So my parents are looking for CCTV cameras to be setup at their home. Being a techy my first thought is DIY.
However the way the property is the only access point is VIA one pathway down the side of the house. Semi detached house in the UK, you get the idea. One well placed camera would provide view of the only entrance point to the house aswell as the street outside.
This makes me wonder. Is it even worth going DIY for a camera setup. For ease of use for them too, it would be handy if they could get something like a RING and just plug and play it, even if I can set it all up for them. I'm not a pro with CCTV in of itself, so please enlighten me, its roughly £180 for a ring camera and £4 subscription per month after that, what would that set me back typically for just a one camera CCTV setup done without a subsciption, including the hardware to host yourself if requied. They are not interested in having plex, a NAS or other smart home gadgets that I could host off of a server at their home. So I'm finding it hard to justify anything other than a ring or its competitors. Even though my heart says DIY, what do you think we should do?
However the way the property is the only access point is VIA one pathway down the side of the house. Semi detached house in the UK, you get the idea. One well placed camera would provide view of the only entrance point to the house aswell as the street outside.
This makes me wonder. Is it even worth going DIY for a camera setup. For ease of use for them too, it would be handy if they could get something like a RING and just plug and play it, even if I can set it all up for them. I'm not a pro with CCTV in of itself, so please enlighten me, its roughly £180 for a ring camera and £4 subscription per month after that, what would that set me back typically for just a one camera CCTV setup done without a subsciption, including the hardware to host yourself if requied. They are not interested in having plex, a NAS or other smart home gadgets that I could host off of a server at their home. So I'm finding it hard to justify anything other than a ring or its competitors. Even though my heart says DIY, what do you think we should do?