lowcrawler 0 Posted April 24, 2017 I'm looking to put cameras on a house. Various nooks and crannies, doors and windows requires 7 cameras for appropriate outdoor coverage. Six of these can be around 90 or slightly wider than 90 degree and one should be 180 degree. Potentially, I'd like one of the ~90 degree cameras to be a ceiling-mounted dome camera that also allows for 2 way sound -- the rest of those can be silent bullets or even corner mounted ones. Once set up, remote/active PTZ and all that wouldn't be needed; though being able to see in the dark will be (it's a very dark location with no streetlights anywhere near). I've already run cat 6 to these outdoor locations and have run the cable back to a 24 port gigabit PoE switch in the networking closet. Later, in phase 2, I plan to add ~6 more interior cameras (for ~13 total). Lastly, I do IT/tech work and have computers of any shape or stripe provided for me by my workplace... so if PC add-on cards are the way to roll, that's cool; though I like the 'plug and play' nature of some of the D/NVR's I've seen. I'd like to keep the outdoor cameras to around 3-4k total and then the D/NVR/PC-card part of the system can be whatever price is required to to support the ~13 cameras in the end (motion sensing, alerts, scheduling, remote viewing (computer is fine, needn't be a mobile) -- which seems all pretty standard. I did see a lorex super-imposed feature that seemed cool too, but that's not a deal-breaker). The idea is that it'd all be easily fed to one a few monitors, quickly, in case of a 'bump in the night'. Do you all have any suggestions for me? I have to admit, the number of options are mind-boggling when you realize there isn't really a lot of 'standards' out there. Thanks in advance for any help or advice you might have... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattaggie 0 Posted April 25, 2017 Only modification you may want to make to a PC is add another network card. So one network port connects to POE switch and the other connects to your network/router. Your budget for 6 cameras is pretty big, so I'd look for H.265 cameras. You will need an up to date intel i7 cpu to decode H.265 though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lowcrawler 0 Posted April 25, 2017 Thanks for the tips. Sounds like a PC might be the way to roll and will be within my capabilities. You mention my budget is pretty good for the cameras .... any concrete suggestions on cameras? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattaggie 0 Posted April 27, 2017 There are tons of options on cameras. I use Geovision myself. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
