Home & Business Video Server
This doesn’t look that hard...
Yes, you can buy a packaged system from a home center for less, but check the features carefully before buying. If it does not offer motion detection and digital recording, you will spend the rest of your life fast-forwarding through hours of tape every day - tapes that degrade with every recording and have to be swapped every six hours. A properly configured system is worth every extra penny... (read why).
Sample video Still Captures from the Windows Client Software
Single Camera
Quad-View
1st Seven Cameras
All Nine Cameras
Picture-in-Picture
Zoom to corner of #1
Sample Diagram of a Simple System
This frame illustrates four cameras on a nine camera system.
Camera One: 600 Line Black & White
Camera Two: 380 Line Color Waterproof camera (capturing a foggy view of the canyon)
Camera Three: Feed from the TV in the Family Room. This was done to demonstrate that any video source will work, not just a camera
Camera Four: Looped back in from the Dwell Monitor output of the same unit. This was done to demonstrate the dwell feature. It rotates between available channels showing each for several seconds.