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<blockquote data-quote="EatonEggbeater" data-source="post: 16411468" data-attributes="member: 8939"><p>onvif compliance is something to look for, I'd be surprised if it isn't on all cameras. Nice to see it applies to doorbells, too (although I'd suspected there was a mechanism for it.)</p><p></p><p>In the old days you had to program in all the transmission protocols for how everything did things. The industry came around and started to standardize things by the onvif standard.</p><p></p><p>I think they absorbed the manner that large companies that were popularly used (read; Pelco) and had everyone use those accepted.</p><p></p><p>For instance, I believe the PTZ protocols are directly from Pelco, other MFR's had their own ways to do things, and maybe they got incorporated too.</p><p></p><p>The Blue Iris software can connect to, and use and control, any onvif compliant device, your NVR is probably the same.</p><p></p><p>Look for those cameras that have Infrared illumination for night viewing. These cameras aren't completely invisible, most are in the 850nm bandwidth, which (to our eyes) glows a deep dull red....but is still easily seen. To a B&W camera; this red is a floodlight, and this type of camera switches to B&W when the light levels are down. Thieves know what this is, and that alone is likely to have them rob your neighbor, not you.</p><p></p><p>I have several additional IR illuminators placed around my house. To a neighbor, they see that dull red- to a thief; they see they're being lit by a floodlight. If you're clever, you could simply install 3 or 4 of these illuminators ($40 or so) around your house, and not use cameras at all. You actually having cameras and a thief <em>believing</em> you have cameras accomplishes the same; your neighbor gets burglarized.</p><p></p><p>Look for high bitrate cameras, you get better resolution with them; see what your NVR can handle, and how many cameras at that bitrate.</p><p></p><p>BTW, motion recording can be implemented by the BI software or your NVR, usually both, if you have them.</p><p></p><p>Either can transmit, and be controlled by your smartphone, you need to forward some ports at your gateway, but if you've used Cloud recording, this isn't a problem for you.</p><p></p><p>One nice thing with your NVR is that it can multiplex all your cameras onto one screen. My father was in a wheelchair for the last years of his life, so his house got all these goodies, and he had a screen in his living area where he could see who was at the door, (front or back) what was in his front yard, and who was in his driveway. I put the most important 4 cameras there, although more were being recorded.</p><p></p><p>-edit- forgot to mention bandwidth, a gigabit network can handle realtime cameras a lot better than a slower one. Most of my cameras are 4 to 5 megabit cameras, and not terribly expensive. Oh, and run spare wires, and strings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EatonEggbeater, post: 16411468, member: 8939"] onvif compliance is something to look for, I'd be surprised if it isn't on all cameras. Nice to see it applies to doorbells, too (although I'd suspected there was a mechanism for it.) In the old days you had to program in all the transmission protocols for how everything did things. The industry came around and started to standardize things by the onvif standard. I think they absorbed the manner that large companies that were popularly used (read; Pelco) and had everyone use those accepted. For instance, I believe the PTZ protocols are directly from Pelco, other MFR's had their own ways to do things, and maybe they got incorporated too. The Blue Iris software can connect to, and use and control, any onvif compliant device, your NVR is probably the same. Look for those cameras that have Infrared illumination for night viewing. These cameras aren't completely invisible, most are in the 850nm bandwidth, which (to our eyes) glows a deep dull red....but is still easily seen. To a B&W camera; this red is a floodlight, and this type of camera switches to B&W when the light levels are down. Thieves know what this is, and that alone is likely to have them rob your neighbor, not you. I have several additional IR illuminators placed around my house. To a neighbor, they see that dull red- to a thief; they see they're being lit by a floodlight. If you're clever, you could simply install 3 or 4 of these illuminators ($40 or so) around your house, and not use cameras at all. You actually having cameras and a thief [i]believing[/i] you have cameras accomplishes the same; your neighbor gets burglarized. Look for high bitrate cameras, you get better resolution with them; see what your NVR can handle, and how many cameras at that bitrate. BTW, motion recording can be implemented by the BI software or your NVR, usually both, if you have them. Either can transmit, and be controlled by your smartphone, you need to forward some ports at your gateway, but if you've used Cloud recording, this isn't a problem for you. One nice thing with your NVR is that it can multiplex all your cameras onto one screen. My father was in a wheelchair for the last years of his life, so his house got all these goodies, and he had a screen in his living area where he could see who was at the door, (front or back) what was in his front yard, and who was in his driveway. I put the most important 4 cameras there, although more were being recorded. -edit- forgot to mention bandwidth, a gigabit network can handle realtime cameras a lot better than a slower one. Most of my cameras are 4 to 5 megabit cameras, and not terribly expensive. Oh, and run spare wires, and strings. [/QUOTE]
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