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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1077702" data-attributes="member: 176704">An interesting CCTV-related facility said to be coming in the Spring 2020 update to Windows 10:<a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/443847/windows-10-is-getting-built-in-support-for-network-cameras/" target="_blank">Windows 10 Is Getting Built-In Support for Network Cameras</a>Assuming that Microsoft manage to incorporate decent anti-hacking support, this could be a relatively cheap &amp; easy way to set up an NVR-type CCTV system with any &quot;ONVIF Profile S&quot; cameras, but using, say, an old W10 PC, or even maybe a NAS, to store the video data instead being tied to a specific CCTV manufacturer's h/w &amp; s/w, or risking the issues from those cheap, and very hackable, systems that all seem to come from a part of China that specialises in them!I, for one, could be very interested in that approach as I have a Cat 5E system throughout most of the house, and could fairly easily extend it to the other parts using PoE feeds to the cameras, and the additional PLC link to the garage would make adding cameras down there relatively trivial.BTW: I do have several Synology NAS units, but you can only connect 2 cameras to each one f.o.c. and the additional licences are around £50-£60 each - so, several £100s just for the licences for a comprehensive system, and one that is still tied to Synology tech.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1077702, member: 176704"] An interesting CCTV-related facility said to be coming in the Spring 2020 update to Windows 10: [SIZE=7][B][URL='https://www.howtogeek.com/443847/windows-10-is-getting-built-in-support-for-network-cameras/']Windows 10 Is Getting Built-In Support for Network Cameras[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [I][B]Assuming [/B][/I]that Microsoft manage to incorporate decent anti-hacking support, this [I]could[/I] be a relatively cheap & easy way to set up an NVR-type CCTV system with any "ONVIF Profile S" cameras, but using, say, an old W10 PC, or even maybe a NAS, to store the video data instead being tied to a specific CCTV manufacturer's h/w & s/w, or risking the issues from those cheap, and very hackable, systems that all seem to come from a part of China that specialises in them! I, for one, could be very interested in that approach as I have a Cat 5E system throughout most of the house, and could fairly easily extend it to the other parts using PoE feeds to the cameras, and the additional PLC link to the garage would make adding cameras down there relatively trivial. BTW: I do have several Synology NAS units, but you can only connect 2 cameras to each one f.o.c. and the additional licences are around £50-£60 each - so, several £100s just for the licences for a comprehensive system, and one that is still tied to Synology tech. [/QUOTE]

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