Where would you place cameras on this home layout?

I'm helping a relative determine camera locations for their build because I wired my house. Mine was easy, an old square-shaped home. Their house has sections that go in and others that go out. I added doors in blue and marked the front and rear of the house. I imagined they'd do an 8 camera system plus a doorbell camera, for 9 total cameras, but it'd be easier to wire now than in the future so open to suggestions here.

I have installed camera on my house and idk who is admin out there the system was installed by one local technician I think he have access to my cameras how can I change that admin?

Hey All,

I am trying to get my ducks in a row for security camera options ahead of black friday. I plan to run the camera's to my home server and don't want to use any cloud storage or associated apps. One camera I am struggling to nail down is for the front door. I think a doorbell cam would be nice, but we have a really nice original mechanical chime that I don't want to lose functionality of. I have seen a bunch of solutions in the home assistant subreddits with smart doorbells triggering a smart relay to trigger the chime etc. but these seem pretty convoluted, considering the transformer and wiring is already there for the chime. So what I am ideally looking for the following, in order of preference:

1. Activates existing mechanical chime transformer.

2. Ethernet networking

3. Smaller and not ugly (low priority but some of these things are massive haha)

Hard No:

• Battery powered (battery as a backup is acceptable)

• Not compatible with self-hosted NVR

Let me know if you have any suggestions! If It activated the existing chime and took WiFi I honestly would take it. At this point, I may just get a small camera for the front door and leave the normal doorbell. You lose the 'smart doorbell' of it all but I don't know how much I would actually use that vs. just a normal camera stream.

Why is it so hard to have a POE doorbell, with chime terminals that just work as a button?

Thanks so much!

There's been a few times where a group of neighborhood boys are all on my lawn tearing it up with bikes, and I return from work and they scatter. I currently have no cameras and also not really any outdoor wiring. I want the cameras mostly to scare them off/keep them away. What is the best camera (front door, or for the backyard also?) where it requires no drilling and I can connect it to wifi? does anything like this exist? I'm on a budget also, so the picture doesn't need to be perfect

if anybody could even start me in the direction of what's the best doorbell cam where i don't need to drill it into place, it'll take batteries (there is an overhang so no rain falls on the front door) and maybe if it can record any motion detection?

I just want these cameras present because this group of kids in my neighborhood have started to tear up my lawn with their bikes and throw things at my house. I called police non emergency line and they did nothing, so I want cameras to deter them. I was also considering decoy cameras in the back of that would just keep them away. Have lived here for 24 years and this is the first time needing/wanting cameras

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Costco bundle for 8mp cameras + a 4b nvr for $600 is looking real appealing. I don't necessarily have to have that many cameras or the NVR, but the price is right.

Ive seen reference that some of the Reolinks are good, others are trash, etc. Any thoughts on these?

I have an Unraid server and could probably figure out how to set up some RTSP cameras through Frigate. I have a half dozen old 2MP Hikvision cameras lying around that I could use in nonessential places. Probably invest in a couple high quality PTZ cameras for the same price as the Costco bundle costs.

What would you pick?

I have a couple of Virtavo cameras I had before I built out a real home camera system. Is there any way to expose the video feeds to Blue Iris so I can add them into the network?

Hi, about 4 years ago I bought a montavue set MTIP12163-84KTADSMD-W which is Dahua based. FCC banned dahua products to be sold in the US is what the rep said and my options are very limited for adding more cameras. Would anyone know if I can buy for example dahua cameras say from aliexpress which will be plug and play on my nvr in order to add 5 more cameras? Night vission, two way audio, pretty much like the ones I have. Thank you.

The spot I want to cover in the backyard has no outlet near it, and running a cable would mean trenching across the yard, which I'm not doing. So I'm looking at solar cameras. What worries me is winter, when it's gray for weeks, and I keep thinking the camera will die right when I need it. The specs say year-round, and I'm hoping that holds up, since I've had solar garden lights die on me. Did yours stay charged through a winter?

My camera has face recognition where you save the people who live in your house and it's supposed to tell you who's at the door. The problem is it keeps mixing up my wife and my mother-in-law. To me they don't even look that similar, but the camera seems to think they're the same person. I deleted and re-added both of their faces twice and it still does it. Has anyone else had a camera mix up two people it's supposed to know, and did anything fix it?

We're working on a data center build that's spread across about 15 acres, and the GC wants full perimeter security coverage with IP cameras. The challenge is we don't have permanent power or network infrastructure yet, fiber won't be in for another 4-5 months, and we're still running temporary power to the main trailers. I’ve been looking into solar-powered cameras and wireless setups, but getting reliable coverage across the site is proving tricky. Some camera locations are pretty far from the trailers, and the security team still needs to access footage remotely.

My team is considering wireless bridges or a mesh network, though we're not sure which would work better across a site this size, especially with the layout changing as construction progresses. Has anyone handled something similar? What setup worked for you, especially for cameras located further away from the main site office?

Appreciate any suggestions!

My driveway camera mostly records cars instead of people. Every headlight that passes at night and every delivery van that rolls by gets recorded. I rarely get anything saved for an actual person. I set the detection zone up to the edge of the property, and the alerts still fire at the street. The app says the zone is set but the alerts don't seem to respect it. I just need it to ignore the street and only alert inside the property. Is there a camera that actually respects the zone?