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I am just wary with the issues surrounding my dogs over ther last few years since one was poisoned before we had to have him put down to a sudden and fast illness where his organs were failing, probably kidney related but not related to being poisoned a few years before. Sometimes things are a lot more complex than people realise and I'm not going to paste a rough area all over the internet. I appreciate the tip, and you are right, seeing something working would help a lot but let's take it to pm which personally I would have suggested before but had a lot on, I am running out of time though.

Budget isn't important to me as this is about the protection of my dog, fair enough I don't want to pay £1,000 a camera when there is one that will do it for £250-350 or less, I am probably not happy to spend over £1,500 for a good system, but that would have been with ptz cameras that can do what i need them to with no wires, yet when I set up my first wired system it only cost me about £250 and while good in the daytime, wasn't impressed at night, my last system cost me around £850, but there are things I don't need, like a 2TB drive for the nvr, a HD monitor to plug into it separately to watch live, as cheap as they are, a mouse. Where I am in the UK isn't important as such, but it is mainland UK, not one of the postal oddities that cost more.

I realise I have it the wrong way, but had difficulties getting a ring network to work on someone's house once, not done one since but was a relatively new house, about 5 years old and it was because they were isolated from each other and the outside circuit that had power to the garage, pool and garden, as this is over ethernet it is the wrong way round as I said. with pressure from landlord to get this sorted asap, a deaf dog and life, I got it mixed up. No he wants no wires outside. I also realised from the things I read on these chinese ones, that they sense all the time and don't record till they are activated, then only record a few seconds, so I get that the power isn't there to run a ptz from the small solar systems they use. If I stick to a 7 fixed camera set up, can these do what I want and is there a company that do them? Or do they only record when sensing motion with the power drain they would have to still broadcast video to the nvr?

Budget is irrelevant, I have one dog left and she is more important than worrying about a couple of grand on something I need to change to because of the idiot landlord who is not willing to budge on his stupid decision, especially when they aren't really in the way of what he wants to do and it is just an excuse from him for one thing or another. As for power outside, no there are no power outlets outside, if there were, any decent electrician would create a separate ring for them to isolate them from the house and would be useless to send data to anything on one of the rings in the house, which is why I asked you to explain why you suggested a cable hook up still with a wire to the camera, when I have already made clear it needs to be completely wireless. I appreciate you taking the time to post and chat about my issue, and apologise for sounding blunt, but I explained what I needed to do and why, I get that the chinese ones won't connect to an nvr, so I go back to my original question to a point, is there a system with completely wireless ptz cameras that can charge by solar, similair to the ones on amazon or ebay, as I have no storage for a car battery or the wires needed to run a system like that, something isolated would be ideal.

I understand casmeras can be mounted on poles, in trees or wherever, but if it has a cable running to it for power, you need a source, what do you mean ethernet over power is wireless? Does it still have a power source connected to the power ring the nvr is connectyed to?

It needs to be compltely wireless, after spending over £7k on vet bills the last 3 years, the cost is irrelevant, it has to be done, I cannot have any wires around the property, for data signal or power, I understand the security and stability of wired in one way or another, which is why I have the system I do, but sadly it has to go.

Thanks for replying, this sucks then as I am between a rock and a hard place, I am using an analog wired system, I need to change to completely wireless and there must be a company that does them, or a way to get cameras to work with an nvr? I have to get another system up as someone tried to poison my dog and I don't want them trying again.

Hi peeps, I am UK based and being forced by my landlord to change from my wired cctv through a 2TB DVR with monitor that I keep on in the background and 7 cameras to a wireless system as he wants to do things to the property and my wires "are in the way" outisde, even though routed through the nearest vents to reduce damage to soffits. So I have been researching and looking for a wireless system and have seen many PTZ cameras that are solar powered, but not been able to find any that say they can connect with an NVR so my base unit is similair to what I already have and it is just the cameras in essence that are being changed. I have obviously found partial wireless cameras, still need power going to them, but there must be a way of using one of the many ptz wireless solar powered cameras with an NVR. I can reduce the number of cameras using 2 PTZ cameras and 2 (or maybe 3) fixed, but all must be solar powered and wifi/IP enabled to connect directly to the NVR through my router I presume, can anyone advise who has done this as I have tried Hikivision, they can't help, Reolink, they can't help and have a couple of other companies I sent emails to and not heard back yet, iGeek was one I think. I do not want control through any of the Alexa or whatever devices, I just want a system I can use like before, with an app alerting me when out so i can monitor through my phone, and able to glance at the monitor and see all the cameras at once when at home and the system records 24/7 on an ssd in a stand alone device. Thanks..

Hi, I have been given a 4 channel unbranded dvr box with 4 cameras, is about 720p and good enough for what I need at the moment. I actually have 2 issues but am hoping fixing one might do something for the other. My first issue is local pc connection and live streaming. I have it all set up and my talktalk router can see the dvr box, I can ping the dvr box from the pc and I can use ie on the ip address of the dvr and get a log in screen, all it asks for are 3 things, password (I have set admin and user passwords on the dvr and tried both), lan or internet and language (which is a blank box with no options). I cannot seem to live stream the dvr through this still, I have (hesitantly) set all active x settings to enable in ie as I don't really use it for anything anyway, I use opera and firefox for my normal browsing yet when I try and log in through ie it keeps saying log in failed. The talktalk router has port forwarding as you would expect but is only allowing me to select one (trigger) rule per host (device) so I have set it for tcp/udp with the external port and internal ports set as the ports I have set in the dvr respectively for internet and media. I haven't tried placing it in the DMZ yet but as I'm starting to pull my hair out it is getting close. I have tried accessing the dvr through a couple of different viewer programs I got from swann and hikivision, as well as vlc but nothing will live stream. The second issue I have is there is a microphone, it has 3 connections, power, audio and what looks like power through which is connected to the camera and the camera is working. when I take the 264 file from the dvr on a usb stick and play it on either vlc or the other 2 programs, there is no audio but the file for that camera is at least 40MB larger than the other 3 cameras, will this work on live stream (as I have no audio output on the dvr box) and is there a way of getting anything to play it when a single independent file? If someone can help would be appreciated, using the dvr normally and copying the files isn't an issue, watching them on the dvr isn't an issue, but it would be nice to get this working properly with the pc to live stream, not record, but would also be nice to get the audio working. I have searched the forum a bit, watched videos and read other sites but I am a little stuck. Thank You.