Burgled! need cctv help please

[rado16v 0]

Hi,

 

We’re currently undergoing a house renovation and had a break in last week, all the newly fitted copper pipes were taken along with the wiring. It's put us back weeks, cost thousands and been really emotionally draining.

 

 

We feel like sitting ducks now and have decided to add cctv as part of the renovation, not been a fan of camera’s on houses before though.

 

I have wired in 4 cat6 cables to 5 tv points in the house and 1 to a study all terminating to node0. After scanning the forum I have decided to fit cat6 cable for the cctv which gives me the option of ip and regular cameras with baluns. I was thinking of connecting 4 cameras to a pc which ultimately connects to a nas drive. I want to be able to access footage on any of the tv’s (live and recorded) and have ability to record only on motion, don’t need round the clock.

 

Do my requirements sound realistic?

 

Should I terminate the 4 cameras at node0 or in the study where the pc will be? If node0 I guess I’ll need 4 further cat6 cables going to study?

 

I’m happy to go down the traditional route of regular cameras / dvr setup if its the better option, i also have 2 coax cables going to all tv points for tv/fm/dab and 2 for sky + which could be utilised I guess.

 

Any recommendations of cameras or cctv packs appreciated. Thinking of going for dome camera's as they're a little more subtle, any disadvantages of these?

 

 

Thank you in advance.

[Soundy 1]

Sounds realistic to me About the only thing you won't be able to "easily" do this way is control video playback on your TVs. If you're feeding the DVR output to the TVs, you'll be able to view both live and playback, but you'll need some other method to control the DVR.

 

That aside... with standard analog, you still need to get the signal for each camera back to the DVR. If the DVR is in the study, you need to get signal there. You CAN minimize your cable count by running four cameras over a single UTP cable from the node0 location to the study (er... stupid question, what is "node0" - some particular equipment, or just a fancy name for a central comms closet?).

 

What I'd probably do in such a situation, if I had a comms closet to terminate all the wiring, would be to put the DVR or NVR, and the NAS, in that location, then access them remotely from my study, either via network, or using a UTP KVM extender.

 

Another thought: if you go with IP cameras, some will be able to record directly to your NAS with no PC required. Some NAS models have specific support for this built-in as well.