I will be brief on that second part. Last time I was here, you guys were 'beyond' helpful and got me right up to speed. I designed a slick system for a large, multi-building business complex that needed cams badly. The owner didn't set the priority, and that place took a $500k hit! Yup, within weeks of my warnings, the criminals spent hours in there over 2 days hauling off equipment, tools, vehicles! A single camera could have prevented it!
But onto my stuff. I'm being proactive. I don't have near the risks at all at a remote property, but I want it done. Part and pieces are already on the way and what I am building is a Dell micro PC NVR that I am networking. My list of cams will be very limited right now but everything is getting put in my 400sf steel shed/power building. I know exactly how the bad guys will come in because there is only one way. But part of this is monitoring wildlife at night.... One of my targets is the main driveway with line of sight at 500ft. I want to set a varifocal right on that. I am hoping I can get decent AI tripwire function there so if any human or vehicle makes the turn, I am aware. In short, I want to lean pretty heavy on the AI aspects with I/O functions. I'd like to eventually get this running with Blue Iris but will take what I can get for now. I seem to recall Empire was the deal on genuine Dahua cams, but lots of work trying to align model numbers. Either way, I believe because of the variability here, I probably need variable zoom so I can make changes as I learn from nighttime patterns.
All of the "goods" are closer to the cams so if you can imagine a 500ft driveway, but they have to come all the way in if they want the goods, which is well within 50ft of cams. If someone, and I mean even government, gets within 200ft of cams, my I/O things will happen. I'm not doing this to document a theft, I want them to know Im watching, heat is coming, and probably time to bounce. In the near future, I will have a dedicated cam pole out near that 500ft mark so I will both have superior visibility there, but also a stiff deterrent.
As for the building, its small so I'd just run CAT wire to these. I was told not to get cams that play games with "full color", have lights, etc. But reality is I will prob toss something on the building with the cams so if they get close, even if the cams have to adjust for a few seconds, I need that visible alert. I mean, I won't see it, but it will be a spot light they won't be expecting.
But onto my stuff. I'm being proactive. I don't have near the risks at all at a remote property, but I want it done. Part and pieces are already on the way and what I am building is a Dell micro PC NVR that I am networking. My list of cams will be very limited right now but everything is getting put in my 400sf steel shed/power building. I know exactly how the bad guys will come in because there is only one way. But part of this is monitoring wildlife at night.... One of my targets is the main driveway with line of sight at 500ft. I want to set a varifocal right on that. I am hoping I can get decent AI tripwire function there so if any human or vehicle makes the turn, I am aware. In short, I want to lean pretty heavy on the AI aspects with I/O functions. I'd like to eventually get this running with Blue Iris but will take what I can get for now. I seem to recall Empire was the deal on genuine Dahua cams, but lots of work trying to align model numbers. Either way, I believe because of the variability here, I probably need variable zoom so I can make changes as I learn from nighttime patterns.
All of the "goods" are closer to the cams so if you can imagine a 500ft driveway, but they have to come all the way in if they want the goods, which is well within 50ft of cams. If someone, and I mean even government, gets within 200ft of cams, my I/O things will happen. I'm not doing this to document a theft, I want them to know Im watching, heat is coming, and probably time to bounce. In the near future, I will have a dedicated cam pole out near that 500ft mark so I will both have superior visibility there, but also a stiff deterrent.
As for the building, its small so I'd just run CAT wire to these. I was told not to get cams that play games with "full color", have lights, etc. But reality is I will prob toss something on the building with the cams so if they get close, even if the cams have to adjust for a few seconds, I need that visible alert. I mean, I won't see it, but it will be a spot light they won't be expecting.
