what do you want to know?
More money means better cameras and features like the ability to move the camera view remotely with a motor, day night, color, zoom, sound, wireless, DVR, motion detection, scalability. You can hobble a system together from and old and cheap components like I have done over the last seven years or you can get a ready made setup like the that Lorrex... a well known brand, that will do it for you out of the box. They have cheaper ones at costco.com starting with 4 cameras for 250... lots of choices. Home surveillance and automation is the big thing now.
In 2003 I started with a couple of cheap wireless day night indoor outdoor Swann surveillance setup. No internet support but it has done the job of monitoring my 90+ year old Dad. I use old laptops to view, but I have to be plugged into a receiver. I would say start with what you need. Do you need to record or just view? Do you need sound, color, night, wireless. Do you want to just get the job done or spend more money and build a foundation for something more elaborate. Once you answer those questions you will more clearly see what you need.
For out of town surveillance your most important feature is going to be reliability. That means UPS protection, and wired cameras that are not effected by interference, which is a big problem where I am. Just about everything now has internet, and smart phone support. I will eventually build a new system around my Panasonic Plasma, but it won't be cheap because the cameras aren't cheap.
I started out with the intention of keeping a eye on my dad after he was diagnosed with Alzheimers but now I want to put everything under surveillance! Good luck.
m At 11:48 AM 2/19/2011, you wrote:
Thanks, is there anyone with some real world experience that can help me avoid issues and wasted money. On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Winterlight <[email protected]>wrote: > > Costco on line has a set of eight Lorrex cameras with DVR on sale for 500, > that has internet and smart phone access. > http://tinyurl.com/4nbnnaq > > > I have a Panasonic plasma that supports up to 8 of their IP cameras. very > good cameras but 150 each for wired and around 225 for wireless. > > > At 08:00 AM 2/19/2011, you wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I may be moving out of state and want to set up security camera's at my >> current house that I can view online from my new one. >> >> Any recommendations? I see Tigerdirect have them priced reasonably well. >> X10 >> also have wireless ones that sound great but my previous experience with >> them and a TV extender was not good. Any recommendations would be great I >> am >> looking minimum 4 camera's under $500, $250 would be even better and I >> must >> be able to view them over the internet. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Gary Hunter >> > >
