{"id":1652,"date":"2019-12-12T04:26:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T04:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2023-01-18T03:08:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T03:08:27","slug":"cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2019\/12\/12\/cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1652 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2019\/12\/12\/cameras\/79342847_10156429887300047_2346877878378954752_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/79342847_10156429887300047_2346877878378954752_n.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/79342847_10156429887300047_2346877878378954752_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/79342847_10156429887300047_2346877878378954752_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/79342847_10156429887300047_2346877878378954752_n-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about cameras.  POE Cameras.  I need to get 36 of them, so I bought a few different ones to test.. nothing crazy extensive, but enough for me to compare across a few different costs.  I have a bunch of Hikvision ones (I used them in the current house), a Dahau, a few ReoLink ones (new), and a few Ubiquity ones (including a G3 and a G4 Pro).<\/p>\n<p>The cost spread is significant.  The Reolink $40, the Hikvision about $100, the Dahau about $150, the G3 about $140, and the  G4 Pro about $450.   Consider at the cheap end 36 Reolinks would cost $1140, while 36 G4 Pros would cost $16,000.<\/p>\n<p>There is no question that the G4 Pro has the best video quality.. it is just stellar, but I was surprised that all of the other ones were very very similar to each other.  The Reolink seemed a tad worse than the G3, but I doubt I could pick one from the other in a lineup and be confident.<\/p>\n<p>People often mention the risk in the Chinese cameras (Reolink, Hikvision, etc) of them being compromised or being a security risk, but of course only the most unqualified network engineer would ever have these cameras in a subnet that has outside routable access.   These will be in a dedicated physical network.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible the Reolink or Hikvision will fail sooner.. of course interestingly enough I have 12 Hikvision cameras here now that have been running for 4+ years, as well as I had 4 of the Ubiquity first gen cameras that have all died.   Consider for the price difference I could buy 7 spares for every camera in the house.   That is a lot of spares.<\/p>\n<p>(Note I will probably use BlueIris to record everything, although I have been testing Xeoma and it has worked well so far).<\/p>\n<p>Any comments, suggestions, price comparisons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about cameras. POE Cameras. I need to get 36 of them, so I bought a few different ones to test.. nothing crazy extensive, but enough for me to compare across a few different costs. I have a bunch of Hikvision ones (I used them in the current house), a Dahau, a few ReoLink ones (new), and a few Ubiquity ones (including a G3 and a G4 Pro). The cost spread is significant. The Reolink $40, the Hikvision about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/2019\/12\/12\/cameras\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5798,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sponaugle.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}