View IP cameras on all televisions

[fabriziojoe]

Hello,
I am planning to install several IP cameras this summer, but do not know how to modulate them to all the tv's in the house.
I have Verizon Fios-so there is digital cable in the house. I have been reading that it is not as easy to modulate with the digital cable as the channels are not available.
So what is everyone doing to view their cameras on the television?

Thanks!

 

[personalt]

Hello,
I am planning to install several IP cameras this summer, but do not know how to modulate them to all the tv's in the house.
I have Verizon Fios-so there is digital cable in the house. I have been reading that it is not as easy to modulate with the digital cable as the channels are not available.
So what is everyone doing to view their cameras on the television?

Thanks!

I do ip camera to server with HDMI output on motherboard, HDMI splitter to TVs. I use milestone xprotect software. this is great software, may be a little over the top for home use but I originally got it when I was running big construction sites.

 

[Neurorad]

Pretty awesome. How do you control the camera selection from the TV location?

 

[drvnbysound]

This has always been my big concern with distribution of IP-based CCTV cameras... how to distribute them easily over multiple TVs in the home. This alone is part of the reason that I am still hooked on using analog cameras with a GeoVision combo card, which has a composite (eww, but at least its analog and easy to distribute) video out. There area various screen options to choose from over that output, such as a matrix view of all the cameras.

 

[jharrell]

I want to do media centers around the home just because of this kind of stuff, most ip cams would be trivial to integrate with media center. This along with cable card adapters would really complete the deal as I also have FIOS.

Other than that if you want to work with FIOS and their cable boxes you will need a QAM Modulator mated with a IP camera decoder.

There isn't a lot out there, but a ZeeVee with a PC running decoder software would work, you could also do other things like display home automation info since it would just encode VGA to QAM overlaying a digital channel.

 

[znelbok]

There is a cheap digital modulator available in the states. I dont live there so I dont know the details other than it uses a digital channel to modulate an input to. A couple of these (one for each camera, or just one for all) should allow you to distribute to the whole house.

Mick