Jury Rigging a Piece Meal System

[biggestbird 0]

I'm fairly novice at this and due to financial situations and a wish list that grows far faster than it will ever get reduced, so I bought a Bunker Hill Security system from Harbor Freight Tools with 2 cameras that connect to a monitor via the following:

 

1 ea) 25' yellow and white RCA male to female adapter beside a DC in to out cable which connects to a 3 as above female to a male 5 pin male that fits only one position into the back of the monitor for the left camera and right camera.

 

1 ea) yellow & white male RCA to 3(?) mm that supposedly connects from the monitor to your TV.

 

Since I figured this was somewhat a waste if you couldn't record and would never be able to man the monitor 24/7/365, I bought an ANRAN 8ch H.264 stand alone and installed a 500gb HD, then tried to figure how to attach these cameras with or without the monitor which they came with.

 

Being I could not find a "pin" adapter to male BNC, I went to several electrical connector sellers from Radio Shack to Best Buy to Home Depot and Lowe's. A guy at Home Depot told me to get adapters (both RCA and BNC) RG cable, a crimping tool all told about $70 worth to get it but didn't tell me if we were just connecting the cameras or replacing the cables entirely, but the math didn't add up, so I went online and found RCA splitters (2 females to male) and female RCA to BNC male singles and don't see why I can't plug in the above 25' cables into these and into the back of the DVR. Only thing would be the DC in/out would not be plugged in on the adapter ends.

 

Is there something I'm missing here, trying to make it less difficult or is it at all possible so I can get it up and running until I can afford more cameras perhaps later?

[Boogieman 1]

return it all, buy a single hd ip camera like the 2032 or 2332 (for 85 dollars on ali express)...install hikvisions free ivms software on your pc..buy more when you have cash and eventually add an nvr..

[biggestbird 0]

Thanks, but have had the Bunker Hill unit too long; will read up on rest!