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Home cctv and phone apps? recommendations please!
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dann2707
ClioSport Club Member
Anyone had any successes reducing wind noise from external cameras? My front cam gets the brunt of the wind coming over a huge hill and sometimes the wind noise is unbearable!
Can't see any obvious solution for hikvision cameras, anyone had any luck before?
Can't see any obvious solution for hikvision cameras, anyone had any luck before?
rctempire
ClioSport Moderator
Always an issue on these, can you turn it for motion only detection? Or, stick a foam/muff on over the mic area.
Only other option is put a baffle at the camera body to sweep the air around it.
Eufy or Ring? Or any other options to look at
Something easy to install, decent phone app, Looking for a Video doorbell and then a couple other cameras on top. One for down by the shed with a good light and probably another external facing up the garden.
No power to the shed currently so solar is the preferred option just now but do plan on running power down to it eventually.
Something easy to install, decent phone app, Looking for a Video doorbell and then a couple other cameras on top. One for down by the shed with a good light and probably another external facing up the garden.
No power to the shed currently so solar is the preferred option just now but do plan on running power down to it eventually.
Andy_con
ClioSport Club Member
clio 182
Anything without a monthly subscription is better than a ring
Rich-D
ClioSport Club Member
E90 LCI 330d
Eufy for me, had the doorbell for over 2 years, zero issues and I have an internal camera for watching the dogs when we're out.
Be mindful of positioning for solar cams, my friend has a couple and UK winters do not provide enough sun, so he ends up having to go up a ladder to then charge them off the mains, you need a south facing position with no trees, etc, blocking or you'll end up having to do the same. Plugged in FTW.
Be mindful of positioning for solar cams, my friend has a couple and UK winters do not provide enough sun, so he ends up having to go up a ladder to then charge them off the mains, you need a south facing position with no trees, etc, blocking or you'll end up having to do the same. Plugged in FTW.
I've had both eufy and ring, ring was hands down better on battery than eufy, app was better too but there is a subscription.
I would always recommend that going for a proper CCTV kit (POE) which can be had for around £400 if you go with something like a reolink.
One of the major downfalls of reolink and eufy is that it doesn't continuously record, neighbours got broken into and the lads ran off through our garden, the ring camera picked up the last seconds of them running out of the garden and was therefore useless, where as when there has been a recent incident I was able to watch the entire thing happen and pass this onto police to help another neighbour.
I got the S340 in February and the battery has been fine. East facing garden and I have trees blocking it early on. Also lose the sun just after midday on it. Never been below 80% and must ping off motion 30 times a day with me going in and out of the office.
What extra does the homebase give you?
davo172
ClioSport Club Member
TCR'd 172
Are yours wired? I don't think you can continually record on the solar ones because of battery life.
Not sure how mine goes about recording, if it just records until it no longer detects motion or it is a fixed period. Guess I'll find out when someone trips it.
davo172
ClioSport Club Member
TCR'd 172
Matt Cup
ClioSport Club Member
Iceberg 172 Cup
Do you have to periodically format the SD card to stop it from corrupting like you do with dash cams?
davo172
ClioSport Club Member
TCR'd 172
No just changed it as it records over 500 times will tke up to a 128 card eufy outdoor cam2k (only certain type micro sd thou)
Or will records to homebase 3 which is expandable to 1TB think
Andy_con
ClioSport Club Member
clio 182
I'm sure I've asked something similar before.
But anyone have any experience with the following
thecctvstore.co.uk
But anyone have any experience with the following
Hikvision DS-KIS603-P IP Ultra Villa Intercom Kit with Prox
Hikvision DS-KIS603-P IP Ultra Villa Intercom Kit with Prox DS-KIS603-P Hikvision Video intercom kit consisting of a 2MP outdoor video doorbell with single call button and 7" indoor touch screen. The outdoor video station incorporates a 2MP wide angle low light camera, built-in IR...
thecctvstore.co.uk
davo172
ClioSport Club Member
TCR'd 172
Go in to app permissions and select allow notifications?
Not sure if thats how it reads on apple phone thou.
Tired all that. Notify everything is on. Maybe I’ll try reinstalling the app.
Beautiful thank you. Just reinstalling the App forced it to go through the trusted devices setup
jonno_c
ClioSport Club Member
VW T6
If I'm paying the annual ring doorbell fee already, I presume these will then work on that?
rctempire
ClioSport Moderator
Yes but you will need to upgrade to the multiple device storage option.
Cookson
ClioSport Club Member
Mk1 Audi TT 3.2 V6
After a couple of break-ins on the next part of the estate, I'm thinking about getting round to getting something purchased and installed.
Ideally I wanted something like HikVision Colourvu with full night colour vision. I think I only really need 3 cameras, one of the front, one for the back, and one for the side of the house, but also thinking I could have 2 at the front, with one on the door/house, and one for the driveway. I know the 8mp (4k) ones are probably the best on the market, and I saw a couple of bundles
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/358337182010 - 8mps, 4 cams, DVR and a 2tb HDD (with all the cables) for £419.75
or
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126667211400 - 5mps, 4 cams, DVR and a 1tb HDD (with all the cables) for £299.00
I'm leaning more towards the 8mps, but do I need to have more HDD space than 2tb with 4 cams? Also, can I blur out certain areas with these, so I'm not recording neighbours houses etc?
Ideally I wanted something like HikVision Colourvu with full night colour vision. I think I only really need 3 cameras, one of the front, one for the back, and one for the side of the house, but also thinking I could have 2 at the front, with one on the door/house, and one for the driveway. I know the 8mp (4k) ones are probably the best on the market, and I saw a couple of bundles
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/358337182010 - 8mps, 4 cams, DVR and a 2tb HDD (with all the cables) for £419.75
or
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126667211400 - 5mps, 4 cams, DVR and a 1tb HDD (with all the cables) for £299.00
I'm leaning more towards the 8mps, but do I need to have more HDD space than 2tb with 4 cams? Also, can I blur out certain areas with these, so I'm not recording neighbours houses etc?
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
I've got some old Hikvision cameras, i think 4-5mp, not the colourvu stuff.
2 cameras with a 1TB drive gets me 7 days of constant recordings. Depends how long you want to be able to go back.
I'm sure you can blank off areas you don't want to capture.
Steve
ClioSport Club Member
LMC10, Puma E
Get a few quotes for fully fitted system & don’t you need NVR not DVR?
You can use privacy mask to screen out what you don’t want covering, I mentioned to neighbours on close & some asked me to not hide to cover their cars & camper-vans.
2TB is more than enough, the system set to loop just keeps recording over & over after weeks or months depending on drive.
What’s your layout like, I went 1 looking across drive, 1 down side & rear with optional front door.
Just had a wired video doorbell fitted for an additional view.
My neighbours got the Ring cams & security lights setup yet when some youths were trying parked cars doors he asked to see my footage.
Search didn't appear to provide results on PoE...
Our shed is 40m from the house. We have power but no Wifi coverage. I'd like a camera on it after a few local issues. What are my options? PoE looks like the best route. We have a brand new EE router but unsure if I'd need additional equipment alongside something like this;
en-uk.ring.com
Any experience or advice gratefully received.
Our shed is 40m from the house. We have power but no Wifi coverage. I'd like a camera on it after a few local issues. What are my options? PoE looks like the best route. We have a brand new EE router but unsure if I'd need additional equipment alongside something like this;
Outdoor Camera Plus with PoE Adapter
Goodbye wifi dead zones and drained batteries, hello non-stop power with Power over Ethernet (PoE).
en-uk.ring.com
Any experience or advice gratefully received.
ChrisR
ClioSport Club Member
If you have power but no wifi or hard wired network then PoE isn’t what you want.
PoE provides power to the device over a hard wired network cable, so you just need the network cable and that supplies the data and the power.
Are you thinking maybe of power line adapters which try and use the power cables to send data across?
Do you have line of sight from the house to the shed? If so the a point to point wireless setup could work, you’d have something at the house end connected to your network, then something in the shed and they create the connection between them.
This sort of thing
ui.com
Or you might even get away with just using a regular mesh wifi setup (I do this to get network to our garage, although it’s not as far I think)
PoE provides power to the device over a hard wired network cable, so you just need the network cable and that supplies the data and the power.
Are you thinking maybe of power line adapters which try and use the power cables to send data across?
Do you have line of sight from the house to the shed? If so the a point to point wireless setup could work, you’d have something at the house end connected to your network, then something in the shed and they create the connection between them.
This sort of thing
UniFi Bridging - Ubiquiti
Deliver high-capacity wireless connectivity up to 5+ km with UniFi Bridging—ideal for warehouses, remote buildings, and hard-to-wire sites where running cable is impractical.
ui.com
Or you might even get away with just using a regular mesh wifi setup (I do this to get network to our garage, although it’s not as far I think)
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
I’ve just shoved a powerline adapter into my gym at the bottom of my garden. Bought TP link kit, used, for peanuts. I now have 50mbps in a garage that previously had no wifi and s**t mobile signal. It’s greatSearch didn't appear to provide results on PoE...
Our shed is 40m from the house. We have power but no Wifi coverage. I'd like a camera on it after a few local issues. What are my options? PoE looks like the best route. We have a brand new EE router but unsure if I'd need additional equipment alongside something like this;
Outdoor Camera Plus with PoE Adapter
Goodbye wifi dead zones and drained batteries, hello non-stop power with Power over Ethernet (PoE).
Any experience or advice gratefully received.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the technology but when you say "network cable that supplies the data and the power" that means one cable from my router to the camera, right, supplying both? I'd not need to plug it into the power source.If you have power but no wifi or hard wired network then PoE isn’t what you want.
PoE provides power to the device over a hard wired network cable, so you just need the network cable and that supplies the data and the power.
Are you thinking maybe of power line adapters which try and use the power cables to send data across?
Do you have line of sight from the house to the shed? If so the a point to point wireless setup could work, you’d have something at the house end connected to your network, then something in the shed and they create the connection between them.
This sort of thing
UniFi Bridging - Ubiquiti
Deliver high-capacity wireless connectivity up to 5+ km with UniFi Bridging—ideal for warehouses, remote buildings, and hard-to-wire sites where running cable is impractical.
Or you might even get away with just using a regular mesh wifi setup (I do this to get network to our garage, although it’s not as far I think)
The power to the shed is via a long extension cable at the moment. Would this still work with the powerline adapter @Rob ?
ChrisR
ClioSport Club Member
Yup, with PoE devices the power is provided to the device over the same network cable that provides the data.
You need either a switch/router that provides PoE on it's ports, or you can use a PoE injector to turn any network cable into a PoE source.
So you only need to run a network cable to a device to be able to give it data and power, rather than have to run data, and also run power.
Feel like that solves it as my power source is a 40m extension reel at the moment as I only use it for power tools in the shed... one wire for the camera run and buried down the garden would suffice I think? Or does that limit me to only PoE stuff and therefore more costly versus Rob's suggestion?
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Assuming you're wanting to record the video?
A network video recorder (NVR) will provide the power you need for the camera.
A network video recorder (NVR) will provide the power you need for the camera.
