Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 04:19 pm This is going to be for a small business situation. We do have an alarm system, but prefer to go this camera route on our own at the moment.
New 'residents' have moved into the area and the 'action' is troubling.
Need any model for those who are basically 'technology-challenged'. Does this mean buying a camera, plus a VCR and that is it?
??Radio Shack product adequate???
I need to be able to record and watch within the next day or so.
Battery operated or plug-in best??? Plug-in would require new wiring for where it is needed to be placed.
Staff would be made aware of its presence.
Also, does anyone know if it is required by law to show notice of it being in use for anyone else entering the premises?
Many thanks for your time and help with any of this. It is annoying to have to be thinking of needing this on top of everything else for security.
Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 07:35 pm Well Shoofly according to what I've read about people filming in public places. They don't need to know your filming. If you would like to put a sign up saying security camera you can.
If your a small company that doesn't wanna spend 10k for a video system. You can goto your local walmart/kmart/lowes and buy one of the systems they have there. Lowes has one for about sixty bucks that has video and audio. It even has infra red so you can see in the dark with it. Works really well and shows a good black and white picture. Even in total darkness.
Set up is really easy it's a small 4 inch black and white monitor with a small camera. You can buy additional cameras if you like. There is one wire that runs from the camera to the monitor. It hooks to the monitor with three av jacks red yellow and white.
You can hook those three into a vcr... or two if you like. Set it to record the whole length of the tape. Or set it to record everyother fifteen minutes or something like that to conserve tape space.
If you want the entire night /weekend recorded I suggest you hook the camera to several vcrs then set each one to consecutivly record the entire length of the tape.
Might be easier to have it record for a minute every three minutes.