Help setting up CCTV to home network

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kwikbreaks, that new camera is quite clear. On the black car there seems to be a reflaction around the front lights, is that due to a pain of glass?

kwikbreaks

I think you are talking about the fault I put the clip up to demonstrate. If you check the first 10 seconds all should be pretty clear then a ghosting effect appears. It is more obvious on the verticals such as road signs. It was caused by water getting into the coax joint.

It's my intention to add a page about my CCTV upgrade to the other CCTV related pages on one of my websites but I just haven't got around to doing it. Now I've retired I have far less time to do such things than when I was working.

forgotmyname

EdwardB wrote: »

full time recording do not have details in file, they are 500mb for 2.5 hours.

How big is the hard drive? 40GB or something ancient?

500mb for 2.5 hours = 200mb per hour.

200mb x 24 hours = 4.8 Gb Lets round it up to 5GB to allow for some bitrate changes as you get more movement.

5GB per day = 35GB a week so even a lowly 40GB drive will be fine for one camera for an entire week.

Stick a 500GB drive in there and you have 3 months+ worth of space for a single camera.

4x cameras on a 500 GB drive = approx 25 days or 50 days for a 1TB drive etc.

Why cant you record 24/7? What storage are you using? a 4Gb memory card?

forestfanstill

the HD is 2TB has extra fan for cooling, extra ram etc as was used as gaming pc, maplins added high spec stuff for me as manager is neighbour. unfortunately he has had a stroke and is unable to assist with such issues anymore or would not need to justify self on here.

Our local PCSO has been a number of times as have CID to check our CCTV footage to help them with various incidents. all have agreed our system is legal and is targeted at our own property boundary with incidental footage of public property being acceptable given it is impossible to watch a fence-line for intruders without seeing part of the other side of the fence.

forgotmyname

A gaming PC wont be ideal for a CCTV setup, its going to run hotter than ideal and going to be costly to run.

A DVR is 100% the way to go. It does everything you have mentioned and will use about 8 - 14 watts where a gaming PC will be using over 100 watts and run much hotter.

You dont need a ton of RAM for a CCTV system also.

Sell the PC and buy a DVR.