Hi,
I live in an independent house and wanted to have CCTV installed. Came to know that IP cameras are better although they cost 2-3 times traditional CCTV set. Anyways I bought a Dahua setup after I did some researching on the net.
I got 4 bullet cameras and one dome camera along with 8 channel NVR and PPOE switch and wires, 2 TB WD purple HD which cost me around 32K. I would have thought that installation would be half a days work and I would pay around 1K for 4-5 hours of work. When I asked for quotation for the seller - the cost of installing comes to around 7-10K!!! since he gave me cost per camera and metre of cabling and all that.
So my trusted electrician who is very good in his line of work and knows how to install normal CCTVs said he will do all the hardware installation and only needs help to set this whole thing - mainly the software/application part of it. Hence these are my questions:
(1) Even assuming we fixed something wrongly - what can go wrong in the installation in terms of irreparable damage? I can only thing of screwing up the hard disk if not properly connected. What else do I need to keep in mind?
(2) Assuming installing camera and connecting it to NVR is a fairly straight forward typical CCTV install process, how do I set up the NVR ? is it plug and play? is there a manual or a youtube video or instruction on how to go about it?
(3) What smart things can I expect these things to do apart from recording video to the NVR and watching it live on computers or mobile? can it do smart things like facial recognition, reading number plates.etc?
What I bought is not top of the line product - I got two 4MP cameras and three 2 MP cameras.
I would appreciate any help in this regard. I dont mind paying a professional decent amount for installation. But some charging me 5-10K for half a days job, per me, is just fleecing customers.
Just to confirm, my electrician is pretty smart and has helped me to install lots of sonoffs and tixys and other automation in my house. Just that he hasn't installed IP CCTV setup yet. He can easily watch a youtube video or I can read and we can understand any written instructions as well.
Meanwhile I too will search the net for any help that I can get.
Do you think I should go and scout for a more affordable professional closer home or you think there is nothing we cannot learn from forums and internet and doing it ourselves?
Few things I found as I am typing this - I shall view and learn in detail later:
dahuawiki.com
I live in an independent house and wanted to have CCTV installed. Came to know that IP cameras are better although they cost 2-3 times traditional CCTV set. Anyways I bought a Dahua setup after I did some researching on the net.
I got 4 bullet cameras and one dome camera along with 8 channel NVR and PPOE switch and wires, 2 TB WD purple HD which cost me around 32K. I would have thought that installation would be half a days work and I would pay around 1K for 4-5 hours of work. When I asked for quotation for the seller - the cost of installing comes to around 7-10K!!! since he gave me cost per camera and metre of cabling and all that.
So my trusted electrician who is very good in his line of work and knows how to install normal CCTVs said he will do all the hardware installation and only needs help to set this whole thing - mainly the software/application part of it. Hence these are my questions:
(1) Even assuming we fixed something wrongly - what can go wrong in the installation in terms of irreparable damage? I can only thing of screwing up the hard disk if not properly connected. What else do I need to keep in mind?
(2) Assuming installing camera and connecting it to NVR is a fairly straight forward typical CCTV install process, how do I set up the NVR ? is it plug and play? is there a manual or a youtube video or instruction on how to go about it?
(3) What smart things can I expect these things to do apart from recording video to the NVR and watching it live on computers or mobile? can it do smart things like facial recognition, reading number plates.etc?
What I bought is not top of the line product - I got two 4MP cameras and three 2 MP cameras.
I would appreciate any help in this regard. I dont mind paying a professional decent amount for installation. But some charging me 5-10K for half a days job, per me, is just fleecing customers.
Just to confirm, my electrician is pretty smart and has helped me to install lots of sonoffs and tixys and other automation in my house. Just that he hasn't installed IP CCTV setup yet. He can easily watch a youtube video or I can read and we can understand any written instructions as well.
Meanwhile I too will search the net for any help that I can get.
Do you think I should go and scout for a more affordable professional closer home or you think there is nothing we cannot learn from forums and internet and doing it ourselves?
Few things I found as I am typing this - I shall view and learn in detail later:
DahuaWiki
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