martynh99

New cameras

Currently have an aging 4ch system that has a mixture of cameras attached and it's time for a refresh. Current setup - 4CH DVR with 500G disk - 2 * 420tvl 3.6mm camera covering driveway ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/OUTDOOR-SECURITY-CAMERA-420TVL-VISION/dp/B008FN720K ) - 1 * B/W camera with audio sat above front door - 1 * colour camera, not sure of capability but likely 420tvl Requirements - Looking to get much better quality and coverage with additional expansion should I need it so looking for 8ch. - only need 3 cameras initially, driveway is 38ft wide so 3 cams should cover if spaced well. - Mobile app (IOS/Android) - ideally audio on one camera above front door but could always run external mic if need to - 10 day recording capability, compromise on that with motion/heat trigger recording. Not sure whether to go 1080p, AHD or PoE - is there that much difference. Ideally don't want to spend more than £400 so I know that will limit me a little. Been looking at Maxxone (local trade place sells these but 2TB DVR & 4 * 1080p cams was £505), Annke & Hikvision as these are ones that seem to offer what i'm after under my ideal budget. Current setup view And at night time, just at bottom of Cam1 you can see a dual LED floodlight, same is over on far left where blue car is.

The image of the cable in the link you provided doesn't look like external grade cable to me, too tightly wound (could just be stock image). External grade cable will protect from water and sunlight, well worth paying the few extra $/€/£. Cat5e cable will probably be cheaper, it's good for 1G speeds which is more than you need for IP cameras. To give you an idea of pricing, over here in the UK I picked up external cat5e cable for my recent install for 27p metre, Cat6 was around double that.

Ended up buying from UK distributor (so proper UK specced kit) DVR - Hikvision 8ch 1080P DVR with 2TB drive 3 * Hikvision 1080P 80m EXIR Bullet 3.6mm Only got two of them setup as now, ran external grade Cat5e cable to them as the bnc/power cables to the old cameras just couldn't handle the pictures at all. Just need to get the ladders out and get back up to the 3rd camera to run the cable in and i'm sorted. Quality on the cameras is excellent though. Might just be me that hasn't found how to do it yet but my old DVR could do continous record and motion detection record concurrently, the Hik doesn't seem able to

Hi, i bought one of these kits from Maplin and it suits my requirements but I have one gripe, and thats the backup function. Ideally I want to take all video files and backup them up to my pc, the backup option on the device allows you to search a time period for recordings and then copy to them to USB but it only allows 6 at a time, so to backup a day with 30 min interval files i have to do this in 8 stages, each one taking considerable time. The other option is via the web gui from a pc but that is worse in that you can only back 1 file up at a time. I can telnet to the box but have no id/password combo to login (hopeful there will be a ftp/tftp cli cmd in there) Has anybody got the id/password to telnet into the box ?

Hi It's twofold really, the first is novelty of a new toy but that will wear off, the second is the main reason we got the cctv and that is we are having problems with kids with footballs, playing cricket, running round cars on private property with sticks, rackets etc resulting in damage to cars. Parents have been spoken to, police visits made but still it persists so now collecting evidence using cameras - would just like to be able to back all files up on daily basis regardless so that they can be reviewed at leisure in case the hard drive packs up in the DVR.