Hello,
I am looking into setting up a basic home monitoring system. We have a pool in the location that is hard to see from most of the house but we would like to have an eye on while kids are there. So while I am looking at that I would want to have an ability to monitor a few more areas. Here is what I am thinking about:
2 outdoor camera minimum.
5-6 cameras would be good going forward, can work with 4 camera limit.
streaming is required (internally to computer/tablet/iphone, externally to web browser and iphone).
motion alarms is very good to have.
dvd record may be usefull.
night vision would be nice to have.
I started to look at cheap systems at Costco (4 channel 4 D1 cameras Q-see for $299, and 8 channel 4 D1 cameras Swann for 449), but after reading this forums I started to think about building system myself.
So a few questions:
really how bad would check costco system be for what I need?
If I would setup system by myself, using my computer as main controller, what software is available?
What cameras should I look at (I understand that 5M ACTi is good, but do I really need it)?
Thanks a lot,
Vadim