denisl

Hello - I just moved into a new house and need to get some camera's installed. I have a driveway that's about 100ft from the house which I want to have a camera recording where the driveway meets the street. I don't mind spending a little extra money for a high quality outdoor night vision capable camera to get good night picture quality of this area. I may want to put in another 3 cameras or so but not necessary to have the same long range capabilities. Is continuous recording practical? I would prefer not to have a motion activated camera - I want to record 24/7 with about a week of history. Use of external storage would be helpful to keep more history / camera's if needed. Any guidance as to where to begin? Thanks a lot.

Thanks I appreciate the help. So I guess my next question would be if it's better off to buy a bundled system or build my own? I can get started with just 2 camera's for now. Any quality starter sets with great night vision at 100ft ?

After reading my initial post I can see how it was confusing - yes my camera will be mounted on the house about 100ft away from the driveway area I want to monitor. I have brick "winged walls" at the entrance to my driveway with post lights on the walls. They were victim of some vandals and destroyed. I would like to get that under video surveillance. Normally the lights will be on so the camera will be recording at night facing the winged walls with lights on. At around 2am the lights go off by timer and video will be recording in a much darker environment. So I would need a camera that can adjust to the changing light conditions (day/night with lights on/ night). I also want to put a dome camera above the front door facing down (about 20ft above the front door).

I have a brick house with vinyl eaves. I was thinking under the corner eave closest to the driveway. If need be put some reinforcement above the camera for mounting from the attic. I can run wires where ever they need to go but if wireless is just as good but maybe a little more expensive I'm willing to pay for the ease of install. Otherwise I would prefer POE single cable style wiring but will not let connectivity become a factor vs a quality image. Thanks for the reply.