Keep an eye on your car

[RSVI]

For up to 16 weeks continuous recording.

Saw it, thought about it and could buy it.

One for work and one for home.

Cam 1. Drive N facing
Cam 2. Drive E facing
Cam 3. Drive W facing
Cam 4. Women next doors bedroom window

Saw it today in TLC's magazine and wanted to share it. Not sure the quality but for £450 sounds quite good.

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TSDV4K.html

[GrahamS4]

I can loose far too long absorbed in the TLC catalogue.........

A bit too rich for me right now, but a very impressive system I will be keeping an eye on (no pun intended).

[shineydave]

funnily enough i use my PC for something similar. cheap £10 camera hooked up to my TV tuner card and a bit of free software gets me a motion sensitive CCTV recording system for the square root of bugger all. not had a go at next doors bedroom window yet as they haven't invented cameras that can see around corners but hope springs eternal

[bobjebb]

Just had 4x Hi res cameras and DVR installed, have to say it's amazing how these things help you sleep at night. I've had it networked too, so all cameras can be accessed from any TV in the house. It annoys the wife when we're in bed and instead of watching Desperate Housewives we're checking the garage...

[RSVI]

It annoys the wife when we're in bed and instead of watching Desperate Housewives we're checking the garage...

I've had it networked too,

Hang on guys....I've got an idea

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Would love to know more.

How often do you need to change DVD's? Or is it a hard drive?.

Does it record all the time or just with movement?

Can you get night sight?

Can we preview the web link? Can you set up a temp address? (For quality purposes, nothing else)

Where from and how much was the setup?

Any more info would be nice.

Thanks

[bobjebb]

Its a DVR so it records constantly onto HDD, think its up to a month of data before it starts over again. All the cameras are day/night, but anything over 20 feet or so wouldn't stand a chance in court (as our great legal system ensures they will only prosecute if you can see every ugly detail) So I've put PIR security lights over each one (My .22 has poor night sights)
The boffins are still working out the IP access feature, they can only get it working with a plug-in installed and it's not available for mac. Not ideal so they are buying me a laptop for this purpose to take away with me if I need too. I work from home so realistically not a feature I'll use much anyway.
Costs - well it was part of a package from a home automation company. I've had quite a bit done and it was fairly pricey altogether (half a new RS4 ) Not sure what the security side of things cost. About 4k I think.

They also included a fibre optic mini cam piped into the local Convent dormitory.

[RSVI]

Nice one Bob, thanks for that.

Not sure my PC can take fibre optics but I'll find out, if not I'll buy another

[SteveH]

Sometimes buy kits for work: Costs about £15K to £20K for:
Server cabinet, network kit/connections, Hard drives, DVD recorders etc (Basically its a PC set-up).
4 High Def cameras with Infra Red and remote tilt/turn capability.
Camera brackets and poles cost a small fortune.
Infra Red lighting
Remote access
External Speakers (So that you can surprise the feckers by telling them to get off your stuff)
Movement sensors that triggers the alarm, and notifies you to shout at them.
And off course some oppo's to install the kit, and a wizzo that commissions it.

£450 sounds good to me though!

[PhilT]

Bob, you've managed to get a lot further than me. I wish I'd had the opportunity to spec the cabling at first fix Oh well, it's all good fun!!

Looking at what TLC offer, I'd suggest the following over the kit as the recorder has upgrade-ability....

1 x http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TSIRCAM20.html
4 x http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TSDVR4.html

I'd prefer a recorder that could be accessed over the network though.

[RSVI]

1 x http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TSIRCAM20.html
4 x http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TSDVR4.html

4 x http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TSIRCAM20.html

1 x http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TSDVR4.html



Now that would have been a bit silly

[Daveperc]

This looks like it would solve the "view over network" question as long as you have an old PC to spare.

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/ ... index.html

I'll need to check if my wireless network reaches into my garage first though!

Dave

[shineydave]

i just use a spare MSN messenger account, set the webcam to view the tv tuner and then set messenger to auto accept requests. this lets me start a conversation from any pc and view the webcam

[ScottyBoy]

Far too confusing, i only carried on reading because i thought we were gonna see cam No.4.

[david7m]

Far too confusing, i only carried on reading because i thought we were gonna see cam No.4.

Snap, I was also waiting for camera 4

Dave

[MarkB]

i just use a spare MSN messenger account, set the webcam to view the tv tuner and then set messenger to auto accept requests. this lets me start a conversation from any pc and view the webcam

MSN auto accept webcam requests... didn't know it could do that. sounds like a plan to me. I'd have to leave the light on in the garage as the camera I would use isn't very good in low light.