Couple questions about cameras that I was hoping to get answered..
In the process of planning for a new home and just worrying about wiring, etc for now.. Was potentially planning on having about 4 cameras on the outside of my house to monitor different areas..
If it matters, the locations would be the front door entrance (covered but outside), over looking the deck area, the garage entrance and then I will have a backdoor I would like "covered" as well.
I thought I would use network based cameras that use POE (Power Over Ethernet), but after looking at prices I am not so sure that is the best route to go.. Since I am in the building stages I can add whatever from a cabling/power perspective..
In the end, I want to be able to (via a PC) able to record (based on motion) to my PCs hard drive. I also want to be able to use the PC to modulate (output to my cable line) a "screen" with all 4 cameras on it.. That I can watch via a TV channel (on all my TV’s) through cable.
So my questions are as follows...
(1) Distance limitations for non-networked cameras? I know cat5 is 100 meters, which would work fine, but what are non-networked cameras distance limitations?
(2) If I use a non-ip based camera I need to buy a 4 channel DVR card - I have seen a few folks comment on here that I need one w/ 4 chips on it to simultaneously capture video from them - what costs am I looking at?
(3) Was looking for the smaller the better type camera options - I haven't seen any "bullet" cameras that function on a network - are there any?
So what do you think my best options are? Since I am always on a budget, looking for ideas on how to do this cheap...
Thanks
In the process of planning for a new home and just worrying about wiring, etc for now.. Was potentially planning on having about 4 cameras on the outside of my house to monitor different areas..
If it matters, the locations would be the front door entrance (covered but outside), over looking the deck area, the garage entrance and then I will have a backdoor I would like "covered" as well.
I thought I would use network based cameras that use POE (Power Over Ethernet), but after looking at prices I am not so sure that is the best route to go.. Since I am in the building stages I can add whatever from a cabling/power perspective..
In the end, I want to be able to (via a PC) able to record (based on motion) to my PCs hard drive. I also want to be able to use the PC to modulate (output to my cable line) a "screen" with all 4 cameras on it.. That I can watch via a TV channel (on all my TV’s) through cable.
So my questions are as follows...
(1) Distance limitations for non-networked cameras? I know cat5 is 100 meters, which would work fine, but what are non-networked cameras distance limitations?
(2) If I use a non-ip based camera I need to buy a 4 channel DVR card - I have seen a few folks comment on here that I need one w/ 4 chips on it to simultaneously capture video from them - what costs am I looking at?
(3) Was looking for the smaller the better type camera options - I haven't seen any "bullet" cameras that function on a network - are there any?
So what do you think my best options are? Since I am always on a budget, looking for ideas on how to do this cheap...
Thanks