BrightEyes

I'm betting it's a combination of the few professionals on this forum who deal with $2000/per camera installations vs the majority who only shop for sub-$200 cameras You're in that special place where nobody knows

Probably best to start a new thread, this one is looking very dead

Nothing, huh? What's needed is a NVR with a cellular modem. Maybe that's what will get some traction on this forum!

I'm looking for the same sort of answers, but not finding a lot. Thus my reply on an old post Your best choice currently is a Reolink Go PT combo package with solar panel. Comes in just under $300 for a plug & play system that does not require any technical knowledge. I have this rig, and it does work as claimed, though it could be better. The lens cover fogs up in cold weather, the illuminator lights up anything that's on the lens cover, and the sort of installation I'd like to do requires a totally different approach from what a security/hunting camera market analyst will come up with

I didn't get the DVR I linked to, went with a 16 channel version of that one & documentation is pretty much non-existent. The paperwork that came with it was very minimal, the QR code on the DVR itself does not contain anything but it's model number, and no search engine I've tried has that model indexed. The GUI is a bit buggy, motion detection is very basic and doesn't work well enough. I haven't bothered testing the alarm inputs, as the cameras are so bad I didn't want to commit to drilling holes in my RV just yet. The DVR 'works', you just need to not expect a lot from it. I'm using a 350 Gig SSD on an adapter board for a SATA installation. Been working just fine, so I haven't felt like opening up my Purple terabyte drive just yet Basically, my video system is running in 'test mode', got one camera run up out a skylight hatch and taped to a brick sitting on the roof to get a better idea how it actually works before doing anything permanent I bought the 'golf ball' cameras mentioned earlier, I don't recommend them. The cable isn't very nice to work with. The housing has failed, so there's moisture on the sensor. Every now & then the board shorts out, the color is really weird, the IR illuminators do not cover the entire field of view, this camera does not have BLC, and very poor contrast in bright lighting. When the sun is out, any shaded areas remain pitch black

Which DVR? This thread got a bit 'lost' And, that webcam cover you linked to is not for a security camera. It's too small, plus that's not something anyone would use for a 24/7 security system, kinda defeats the entire purpose of having a camera, if it can't see anything...

That looks very interesting. Even if it's not what I use for the RV, I might get one or two of those for other applications I already understand about the F-series signal format is only going to work with their own control box. It's just the lens and housing I would want, with someone elses image sensor stuffed into it. I've done something like that before. I once found an Ipix camera on ebay, couldn't figure out how to access the image sensor, so I JB Welded the lens to a chinese board camera with a Sony sensor. The Sony image sensor was slightly larger than the Ipix sensor, so I didn't lose any of the image, I was able to watch flies crawling around on the wall to either side of the camera I think a 3.6mm lens wont be wide enough. However, this DVR has eight channels, so I could contemplate having a pair of cameras on each side of the RV. I'll have to ponder that some

Well, guess that 'Birds Eye View' DVR is a DOA Ebay seller asked for some photos of it so they could try figuring out what it is I actually got. Then they decided to just refund me and give up on the thing. So I'm very much still looking for cameras The Axis F-series are basically what I want in the form factor for the camera housing's. But I think this DVR seems to be working out well enough to stick with it, so I'm limiting my camera choices to one of the HD analog formats. That choice is based on live streaming latency. If anyone has any suggestions based on real-world experience having used such a camera, I'd like to know, thanks!

Well, I got that weird 'Birds Eye View' DVR. They sent me a totally different unit from what was shown on that listing. There were no instructions of any sort in the box. Getting a manual was difficult and only resulted in a manual for the unit shown in the listing, not for the one I received. It refuses to turn on, and I'm sending it back The DVR I got seems to work ok. I'm having some issues with getting a monitor to work with it. Seems it handles HDMI just a bit differently. My dashboard 7" monitor wont display the entire screen and doesn't have any way to resize the signal to fit. So the settings are not in view and very difficult to launch. My 17" desktop monitor only randomly will show the signal over HDMI. Nothing on CVBS. There's a VGA connection, I just haven't found a cable to try that out with So far, I only have just a single Lorex CVI camera to test with. That seems to be working fine, from whenever I'm able to see anything! So I guess I'm still looking for cameras. The Lorex is too easy to spot, does not mount flush and has too narrow a FOV to do what I need The DVR GUI isn't quite as nice as a OOSSXX I helped a friend install. But that was a NVR with wifi cameras, so not necessarily a direct comparison. I'll eventually look into updating the firmware, hopefully they improved the GUI, not fix minor issues. None of the camera views have a right-click menu to make on-the-fly changes. Such as deleting camera views. It would be nice to only have the one view on startup seeing as I only have one camera at the moment. I'd add more cameras later when I get them. Trying to find where they hid the camera delete doesn't seem very intuitive. But having monitor issues isn't helping in deciphering this DVR The chassis fan makes noise when I set anything heavy on top of the unit, like my 17" monitor. There's only one USB port, so if the DVR can handle a keyboard, I'll need to get a hub to run both keyboard & mouse. The mouse-based onscreen keyboard is very tiring to use. The cursor moves too fast, too far, so I'm holding the mouse with both hands to keep it on target while choosing letters. I haven't seen any way to change the mouse settings. Maybe I should try getting a better mouse? The one that came with this DVR has a glaring bright red LED I don't need along with a clear window all around the mouse to let that light blind me!

I decided to go with this instead: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174646226869 I couldn't get a definitively clear answer from the ebay seller on why there's only four alarm inputs, as there's four audio inputs - I'm a bit concerned about the DVR not actually using the inputs for video recording. It looks like those might only be to choose from the audio. And besides, if I decide to use all of the video inputs on the ED-8208H5F, I'll want to have the option for an alarm tripped recording for all channels The camera kit is somewhere in south california at the moment, still waiting on that

Well ok then! Nice to know 1st time I've heard of TVT, and if I had run into that name, I wouldn't think much of them as everyone claims they're better than everyone else The manual you linked to is for a DVR without alarm inputs, but maybe I can dig something more up now I know the brand

The kit is still in shipping. Meanwhile, I've been looking at recorders. It's not easy to find one that has both alarm inputs and AHD. I think HD-CVI would be a better choice, just from what I've been finding so far. Motion blur & latency are excellent with a Lorex HD-CVI camera I already own. But haven't seen any in that signal type with a form factor that I want: unobtrusive outdoor fisheye flush mount, preferably under three inch overall visible footprint This is what I've dug up so far for a DVR: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174116994131?hash=item288a2e7c53:g:Q7wAAOSwl2dd5mqB I hope the GUI is decent! Seems like another shot in the dark. They're only charging $40 for a 1TB drive, no info on what the drive is. Got that 'Packaged in the USA' feel to it!

I've never liked video-based motion detection. Maybe I just haven't seen such a thing yet that works correctly? False triggering due to multiple different issues, failure to reset quickly enough, failure to detect, failure to function at night without constant lighting. Sometimes, just configuring the motion detection can take all of my time away from any other projects I've had better luck with a time lapse setup that only records still images, but the post-processing tends to be a bit tedious The Plotwatcher trailcams from Day6 had the best software for doing this, but they went out of business. That's a whole 'nother thread! I'd like to know if there's any current alternative that can do what Day6 did. They stitched still images into a video, adding successive images on the fly. Then used motion detection on playback to perform a kind of 'smart fast forward' where you could just jump to the next instance of a scene disturbance. Or you could review the entire video in high speed Day6 didn't want to develop their Plotwatcher for night time use, but it still worked just fine at night if you added some form of light source, either white visible or IR

I would like a DVR more than a NVR. Remote viewing would complicate what I do elsewhere. A feature I would like to have is having an alarm input for each channel, so I could use a PIR sensor to trigger recording. I might try to use a combo PIR/radar occupancy detector, but those are usually for indoor use I haven't yet looked at DVR's for the RV, but I do know that they are not all the same in recording abilities. The few I've tried before were all pretty bad, so until I see an experienced review on a particular unit, I'm going to look elsewhere

I got the system you linked to, thinking you had some experience with it On re-reading what you wrote, it does sink in that you had only meant to use that as a design example. So I guess I could post a write-up here on what that one is like I think that might not have the sort of recording abilities I'm interested in, but I wouldn't have any problem with changing the cable ends to plug the cameras into a better DVR. Any recommendations for a AHD signal?