cctv007

Your setup looks pretty good. The only thing I would say is the drawing shows 1 camera on each corner and you mention having 4 on the corners in your post... Using cameras on the corners to cover the entire side of a house may have some issues with seeing what is going on in the long distances to where the other camera starts. You will also have blind spots in the corners directly underneath each camera when there is just one or even two facing one in each direction. Placing two cameras halfway in the long sections facing each other just a couple feet apart will get rid of blind spots and make both shots shorter and therefore clearer. When it comes to wireless cameras I like to say "If wireless worked there would be no wired cameras sold..." Even wireless network cameras will still need power cables run to them (perhaps until they run off of hydrogen or power cells) and analog wireless cameras can overrun the frequency of your wifi and are usually such lower grade that the pictures are not worth the money no matter how inexpensive they are. Wifi IP cameras are 90% used of indoors and all the ones I have seen for outdoors still require power cables and in my experience are not as good or reliable as outdoor cabled ones. Dahua and Hikvision (and there are many resellers in the US) offers the best DVR's/NVR's cameras and their POE NVR's only require one ethernet cable per camera which provides power and video. Power up to 328' and video up to close to 1,000'. And they are pretty much plug and play. That being said there may be a wireless solution that I am not aware of but any of them will still require drilling a hole in the wall to get power to them and typically use a power adapter so that hole will have to come out in a room to use an outlet or be wired toa basement or attic which would be identical to running a cable to a DVR/NVR. IP cameras themselves typically have NAS settings built in and the NVR's I mentioned above definitely do. I hope this helps

With Dahua POE NVR's the cameras will connect to their own internal network. The cameras (so long as they are compatible - and no not think that Onvif means compatible) aer basically plug and play which makes it, for me, very convenient and easy to setup. You can then access them as any other DVR or NVR through the unit itself. That being said I did not see this in any other post - If you take a network cable and plug a pc into one of the NVR's POE slots you can access the cameras directly using the ip address the NVR assigns to it. I have seen issues with NVR's that connect directly to the cameras like this where the "handshake" (for lack of a better term) can but not always change the settings on cameras, particularly with the infrared settings. If you go to the remote device setup menu in the NVR you can see what the ip address is on each camera and access it through Chrome, Firefox, and IE. With quicktime installed on the pc you can watch the video and Chrome and Firefox do not require the Active X settings changes.

Hi there, I have accessed this forum for years now for information. I have found it both helpful and sometimes misleading and wanted to join the community to assist. I have been the head of IT and support for a large American CCTV reseller (don't worry I am not interested in selling you their products I'll leave that up to the marketing boys and girls) for five years now and have virtually assisted in over 20,000 installs of analog, ip, and pc based installations (24 calls a day closed * 5 days/week*50weeks/year*5years.) I do installation with my own company from Delaware to Massachusetts as well and just logged my 200th successful in person installation. No, I do not sleep much thanks for asking... I spend a lot of time working for other people and bending over backwards for customers who are not so nice and wanted to give back in a way that felt good and was free with no financial strings attached and I know I can give good reliable data in a clear and harmonious manner. I have a degree in English Literature and Math and Computer Science and have worked on computers since waaaay before it was trending. I look forward to joining the discussion and helping any way I can. I understand the world of cameras can be confusing and with years of experience of whittling down jargon into understandable english I believe I may be able to add something to the community and provide assistance. Thank you for reading this.