Lude Generation

So, as a few of you probably noticed in the 'what I did today thread' that there was quite a mighty crash outside my house yesterday. Well, also on the same day (and the same street) there was an argument between two people and one of them decided to randomly kick someone else's front door in. A week before there was an assault and someone got beaten up (also outside my house!)

So I'm thinking that some CCTV may be a wise investment. My question is, have any of you got a CCTV set up? If so how/what do you use? I 'd like camera recommendations etc and should I leave a PC on all the time to record? Or is there another option?

Cheers..!!

I know other people have had great success with cheap kit, but personally I'd invest in a decent camera with IR capability, and the ability to set it to record to SD card internally.

Axis or Panasonic would be my choices. These guys are really helpful: http://www.networkwebcams.co.uk/

Ah great, so no need to keep a PC on full time, that sounds good.

You're right though, they aren't exactly cheap! Are there any rules about filming my car seeing as it's parked on the road that you know of?

I'd also like to see what's advised for this as I had my sub nicked over the last week out of my black Lude, ideally need night vision rather than a big flood light

bb1boy wrote:Ah great, so no need to keep a PC on full time, that sounds good.

You're right though, they aren't exactly cheap! Are there any rules about filming my car seeing as it's parked on the road that you know of?

With these you slap a 32Gig SDCARD in, then tell it how long to keep the videos so it'll keep 7 days for example. You then look at the feed, and draw boxes where you want it to pay attention. If it detects movement in the box, it starts recording. This allows you to avoid things like tree's moving in the wind etc.

Really neat, self contained, and generally pretty high quality video out of these. Check ebay too, you can sometimes get high end stuff second hand on the cheap.

Very good and fast advice, thanks so much +rep

Used to work for a company that sold/fitted/monitored this kind of kit when I left uni, so we tried a lot of stuff and settled on Panasonic and Axis. Axis was especially indestructible we found, so it always went on the building site jobs

This is a cracking option, one network cable and a Power Over Ethernet (POE) injector and you'd be golden.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Panasonic-BL- ... 4ace9c17e3

[edit] This is the Non-SDCARD version, so only has limited onboard storage. Thought it was too cheap

[edit edit] Hmmm ... might still work out for you, the manual suggests you can get it to email you any pertinent footage

Hmm not bad, although those others weren't loads more money and they have SD capabilities..

This one can happily live outside, I may have made an assumption in my search though!