claib 0 Posted July 22, 2014 I am looking for some help and suggestions on setting up a new camera system. Here is what I know I need so far. It will be live feed only, cannot and do not want to record. Looking at 3 cameras so need only a 4 channel unit. Need HD camera capabilities up to 1080. Also all cameras need to be PTZ, one of which needs to have a high optical zoom. Would like to go IP/POE to make cabling easier. From the control standpoint I am looking for output to a smaller monitor/tv with the ability to view all four cameras at once. Need some way to control the cameras as well with a small footprint (remote or joystick). Any thoughts or suggestions on a good place to look and purchase something like this? What is a good manufacture? Basically clueless when it comes to this so any help or direction is greatly appreciated! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CYANiDE 0 Posted July 23, 2014 I am looking for some help and suggestions on setting up a new camera system. Here is what I know I need so far. It will be live feed only, cannot and do not want to record. Looking at 3 cameras so need only a 4 channel unit. Need HD camera capabilities up to 1080. Also all cameras need to be PTZ, one of which needs to have a high optical zoom. Would like to go IP/POE to make cabling easier. From the control standpoint I am looking for output to a smaller monitor/tv with the ability to view all four cameras at once. Need some way to control the cameras as well with a small footprint (remote or joystick). Any thoughts or suggestions on a good place to look and purchase something like this? What is a good manufacture? Basically clueless when it comes to this so any help or direction is greatly appreciated! You will need some sort of VMS and a USB joystick. Check out BlueIris; it will take care of the 4 cams at once and the PTZ controlling. For cameras, I would do Dahua PTZ. Many options, just check out there site and compare their offerings. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
buellwinkle 0 Posted July 23, 2014 What's your budget? For PTZ control from a joystick, you'll need cameras with an RS485 port. The PTZ joysticks are relatively cheap, maybe a few hundred each. PTZ with RS485 ports may cost a little more, may $1,200 on the low end. You could get a small NVR from the company you get the cameras from and that will be cheap. You can even use it without putting a hard drive in it, but may need to disable the beeping that may happen when the HDD is missing. PoE is tough. At best some smaller PTZ support PoE+ but then those don't tend to have RS485 ports. Also, do you need the PTZ to have IR LEDs or not? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
claib 0 Posted July 23, 2014 Budget it around $6k-$7k. Looking more for a hardware system than computer based. Going to be used for monitoring only the live feed and need to keep it as slim and user friendly as possible. Would a setup like this work for what I am looking at? https://www.123securityproducts.com/snc-550.html https://www.123securityproducts.com/nsr-1050h-1t.html https://www.123securityproducts.com/ipdesktopusb.html Thanks for all of your help! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
