CCTV

[CamiKaze]

Does it bother you?

He is bullying everyone in the neighbourhood but he is not conforming to what he is projecting.
So he needs to be put in place.

We had a massive argument with the police and fire department 2 days ago and he is now bullying one of the other neighbours just because they helped me in the yard. The nieghbourhood is turning against this guy now because he is bullying everyone.

So now I am going to start attacking left, right and center on things that he is not living up to.

He had a problem with me making a fire in my own fireplace in the house so F### him, it's on now.

 

[supersunbird]

I am using HDMI to CAT5 converters partly due to distance between my NVR and TV's and partly due to it being easier and cheaper to run CAT5 than HDMI cable. The HDMI converters can be expensive though but work very well.

But how does it work? So I get a unit that plugs into my one DVRs HDMI and then into the LAN, can I transmit it to say 2 such units in 2 TVs? If I plug another one into my other DVRs HDMI, would it interfere, or are the units programmable or linked to specific other units?

 

[Nobody Important]

He is bullying everyone in the neighbourhood but he is not conforming to what he is projecting.
So he needs to be put in place.

We had a massive argument with the police and fire department 2 days ago and he is now bullying one of the other neighbours just because they helped me in the yard. The nieghbourhood is turning against this guy now because he is bullying everyone.

So now I am going to start attacking left, right and center on things that he is not living up to.

He had a problem with me making a fire in my own fireplace in the house so F### him, it's on now.

*cough*paintball*gun*cough*

I need come cough mixture it seems.

 

[CamiKaze]

*cough*paintball*gun*cough*

I need come cough mixture it seems.

I'm going to flesh it out in a separate thread.

 

[Stuey74]

Rapsberry Pi running motionOS, 2 old web cams that were lying around and a Pi IR camera. Couple of cheap lenses - fish eye on the IR cam and zoom on the gate cam. Can record motion only and save to SD card or network mount. MotionOS is nicely configurable and picked up the web cams no issue.

 

[Neuk_]

But how does it work? So I get a unit that plugs into my one DVRs HDMI and then into the LAN, can I transmit it to say 2 such units in 2 TVs? If I plug another one into my other DVRs HDMI, would it interfere, or are the units programmable or linked to specific other units?

I have a single NVR, I take the HDMI out, in to a HDMI to CAT5 converter, then CAT5 cable to our garage, then a CAT5 to HDMI converter and HDMI cable in to the TV. I am using one of these at the moment as I am waiting for one of the larger units that split a single HDMI signal in to four separate CAT5 signals.

http://www.spacetv.co.za/pages/our-products/hdx50ir-5314.php#wb_1870

These don't use your LAN at all, just CAT5 cable to convert/transmit/convert the NVR/DVR HDMI feed. As I mentioned there are larger units that can not only convert but also split a single HDMI signal in to multiple CAT5 signals.

 

[I.am.Sam]

Rapsberry Pi running motionOS, 2 old web cams that were lying around and a Pi IR camera. Couple of cheap lenses - fish eye on the IR cam and zoom on the gate cam. Can record motion only and save to SD card or network mount. MotionOS is nicely configurable and picked up the web cams no issue.

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Where you based ?

And whats the cost of something like this

 

[Stuey74]

Where you based ?

And whats the cost of something like this

In Midrand.

Pi = Around R800 with SD card and a good PSU to run web cams on USB
Ultra Long Range High Gain w/ 5dBi Antenna = R200
Web cams = Cheapest from Take a Lot?
10m USB cables = R160 each
Pi night vision camera - R400 - want to add more IR lighting at some stage
Had an old alarm case to mount the Pi and power supply with IR camera
Add a powered USB hub for the cameras and theoretically can have as many as you like.

 

[supersunbird]

I have a single NVR, I take the HDMI out, in to a HDMI to CAT5 converter, then CAT5 cable to our garage, then a CAT5 to HDMI converter and HDMI cable in to the TV. I am using one of these at the moment as I am waiting for one of the larger units that split a single HDMI signal in to four separate CAT5 signals.

http://www.spacetv.co.za/pages/our-products/hdx50ir-5314.php#wb_1870

These don't use your LAN at all, just CAT5 cable to convert/transmit/convert the NVR/DVR HDMI feed. As I mentioned there are larger units that can not only convert but also split a single HDMI signal in to multiple CAT5 signals.

Thanks, I get it now. Man, thats a lot of cable I'd have to run. What is the price about of those? Do you get the 2 units for both ends in the package?

Otherwise I might needs to look at 2 of those PC-on-a-stick things with Win10 and then I'd run Firefox with the plugins on each for accessing the DVR, added benefit is that they have wifi.

 

[Neuk_]

Thanks, I get it now. Man, thats a lot of cable I'd have to run. What is the price about of those? Do you get the 2 units for both ends in the package?

Otherwise I might needs to look at 2 of those PC-on-a-stick things with Win10 and then I'd run Firefox with the plugins on each for accessing the DVR, added benefit is that they have wifi.

Yeah, it is quite a bit of cabling, depending on your setup and decent units can cost from R1k upwards so it can get expensive but they include both the RX, TX, IR cabling and power source. I tried accessing our NVR via the browser on one of our smart TV's but could get it to work due to missing or incompatible plugins. We access the live feed using our iPhones and an iPad in the house at the moment and via a TV in the garage which does the job for now.

 

[swsup97]

Perhaps worth the wait until Black Friday in 2 weeks time and then go buy what u need for camera/CCTV system

 

[CamiKaze]

If it goes over into a neigbours yard, forget the bylaws, your neighbour might moer you for spying on his wife. I'm assuming you mean into the street maybe? I don't think anybody would care, you could argue its like planting a tree and the branches stick out over the boundary. Just do it, if somebody complains and you get threatened with a fine, then take it down.

Ok the municipality says that the cameras must be within your own ERF and it may only record things that is happening in your ERF. You cannot have CCTV looking up or down the road because that immediately means that the camera is outside of the ERF.

 

[supersunbird]

Ok the municipality says that the cameras must be within your own ERF and it may only record things that is happening in your ERF. You cannot have CCTV looking up or down the road because that immediately means that the camera is outside of the ERF.

I can easily put cameras up on my erf line, or even just inside my erf, and see up and down the road, so that is a strange conclusion from them.

 

[CamiKaze]

I can easily put cameras up on my erf line, or even just inside my erf, and see up and down the road, so that is a strange conclusion from them.

I think that the thing that bothers the municipality is that the arm from the pole goes over the ERF.

They said that the cameras are meant for looking inside your property only. I understand that the cameras can view further but if the purpose of it is simply to look into the neighborhood instead of your yard then it's against the bylaws.

 

[HeftyCrab]

anyone can recommend someone in CPT
I need cameras that will only record when there is motion

and also it should record to a SD card if possible

budget around 3-4k for 3-4 cameras

Obviously not exactly what you want, but Ive run "motion" on a Raspberry pi, with a Microsoft Hd3000 cam, for a few years now. Can stream from a built in webserver, and also save images and video to usb when it picks up motion.

Nice DIY project, but can take some fiddling to get it right.

Only recently took it down, and altered the settings to stream-only, making it a baby cam (without sound)

 

[CamiKaze]

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[Neuk_]

Ok the municipality says that the cameras must be within your own ERF and it may only record things that is happening in your ERF. You cannot have CCTV looking up or down the road because that immediately means that the camera is outside of the ERF.

Our entire suburb, pretty much, is covered by CCTv. Either the armed response companies which have a fixed and mobile setup as while as private individuals who have fixed setup monitoring entrances to their property. I never thought to check up on the legalities, I'll see what I can find out.

 

[ManTech Security]

Hi guys, interesting topic above.
Some bylaws prohibit the use of cctv facing outward - down the street. It’s pretty stupid in my opinion since that footage could be used in there favour. Some areas require police clearance for having CCTV-Mitchell’s Plein.

 

[HeftyCrab]

Trees on the other hand are natural and can be trimmed whereas his pole and metal arms from the pole can't be trimmed.

Metal saw taped to a long pole should do the job.

 

[CamiKaze]

Metal saw taped to a long pole should do the job.

Beyond the boundary wall? Snipping a portion of my yard?

Municipality said that it should look into his property only, not into the street or anyone else's property.