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Thanks for the in depth information. I have an Axis analog to IP converter currently, but my analog camera has been offline unfortunately. Are you using H.264 to save all the video?
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yes.
[quote=joec]
My only gripe in building a very robust solution as you posted is pretty expensive. I may use it for a business warehouse, but am hesitant with the home due to cost (upwards of probably 4k or much more)…
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It depends on how many cameras you get. If you get a nice NVR and just a few cameras, you can stay under $2K. Add more cameras as budget allows. The advantage of this methodology is that you can determine whether you like a particular camera at minimal cost before doing the full monty on a boatload of cameras.
One word of caution: NVRs seem to be very sensitive on which cameras they work with. Even though most cameras adhere to stds such as H.264, there seems to be enough variation in implementation that buying cameras of one brand and a NVR of another may cause you heartburn. I ran into this problem.
[quote=joec]
Do you also have a home security system? I was thinking of building my own with the parts you can buy off the shelf now and setup my own wireless notification system (to prevent cut phone lines) instead of having some monthly monitoring fee. Watching too many movies makes me think the monitoring company can do an “inside” job if they wanted and I didn’t want to have them call the cops for false alarms (nor pay the monthly fee of course). Do you have any recommendations if you looked into that as well?
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My security system is much older and totally separate from my surveillance system. I can really offer no insight there, sorry!
