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    • dave247D
      dave247
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      My company has a super old security camera system from like early 2000's. I'm considering purchasing a new system and installing it myself to save us money. Literally anything we could buy (even from Wal-Mart) would be better than what we have. That said, I still want to try and find a nice solid system that has an intelligent and feature-rich user interface and good functionality. I say that because pretty much all the systems I've seen at other jobs have looked and operated like junk.

      Basically I need something that would be HD and allow for 25 or more cameras connected via network cable and have a central server that would be located on-prem in the server room.

      Any suggestions for where to start looking?

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      • dafyreD
        dafyre @dave247
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        @dave247 said in Looking for a good security camera system:

        My company has a super old security camera system from like early 2000's. I'm considering purchasing a new system and installing it myself to save us money. Literally anything we could buy (even from Wal-Mart) would be better than what we have. That said, I still want to try and find a nice solid system that has an intelligent and feature-rich user interface and good functionality. I say that because pretty much all the systems I've seen at other jobs have looked and operated like junk.

        Basically I need something that would be HD and allow for 25 or more cameras connected via network cable and have a central server that would be located on-prem in the server room.

        Any suggestions for where to start looking?

        The other guys here can speak to the cameras themselves.

        I've used two pieces of software for handling the recordings and such as of late. The first is Avigilon Control Center (https://www.avigilon.com). It's ok, based on Windows, and licensed per camera.

        The second, I use personally to handle motion detection from a single camera at home. ZoneMinder (https://www.zoneminder.com/) is Free / Open Source

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        • dave247D
          dave247 @dafyre
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          @dafyre said in Looking for a good security camera system:

          @dave247 said in Looking for a good security camera system:

          My company has a super old security camera system from like early 2000's. I'm considering purchasing a new system and installing it myself to save us money. Literally anything we could buy (even from Wal-Mart) would be better than what we have. That said, I still want to try and find a nice solid system that has an intelligent and feature-rich user interface and good functionality. I say that because pretty much all the systems I've seen at other jobs have looked and operated like junk.

          Basically I need something that would be HD and allow for 25 or more cameras connected via network cable and have a central server that would be located on-prem in the server room.

          Any suggestions for where to start looking?

          The other guys here can speak to the cameras themselves.

          I've used two pieces of software for handling the recordings and such as of late. The first is Avigilon Control Center (https://www.avigilon.com). It's ok, based on Windows, and licensed per camera.

          The second, I use personally to handle motion detection from a single camera at home. ZoneMinder (https://www.zoneminder.com/) is Free / Open Source

          Cool thanks, I'll take a look at these 🙂

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