PeterJames

We have only just started using recorders with AI , we have been using AI cameras for some time now though. Recorders with AI are fairly new tech, the manufactures say that the recorder is not meant as a replacement for some specific cameras such as ANPR for example, ANPR cameras have not only the technology required they have additional infra red and headlight compensation built into the camera. The top recorders only have 4 channels that can provide decent AI, the settings that I have been playing with seem to work just fine for intruder detection, but the cameras I am using also have the detection built in (just not switched on in my case) I am yet to try the recorder AI on a camera that doesnt have AI onboard, I need to try it just for my own benefit, knowing the product better helps me sell it. While I am working from home now is an ideal time to play around with it, and it is on my list of things to do. Once I have finished sending out all my quotes and updating backup servers for the office that is.

We;re not on about selling it, we're nerding on about installing it in our own homes

the only plum round here is you... this is smart homes its the future!

I got rid of all my Lightwave TRVs for that one reason, I got fed up replacing the bats, programming the day and date and relearning them. I have non powered TRV's now. I will wait and see how James gets on with his and I may buy a few for areas where I think they would be useful leaving manual ones in the rooms I rarely use

Haven't you got an ambulance you should be driving somewhere? BTW did you hear me clapping you the other day?

We use Dahua nearly all their NVRs have basic AI, 5200 series are the mid range recorders if it has AI at the end of the model number its the highest spec. The problem you will be faced with as non trade is buying real Hik or Dahua, unless your buying from a registered retailer they will most likely be fake, and registered retailers are not supposed to sell to anyone other than trade. There are a lot of fake Hik and Dahua sellers on Ebay and similar places

I would think that any self respecting employer would have most staff on furlough, stay indoors and protect the NHS and protect your employees. I have three poeple working inc myself atm, the rest are furloughed on full pay. Even those that could work from home have nothing to do. So Im just covering essential works, chasing debts and paying bills.

This site would work with AI although the beams work fine as well

It is horses for courses I would always look at each site and make decisions based on the nature of the requirements. If the site is not suitable for AI CCTV detection then I would use beams. We have an large engineering site that has beams around the perimeter, it was installed a long time ago but all the cameras are looking from perimeter towards the site, so intruders would already be on site before they are detected if we used the cameras. we cant point the cameras along the perimeter because of high traffic (plus the expense of towers etc. The site has lots of copper and other valuable metal on site, the cameras are looking at the theft attractive property and the land between the perimeter but intruders would be detected by the beams quite a few minutes before any cameras would. Most domestic situations, stables, tack rooms, gardens, garages, etc AI is perfect.

Tricky to say about clouds none of my set up is looking at open areas where the cameras would see clouds. My front camera would see headlights though especially when reflected off the back of my sons car, but not in the trip wire region. I have a monitored system that reports to an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC), when that was first installed it was going off all the time due tue the sun causing shadows on the ground as it went behind trees etc. But after about a week of logging in and adjusting the settings and a final walk test its been reasonably good. Most of the FA's have been cleaners coming in early or leaving later than agreed, tenants doing the same, the odd person using the building as a public convenience at night. and high winds blowing a large cardboard box into the rear.

Just set the notification on your phone loud enough to wake you up. Mine has never woke me up yet, but as far as I know nobody has been in my garden at least not approaching the entrances. AI is fairly new to be fair beams will continue to sell for a while but the technology is getting cheaper and cheaper I have face recognition numberplate recognition and allsorts on my NVR but thats only because I need to know how it works not because I use it. With the smart search I can search for someone wearing a yellow top, or a hat with vehicle search I can search a red or blue car its very clever and getting cleverer by the minute

Anyone crosses that line either direction I know about it

Both Dahua and Hik (Although I am less familiar with the latter) have really good AI with quite a low FA rate. The good thing is they send a picture to your phone and so you can visually confirm the activation rather than having to log into one app to find out which beam then into another to find look at the camera. They can be set up to detect humans or vehicles you can put a trip wire on the screen that is similar to a beam and determine the minimum and maximum size you want it to report. My set up ignores my dog in the back garden (and foxes) but I know when my wife is bringing the washing in. If anyone approaches my back doors or out buildings I get notifications on my phone. I have the tripwires and intruder boxes set up so they only alert me after 18.00 and before 0630 weekends and 24hr weekdays (ive had to change that since lockdown though) The recorder beeps if anyone approaches the front door 24/7. The only time I had false alarms was when my patio furniture cover blew half off the furniture, but to be fair I needed to know that happened so I didnt mind. I have turrets so spiders are not a problem either. CCTV has really changed, it used to tell you what had happened it now tells you when something happens in realtime.

People make common mistakes with CCTV and think that the highest resolution is the best way forward, whereas, it really depends on your field of view. If your looking at a football pitch and you want to see the faces of the players at the other end of the field then use 8mp, if you looking down a narrow driveway and you want to see the faces of the people coming up it 2mp vfocal would probably do the trick. Turrets get less spiders than eyeballs or domes, assuming they are the same spec they wont have any difference in picture quality, the downside to turrets is that they show what direction they are looking in. I would recommend a NVR with AI then you dont need the beams and pyronix tat

I would use the CCTV as the perimeter security, set up properly it will only notify you if it sees humans

Especially if you are as fat as your name suggests

QFA I would price accordingly, and I would be unlikely to win it they have obviously gone for the cheapest in the past

Is it viewing the balcony then? From your statement above I gather CCTV is not your thing? Axis dont make analogue cameras

Maintenance and breakdowns would have to be done for free, in order for it to be volunteering

Assuming its an analogue recorder any analogue camera will do but its gonna need a decent lense on it to see anything sensible at that height, unless they just want to count cars

No not the normal days, you are entitled to time off if you are called out but its hour for hour, and I think one hour call out doesnt count.I was thinking more the weekend when engineers are on call Friday 5pm and the are working right up till Monday 5pm I mean if you get called out all Sunday night you can take Monday daytime off, but you cannot do that Saturday or Sunday Daytime so easily

If you only wanted a deterrent heres a tip from readers digest

Apart from the laws on how long you can work without a break, if your on call 24/7 for one week I am sure that your employer would be breaking the law. I often wonder about weekends, back in the day when we used to do keyholding I was out half the night on a Friday and then oin call all day the next day. You couldn't get away with that these days

Years ago when not everyone had burglar alarms that was the case, now it entirely depends on the type of burglar you are likely to get. Most opportunists and druggies are to stupid to notice alarms and cameras until its too late. Part setting your alarm should allow for people getting up in the night, I have two kids a wife and dog and occasionally a third kid stays, none of them have ever set my alarm of in the middle of the night.

Two worrying factors there The intruder doesnt get any alerts when he enters your house, and your pensioners. I dont wont to worry you, and I am certainly not trying to sell you anything, you already have an alarm and CCTV, but do you know how many burglaries occur when people are in ? Google it you would be surprised. I set my alarm when Im in the garden for the afternoon, but I get to see lots of burglaries and hear lots of scary stories in my job. You have a burglar alarm, kill two birds and set it, then you wont be woken up because there is a power cut, (apart from your smoke detectors beeping every three or so minutes of course) more importantly your in local burglar will be alerted if he breaks in during a powercut, whereas your CCTV wont work ina powercut