CCTV Alarm COMBO
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I have an old PC based Alarm system. Bit of a home brew. It had a PCI card taken from ezCCTV to control BNC connected outside cameras 8 of them. No inside cameras.
Worked okay so I decided to cannibalise my house alarm all to work off the same system. The PC takes in the keypads and looks for the NC on the sensors dotted around the house.
It works okay apart from I'm bored with each iteration of a home PC eventually dying and having to rebuild it all again. The problem was when I built this twenty years ago its was space age with sony camera costing £350 a pop and a geovision half card costing a grand. I always wanted a single PTZ ability from tracking anyone wandering around but it was a thousand or so at that time.
Now I'm looking around and the world of CCTV has changed. Much much cheaper. I was looking on line at a Chinese website with 16 PTZ cameras, yes sixteen of them with recording device for £1K!!
What I can't see is any integrated CCTV and alarm system combined. Anyone know/have experience of one??
Worked okay so I decided to cannibalise my house alarm all to work off the same system. The PC takes in the keypads and looks for the NC on the sensors dotted around the house.
It works okay apart from I'm bored with each iteration of a home PC eventually dying and having to rebuild it all again. The problem was when I built this twenty years ago its was space age with sony camera costing £350 a pop and a geovision half card costing a grand. I always wanted a single PTZ ability from tracking anyone wandering around but it was a thousand or so at that time.
Now I'm looking around and the world of CCTV has changed. Much much cheaper. I was looking on line at a Chinese website with 16 PTZ cameras, yes sixteen of them with recording device for £1K!!
What I can't see is any integrated CCTV and alarm system combined. Anyone know/have experience of one??
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