Help selecting new intruder alarm

[al-yeti]

43 minutes ago, Hollanda said:

Hi all,

 

Now that an intruder alarm is in the pipeline (thanks to all your help), I’m looking into other aspects of security, and wondering if you could share any tips/experiences on the following.

 

What’s a good budget indoor camera and NVR bundle? I want the NVR to have enough storage for around ~28 days of 1080p footage from 2-3 indoor cameras. The indoor cameras can be wireless. In the future I may want to integrate 1-2 external PoE cameras to the NVR.

 

Alternatively it seems a lot less hassle to buy 3 Ring indoor cameras and rely on the home subscription bundle to store videos in the cloud (with microphone muted )

 

I did look at Eufy but feels very limited and I’ve read something about having to expand HD storage myself. Other things I’d consider are a Reolink Hybrid or Lorex bundle but I haven’t looked at the prices for these yet.

 

I plan to point these cameras at the entry points that have wireless shock/contact sensors (my way of sussing out a false alarm when I’m not home).

If it's for entry why not add PIR cameras for snapshots? Depends what you picked in the end 

 

 

Ring camera system and others like it rely on movement , they don't have any kind of trigger where you can integrate the alarm and them 

 

So you would have to enter as opposed to look to see why it triggered and so on 

[Hollanda]

@al-yeti I didn’t know PIR cameras exist thanks for this. What models do you reckon I should look at? For context it looks like pretty soon I’ll have a HKC system installed (thanks for turning me away from Pyronix)!

[al-yeti]

56 minutes ago, Hollanda said:

@al-yeti I didn’t know PIR cameras exist thanks for this. What models do you reckon I should look at? For context it looks like pretty soon I’ll have a HKC system installed (thanks for turning me away from Pyronix)!

Hkc have them, some are not impressed with pic quality 

 

But it will do for quick snap shot 

 

 

Do main CCTV outside instead

[MrHappy]

2 hours ago, Hollanda said:

I did look at Eufy but feels very limited and I’ve read something about having to expand HD storage myself. Other things I’d consider are a Reolink Hybrid or Lorex bundle but I haven’t looked at the prices for these yet.

 

All sound cheap, if you want cheap - Annke

[Hollanda]

Thanks folks. I’m looking for a balance - reasonable quality but not paying over the odds and not over engineering something simple. I’ll have a look at what you’ve suggested

[MrHappy]

On 30/10/2025 at 17:36, MrHappy said:

If it where to appear on facebook or whatever

 

I definitely don't do FCU's

 

So I did not wait ages for the correct Hager MCB to arrive via courier

 

I did not take a take a colleague with me to take the front off a BFO hager 3 phase distribution board which might have been 5ft tall

 

So I do not experience the kick in the teeth to find whilst the left hand side of the board had all the correct MCB's the the right hand side was arranged with a matching set of wrong breakers with the on /off label stuck on the other way

 

Left hand side on - points to the bus-bar in the middle of the board whilst the right side points away from the bus bar

 

I did not do this on Thursday so are not sat at home on Friday night still really pissed off about it...

[al-yeti]

3 hours ago, MrHappy said:

 

I definitely don't do FCU's

 

So I did not wait ages for the correct Hager MCB to arrive via courier

 

I did not take a take a colleague with me to take the front off a BFO hager 3 phase distribution board which might have been 5ft tall

 

So I do not experience the kick in the teeth to find whilst the left hand side of the board had all the correct MCB's the the right hand side was arranged with a matching set of wrong breakers with the on /off label stuck on the other way

 

Left hand side on - points to the bus-bar in the middle of the board whilst the right side points away from the bus bar

 

I did not do this on Thursday so are not sat at home on Friday night still really pissed off about it...

Confused dot com lol thread hijack at its best or your pissed in macds

[norman]

7 hours ago, al-yeti said:

Confused dot com lol thread hijack at its best or your pissed in macds

Meth

[al-yeti]

1 hour ago, norman said:

Meth

Of course..... Lol

[Hollanda]

@MrHappy I didn’t really understand - is this a trademark rant?

 

Going back to hardwiring - when you folks run security cables under suspended floors, do you need to lift all the floorboards or just a few? We have a few of our pine floorboards up already, but trying to understand how many more will need to be lifted. Also assuming you drill through the joists and run the cables through there?

 

I need to sand my floorboards down so trying to figure out how to organise sanding with the wiring. I’m happy to delay the sanding but ideally I’d get on with sanding before the cables are even run 

Edited 2 hours ago by Hollanda