CCTV advice what to install etc,

[Archive-8]

I have managed to solve it, turns out the cable was in a coil I guess it was that causing it.

Thanks for your help guys

 

[Archive-8]

The cameras are 12v Dc running from 3 psu's 2 inside and 1 in the garage.

The dvr is also powered from 1 of the supply's inside.

They are a bog standard analog camera with bnc plugs.

 

[Terryl]

How long is the coax from the camera to the DVR?

And have you checked for any possible ground loop problems??? If the camera has a metal body and any part of it gets connected to a ground you could get a ground loop, this will affect the video, also if the coax gets grounded anywhere but at the DVR this could cause a problem.

I cant tell from the video but you could be experiencing some video tearing, this could be caused by the camera overheating (is it in the sun at anytime this happens) and the video sync is drifting out of range.

Do you have a second camera you can swap it out with?

 

[Archive-8]

I have the ground loop isolator inline and the farite ring. The cable on that camera is about 20m.

Don't have any spare cameras about, but I really could do with using a higher grade camera.

 

[Terryl]

If you have a second camera on the same system can you swap it out with this one? Or is this a single camera setup?

And is the ferrite on the power to the camera?

 

[Archive-8]

If you have a second camera on the same system can you swap it out with this one? Or is this a single camera setup?

And is the ferrite on the power to the camera?

It's a multi camera system, I have some ip cams at home, and some at my other house, that's streamed back.

Then the nvr with the ipcameras video output is plugged into the analog cctv dvr. And 3 analogue cams.

The farite ring is around the coax and power cable, the 2 of them are in one "cable"

 

[Terryl]

The ferrite ring (core) should be on the DC power line only, ferrite does funny things to 4.5 MHz video, it is an RF inhibitor and choke, try it without the ferrite as see what happens, if it improves then try the ferrite on the DC power line where it enters the camera.

 

[Archive-8]

The ferrite ring (core) should be on the DC power line only, ferrite does funny things to 4.5 MHz video, it is an RF inhibitor and choke, try it without the ferrite as see what happens, if it improves then try the ferrite on the DC power line where it enters the camera.

I will give it a try later on today, thanks for your help

 

[Archive-8]

What's the widest camera angle I can get hold of?

All the cams that say they have a 180° field is called a fish eye.

I may need to add another camera, as someone is letting there dog go to the loo on my front garden :mad:


Found this


And this



Thought it may help some of you.

 

[Lazarus]

Probably someone jealous of your Bollard.

 

[Archive-8]

Probably someone jealous of your Bollard.

Spillers have cashed the cheque.

There is a guy whom keeps stopping and looking at it, while he waits for his dog.

Just need to find the video.

On the plus side, they are helping me fine tune the system

 

[Archive-8]

This is an article demonstrating the lens sizes

 

[Channel Hopper]

What's the widest camera angle I can get hold of?

All the cams that say they have a 180° field is called a fish eye.

I may need to add another camera, as someone is letting there dog go to the loo on my front garden :mad:

Ah, I've just found this in the Aldi catalogue and will be buying one tomorrow

https://www.aldi.co.uk/p/93633/1

Comes with a 4GB micro SD card and eight batteries (though it is powered by four)

 

[Archive-8]

Ah, I've just found this in the Aldi catalogue and will be buying one tomorrow

https://www.aldi.co.uk/p/93633/1

Comes with a 4GB micro SD card and eight batteries (though it is powered by four)

Looks just the thing. sold out online. In store only.

 

[Archive-8]

I have just caught the guy letting his dog go to the loo on my front garden!

Let's just say me and him exchanged a few polite words (not)!!!! :mad:

Had to be a little careful as the mums and children were coming out of the school.

I will be keeping an eye on on that guy! He goes past my house about 6 times a day! Looks like I will have to give him some more hassle!!!!

He didn't give a flying F...., and told me so!

 

[Lazarus]

All you do is follow him home one day, then you will know where to return future mis-delivered parcels. "While you were out ..... "

 

[Lazarus]

Better still, advise him you will Invoice him a£20 fee for Environmental Disposal and take him to Small Claim Court to enforce payment.

There is an implied Contract once you've informed him.

And the SCC has already set precedents relating to such other nuisances as costs for returning Unsolicited Mail.

 

[2cvbloke]

I've been having a play with my Sricam AP009 this morning (awake at night combined with boredom), and it seems I sold it a bit short, having upgraded routers earlier this year from a D-Link DIR-615 Rev.2 to a Netgear WNDR4300 (with DD-WRT installed) and its dual-WiFi networking (does 2.4GHz and 5GHz), the camera actually seems to do a bit better than it did when I first got it, it's still a pile of in terms of being Motion-JPEG and not h.264, but, the framerate is acceptable now, so, I may actually be able to use it, somewhere, just not entirely sure where at the moment as I'd like a proper HD camera overlooking the garden, if I ever got a round tuit...

And I spent most of the night (post Ashens Stand-up-to-cancer live-stream on the youtubes) trying to work out why said Sricam wouldn't connect to the WiFi, I'd set it up previously to connect to a different router (now running with WiFi disabled & only as a hub), deeeerrrrrp...

 

[jeallen01]

Interesting as I have been thinking about a CCTV system for our house.

Has anyone tried a Power over Ethernet (PoE) solution, as I would prefer not to use WiFi connections if I could avoid it (and, Yes, I know that means a new PoE-capable network switch, but I might need another 16-way switch anyway as I have run out of spare wired-Ethernet ports on the existing ASUS router and attached 8-way Netgear switch)?

 

[Captain Jack]

PoE is OK and relatively reliable, though I prefer a proper Cat 6 wire running from one place to another.