Home Security camera installers

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JonnyRiverdance

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Looking for help and advice chaps. Wanting home security cameras installing, know next to nothing about them,looking for recommendations please for both type/make of camera and quality installation companies.
Many thanks in advance.
 
I installed my own fully wireless system and have had no issues with it whatsoever. The battery lasts for about a year on each camera. Eufycam. It’s not cheap but the extra you spend on the system offsets what you would spend on having a wired system installed.
I’ve been using mine since September and it’s been fantastic
 
I bought my own kit from Amazon, popped them up myself, got it recording 24/7, with web access too. Also done a family members too, and waiting to do another, probably in the summer.

The setup if fine however the only issue that I have ran into was drilling the holes from inside to outside, ending up with brick blast on all holes, which is unfortunate. There will be a way of reducing that but I am an amateur at it.

It really is easy enough to yourself, if you are savvy enough, or know someone else who is.
 
TheFair86 said:
Surely a battery driven system isn’t recording 24/7?
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The cameras might be on battery power but if you have your own physical storage device to house the recordings it will normally be on mains power (or you could be using cloud storage).
 
Yeah. Mine uses motion detection and springs into life when it detects motion. You can tweak it to ignore animals and has facial recognition to ignore family members. I liked it’s simplicity
 
Depends what you want, I have a couple of Hive outdoor cameras and they're great, especially if you have other Hive stuff. Relatively cheap and really easy to install yourself.
 
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Liamo said:
The cameras might be on battery power but if you have your own physical storage device to house the recordings it will normally be on mains power (or you could be using cloud storage).
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yes, that’s fine for your storage device though - but what I mean is the cam itself isn’t recording everything otherwise it’s battery power would be wiped out very quickly; relying only on motion alerts has a variety of problems (as shown in most reviews for devices that do). You will invariably miss things because it doesn’t trigger from the IR/motion detection especially in bad weather
 
TheFair86 said:
yes, that’s fine for your storage device though - but what I mean is the cam itself isn’t recording everything otherwise it’s battery power would be wiped out very quickly; relying only on motion alerts has a variety of problems (as shown in most reviews for devices that do). You will invariably miss things because it doesn’t trigger from the IR/motion detection especially in bad weather
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I don't know how all the various different models work but the camera doesn't necessarily have to be recording anything at all. For instance, depending on how the system works, if there's a main storage device housed elsewhere, all the camera has to do is transmit the image feed to that device, which will take care of the recording.
 
Liamo said:
I don't know how all the various different models work but the camera doesn't necessarily have to be recording anything at all. For instance, depending on how the system works, if there's a main storage device housed elsewhere, all the camera has to do is transmit the image feed to that device, which will take care of the recording.
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how is that not recording? If it’s not recording it would have nothing to send to the box?
If the camera is passing a feed to a recording device, then that camera is in operation. If a camera is doing that 24/7 the battery would surely last days? Powering a sensor constantly, and IR transmitters at night, isn’t going to last very long which is why most battery operated cameras are manually activated or triggered by motion so that the active time is kept to a minimum
 
TheFair86 said:
how is that not recording? If it’s not recording it would have nothing to send to the box?
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Recording means it's actually writing information onto some kind storage device (SD/MicroSD card, USB drive, hard drive etc). Not all cameras have a storage device to write to. Even if the camera itself has no storage capability of its own however, it can still relay the images it's getting to anther device that does.

For instance, when you make a Skype or WhatsApp video call, the inbuilt camera on your device picks up your image and transmits it over the internet to the person at the other end but it's not recording what it sends, it's simply sending it.
 
I fitted a 6 camera system in my house in a day, just get a decent drill bit, and good plan beforehand and get some nice connector boxes for the wire connections, it looks much more neater and professional. Once you get going it's really not that hard, I installed a 3MP 6 camera Annke system, from Amazon, it really is excellent and cost less than £200 including the 1Tb hard drive.
 
Liamo said:
Recording means it's actually writing information onto some kind storage device (SD/MicroSD card, USB drive, hard drive etc). Not all cameras have a storage device to write to. Even if the camera itself has no storage capability of its own however, it can still relay the images it's getting to anther device that does.

For instance, when you make a Skype or WhatsApp video call, the inbuilt camera on your device picks up your image and transmits it over the internet to the person at the other end but it's not recording what it sends, it's simply sending it.
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but it would still require power 24/7 to do that, the camera for Skype is powered by the laptop or computer and doesn’t just operate without power. Unplug your laptop and go on Skype and do a video call and watch your battery drop because the camera is both engaging an imaging sensor to capture the data and transmitting data, both of which can’t happen in a powered off state, just like cameras. It can’t “simply send it” without using power, and on batteries that would be eaten up in no time, especially at night when IR light would be needed for night vision so several IR bulbs would be illuminated.

blink cameras for example are 40,000 second lifespan which is about 11 hours. They claim to last 2 years because they’re only triggered by motion being detected, the more motion the less they will last. If it doesn’t recognise it as motion you aren’t going to see it, and not all cameras register all motion, just look at ring reviews or blink or any other motion triggered cam to see reports of missing the actual event because it has gone by the time the camera woke itself up and recorded , or batteries running down because of rain / insects triggering it.
 
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