PeterJames

Its been a bit of a strange day, first I found a hat full of money, then I got chased by a bloke with a guitar

Apparently blancmange isnt a french word even though it sound french and starts with the french for white. But my ex french engineer swears its not .

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qfa Hik copy cameras with plastic lenses that warp in the sun, second and third, and fourth rejected cmos chips. If you're not buying from a Hik registered dealer it will be a copy. Same with Dahua, they dont make cameras for anyone else. they dont sell their rejects either, they retail them as a DIY product called HiVision Bear in mind it costs the same to make a cheap camera as it does to make an expensive one, so the only savings you are gonna make is on the components used. You can buy decent stuff with Hik firmware but you need to know exactly what your looking for, and even then it wont be the same you wont have the settings the same as a hik . Both James and I have been there done that have the Tshirt. I go to China regularly but I wont buy CCTV until they have their act together. Dahua is our base CCTV after that its Milestone and Mobotix

Im in China next week, but not looking at CCTV, the problem with China and CCTV is you have to see exactly what your getting right down to component level otherwise you end up with a load of tat.Then you have to buy enough of it to make it worth while, and theirs, which means that unless your selling to the trade the kit you purchased is old hat before youve sold it all. I would never buy a single system of anything from China

Its not too far for us we cover upto North London, we have a few jobs in Basingstoke Windsor and Slough which are all your direction from us. Couple of issues firstly we are Dahua installers not Hik but we can supply and install Hik. We cant install kit supplied by others we are NSI gold ISO 9001 which means everything we supply has to have a trail back to the supplier. The other problem is that I do the broadlink kit for my house, and as a sort of hobby, we dont install it commercially none of my engineers will be familiar with it. That said I can preprogram it here, is the gate already automated or do you need that doing too.

You will need the echo if you want to do anything by shouting at it

There are CCTV manufacturers like Dahua and Hikvision that make doorbells and entry systems that link to the CCTV and your smart phone, it wont be long until there is an alexa skill for those too

In theory you could use an analytic camera to trigger a wireless output which in turn tells the broadlink to change the channel of the TV to HDMI source. My recorder is plugged into a HDMI input of the TV so its a separate source (like changing from terrestrial tv to a sky box). I control mine manually or ask Alexa to go to HDMI 2 on the tv. To operate the gate or TV or anything by shouting at it yes you need one of those, and an echo, the echo talks to the broadlink to switch stuff on and off. Paul Hibbert explains most of it here

Arent duvets french?

Its been broke since Brexit started

Nah theyre 75"

I didnt want a council estate tv

No, My Alexa is not connected to any of my security, unless you count that its on the same router, eventually. The Alexa talks to the broadlink, the broadlink is a ir and rf transmitter, that can switch on anything with ir or rf. I have rf light switch's and of course my garage doors are rf. Controlling a gate or just about anything by voice is simple nowadays.

The recorder is plugged directly into the HDMI on the back of the TV I have two recorders in case one gets stolen. Its a Sony Davinci chipped 2MP camera about 2 years old. I am slowly replacing each camera for Dahua cams just for the analytics not for the picture quality

Asking for a friend, will continental quilts still work if we leave the EU with no deal on the 31st of October?

Play back recording 2mp my pool on the TV I forgot to mention its curved not an optical illusion

I use alexa to to switch stuff on and off via a broadlink, I can control my garage doors from alexa but I rarely do, the timing on pressing the button putting my laptop in the boot and getting in the car is about right. but you can control just about anything now with alexa or google doo daa

Really? I have a 4k 65" tv in the lounge and 2mp camera full screen looks great

Stu its not Dave its me, and you know the rules nobody is getting in without first sending me a stool sample

More to the point would you need that higher res? Its about the digital zoom and it really depends on the view that your looking at. We quite often come up against people installing much higher res cameras than us. But there is no point in putting a 5mp camera to view a small area all you are doing is using up your bandwidth and filling you HDD up with information that would not really be needed, a 2mp camera would identify an unknown person at around 10 metres easily in a small area like a corridor or hallway, or by your front door. A 4k camera would tell you how many hairs on their chin using digital zoom but why would you need that much detail when you have enough to identify them already? I find that 4mp is more than enough for most projects unless your try to protect a football pitch

You haven't lived until you have had the soft breeze of HKC wireless transmission wafting through your hair

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