Hi All - I have just moved into a house out in the country and we are quickly learning there are some things we need to address. One of those issues is video surveillance and on the same topic I was hoping to get a system that could solve a problem of visibility from the house. The issue is the main driveway/garage/hangout area of the house has NO windows what so ever, so we can't see a lot of important activity such as when someone drives up to our house, when the kids are playing basketball or riding scooters in the driveway, etc. It's extremely frustrating to have a total lack of visibility on an entire side of our property. There's no logical place to put windows with the house layout either unfortunately.
Anyhow, I was hoping to get some advice on some type of video system that could help provide us better visibility to that side of the house and it would be really cool if we could do 2-way communications with whoever is out there. "Kids come in and eat dinner!" or "be nice to your brother" type of conversation would be really helpful. I'm not sure if this is something that would be better being a standalone device or part of a security camera system. I was thinking about doing something very simple/cheap like a dropcam, but i've heard theres a lag in 2-way as it sends it to the cloud first. I was also looking at some of the Q-See stuff as HD has it on cyber monday sale for $500, but not sure its what I need as theres no audio.
I was hoping to keep costs fairly low as possible as I'm not looking for a state of the art system, but rather a functional family system with a couple good outdoor cameras. I'm a complete novice, so please dont hesitate to give me the straight info if I'm in left field.
Thanks,
JD
Anyhow, I was hoping to get some advice on some type of video system that could help provide us better visibility to that side of the house and it would be really cool if we could do 2-way communications with whoever is out there. "Kids come in and eat dinner!" or "be nice to your brother" type of conversation would be really helpful. I'm not sure if this is something that would be better being a standalone device or part of a security camera system. I was thinking about doing something very simple/cheap like a dropcam, but i've heard theres a lag in 2-way as it sends it to the cloud first. I was also looking at some of the Q-See stuff as HD has it on cyber monday sale for $500, but not sure its what I need as theres no audio.
I was hoping to keep costs fairly low as possible as I'm not looking for a state of the art system, but rather a functional family system with a couple good outdoor cameras. I'm a complete novice, so please dont hesitate to give me the straight info if I'm in left field.
Thanks,
JD