historichotel

Thanks Rick A for the advice. I appreciate your help on the original topic.

FYI, the hotel is in Ohio, not Oklahoma.

No, we're fine. I checked into that with our local building commissioner and our local police department in terms of the electrical code and legality in the event of a problem. All good. But thanks for the the concern. Also, I can't imagine it would be illegal to install a CCTV in a commercial building? From what I've been told, as long as signs are posted and the camera are in public areas -in plain site, I shouldn't have a problem. I'm not looking to have hidden camera in smoke detectors. And I'm not installing cameras on guest floors or anything crazy like that. I'm actually probably one of the few hotels in the area that has no form of CCTV installed. I've also never heard that a licensed CCTV installer needs to do the install -at least in our area. Haven't checked on that yet, could be wrong, but I appreciate everyone's concern. Hopefully we can get back on topic for this thread. I would really appreciate some equipment advice/recommendations. Thanks.

I have a hotel that I need to install a system in. I've never done a CCTV system before, but I have enough knowledge in technology that I think can do it by myself with some advice from some experts like some of the folks that post regularly on this forum. So here goes. I've been reading the forum and it appears to me the Nuvico DV4-16000N with at least 5000GB seems what I might be looking for. The reason I picked this particular one is based on the reviews I've read from some of you. I like that it is a stand alone, can be viewed remotely, and records 480pps which I'm sure it's probably overkill, but at times throughout the evening/night, I only have one employee in the building and I like the peace of mind that I can a.) access the camera remotely and b.) have any issues that might have developed while I'm not onsite recorded. We've been robbed once and thankfully that same lady robbed another hotel the next day and was caught. It is a historic hotel that doesn't have the public area layout optimized for the front desk to view most of the space and I would like to have 16 cameras. We have quite a few antiques worth quite a bit and I worry about damage/theft of those as well. I do want a stand alone system that can record all 16 cameras. The reason behind the system is 2 fold - 1.) to keep my guests and building safe 2.) to keep my employees "honest". The system will be covering 6 entrances/exits (from the interior), a handful of basement employee areas, 1 outdoor parking lot camera, and the remaining public area spaces. So my question is whether you think this Nuvico system is all right and/or if you have any other recommendations of DVRs? Also, I'm looking for advice on cameras for this system. Much of the interior is somewhat dark (lower than average lighting, dark furniture, etc.). I'd really would like to have a nice dome camera that is fairly flexible to adapt to all the locations (except for the outside parking lot cam). I realize there are specific cameras for specific locations but I'm hoping for a fairly well-rounded dome camera. Any thoughts? Also looking for recommendations on an outside IR camera for the parking lot -maybe a bullet cam with IR? It will probably be located about 30 feet in the air on the building overlooking the parking lot. Not really interested in being able to read license plates, just to see the activity. Thanks. Bill