Good CCTV System I Found - Free Cameras!

[Maseratiman]

I have set up cameras on my driveway ready for when I park the GS at home. I went for www.cammy.com cameras which are free with a 12 month £15 subscription for cloud based cameras. They connect up to your wifi and all video is stored in the cloud. The cameras are weatherproof and have motion detection & IR sensors.

You can download an android or iOS app, or simply view on your computer. All in all I'm pretty pleased with the setup. When we move, we just disconnect and take with us.

Here are some stills (which you can download from the app or computer based software. It may not be amazing stills capture - but the live view is good and the interface really great.



So, if you need an easy low fuss camera system without the capital outlay then maybe give it a try?

 

[drewf]

£15 PER MONTH??? £180 per year???

And someone else has all the data?

Not so sure that's a great deal... There are much cheaper ways of doing it, the cameras I use for the same application cost £50 a throw - no more payments.

 

[CatmanV2]

I'm with Drew, although there would be other costs if you were starting from scratch

C

 

[Felonious Crud]

Costs aside, the image quality is good. Better than mine (which need upgrading to 1080p to get any real detail). A good thing to have is motion sensors as well. Mine emails me a still image if there's movement in zones that I can select and have active at certain times. What I haven't yet figured out is the directional tazer (purely for foxes).

 

[drewf]

The cameras I'm talking about and similar models are available on Amazon, have a built in email smtp & ftp clients to send you the images, and have free web access to view live images if you want to. I'm assuming you'd already have some sort of WiFi or router to plug them into and an internet connection. Much cheaper.

 

[Felonious Crud]

Gissa link, Drew.

 

[drewf]

Costs aside, the image quality is good. Better than mine (which need upgrading to 1080p to get any real detail). A good thing to have is motion sensors as well. Mine emails me a still image if there's movement in zones that I can select and have active at certain times. What I haven't yet figured out is the directional tazer (purely for foxes).

Close enough?

[video=youtube;uIbkLjjlMV8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8[/video]

 

[CatmanV2]

Link, not lynx....

C

 

[drewf]

Gissa link, Drew.

These work well for the money:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005496WPY

I have some similar to those at the Petit Chateau... Typically they show me the sun coming up.... ....and the sun going down. Very handy.

 

[drewf]

Link, not lynx....

C

Watch the video

 

[Maseratiman]

May not work for everyone but I want the data offsite incase the DVR gets stolen too..

This is a plug and play system, you can be running in 10 minutes. Really good app etc.

PS aren't the cameras in the link indoor? Ones I got have full weatherproof housing//

 

[VMSRTI]

Ive just run cat 6 wires to various locations around our property for CCTV as part if some home reno's. Now i need to look into which cameras and system to buy. if anyone has recommendations fire away.

 

[rockits]

Brickcom IP PoE cameras are pretty good value and cheap enough. Well cheap compared to Axis & the like. Comes with its own recording and monitoring software to manage all and works alright. We have used them a few times and they are plenty good enough for most. Silly now that many are 5mp & 1080p quality in colour. We dropped the quality and fps down a smidge as file size is silly large otherwise.

 

[drewf]

May not work for everyone but I want the data offsite incase the DVR gets stolen too..

This is a plug and play system, you can be running in 10 minutes. Really good app etc.

PS aren't the cameras in the link indoor? Ones I got have full weatherproof housing//

My comments were more about the cost and security, rather than the undoubted ease of use. What happens if Cammy goes down, or worse, goes bust? It's a great business model, but not one I'd use for security, as you are tied to one supplier.

 

[rockits]

In agree about tying yourself in and being at the mercy of one supplier. Not for me but then again we have rackspace in a Datacentre.

We had a few customers that went over the Sage Online so a hosted Sage service. Worked really well for all of them & solved many of their issues. Then Sage announced abruptly they were pulling the plug & not doing it anymore! It would worry me about storing data in the 'cloud' with someone you have never met. Often they don't know where the data is or what country it is in!

 

[CatmanV2]

In agree about tying yourself in and being at the mercy of one supplier. Not for me but then again we have rackspace in a Datacentre.

We had a few customers that went over the Sage Online so a hosted Sage service. Worked really well for all of them & solved many of their issues. Then Sage announced abruptly they were pulling the plug & not doing it anymore! It would worry me about storing data in the 'cloud' with someone you have never met. Often they don't know where the data is or what country it is in!

Often 'where' is impossible, or at least meaningless anyway

Only one Datacentre?

C

 

[rockits]

Where is important to us as it is our kit in there & we need to get to it. Where is also important as we have to travel to it.

Where and meaningless to most but very important to us .

Yes, only one DC as our customers don't want to pay more or enough to Co-Lo to two. We also have customer server/data on customer site, backup server with backed up customer data on customer site then shift off site to DC. In this scenario a 2nd DC or Co-Lo is a little over the top and not really required. Especially at the super cheap prices we sell at for a fully managed/monitored system end to end.

If someone can't tell me where my data is ultimately held I would be a little concerned. This is my problem with the modern cloud. It has grown far too quick with no decent structure or regulation or laws. Ask the question ...Where is my data.....I don't know sir! My customers ask us and I can tell them exactly where it is stored off-site. We can also be there in 15 minutes!

I am old school. A simple man....but simple often works. I have consulted for some big companies who couldn't even show me where the Server I was being asked to work on was!

 

[VMSRTI]

Brickcom IP PoE cameras are pretty good value and cheap enough. Well cheap compared to Axis & the like. Comes with its own recording and monitoring software to manage all and works alright. We have used them a few times and they are plenty good enough for most. Silly now that many are 5mp & 1080p quality in colour. We dropped the quality and fps down a smidge as file size is silly large otherwise.

Thanks Rockits I will check them out.

 

[conaero]

Bought our system from Macro for £200. Harddisk recorder and 4 exterior day/night wired cameras. It was a pain to fit but excellent.

The only issue with all these exterior cameras is they attract spiders who weave webs and obstruct the image.

So make sure you clean them regularly.

With the wifi cameras remember all they have to do is snip your phoneline to disable them all. Our recorder is hidden in the loft. And the night cameras have a ring of infared leds which any seasoned theif would just avoid and move onto the next house instead.