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Either don't connect it to Internet at all, make it's own isolated VLAN, or block the IPs from internet on your router and use a VPN to look at them remotely.
OK, you lost me right after the part where you plug the wire into the camera on one end and the big black box on the other end.
I want to have it send me a notification if there's movement in certain areas outdoors so I can use their app to see what's going on with my phone. Trying to determine if it matters that Chinese people see me cut the grass. I will have no indoor cameras and have no intention of showing sensitive info to the outside cameras. What are the risks?
The real issue isnt someone actually looking at the video. Criminals that are breaking into houses are barely technical enough to use a crowbar, let alone hack your network. The real issue is security vulnerabilities that allow IP cameras to become part of botnets.
Thats what happened a few years back with Dahua. There was a know security vulnerability that they didnt bother to fix. They also happened to be selling a **** load of cameras at this time, everybody was rebranding their equipment. A malware called Mirai managed to take over many of these Dahua cameras along with a bunch of other IoT devices and then they were used for numerous DDOS attacks.
Fun Fact: The Mirai malware, which was named after the anime series Mirai Nikki, was created by some kid so he could DDOS minecraft servers.
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OK, you lost me right after the part where you plug the wire into the camera on one end and the big black box on the other end.
I want to have it send me a notification if there's movement in certain areas outdoors so I can use their app to see what's going on with my phone. Trying to determine if it matters that Chinese people see me cut the grass. I will have no indoor cameras and have no intention of showing sensitive info to the outside cameras. What are the risks?
I don't think it's really too big of a concern. The firmware version of your cameras are updated past the issue that Hikvision had a couple years ago, so there's no known issues right now. I've added the VPN and such to mine mainly just to learn, it's not overly hard but not necessary. Adding the email notification is a pretty simple process. The instructions in the manual are actually accurate for this.
like @Joker I went for the Arlo Pro. No complaints here. I have a couple of them that are in low traffic areas and only need charged every couple of months. The one that is on the road only lasts about ten days, but too be fair, it is tripping on a couple of hundred times a day. Probably time to get a permanent power wire.
like @Joker I went for the Arlo Pro. No complaints here. I have a couple of them that are in low traffic areas and only need charged every couple of months. The one that is on the road only lasts about ten days, but too be fair, it is tripping on a couple of hundred times a day. Probably time to get a permanent power wire.
Looking to complete an install over the next 30 days, and trying to select a system. Looking for recommendations on NVR and cameras.
House to end of the driveway is approximately 1/3 mile. I've got electric at the barn and at the gate at the end of the driveway.
What I think I want to do:
NVR on a UPS at the house
- Hard-wired: House arc covers the swimming pool, primary parking areas, and home entrances - (requires pan/tilt/infrared)
- Hard-wired: Small cone on the front door - (fixed perspective/infrared)
- Hard wired: Long cone to cover the final driveway approach - (fixed perspective)
- Hard Wired: (Not shown) arc to cover the back of the house including entrance (180 degree pan/infrared)
- Network Wired: (Not shown) arc internal to garage (pan/infrared)
Point-to-point network from the house (top left of image) to the barn (top center of image) and run a meshed wi-fi router in the barn (because we're in the barn often and it's an effective Faraday cage) No good way to hard-wire the barn @ 350 feet without digging a trench and boring under some concrete
- Arc with optical zoom for 3rd person view of the house - (require pan/tilt, desire optical zoom)
- Cone for view of the driveway, towards the road, and past the 5-car detached garage - (desire good optical zoom)
Point-to-point network from the easternmost corner of the barn to the gate at the end of the driveway (Elevated LOS available), connected to 4-port POE outdoor switch.
- Large cone directed up driveway (good optical zoom)
- Short cone directed towards road (fixed perspective)
- I would like at least one of these two cameras to be able to identify a license plate at night between two brake lights
- I would like at least one of these two cameras to be able to recognize a driver passing it during daylight conditions (polarized lens?)
- A third camera at the gate may be an option
I know, easy peasy, right?
It would be nice to be able to view/control cameras remotely from a cell phone. I acknowledge the risks of a Chinese takeover of my property, though my overall concern is low.
(perhaps a 2.4GHz for one pair and a 5GHz for the second pair)
Probably looking at an 8/16 channel NVR (8 powered, 16 total), though I believe 4 direct-powered would be acceptable. There are opportunities for additional cameras in the future (2-3 in barn). I'm most interested in a 4k system even though it will be viewed almost entirely on 1080 monitors. I'd prefer to keep the budget under $2K if possible.
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