gwenthehen

Hello, I'm looking for a CCTV system to use outdoors on a farm. I need 4 cameras ideally, and they need to be wireless. I can get power to each camera easily enough, but networking them with wires isn't really going to be feasible. Is there a solution out there which contains a built-in wireless repeater function within the cameras themselves? If that's not viable, can anyone recommend a simple/robust wireless repeater system that I could use alongside a CCTV system (also happy to get recommendations on the CCTV itself). I don't have a specific budget in mind, but I was hoping to spend less than £400. Thanks!

No, your initial post was very helpful thank you, and I didn't realise that you mentioned this at the time. I'm sorry for over-reacting. I think I must have spent too much time on Reddit.

It will be twice your budget. But again not as good as wired and will be out of date in 12 months plus you can only use that manufactures cameras I still say 4x5mp IP with NVR is your best option. That's why I surgest CCTV NVR be in same location as cameras. Then use LAN connection over power. Your buildings will be 3 phase but your house will be single but it will be from the 3 phase. That's great info, thank you. I will take a look and see what I can do!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ubiquiti+radios Not helpful, funny or original. Came to a specialist forum for advice on what to buy. I already know how to Google a brand.

What’s that?

Probably about 100m

OK - what’s a typical off the shelf solution for this? If I have to spend more then I will do, to an extent!

Thanks for the update. It seems there really isn’t an “off the shelf solution for what I’m looking for here, so I’ll either have to scale back my requirements or get into a bit of manual network setup (which I’m happy to do, but will need some guidance). What do people tend to do if they want to run a network of CCTV cameras over a reasonably wide yard? Also, image quality doesn’t need to be that good - I just need to get an alert when movement is detected and then check to see what it is. Eventually the images might be used by the police if we ever caught someone stealing on camera, but not sure why kind of resolution images this would require.

In England, not Wales. Cat5 not really feasible to be honest - as far as I know, farm is on 3-phase.

Ah OK - can we get a LAN connection over power even across different circuits? I’m pretty sure the house circuit (where the CCTV box would be) is on a different circuit to the sheds (where the cameras would be. I guess we’d be looking at about 100m from the box to the furthest camera (with other boxes in between).