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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 2864423" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>The problem with the system that is linked is that it seems to be a smart bridge, you buy the system and then you will have a monthly fee for storage. Internet goes down and so does the camera's since it's all stored on their servers. And I agree the camera's probably only record in short bursts to get kind of lifetime on the batteries.</p><p></p><p>If I was to do it I would build out a system, even if you use wired camera's you can pull them down and just leave the cabling in place. Cat 5e will run around 80 bucks for 1000ft so figure it's going to cost 30 or 40 bucks for the cable at the most and then you can market the house as wired for security camera's.</p><p></p><p>I prefer Free Open Source Software and iSpyConnect has always worked well for my little projects. Just remember that the higher the resolution and the more camera's you have the more power you need to process them. I would also suggest looking at a dual Xeon server for the computer if you go that route. Just have to pick up some drives to store the video on and OS, Probably find one ready to go minus OS for around 300 if you get a xeon in the 5600 series from ebay. <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-2U-Server-X8DTN-2x-Xeon-L5630-2-13ghz-QC-24gb-HW-Raid-Add-HD-/371579508377" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-2U-Server-X8DTN-2x-Xeon-L5630-2-13ghz-QC-24gb-HW-Raid-Add-HD-/371579508377</a> something like this would work great and you can hot swap drives or do whatever. Add camera's and cables and it would work well at the highest resolutions and high frame rates. It would probably do well with up to 20 camera's so you could expand as you see fit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 2864423, member: 29706"] The problem with the system that is linked is that it seems to be a smart bridge, you buy the system and then you will have a monthly fee for storage. Internet goes down and so does the camera's since it's all stored on their servers. And I agree the camera's probably only record in short bursts to get kind of lifetime on the batteries. If I was to do it I would build out a system, even if you use wired camera's you can pull them down and just leave the cabling in place. Cat 5e will run around 80 bucks for 1000ft so figure it's going to cost 30 or 40 bucks for the cable at the most and then you can market the house as wired for security camera's. I prefer Free Open Source Software and iSpyConnect has always worked well for my little projects. Just remember that the higher the resolution and the more camera's you have the more power you need to process them. I would also suggest looking at a dual Xeon server for the computer if you go that route. Just have to pick up some drives to store the video on and OS, Probably find one ready to go minus OS for around 300 if you get a xeon in the 5600 series from ebay. [URL]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-2U-Server-X8DTN-2x-Xeon-L5630-2-13ghz-QC-24gb-HW-Raid-Add-HD-/371579508377[/URL] something like this would work great and you can hot swap drives or do whatever. Add camera's and cables and it would work well at the highest resolutions and high frame rates. It would probably do well with up to 20 camera's so you could expand as you see fit. [/QUOTE]
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