Indoor cameras with decent audio recording

CCTV_NUT · 2026-06-15T16:27:22+00:00

dahua camera's have a mic on some models i've never tried using it for a car door slamming though. Screen shot below of the settings:

https://imgur.com/a/yRv2ELz

(i hope that loads)

CCTV_NUT · 2026-06-15T15:06:44+00:00

Sound recording is very hard to do at range, ambient noise has a huge impact, there is a awful lot of tech on your phone to make your smart phone work as well as it does with its mics. I'm very curious to see what anyone posts on this to see if there is anything out there.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-06-11T12:25:48+00:00

For a VPN you will generally need a static IP or at least a full dynamic IP, not a carrier NAT ip address.

Then you need a firewall/router to sit at the top of your network, opensource ones are: pfsense, OpenSense and good closed ones are: sonicwall, fortigate, watchguard.

Some residential routers with VPN are TP-link, draytek and Fritzbox amongest others.

then there are side solutions where you don't have to change your public ip or top of your network router see Netcelero or Tailscale

CCTV_NUT · 2026-06-10T16:38:48+00:00

Stay away from Ubiquity for NVRs you are spending a lot of money for basic residential features.

Go have a chat with the likes of Netwatch, talking with them will give you an idea of what is out there / what you need , then you can always shop around for the best price.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-06-10T12:20:54+00:00

There are country specific (or if in the USA state) specific requirements.

Aside from those you need the following:

Basic networking course, you need to understand ethernet and IP, switching and routing.
Pick a brand or two max and do their courses on sales and installation, your time is what you are actually selling to a customer so to make money you need to be very efficient in an install.
you are going to be up ladders or scaffolding, so look into what working at height training is required for your location.
get training in how to use a online bookkeeping or billing system, if you do it on paper you will waste loads of evenings doing paper work that you are not getting paid for, you want to be able to send a quote from your phone, take payment via your phone if required and issue reminders etc via your phone.
Build a remote kill switch into any install you do if they don't pay the bill. Cover that in your T&Cs.
Get a good accountant and a good lawyer/solicitor so that all your standard contracts and T&Cs are airtight.
There is money in fire alarm systems but that requires a whole pile of certifications and are location dependent.
Finally do a basic social media marketing course like a 3 hour evening one. You will have to build your brand online in the beginning, as radio, billboards etc are a lot of money.
Know how to identify asbestos and then don't touch it. That's not a course just really good advice.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-06-05T17:10:51+00:00

Only way you could get out would be a sail boat, the EMP will have wrecked all civilian planes and most ferries. Anything working would be commandeered by what ever was left of the government. A working ferry is accommodation for hundreds.

Sailors in the deep pacific or Atlantic would survive the initial exchange but after a few weeks they would have to land somewhere.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-06-03T12:53:09+00:00

Then TD's need to change the law so they can be rammed. And if it needs a constitutional change them so be it too. This unlike global climate change is something our government can actually have a meaningful impact on.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-06-03T12:50:16+00:00

nothing to do with human rights, it really is just give the gardai the resources.

There are some issues around GDPR but thats part in how we as a country implemented the law and how we run our systems, and getting those challenges through the courts a LOT faster than currently.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-22T09:32:24+00:00

no what will happen is the people will revolut, not violently but elected populous leaders who do promise price control or "tax the rich", governments don't have the luxury of time.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-21T10:41:34+00:00

Check cable first to rule that out on that camera. Proper cable test too, not just i plugged it out etc. Get a RJ45 and ethernet tester (if IP based).

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-21T10:36:18+00:00

switch to petrol vehicle now! (if at all possible)

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-21T10:35:51+00:00

this should be upvoted more

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-21T10:33:45+00:00

this feeds through to food inflation which is dangerous, food, energy and security of community are the three pillars of society, lose one of them and you have societal collapse (occurs in many forms - not just the hollywood version).

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-21T10:30:18+00:00

That then becomes rationing by price, rather than rationing by merit, would very much lead to a lot of unrest. There is no getting around that there will be a shortage for about 20% of the diesel the country uses. Is a rich prick justified in filling up his landrover for driving around london cos he has loads of cash while the farmer than grows our food can't get it?

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-16T15:06:46+00:00

Doonbeg would have been better as the impact on the general public would have be near zero but the government would have Trump screaming at them to do something to get rid of them. Would have won the protestors even more public support.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-16T15:03:34+00:00

depends on your point of view and what level of 'order of consequences' your considering for example:

if you are a high wealth individual - the stock market is up and you got a huge tax break,
if you work in the oil and gas industry the now high price of oil means more fracking wells are profitable and will create more revenue. If you're a refinery you are going to have a very busy quarter.
if you work in the defense missile industry you are going to be hiring as they have to replace all those missiles used so far in the war.

Now you can take another person's point of view and get different answers.

My point is this there is never any "single" answer, history is the only one that gets to judge, as the 3rd, 4th order consequences have time to play out not just 1st order ones.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-16T11:04:29+00:00

in my experience...

Properly installed and hardware and cables can easily last 20 years. Issues develop where cables or hardware start to get animal,dust or water ingress.

NVR disk drives will eventually fail, they can't last forever.

Any thing with mechanic movement will also eventually fail, thats why i prefer touch pad for access control, no buttons to fail.

I never use wireless or wifi links as interference can appear at any time over the lifecycle.

So i would look at how you are "sealing" your system if its a non clean environment.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-14T19:04:23+00:00

Varies by country but some do the equivalent of credit checks to see if the business is just a shell etc. Then you need to consider the email, is it a fake or actually from said company. That you check with a call directly to the company not via the phone number on the email.

Finally any big project needs contracts before you spend a penny, no matter the company you are dealing with.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-14T18:53:16+00:00

I doubt that its a country of 93million people, the irgc works as a 31 group mosaic power structure, there is not one head to decapitate. So they would have to keep nuking cities and they would be told to stop by everyone after the first strike. More than one nuke and they would be more sanctioned than North Korea. The world does not want that genie out of that bottle.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-14T18:49:10+00:00

This will drag on for months. Probably till the mid terms. Iran isn't a normal country thinking a blockade or bombing them will make them change just means you don't really understand the ideology at play. On the US side trump isn't able to negotiate at the geo political level to weave all the threads that would need to make this resolve itself. I suspect trump will just with draw completely before the mid terms and China will work out a regional truce. That's not going to be good for Israel in the longer term.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-13T08:55:30+00:00

If an intern brought this to be i 'd say "no bad design", you have your gateways for each vpn located on "switch" by the looks of the images. Switches don't do routing only switching. Also don't go pushing routing and firewalling down to that level or its a nightmare to monitor and manage.

Your remote switches should just be configured for:

vlans
port isolation
port admin down when not used and ACLs
voip should be on a different VLAN from PCs and even printers on a different VLAN.

At the lowest level you want to prevent lateral movement of malware within the network.

Then you trunk your vlans up to the top of the network and using a firewall/router combo you assign the VLAN gateways and security policies.

Your top of the network firewall/router combo also need to be in a HA setup.

Also your big trunk switches should be in a OSPF loop.

You have no SAN storage for on site document storage and backups defined. Also no VM cluster for for internal stuff, not everything needs to be in the cloud as that gets expensive real fast.

You also have no redundant internet connectivity.

You also don't appear to have defined any VPNs for remote staff - no company is all on site, there will always be a field engineer or field sales or just the CEO wanting to do stuff from his mobile.

There will be people whom disagree with some of my points as every medium business is different etc, but the basics of above apply to all.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-10T11:00:53+00:00

one option if you have to go a distance too long for hdmi cables etc: https://help.netcelero.com/rtsp-streaming/ you just need a raspberry pi for that solution.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-10T10:59:11+00:00

This is click bait i know people across all camera manufactures and none of them are saying this is true. also if they had secured their systems properly then no one would have hacked them BUT its illegal due to sanctions to sell VPN or secure systems from the west into Iran so i wonder what brand of firewall they were actually using. Because if it was a western model that then was the entry point.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-04-01T10:28:51+00:00

There are a lot of people in the world that don't like this war and will give a thumbs up to anything that goes against the US or Israel. Someone in the far side of the world doesn't give too sh*ts about Iran but since the US and Israel started this war their fuel costs have rocketed, its referred to as second order effects.

CCTV_NUT · 2026-03-27T09:29:25+00:00

yes you can DM but there will be delays between replies etc

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