New House, New System Advice

[lennshow66 0]

Hi,

 

Im moving into a new house soon and i'm looking to buy or build a decent CCTV system.

 

I am familiar with all the network setup that would be required along with running new cables.

 

My plan is to use POE cameras so I don't have to run power and ethernet cables.

 

I've been looking at HIKVISION cameras and I think i'll need around 4, two at the front one at the side and one covering the rear.

 

I plan on mounting three of the four cameras up high (see picture).

 

I currently have a Synology NAS with plenty of room for hard drive expansion, do the hikvision cameras support recording directly to my NAS, or will i need to purchase an NVR as well?

 

My main question is which cameras should I look at buying?

 

My budget is around £600, for the camera's however the lower the better. I am also based in the UK.

 

[NetTech26 0]

Look for cameras the stream h.264 and are ONVIF compliant. This will give you a better ability to hook them up to a lot of different VMS (Video Management Software) systems. If you want to store the retention on your NAS look at putting some type of software on your computer or make a server to record them on. There is a few decent types of Open Source software out there.