Maybe I need to start at the beginning....

[OldNick 0]

Here is what I want to do

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- use a PC to set up camera(s) to watch a remote site, sending motion-detected video to somewhere (my home PC or somewhere in the Cloud) , via a modem-router located at that same site.

- However I want to be able to run that remote system without a PC there, once it is set up, just the cameras and the modem- router.

 

Is that possible? I ask because setting all this up is proving problematic and if I can't achieve what I am after then I may have to abandoin the idea. Ido not want to have a computer there, as it will simply be stolen. Cameras and router are relatively cheap.

 

Thanlks for any help

 

Nick

[ssmith10pn 0]

What is the speed of your data connection going to be?

 

If you placed a recording appliance at the remote site and it would just be stolen they why wouldn't they steal the cameras?

 

They make hardened DVR/NVR enclosures.

[OldNick 0]

Well if they steal a couple hundred worth of cameras, it's a lot cheaper than a computer. If they do steal those cameras and I have remote storage of video, then I have them on video. Local storage could be stolen.......the whole idea I would have thought of remote storage.

 

I also do not have to traipse out to the REMOTE location to check video.

 

The data connection's speed would be 3Mb/s or so. Why do you ask? I am worried about data usage, not speed?

 

Anyhoo....I am wondering if the idea is possible, whatever the possible theories.

 

Can I have cameras connected to a modem/router and send their video to another location, without a computer present?

[ssmith10pn 0]

It's absolutely possible with some port forwarding in the router. 3mb upstream? That would support maybe one 2mp camera.

Will you have a static WAN IP?

[OldNick 0]

Thanks for that.

 

OK. I have 1Mp cams, so I should be able to handle 2X.I can set the resolution even lower, but I am not sure about the usefulness of the result. maybe one lower and one at full.

 

mmmm..static WAN IP. I had not thought about that. I will try to see if I can request that, or use a service that provides that by routing via another site (???)

 

Sorry I bit. The place has already been turned over and then again while I try to work out how to get these things up and running. I bought cheaper cams so they can be expendable. The cameras are OK. The software and manual are hopeless.

 

Nick