POE Camera Suggestions

[AMD Lover]

I got contacted by a friend of mine to come out and look at some camera's at his business. Hes currently running a mix of fisheye and bullet cameras and all of them are analog. Its a Nuvico branded system but literally can't find any model or information or anything that remotely resembles the installed DVR. The equipment is about 15+ years old and over half of the cameras aren't working. Sometime this week I'm going to go out and do some more digging around to see if working with his old equipment is even an option. I want to be able to give him a couple possibilities however and wanted to ask what your guys favorite camera systems are?? If I'm putting in new equipment I personally would like to go poe and run everything back to a central server however I would like opinions on that too.

 

Thanks 

[Looting]

Axis has been my personal fav. for a few years now, they are great Cheap network cameras.

[AMD Lover]

4 minutes ago, Looting said:

Axis has been my personal fav. for a few years now, they are great Cheap network cameras.

Do you know how those would compare to something like Ubiquiti? I see the Axis product generally are running about $100 more than UBNT.

[Thunderzzu]

There's this Chinese brand called Dahua that makes amateur to pro camera equipment, from analog to digital, cameras, phones, drones and recorders. I've installed a bunch in a few businesses and i have to say, i was really surprised. Some of the older cameras are running for about 4-5 years now and i haven't had an issue with them yet. Also quite cheap.

[Dujith]

4 minutes ago, Thunderzzu said:

There's this Chinese brand called Dahua that makes amateur to pro camera equipment, from analog to digital, cameras, phones, drones and recorders. I've installed a bunch in a few businesses and i have to say, i was really surprised. Some of the older cameras are running for about 4-5 years now and i haven't had an issue with them yet. Also quite cheap.

Another thumbs up for dahua, price performance wise they are very good. Their low light camera's are some of the best i have seen.

Also they have the added benefit of supporting up to 4K(15fps) via coax cable which was used for analog camera's alot.

Redid an old building with 3MP camera's without needing to remove the old cables which saved alot of time and money.

Vs another project in which we had to use Axis with coax to ethernet adapters, which at 200-300 per set was costly  

 

[AMD Lover]

29 minutes ago, Dujith said:

Another thumbs up for dahua, price performance wise they are very good. Their low light camera's are some of the best i have seen.

Also they have the added benefit of supporting up to 4K(15fps) via coax cable which was used for analog camera's alot.

Redid an old building with 3MP camera's without needing to remove the old cables which saved alot of time and money.

Vs another project in which we had to use Axis with coax to ethernet adapters, which at 200-300 per set was costly  

 

 

39 minutes ago, Thunderzzu said:

There's this Chinese brand called Dahua that makes amateur to pro camera equipment, from analog to digital, cameras, phones, drones and recorders. I've installed a bunch in a few businesses and i have to say, i was really surprised. Some of the older cameras are running for about 4-5 years now and i haven't had an issue with them yet. Also quite cheap.

Those look impressive just on paper for the price. Plus like mentioned there is BNC coax already run so this would make my life so much easier. I would definitely crimp some new connectors on but other than that it would cut my labor in half!!

 

I very much like! 

[Dujith]

If you are going to use Dahua there are a few things to keep in mind.

- Keep it completely Dahua, While Onvif should work, its hit and miss with different brands. Dahua only means there are 0 worries.

- The camera's and recorder work with plugins if you set it up via the browser. So either run the old ie.exe or get the chrome app (you'll get prompted when viewing with Chrome).

- Dahua has a P2P service wich works perfectly for free, BUT you'll need to agree to the terms which only can be accepted via a screen attached to the NVR. Via the browser it wont work. (latest firmwares)

[AMD Lover]

2 minutes ago, Dujith said:

If you are going to use Dahua there are a few things to keep in mind.

- Keep it completely Dahua, While Onvif should work, its hit and miss with different brands. Dahua only means there are 0 worries.

- The camera's and recorder work with plugins if you set it up via the browser. So either run the old ie.exe or get the chrome app (you'll get prompted when viewing with Chrome).

- Dahua has a P2P service wich works perfectly for free, BUT you'll need to agree to the terms which only can be accepted via a screen attached to the NVR. Via the browser it wont work. (latest firmwares)

Is the P2P service available through an app?

[Dujith]

2 minutes ago, AMD Lover said:

Is the P2P service available through an app?

Yes, Both Android (gDMSS) and Iphone (iDMSS)

And a PC client which i use to setup and check systems (SmartPSS) which can also use the P2P SN

[dalekphalm]

5 hours ago, AMD Lover said:

Do you know how those would compare to something like Ubiquiti? I see the Axis product generally are running about $100 more than UBNT.

Axis is the Cisco of security cameras. They are the industry standard. Great hardware and the software works fairly well. But they tend to be a bit more expensive. 

 

We have Axis cameras at work and the software is easy enough to configure and maintain. 

[PsyOpWarlord]

Another Dahua fan here.  Currently running some HDW5231R-ZE starlight cameras.  Using a PC and Blue Iris software for the NVR.

 

 

[DevonNelson]

10/10 Dahua