security camera saves to computer

TheGobb

http://www.equicom.ie/ip-cameras-11-c.asp

Any one any idea if thie 75 euro one would be any good?

CreepingDeath

The resolution is 320x240, you can't get any lower/worse resolution.

At a bare minimum I'd want 640x480, and preferably 800x600, 1024x748 or greater. Depends on your use.
If you want a security camera where you can recognise peoples faces, then higher resolution is good. 320x240 is poor, search for a few sample photos on the web at that resolution and you'll see.

TheGobb

Could you suggest one, wireless, that saves to PC?

sink

We have these in work and their pretty decent although they are expensive enough.

http://www.axis.com/products/cam_207w/index.htm

TheGobb

sink wrote: »

We have these in work and their pretty decent although they are expensive enough.

http://www.axis.com/products/cam_207w/index.htm

Thanks. How much room on a hard drive would these take up? Would you say review them daily and then delete. ?

I do not see a price for the AXIS 207, 211 is €549. What would expenseive be in relatioj to one of those?€500? What would I get for €300. I want a rasonable decent wireless one to cover front door garden. New to this, thanks

CreepingDeath

sink wrote: »

We have these in work and their pretty decent although they are expensive enough.

http://www.axis.com/products/cam_207w/index.htm

It doesn't look like that has any infrared led lights.
So unless your garden / porchway is lit up, it may have limited results.

A couple of points, based on my experience programming a webcam.

1. The webcams/cameras with infrared leds are better in low light conditions.
2. The little webcams with 4-6 leds or so, will illuminate for about 5 meters indoors.
3. There's two types of led lights on camera, white leds or true infrared leds. White leds are like bike lights, very visible. Infrared leds do not produce much visible light and you just see a dull red glow from them, but the webcam can see the infrared light so they work just fine.
4. If you try pointing the webcam out the window, then the infrared leds will produce a glare like a bright light on the webcam image as they can see the invisible IR light being reflected back by the window.
I can't disable my IR leds, so it is useless for outdoor security through a window.

Do you have an "indoor" porch / double front door ?
Where do you want to mount the camera ?

If you want to mount it outdoors, covering the front of the house including the approach to the front door, then I'd suggest an outdoor camera with IR leds.

Another nice feature you'll want is motion detection.
Instead of recording 24 hours a day, you only want the camera to record when it detects motion in the picture.
That will cut down on the space required to store the recordings and only show you security events of interest.

TheGobb

CreepingDeath wrote: »

It doesn't look like that has any infrared led lights.
So unless your garden / porchway is lit up, it may have limited results.

A couple of points, based on my experience programming a webcam.

1. The webcams/cameras with infrared leds are better in low light conditions.
2. The little webcams with 4-6 leds or so, will illuminate for about 5 meters indoors.
3. There's two types of led lights on camera, white leds or true infrared leds. White leds are like bike lights, very visible. Infrared leds do not produce much visible light and you just see a dull red glow from them, but the webcam can see the infrared light so they work just fine.
4. If you try pointing the webcam out the window, then the infrared leds will produce a glare like a bright light on the webcam image as they can see the invisible IR light being reflected back by the window.
I can't disable my IR leds, so it is useless for outdoor security through a window.

Do you have an "indoor" porch / double front door ?
Where do you want to mount the camera ?


Another nice feature you'll want is motion detection.
Instead of recording 24 hours a day, you only want the camera to record when it detects motion in the picture.
That will cut down on the space required to store the recordings and only show you security events of interest.

If you want to mount it outdoors, covering the front of the house including the approach to the front door, then I'd suggest an outdoor camera with IR leds.

yes that is where I want it. No indoor" porch / double front door
http://www.equicom.ie/2-wireless-cctv-cameras--tv-receivercomputer-recorder-46-p.asp looks good but no motion detector and it does not state the resolution. Are the CMOS type any good. CCD is very expensive. €145 - €300 would be my price region
Is it trur that they play live at a higher resolution that a recording playback?

CreepingDeath

The cameras you can plug into your TV would be PAL resolution, think it's 720x576. So typical enough security camera resolution.

Not sure if you need additional hardware to record to the PC.
Typically you need a TV card / graphics card that you can plug the TV cable into. So you might want to check that.
But worse case scenario you can buy those on ebay.

The thing about those multiple cameras, I'm not sure if they record both simultaneously. If mentions that it can scroll through the camera or you can use the remote, so not sure if that means while recording.
Worse case scenario, that might mean it shows say 5 seconds on camera 1 then switch to 5 seconds on camera 2 etc... Or you can fix it to stay on camera 1.

Plenty of LEDS on it, looks like it would do the job, if you don't mind it being a little conspicuous.

TheGobb

CreepingDeath wrote: »

The cameras you can plug into your TV would be PAL resolution, think it's 720x576. So typical enough security camera resolution.

OK

Not sure if you need additional hardware to record to the PC.
Typically you need a TV card / graphics card that you can plug the TV cable into. So you might want to check that.

The ones at the links say they supply all

But worse case scenario you can buy those on ebay

.anywhere else don't like ebay?

The thing about those multiple cameras, I'm not sure if they record both simultaneously. If mentions that it can scroll through the camera or you can use the remote, so not sure if that means while recording.
Worse case scenario, that might mean it shows say 5 seconds on camera 1 then switch to 5 seconds on camera 2 etc... Or you can fix it to stay on camera 1.

i can check that. One would do me anyway, may be two

Plenty of LEDS on it, looks like it would do the job, if you don't mind it being a little conspicuous.

I do not mind conspicious, think that is a deterrant in itself. Thanks for the info. Appreciate it

nicks28

Hi TheGobb,

I know about wireless security camera on which you can save the recordings on your computer. You can go with the remote CCTV Security Camera , you can put an eye at your home or business without being present there, anywhere in the world by connecting your PC or Laptop on any internet browser.

It will be helpful for you.