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Hello, I would like to install a surveillance system to cover entry to my house having had one unwanted youth kick the back door in. There is an akward space at the side of the house, where people may hide and attack the back door, and the property is right by a public foot path. See front + side view. I am planning on using mostly dome cameras at this particular time unless there it's sensible to do otherwise. I have two to experiment with so far and the base system ready. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I've made a first mark up on the attached pictures where the cameras might go. Some high up for observation, and two especially by the side door for recognition or identification hopefully. The cameras by the back door I was going to set quite low about 6ft5 above ground. Regards. Jason

That is right I think. But I wondered about passers by who become bored. The car port is about metre away from the fence though, so without an implement or climbing the fence they couldn't be reached. I will but this on the back burner and see concentrate on the main event first. I am just trailing the domes at the moment. The IR on the dome I have (Hikvision DS-2CD2132F-IS) is meant to go 10 - 30 metres, but I find that it only goes about 3m, but perhaps this could be due to a street lamp opposite near line of sight.

It should work but I've not tested that. Some of the hikvision nvr's come with one port for camera input so you can supply your own POE switch in front, but I would assume the POE NVR's work the same. Unfortunately I don't have time to test it for you for several days now. * I don't recall there being an option for that, but there are two solutions. Put the output from your WiFI POE into a non poe switch and then connect that to the nvr. * Wire up a custom ethernet cable with the POE wires cut. * Connecting your Wifi POE should not blow anything up as ethernet uses differential signalling, but you'd best be careful as custom POE can mean anything. You would have to check this all out with your custom WiFi AP provider. You can use a router to connect the two lans. But in any case two lans are not needed: a) the Hivision NVR won't send data from the camera ports out the NVR lan port unless you are watching a video stream. (Typically hikvision plug & play NVRs reconfigure your cameras to be on a separate lan anyway, and the LAN port on the NVR will be on your home network, it thus acts similarly to a router) b) your NVR will be connected to a switch and that will only send data to where it needs to go, thus not affecting your other devices.

* Have you forward the https and rtsp ports for each camera too? It may be that the rtsp describe request is returning internal port numbers that will only work internally, or a rtsp redirect is being returned with the internal port numbers. It should work over https if it works over http, though. * The port numbers can't be set the same. unfortunately with one external ip address the only way is to forward a port to each camera on it's own port for each service you want to expose to the internet. I say the only way. the other way is that you create a VPN/SSH tunnel into your network, but then you need to use client software to log into the vpn first, which may not fit your usage needs.

I have addressed some of those issues already. There is ongoing building work here at the moment, so there are things I can't do at the moment. Yes, I have thought of this, but without an opaque barrier people can see into the garden. The other idea I had was to remove the barrier entirely and move it towards the back at the end of the garage. Thereby preventing covert access to the side door. Yes, that's a good idea, but I think I may also need on at low level facing backwards to cover people hiding in that gap between the garage and the house, that is where the guest approached from last time. Yes good point, I will not put one there. I thought of this, but assume that it would invite camera vandalism. It depends if they were visible or not from the path. Yes indeed. I thought about this last night and think that would be a very sensible place for a camera, instead of what I posted. Yes that sounds like a very good idea. Yes, I put them there for an overview but it doesn't seem very useful or cost effective. yes, a very good point. I have a camera on a moveable test board now and see it isn't very helpful. The front of the house isn't very vulnerable in my opinion given the number of facing houses and passers by on the path. I will re-sketch my camera locations and consider what I can do about the wall between the garage and the house. Thanks for your enlightening suggestions. I'll do some more testing to see how things look and re-plan accordingly.

Well I could but I don't think the mortgage provider would approve. There isn't too much trouble round here, but when there are no cars on the driveway it's usually kiddies that break in and look for only cash or jewelry. The rubble at the front is for the patio at the back which isn't finished. if I got rid of it now I would have to buy some more later.