After plate glass from a table got broke over the Focuses hood last week it's time. Ordered a Avermedia NV3000 4 port/ with software today along with a couple cords and transformer to run the cameras. Have a couple of 24v camera's that were deamed obsolete... Speco infrared going up front and a old Sensormatic dome camera for the back yard. Have a good motion light in back so it should work good enough. Going to try running it on a old 1.3Ghz AMD with either a 30 or 60GB recording drive (not sure if the 60GB is good). Not planning on doing any live watching on the pc (might "T" off the coax and send it to the TV) and only really wanting 3-4 days a week at the max at 15 frames and probably going to stick with a CIF image. Any reviewing will be exported and watched on the newer stations. Hopefully I can get some useful images on it. Getting really tired of my cars being messed with.. not to mention the stuff stolen out of the backyard.
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I have had good experience with Axis network cameras and a dedicated laptop with a 1TB external drive for storage. The network cameras are basically web servers with very sophisticated motion detection. Wiring is easy because they attach via cat 5 cable to the closest switch.
I also recommend the Axis network cameras. They are cheap (if you get the lower end ones), reliable, and their camera server database software is very nice.
And like Donald said, the motion detection feature is dynamite.
I've got about fifteen various models of Axis camera running at work, feeding a 3 TB server. It saves several weeks of video on 15 cameras, or more if motion detect is enabled.
And like Donald said, the motion detection feature is dynamite.
I've got about fifteen various models of Axis camera running at work, feeding a 3 TB server. It saves several weeks of video on 15 cameras, or more if motion detect is enabled.
Not exactly a public space, such as a park. My backyard and front yard is exactly that my property. Not sure how it is up here but technically you own to the middle of the road but that property is considered easement. I will check but don't matter all my neighbors will know.
Never worked with Axis camera's. Do they use POE as most IP camera's? Didn't want to go through that expense. The Avermedia has a web portion to it might use it on occasion. I'd like to do motion detection but the camera's I have and the area may not work. Cheap cameras and the outdoors don't work to well. Now the $700 to 1k cameras we have at work no problem with them! I work in security systems at a hospital.
Looks like I read wrong going to need a Pentium 4 after all. Going to a surplus store tomorrow night.. might just get one off of craigslist. The processor and memory requirements run 50-75. Should be putting everything up this weekend.
Never worked with Axis camera's. Do they use POE as most IP camera's? Didn't want to go through that expense. The Avermedia has a web portion to it might use it on occasion. I'd like to do motion detection but the camera's I have and the area may not work. Cheap cameras and the outdoors don't work to well. Now the $700 to 1k cameras we have at work no problem with them! I work in security systems at a hospital.
Looks like I read wrong going to need a Pentium 4 after all. Going to a surplus store tomorrow night.. might just get one off of craigslist. The processor and memory requirements run 50-75. Should be putting everything up this weekend.
Axis camera at least some of them use POE. Or can as an option I should say. I did not use it in the ones I hooked up. I got some Axis cameras off EBAY at a reasonable price. One of the nice thing about some of the Axis cameras is that the camera itself could do the motion detection. If it determined motion (by comparing the current and previous frame and various parameters) it would signal the computer application that "I am camera 2 and I have start motion". The application would then request video from camera 2. It would also send out a "stop motion" signal. This way the application and network were not tied up with lots of video frames where there was no motion. I was not using the Axis software but one I felt was better out of NZ.
If you are talking outdoors where the dark to sunlight in LUX is significantly wider than indoors, and you need to keep the cameras a little warm, you are talking a lot more money.
If you are talking outdoors where the dark to sunlight in LUX is significantly wider than indoors, and you need to keep the cameras a little warm, you are talking a lot more money.
With DVTel camera based motion is called scene zones if the archiver controls the motion is called archiver zones. Scene zone is much more reliable but with the older camera's have no choice. Have alot of $99 specials that isn't good to begin with.. those tie up alot of space with motion and most have to leave it recording all the time. The Avermedia is quite a impressive software package. It almost does what dvtel does but on a smaller scale. Unfortunately going to get some camera's. One is dead and the other is well not good lol.
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