RE: CCTV

[Mark Hallows <markhallows@xxxxxxxxx>]

I figure your front door camera doesn't have to be colour.. If this is the
case then go for a good B&W bullit camera with at least a .1 lux
depending
on how light your door way is..

The driveway camera is a different matter all together.. How long is your
drive ? How wide is it and do you want colour ? (advisable since telling a
police officer "a bloke with a hoodie and trousers just stole my
car... No
sorry the cam is B&W" won't help) How light is the drive ? Is this
all night
or PIR ? With a camera 20 feet up you are not going to get a face shot !
For
this you would need another camera lower down focused solely on the
entrance.

There are a million ways you can go with CCTV so decide exactly what you
want and that will guide your decision...

For the Geovision card I found these guys were cool..
http://www.henrys.co.uk/cctv.htm
I have no affiliation. They also have a
large selection of cameras..

Hope this helps

Mark H..

-----Original Message-----
From: Mik Griffin [mailto:panheadscrew@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 July 2004 23:22
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] CCTV


When we rewired the house I put in some RG59 for a CCTV system and
it is abut time I got round to using it.  Therefore, I want to get a
couple of CCTV cameras - one to point down the driveway and one to
watch the front door.  The driveway camera will have to be mounted
about 20 foot up and needs to cover an unilluminated area of about
50 feet square.  The front door camera ideally needs to be able to
provide an image that is at least recognisable.  Therefore, I guess
I need two different cameras.

Secondly, I will need to do something with the output of the
cameras.  Therefore, I guess I need a PC card and some software.  It
would be good if the software could recognise movement and trigger
recording and possibly also send the output to my TV.  I have a TV
which can do picture in picture and I reckon it would be fairly easy
to get a PC to send the appropriate IR command to the telly to get
it to switch to picture in picture and display the driveway/front
door camera.

Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?  I could do with
recommendations regarding what cameras do I need and what PC card /
software combination should I be looking at.

Cheers

Mik