run thanks

you lost me at this point... i see... sounds like an almost identical setup to mine! but i would use a PIR rather than camera detection if i were you... you can never get it right... you either get it to catch every person AND clouds and birds or most people with a few who slip through the net. Will consider, forgot to re-pm, doing now...

yes most dvrs have this option. but as you see with your zmodo it only has 1 alarm output. it has 4 inputs but only 1 output. so if you are thinking of using the cameras for the alarm i can guarantee you will have switched it off within a few hours if your cameras are not in a total alarm free area. this is why OPs are saying to use sensors to triger your alarms Now I get it, thanks for that! But I am only setting the alarm on certain cameras, and those selected camera will be grid selected so that it only triggers the alarm for the exact spots I choose. I do not wish different sirens for different cams, one alarm set-up for the selected cams is fine. As for the relay, I feel it's safer for the DVR. I am going to have 5 to 7 small strobes & 3 120-160db sirens, plus a strobe/switch for testing put at the main monitor screen....

you lost me at this point... Ok.... I will set cams to motion alert.... Then set time frame for said cams motion alarm.... During set hours, " nighttime" when the cams detect motion, it will trigger the alarm out port on the DVR... with proper relay in place, the alarm out port will close the loop, activating the relay. This inturn closes the loop to whatever I have hooked up< the sirens & stobes. I can also set the alarm to sound for 5 seconds, pause for 10 seconds, then repeat for 1 to 10 minutes.... SO.... In the end, say it's 3am & someone walks behind the cabin, the DVR's alarm will trip sound the sirens & light up the stobes like WWIII. This will happen for 5 seconds, everything goes dead quiet for 10 seconds, then all hell again for 1 minute. Now if that doesn't wake us up along w/ the whole hill & scare the ever living crap outta the perp, then.... LMFAO @ just the idea! I can't wait! I am not sure as to all DVR's, but mine has motion senstivity levels & when you set the motion, you can grid the screen, 20x20 squares, & select which areas you wish to scan for motion & which not. This way we dont give a stray cat a heart-attack lol Of course recording is always on, full screen 24/7 no matter what I set.....

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BTW, here's a shot of my netbook running the zmodo activeX control, phase 1&2. Poor shot w/ a poor cell phone, but you get the idea. Our hill is installing 4 of these DVRs on 4 properties. Covering 9 properties & several dedicated road cam/ plate loggers, after all phases completed by spring the hill will have 37 cameras. & I've only ever installed 1 other dvr before lol! Everyone is paying for their share of cameras, except the Church of course. We are helping the install for each other in trade for access to each others road cams. Sad thing is we are outside of the city limits. So, in the long run, you may hear some bash the analogs dvrs, but in the end you can cover a ton more ground for the cost of a higher end unit. The nice thing is those that bash the analogs, still help you figure them out! Thanks Guys!

WHOA WHOA WHOA..... It just occured to me, some of you are talking about making a motion sensor activate the recording??? Correct??? My Zmodo already has motion recording built in w/ the cams. The Zmodo also has an "Alarm Out". I am hooking strobes & sirens to the "motion alarm/connection loss" alarm out, to a relay. So when cams I select at the selected time detect motion, the DVR will set off the sirens/stobes for an allotted amount of time. Perhaps not all DVR's have this option....

I am not worried about the video crosstalk on the TC-L2 cable, great stuff, best made for shielding I am sure.... Not running giga so you say just leave the orng & grn pairs alone huh? Splicing not an issue as where this line comes in to both locations, it has the regular "press in" female ends & runs a short patch to the dvr & the router. Yes, my dvr & router are 100's of feet apart lol. But whats the point in a dvr if someone would find it & steal it lol. Let me know what pairs to remove from the female cat5 ends plza

Be sure you have the correct power pack on the cams & the correct power pack on the DVR. I have a Zmodo and they looked very close but one was 3a & one was 5a. Are you running on the factory BNC/Power cables it came with? Are you using cat5 cable? If so, what baluns & what length of runs? Zmodo's are great, you will be VERY happy for the money spent. I'm a noob compared to some of these pro's, but know the Zmodo rather well so also PM me if any questions arise as to set-up & networking & the motion alarm settings < gru-ha-ha < you're gonna love it!

^^^ Wouldn't that depend on the type of cat5 & overall distance combined with the load of the cam??? Not such a yes or no is it? it depends on the parts used so the answer would still be no. take cat5 you could use 3 pair for 24v power only and the last pair you can run 2 cameras and also audio and data. and you dont get interference issue. so the answer is no ^^^^ Even not knowing the load, even a large load w/a heater/cam/wiper.... Even with out knowing the run, if it's on a pole he could be running 300, 1000, 2000 feet..... So ( NO ) is correct not knowing these things?

No. ^^^ Wouldn't that depend on the type of cat5 & overall distance combined with the load of the cam??? No. To this question... yes, the answer is "no". ^^^^ Ok, your are saying that the NO, "Wouldn't this possibly cause some video interference issue due to the power being so close to the video?" But in the other post in this thread you clearly state the informative reality the YES power can cause interference^^^

No. ^^^ Wouldn't that depend on the type of cat5 & overall distance combined with the load of the cam??? Not such a yes or no is it?