Banshee
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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 :thumb2
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 :naughty 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 :thumb2
