Home Security?

[Ghen90]

Hi, I have a relatively small beach house and I am trying to setup a home security camera system that I can access remotely but I know nothing of good brands or quality products on cameras/dvr systems. Any advice on which setup to get? I want to be able to access the system on a live feed remotely. I also want to be able to record and save the footage. Wireless cameras would be ideal. I do not particularly have a budget in mind but would like a good price/quality.  Thanks in advance.

[Doramius]

I know a lot of people like Nest, but I'd recommend staying away from them.  The cameras aren't bad, and they're easy to access, but you can't save anything unless you pay for their storage.  It's expensive, even at enterprise levels.  And they only hold video for a short period of time.  I'd look into DVRs that allow you to direct the streams to be saved on a local network drive or NAS.  Allows you to determine how long you want to keep the footage, how much storage you want to use, quality of the recordings, and the types of cameras and other equipment you can use.  Many Security DVRs will even allow for mixed camera types.

 

I've heard LaView and QSee are okay to start with, but I haven't used them, myself.  

[Donut417]

6 hours ago, Ghen90 said:

Hi, I have a relatively small beach house and I am trying to setup a home security camera system that I can access remotely but I know nothing of good brands or quality products on cameras/dvr systems. Any advice on which setup to get? I want to be able to access the system on a live feed remotely. I also want to be able to record and save the footage. Wireless cameras would be ideal. I do not particularly have a budget in mind but would like a good price/quality.  Thanks in advance.

With wired cameras they have to go up to the camera to cut the wire. With Wireless they only have to spend a few hundred dollars and get a wireless jammer from China. 

[Zusafek]

9 hours ago, Ghen90 said:

Hi, I have a relatively small beach house and I am trying to setup a home security camera system that I can access remotely but I know nothing of good brands or quality products on cameras/dvr systems. Any advice on which setup to get? I want to be able to access the system on a live feed remotely. I also want to be able to record and save the footage. Wireless cameras would be ideal. I do not particularly have a budget in mind but would like a good price/quality.  Thanks in advance.

On my house I'm using NightOwl home security cameras.  I have 10 camera's inside the house and 10 outside.  All recording at 1080P with nightvision on them.  It wasn't cheap but its worth the investment.  Plus I can access my camera's 24/7 with my phone or any computer world wide.  It saves it to its own internal HD but I also have it saving to my own personal NAS setup thats hidden away in the house.