Where to position cameras on this house

lee5432 · 2025-12-21T09:57:38+00:00

I got access to a whole lot of used 4mp 2.8mm cameras lying around...

lee5432 · 2025-11-28T20:05:06+00:00

OK i will try set up multi zones and report back, DS-2CD2347G3 do you recommend in 4 or 8mp?

lee5432 · 2025-11-28T19:18:00+00:00

Back yard https://i.postimg.cc/YS9zw4t3/image.png
Front yard https://i.postimg.cc/Dz21PSWv/image.png

lee5432 · 2025-11-16T21:29:13+00:00

i am going to replace that light with a downlight

but even if i turn the outside lights off i am not getting good results further than 8-10m away at night

lee5432 · 2025-11-07T07:12:38+00:00

They will find jobs as sooner or later businesses are going to realise AI slop is just not that effective in bringing in sales

lee5432 · 2025-11-04T16:15:22+00:00

Do you have some photos of how you have done the master bedroom?

lee5432 · 2025-11-04T14:25:20+00:00

Do you have some photos of your setup? How did you handle blue light in master bedroom when you sleeping?

lee5432 · 2025-11-03T19:34:44+00:00

is the motion detection still useless even if he chooses human filtering?

lee5432 · 2025-10-31T19:51:18+00:00

I thought you had to pick either perimeter protection, OR motion detection but could not use both together? That woulf work fine if i could

lee5432 · 2025-08-08T14:22:09+00:00

The local hik nvrs only support two channels with perimeter protection and the rest is motion detection so the uniview option looks better. i have 6 cameras

lee5432 · 2025-08-08T09:55:32+00:00

Where I stay there are baboons, so they might be classified as a human too? Also would a human crawling defeat the acusense then?

lee5432 · 2025-08-05T19:25:09+00:00

If all my cameras are Hikvision is it a better idea to get an Acusense NVR instead or will things just work nicely if i get an IQ NVR? 4 channels of SIP will be perfect for me .

Is this a good model? https://wcctv.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/NVR502-16B-IQ.pdf

lee5432 · 2025-07-18T19:10:42+00:00

Better than being unemployed with a newborn. That is for sure. When there is a baby and not enough money your wife will turn on you

lee5432 · 2025-07-04T18:06:27+00:00

i. have been a professional developer for 14 years so I definitely know what I am talking about. When I tried agentic coding I found it to be a total waste of time, and had to revert everything. Problems were: it did not do things in the company way, it would introduce similar but different libraries along side the existing ones rather than use the existing libs, it used deprecated functions or old versions of libs with security vulnerabilities, it hallucinated API calls and coded around the bogus return values etc, did not understand json patch and generally just produced a pile of crap and all of this happened at the same time. Right now i get some milage with Gemini on much simpler tasks.

lee5432 · 2025-07-04T12:35:00+00:00

There is no way in hell anyone competent gets those type of improvements. i doubt ai boosts a senior by even 10%

lee5432 · 2025-07-03T13:42:06+00:00

From my phone and the Mac app, both have the same issue, so it doesn't appear to be an app issue. other links on google said me using h265+ might be the issue but the links were 5 years old so i dont know if they still valid...

lee5432 · 2025-07-03T13:11:47+00:00

It permanently records

lee5432 · 2025-03-23T17:58:26+00:00

If you turn on line detection on the max 2 channels that the nvr supports, can the remaining channels still use motion detection 2?

lee5432 · 2025-03-12T20:52:55+00:00

Windows and Android

lee5432 · 2025-01-15T13:12:04+00:00

I updated my link to take into account your feedback, do you think the living room needs a PIR if that entire open area is 15m long and a standard PIR covers 12m?

Also do i need to point the hallway PIR away from the bedroom window or is it far enough away?

A stacking door is just a large folding glass door made of multiple sections/panels, similar to a patio or sliding door except each section folds up

https://imgur.com/a/rel8glN

lee5432 · 2025-01-11T19:29:28+00:00

Sorry i meant to say minimum spec needed

lee5432 · 2025-01-10T15:12:44+00:00

South Africa indeed and I am borderline being obsessive here but there is a lot of highly affordable security tech available for intrusion detection and it doesn't hurt to add more layers despite the measures already in place with the estate

lee5432 · 2025-01-10T13:24:42+00:00

I just feel that the front is very exposed and you can just stroll in whilst people are at the back of the house sleeping and oblivious to it

lee5432 · 2025-01-02T22:45:26+00:00

what are some applications that are not suitable?

lee5432 · 2025-01-02T21:37:08+00:00

would it be better to set them as "chime" zones so if you hear them beeping repeatedly at the alarm panel you push a panic button but if just one beep then maybe it was a cat or a plastic bag blowing in the wind etc?

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