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The document provides advice for setting up a home camera surveillance system. It recommends planning extensively before purchasing equipment, including reading guides on the forum wiki. Specific tips include using wired cameras from Dahua or Hikvision that have good low light performance, avoiding wireless cameras or cloud storage, and choosing camera placement and features based on the intended use of identification or general surveillance. A list of recommended camera models is also provided.

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IP Cam Talk Cliff Notes IP Cam Talk Wiki Wiki How To Secure Your Network (Don't Get Hacked!)

The document provides advice for setting up a home camera surveillance system. It recommends planning extensively before purchasing equipment, including reading guides on the forum wiki. Specific tips include using wired cameras from Dahua or Hikvision that have good low light performance, avoiding wireless cameras or cloud storage, and choosing camera placement and features based on the intended use of identification or general surveillance. A list of recommended camera models is also provided.

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8/3/2020 (16) Trying to determine my path into cameras around my house | IP Cam Talk

read study plan before spending money.... plan,plan,plan


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My standard welcome to the forum message.

Read Study Plan before spending money


Cameras are for surveillance to get information for after the fact.

Please read the IP Cam Talk Cliff Notes and other items in the IP Cam Talk Wiki. (read on a real computer, not
a phone). The wiki is in the blue bar at the top of the page.

Read How to Secure Your Network (Don't Get Hacked!) in the wiki also. 

Quick start
1) If you do not have a wired monitored alarm system, get that first
2) Use Dahua starlight cameras or Hikvision darkfighter cameras if you need good low light cameras.
3) use a VPN to access home network (openVPN)
4) Do not use wifi cameras.
5) Do not use cloud storage
6) Do Not use uPNP, P2P, QR, do not open ports, 
7) More megapixel is not necessarily better.
8) Avoid chinese hacked cameras (most ebay, amazon, aliexpress cameras(not all, but most)) 
9) Do not use reolink, ring, nest, Arlo cameras (they are junk), no cloud cameras
10) If possible use a turret camera , bullet collect spiders, dome collect dirt and reflect light (IR)
11) Use only solid copper, AWG 23 or 24 ethernet wire. , no CCA (Copper Clad Aluminum)
12) use a test mount to verify the camera mount location. My test rig: rev.2
13) (Looney2ns)If you want to be able to ID faces, don't mount cams higher than 7ft. You want to know who
did it, not just what happened.
14) Use a router that has openVPN built in (Most ASUS, Some NetGear....)
15) camera placement use the calculator... IPVM Camera Calculator V3
16) POE list PoE Switch Suggestion List
17) Camera Sensor size, bigger is general better Sensor Size Chart 
18) Camera lens size, a bigger number give more range but less field of view. Which Security Camera Lens Size
Should I Buy?

Cameras to look at
IPC-T5442TM-AS-LED . Review IPC-T5442TM-AS-LED (Full Color, Starlight+) - 4MP starlight
.................... Dahua IPC-T5442TM-AS-LED review
IPC-T5442TM-AS ..... Review-OEM 4mp AI Cam IPC-T5442TM-AS Starlight+ - 4MP starlight+
IPC-HDW5442-ZE ..... Dahua IPC-HDW5442T-ZE 4MP Varifocal Turret - Night Perfomance testing -- variable
focus 4 MP Starlight
IPC-B5442E-ZE ...... Review - OEM IPC-B5442E-ZE 4MP AI Varifocal Bullet Camera With Starlight+
IPC-T2347G-LU ...... Review of the Hikvision OEM model IPC-T2347G-LU 'ColorVu' IP CCTV camera. (DS-2CD2347G1-
LU)
IPC-HDW2231R-ZS .... Review-Dahua IPC-HDW2231RP-ZS Starlight Camera-Varifocal
IPC-HDW2231T-ZS-S2 . Review-OEM IPC-T2231T-ZS 2mp Varifocal Starlight Camera
IPC-HDW5231R-ZE .... Review-Dahua Starlight IPC-HDW5231R-ZE 800 meter capable ePOE
IPC-HFW4239T-ASE ... IPC-HFW4239T-ASE
IPCT-HDW5431RE-I ... Review - IP Cam Talk 4 MP IR Fixed Turret Network Camera
IPC-T5241H-AS-PV ... Review-OEM IPC-T5241H-AS-PV 2mp AI active deterrence cam
IPC-T3241-ZAS ...... Review-OEM IPC-T3241-ZAS 2mp AI Lite series Varifocal -- 2mp AI Lite series Varifocal
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IPC-HFW2831T-ZS ... Review-Dahua IPC-HFW2831T-ZS 8MP WDR IR Bullet Network Camera -- 8MP Bullet 1/1.8”
sensor variable focus. 
DS-2CD2325FWD-I 
N22AL12 ............ New Dahua N22AL12 Budget Cam w/Starlight -- low cost entry 
IPC-T2347G-LU....... Review-Loryta OEM 4MP IPC-T2347G-LU ColorVu Fixed Turret Network 4mm lens & Junction
Box -- 4MP ColorVu 
.................... Review of the Hikvision OEM model IPC-T2347G-LU 'ColorVu' IP CCTV camera. 

Other dahua 4MP starlight


https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/dahua-4mp-starlight-lineup.42000/#post-388253

My preferred indoor cameras 


DS-2CD2442FWD-IW
IPC-K35A
https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/review-dahua-ipc-k35a-3mp-cube-camera.37581/#post-373517

If interested in Blue Iris and other setup items see the following post

Newbie Starter Guide to IP Cam System – VPN setup – Computer Hardware – Blue Iris – Dahua Cameras  
This is an intermediate / newbie guide for people just starting out looking for a surveillance setup. I know this setup
might not be for everyone and there are many options. You can find a lot of this information in the Wiki: IP Cam Talk
Wiki | IP Cam Talk A great place to start in the Wiki...
 ipcamtalk.com

Before asking a question search the forum first... 


The best way to search the forum is to use Google
In the google search window enter.. site:ipcamtalk.com ?????? ..where ?????? is the items/terms you are interested in.
Example site:ipcamtalk.com PALE MOON BROWSER

Read,study,plan before spending money ..... plan plan plan 


Test do not guess

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