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jayo  All-Star Member  2117 Posts 7/04 |  Posted - Dec 28 2013 : 10:50PMAnyone have a good website for discussing/comparing home security cameras? I've been looking but I find a lot of bilge.  [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Jan 10 2014 : 12:23AM I found a couple of interesting alternatives. Dropcam Piper Dropcam appears to be the better camera, but it's just a camera and streaming video service. Piper is a camera that's part of a security system. As the system is Z-wave, you can add other Z-wave components to it and build up a home automation system.  [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Jan 10 2014 : 2:24AM [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Jan 10 2014 : 2:14PM [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Jan 11 2014 : 4:32PM [Link] |
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| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Jan 14 2014 : 8:18AM [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Jan 14 2014 : 3:43PM [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Jan 15 2014 : 8:11PM I was getting big dead-tree catalogs from B&H PHoto for awhile. Very impressive--just what I needed in 1990. [Link] |
| zambi Senior Member 1451 Posts 3/10 | Posted - Feb 4 2014 : 7:04PM Do a google search for IP cams. PCMag has reviews for IP cams but its under "webcams". PCMag > Product Guides > Consumer Electronics > Webcams Last time I checked the Dropcam Pro was their highest rated home security IP cam but I think its for internal use only (i.e. external cams must be more ruggadized and weatherproofed). But I don't like that you MUST subscribe to their cloud based video storage service. In light of recent NSA leaks I would avoid a cloud based system that doesn't have encryption that you can control. Actually I would prefer a system that has option to stream video to a private cloud setup on your own personal NAS box. More expensive and complicated to setup but don't have to worry about hackers or NSA looking at your video. Some NAS vendors like http://www.synology.com have NAS boxes that work with IP cams. They provide a list of IP cam models that are known to work with their boxes. Also if you use your own personal NAS to record video don't have to worry about exhausting your bandwidth limits for internet data plan. If you are worried about a fire or intruder stealing or destroying your NAS with the recorded video you could set it up to periodically upload encrypted video files to a cloud storage account etc. [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Mar 7 2014 : 11:48PM [Link] |
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