- QNAP SURVEILLANCE STATION VS BLUE IRIS FULL VERSION
- QNAP SURVEILLANCE STATION VS BLUE IRIS PATCH
- QNAP SURVEILLANCE STATION VS BLUE IRIS ANDROID
- QNAP SURVEILLANCE STATION VS BLUE IRIS PC
A VPN is an opening that allows the Internet in to your network. They are the "firewall" the primary job of which is to act as a one way valve allowing your network out to the Internet but not allowing the Internet back in to your network. The current EA5400 or the proposed Ubiquiti are both fine devices.
QNAP SURVEILLANCE STATION VS BLUE IRIS PC
The initial recordings are saved to the internal drive of the Blue Iris PC then after a couple of days they are moved to the QNAP and stored there as space permits.ġ.
QNAP SURVEILLANCE STATION VS BLUE IRIS FULL VERSION
I bought the $60 full version of Blue Iris. The alert text includes a screenshot of the person at the door. I have it setup with a account to send me text alerts when someone comes to my door, there is about a 20 second delay between person arriving at my door and text arriving to my phone. I am running Blue Iris on a PC I had lying around and it works great. I think it is expensive, doesn't have very good features, and overall is just not a good product. I also have a QNAP and I recommend AGAINST the Surveillance Station. There is a slightly newer variant of this cam which I will be buying in the next month or two, Andy can get you the right one for a great price. The image is perfect during the day and night. I personally have a Dahua IPC-5231 from and I couldn't be happier.
I would suggest the Dahua cameras over the Reolink and even over the Hikvision. This post is lengthy and may not even be in the right forum category. I don’t know how this works with ports and I’m downright scared of the unknown. Security of Qnap’s Cloudlink from outsiders. If I create a VLAN for the cams, I’m assuming my NAS has to be on the same VLAN for things to work? Is that the reason to run a VPN?Ħ. I want to do it with all owned equipment – why should I pay for a service?!?ĥ. Wife would like 2 way audio to the front door. Was going to try out motion detection events only. Not thinking NVR in future – I use my NAS for limited music to Sonos so no problem with space yet.ģ. Going to test an IP cam from work this week to see. Unsure about Surveillance Station in general. Will a VLAN for IP cameras help me here?Ģ. Setting up a VPN per NAYR’s posts will help.Ī. Overall security from outsiders looking in from the internet. I don’t fully understand how I’m going to set things up – I can bumble through things fairly well to get by. I’ve read a few posts from NAYR and now I’m rethinking my plan.
QNAP SURVEILLANCE STATION VS BLUE IRIS ANDROID
I was going to use the two surveillance station channels on my Qnap NAS and run Vmobile/Cloudlink on my android phone to access from outside. Thinking Dahua or Hikvision now – jury is still out on which models. I had doubts about their quality and confirmed them after looking through on this site. The plan had been to throw 2 Reolink cameras in at the front door/sidewalk and driveway and call it good. I have limited networking knowledge (Youtube is helpful) and even less IP camera knowledge (here is helpful). Unifi AC Lite wireless access point (House Wifi, guest Wifi soon to be VLAN for client isolation)
QNAP SURVEILLANCE STATION VS BLUE IRIS PATCH
12 port patch panel to hard wired lines all over the house (using 6 now)Ĥ. Ubiquiti 8 port POE 60w switch (4 POE – good enough for now)ģ. Cisco/Linksys EA4500 router (soon to be replaced with Ubiquiti USG) currently dropping physical ports left and rightĢ. Here’s a network overview of what I have and what will be added shortly:ġ. I thought I had everything planned out to the “t” but after reading many of the stickies here, I’m more lost than ever.
While doing all this, I’m also adding an option for 2 to 3 IP cameras (with options to expand in the future if needed). I am in the middle of revamping my internet and wifi.