Please advice which Hikvision 4MP I should buy (DS or HiWatch)

[Tom28pl 0]

Hi

I need an advice before I will buy 4-5 IP cameras for Home Security.

I have already one 8MP - DS-2CD2685FWD-IZS 8MP

and 2x 4MP - DS-2CD2143G0-I

both are great. video quality is very good.

I'm not using any special options from camera menu - move detection, rtsp recording - this is done by the NVR software. So I'm only getting RTSP stream from the camera.

So I thought I wll add 4 additional DS-2CD2143G0-I , but then I found HiWatch serie, and I'm thinking about the HWI-D140H

Will this be also ok?

I hahe checked sample movies on YT and both are quite similar.

Where is the difference? There is almost double price difference between those 2 cameras.

 

Thanks

[tomcctv 190]

Hi. It depends on your recorder ……. Can it handle high MP on each channel 

why are you using RTSP .

[Tom28pl 0]

I have created my own recorder, intel i5 with Linux and ffmpeg with own scripts for rtsp stream recording. It is working great since few years.

So please focus on camera only, let's say I do not have any limits on recorder.

So what do you recommend instead of RTSP?

[tomcctv 190]

8 hours ago, Tom28pl said:

So please focus on camera only, let's say I do not have any limits on recorder.

Ok fit any camera you like 

 

with your magical recorder that does 265  / 264 

[Tom28pl 0]

That was helpful....

[Tom28pl 0]

On 7/28/2021 at 9:47 AM, tomcctv said:

with your magical recorder that does 265  / 264 

take i5 computer (even laptop) with Linux and read about ffmpeg functions.

If camera has h265+, with ffmpeg I can write it directly, low bandwitch, low disk usage, and CPU usage around 1-2% for 1 camera. No need to re-encode video.

1000mbit ethernet, few SATA disks (with RAID) and you can build recorder for 20-30 x 4 MP cameras. much cheaper than regular NVR recoder.

Currently I have 8 FullHD, 2x 4MP and 1x8MP

current CPU usage - less than 15%, few free slots on PoE switch

so I have asked for someone who has experience about the Hiwatch camera, because I do not know if HiWatch is ok or I should buy DS-2CD2143G0-I

[tomcctv 190]

4 hours ago, Tom28pl said:

If camera has h265+, with ffmpeg I can write it directly,

This is why I asked

h265+ is hikvision own encoding so if your developing your own software True H265 is the way to go that way you can use any brand of camera. 
 

hiwatch is hikvision but it is there budget range and may only work h265+ 

I do know hikvision will do 265+ and 265 And can use on most NVRs so the DS rang might be the best for you Ai as you can mix many manufacturers cameras