Home CCTV Setup

[russell.huffer]

Am so annoyed with myself, have been dragging my heels over getting cctv ordered and this morning the builders have taken the scaffold down a level, so last week end I could have sat on the scaffold and easily fitted the 3 cameras that have been wired in, now I do not know until I get home tonight if I will be able to reach and may have to wait until the scaffold is removed completely and work from a ladder which I hate.



Must do things quicker in future.



Kind regards

Russell.

[Banshee]

Originally Posted by russell.huffer

Am so annoyed with myself, have been dragging my heels over getting cctv ordered and this morning the builders have taken the scaffold down a level, so last week end I could have sat on the scaffold and easily fitted the 3 cameras that have been wired in, now I do not know until I get home tonight if I will be able to reach and may have to wait until the scaffold is removed completely and work from a ladder which I hate.



Must do things quicker in future.



Kind regards

Russell.

It doesn't always work out mate, I'm sure you'll do just as good a job up the ladder

[Banshee]

2nd Camera is up and operational

Decided I was going to have it on the side of the house on an arm rather than the conventional base as this gives me the ability to upgrade the camera at a later date to a motorized one should things get that serious that I need one, or I just fancy one



So up the ladder and a little help from my friends



The base I went for was a Hikvision DS-1272ZJ-110-TRS, I cannot fault Hikvisions products, I will certainly not ever touch or recommend another camera brand again. The arm is rated to 3KG and comes with some M6 bolt projecting rawl's rather than screws and plugs The only thing that let it down was the fact it didn't come with any M6 White caps to cover and protect the exposed nuts

Here's the base attached to the wall with the RG59 ran


And the final product!!! It looks VERY serious as you look up at my house



And the money shot

[Banshee]

2 more going up tonight on the rear of the house and that's my lot then

Then I'll do a guide to all the useful settings on the DVR and a guide of how to configure the Mobile App and desktop software

[macabethiel]

I can see why you have the camera nice and high to prevent interference but can you get a facial shot from that angle without the person looking up at the camera ? Perhaps you have a second one somewhere lower to do this.

It looks a very good camera view with a super wide angle for viewing at home or remote viewing on your phone, just asking if you could get a good enough picture to identify someone from that angle?

I originally had both my cameras mounted on my garage roof fascia but in the end I mounted the second one about 4 ft off the ground so it is aiming at anyone walking up the drive or at my front door. This camera has motorised zoom I have set it for full focus at the front (side) door.
As the camera is behind my 6ft wrought iron drive gates (fitted with anti climb spikes) they would have to climb the gate to rip off the camera plus it is covered by my second one as they do this. My NVR is not in the house and is extremely secure elsewhere.

Strangely enough most visitors only notice the one on my garage roof though at night the infra red is a giveaway for the other camera. By the end of the year my lower camera will be even less obvious when the Ivy spreads.

Nice bit of kit especially doing your own hard drive btw.

[Banshee]

Originally Posted by macabethiel

I can see why you have the camera nice and high to prevent interference but can you get a facial shot from that angle without the person looking up at the camera ? Perhaps you have a second one somewhere lower to do this.

If by interference you mean physical and not electrical or radio then that's exactly why I have done it. Before I even specc'd the system I did the typical Zac thing and over analysed all of the crime in the surrounding area as well as what was going on, on our estate. So much so that I've sat and watched hours and hours worth of CCTV footage of house burglaries and one thing that seems to be a common theme was the amount of thieves that were turning up and aiming straight for the cameras, smashing them off the walls and taking them with them!!! I presume this is not only to stop them being identified, but perhaps also re-sale value in the camera if not too damaged and also the fact that some cameras now have SD card slots as extra backup in case of NVR failure.

It looks a very good camera view with a super wide angle for viewing at home or remote viewing on your phone, just asking if you could get a good enough picture to identify someone from that angle?

When I specc'd the system and did my research, I was sure that I wouldn't compromise for anything less than 8MP 4K, I'll upload some day/night footage in full HD when I have all 4 cameras going as I didn't get back home early enough to get the rear 2 on the wall today. The quality is INSANE and I can't stress that enough, so good that you can literally read the brands of car tyres on full zoom outside my house. These cameras are deliberately wide angled lenses to capture the most I possibly can. I'll leave these cameras running all the time at work on my laptop and they are more for prevention and real time monitoring firstly, anything else is just a bonus, our development wide group is so large and connected that I can literally Whatsapp and have a few people at my house in mins if needed or eyes on my house in seconds from windows

I originally had both my cameras mounted on my garage roof fascia but in the end I mounted the second one about 4 ft off the ground so it is aiming at anyone walking up the drive or at my front door. This camera has motorised zoom I have set it for full focus at the front (side) door.
As the camera is behind my 6ft wrought iron drive gates (fitted with anti climb spikes) they would have to climb the gate to rip off the camera plus it is covered by my second one as they do this. My NVR is not in the house and is extremely secure elsewhere.

My NVR will be going up in the loft into a 12U data cabinet bolted to the stud wall, if they get into the house that far and get into the door of the cabinet and rip the DVR out then I take my hats off to them and they are welcome to it, additionally, I will eventually have my motion detection triggered footage backing straight up to my Dropbox in the cloud I have a very big account

I will eventually get us a Ring doorbell too just to add the icing on the cake as that will crucially capture a head height facial of anyone approaching the front door, beauty of one of these is I won't have to run a cable from it to a DVR, just need to power it.

Strangely enough most visitors only notice the one on my garage roof though at night the infra red is a giveaway for the other camera. By the end of the year my lower camera will be even less obvious when the Ivy spreads.

Nice bit of kit especially doing your own hard drive btw.

Nice touch with the Ivy, but with all going on at the moment in the midlands, I'd rather my cameras stick out like a saw thumb as a big massive visual deterrent.

The hard drive had to be spec'd by me, I was going to get an SSD in it but from research online it seems that it doesn't work very well in a DVR so I went for the purpose built WD Purple for Hikvision DVR's

[macabethiel]

The weekend before last (4th/5th May)a friend of mine had his works van broken into in Tutbury (Staffs) he woke up at around 3.00 am (Wife nudged him in bed) to look out of the bedroom window to see 4 Males in balaclavas breaking into his van.

The thieves pulled the rear doors off their hinges and began removing around £6k's worth of a lifetimes of specialist tools mainly Dewalt stuff including as Gas analyser for Gas Safe Certification he rushed outside to be confronted by a bloke with a Crowbar who asked him if the car on the driveway was his? He then broke the windscreen of his BMW and put a dent in the bonett.

Wife called Police who arrived after 20 minutes - they were long gone, his missus got the VRM from one of the thieves two vehicles a BMW on false plates. Vehicle tracked by ANPR to Stoke on Trent part way they stopped and changed one of the number plates to a different VRM. Both plates false vehicle believed to be stolen not yet recovered.

One of two similar incidents in the same village overnight. Both his CCTV cameras were stolen unfortunately able to reach when standing on his van roof!

[The Patrolman]

Cracking images B
With a bit of luck my system will be good to go this weekend.
Bosch 1080p starlight with analytics and a Milestone Huskey M20 2x4tb hard drives. It's got a built in 8 port POE+ switch. Bonkers spec cameras, bit when they come up for peanuts you've got to get'em.
Time will tell how good they are..
It's more to see what wildlife comes in the garden than low life....

[The Patrolman]

We have currently spotted one Troll in the garden

[russell.huffer]

All my stuff from Doris cctv arrived today, will unpack tonight.

Kind regards


Russell.

[Banshee]

Originally Posted by russell.huffer

All my stuff from Doris cctv arrived today, will unpack tonight.

Kind regards


Russell.

Lovely!!! Will look forward to seeing what you have ordered and seeing your setup

I got my 3rd camera up on the wall last night and have now got awesome coverage of the garden

[Banshee]

3rd and most important camera to me is up on the wall now in the garden and lower down on the wall for a better capture of anyone coming through the gate or the back fence.

It's still high enough that you can't hit it off the wall though even if you did come across a rogue mop somewhere

[macabethiel]

My higher camera tends to get a lot of interest from Spiders - the lower one that is easy to reach seems to never get visited by them.

It's now a monthly routine in the summer to de-web the lens!

[Lazy-Ferret]

Originally Posted by macabethiel

My higher camera tends to get a lot of interest from Spiders - the lower one that is easy to reach seems to never get visited by them.



It's now a monthly routine in the summer to de-web the lens!

I have one of those cheap fibreglass flag poles with a fluffy duster taped on the end, and have to do mine about once a month. My brother has tried the things like walnut shell, conkers, and the otjer internet suggestions with no luck, so he has to de-spider his as well.

It's amazing how much a spiders web can block out at night...

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[Banshee]

The cameras have been in a while now so despite the heat, I thought that it would be a good idea to attempt the loft flooring that I've had in the spare room for about a week and a half now.

I regretted it the minute I started it and was pouring in sweat in no time!! I got the weird bit to the left of my loft hatch sorted first as it's most important, it's going to be housing my data cabinet for the DVR and other goodies.

So I jumped in and moved as much insulation out of the way that I needed to then I loaded the goodies into the loft


Went for 2 cross beams close together to spread weight better as the cab will be going right in the middle of that space there


Then a rough placing of how it will look when the boards are attached, I haven't fixed the boards down yet as I still have wiring to do