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Hi all,
I'm a bit bewildered by the enormous choice available, and was hoping some kind soul would point me in the right direction.
My parent's house in France was recently cleaned out, which has been pretty traumatic and they want to get some security for peace of mind. Money isn't limitless, but we were thinking of getting a new mac mini, UPS, and a few (three?) outdoor cameras. We'd ideally like something which could help the police catching the @£$%s if it ever happens again i.e. we're not interested in buying stuff that won't work, and though we're beefing up locks etc, it's remote and people could break in if they want to. Being discrete isn't that important, because we'd also like to make the place look less appealing.
So we want some decent outdoor cameras (HD, which have okay night vision) and which aren't crazy expensive (less than 200 GBP per camera, ideally less). They can be connected via wifi, but perhaps POE is better.
Any recommendations, blogs/tutorials to look at, resellers (especially in france, to avoid shipping them over!) would be very gratefully received.
Thanks in advance!
I'm a bit bewildered by the enormous choice available, and was hoping some kind soul would point me in the right direction.
My parent's house in France was recently cleaned out, which has been pretty traumatic and they want to get some security for peace of mind. Money isn't limitless, but we were thinking of getting a new mac mini, UPS, and a few (three?) outdoor cameras. We'd ideally like something which could help the police catching the @£$%s if it ever happens again i.e. we're not interested in buying stuff that won't work, and though we're beefing up locks etc, it's remote and people could break in if they want to. Being discrete isn't that important, because we'd also like to make the place look less appealing.
So we want some decent outdoor cameras (HD, which have okay night vision) and which aren't crazy expensive (less than 200 GBP per camera, ideally less). They can be connected via wifi, but perhaps POE is better.
Any recommendations, blogs/tutorials to look at, resellers (especially in france, to avoid shipping them over!) would be very gratefully received.
Thanks in advance!
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(http://www.amazon.co.uk/IPC-HFW3200S-2Megapixel-Network-IR-Bullet-Camera/dp/B00C9X1ZCS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377181511&sr=8-1&keywords=dahua`)
Unfortunately I'm struggling to get them to work with SecuritySpy. SecuritySpy sees both cameras via Bonjour, but there's no video feed (logging in directly to the camera works fine). The cameras by default export h264, but I don't see that as an explicit option under 'Format' in Video Device Settings (the ones shown are JPEG HTTP, MPEG-4 HTTP, MPEG-4 MPEG-4 RTSP). I presume that MPEG-4 is what I need, but I never see anything but a blue screen (and Camera Status says 'no video').
I'm having another problem I hope you can help with... I just rebooted the computer and now SecuritySpy won't connect to the cameras (blue screen). It still has Dahua technology set, and I can log into the cameras via their web interface. But SecuritySpy just says No Video and won't make the cameras active. Is there extra debug info stored somewhere?
As for the camera, it sounds like it is on a DHCP (automatic) IP address, which can change from time to time. Please follow our instructions to put the camera on a manual (static) IP address instead.
Ah - that would make sense, in that we've not had a crash since we upgraded to the full version!
I don't think the issue is related to DHCP, as the router is set to provide them with fixed IP addresses (192.168.1.101 and 192.168.1.102), and I can log into them directly using the expected IP addresses. I will try with fixed IP addresses just in case, but if this doesn't work is there any way to get some debug output? Does SS write a logfile somewhere?
I see a LOT of messages like "25/08/2013 09:28:43.000 kernel[0]: PM notification cancel (pid 1126, SecuritySpy)" in Console. I guess it's not related but I mention it just in case.
(Let me know if you'd prefer me to start a new thread - this is getting a bit off topic!)
25/08/2013 09:44:40.242 SubmitDiagInfo[2652]: Failed to submit crash report: file://localhost/Users/security/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/talagent_2013-08-23-202909_Buffys-Mac-mini.crash
Out of curiosity, what is Perian interfering with? I'd NEVER have guess that this was the problem!