Building a Budget DIY Home Surveillance System

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Music (in order):
"VULF JAMS" - GARRISON
"If You Want To" - Me
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Timestamps:
0:00 Building an affordable DIY Surveillance System
0:36 Reolink Cameras
2:14 Other equipment
5:41 planning the first camera
6:52 running cable
8:39 Installing camera 1
11:18 why pull strings are so important
12:02 Installing camera 2
13:32 connecting the cameras and Reolink App
14:57 Using with Synology Surveillance Station
16:04 Setting up DIY NVR
21:16 CasaOS Setup
24:00 Viseron Setup
34:12 Motion detection and recordings
35:42 Home Assistant + Reolink
36:34 My recommendations for a good setup
38:00 Thanks to Reolink

[SuperDerek]

bro, are you me? I swear to god every time I just about finished with a project, you put out a video the next day showing me how I could have done it better! Thanks man! :)

[michaelgleason]

13:07 nothing more permanent than "it's fine I'll fix it later."

[boban]

32:12 "Framerate is a little bit laggy" You are getting precisely 1 fps. The same 1 fps you configured in camera settings, once the substream is configured with 10 fps, you get 10 fps of motion

[alexanderthegray]

Bro lives next to the neighbor running the StarLink refurb depot 😂

[zadekeys]

Security tips -
1. Vlan your CCTV. Dont let it access the rest of your network. Treat it like a guest network.
2. Whitelist the mac addresses allowed on each vlan.
3. Dont use the SD card and disable the function if possible. Waaay to easy to be removed and also, SD cards are known to not have the best lifespan...

You want to avoid a threat actor connecting a laptop/switch/SBC to your CCTv cam PoE cable, which is usually on the outside of your home/property and can easily allow someone access to your core network if it's not properly setup.

Also make sure to enable HTTPS/SSLv2 or 3/TLSv1.2 so that if someone is on your network, they cant sniff your NVR (etc) username and password.

[michaelrichardson]

You're killing it! Great job man
Just a tip from a cable guy, never assume that you'll never go past 100Mbps. The last thing you want to do is pull back a bunch of cable or run another because you need gigabit. Ask me how I know lol.

[TechHut]

Nice, I'm getting ready to do this. Waiting for a better PoE switch from TP-Link.

[camiz]

Thanks man! I showed my wife your video and she approved the funding for my home security project :)

[zyghom]

you are like my wife exactly @5:10 - "79.95 - it costs SEVENTY dollars!"

[TheQuickSilver]

Funnily enough I had a run in with a neighbour recently and have been thinking about adding a camera or two just in case something happens again. This is great. You rock!

[thunder]

“If you’re thinking I thought this out really well beforehand you must be new here.” 😂😂😂

Thank you for leaving in your bloopers (like dropping the bracket) it makes your videos very relatable.

[ToddKing]

"I'll fix it later" 8 Years later when you are selling the house the buyer asks "why is the camera box like that?"

[jojobobbubble]

Love the way you setup the config to be sharable without risking the exposure of the password

[frozendude]

13:07 "I'll fix it later"
Sure, bud... I'll just hold my breath in anticipation.

[IanBPPK]

8:11 the overhang is called the soffet

[knghtbrd]

Feedthrough modular connectors are soo nice and with > 1Gb connections becoming common, the feedthrough modular plugs have too! I don't even think they cost more now depending on where you buy them and how many. You have no idea how many issues we used to have when network speeds upgraded and we found out how bad some "looks good" crimps reflected signals. With the feedthrough plugs, there is no question the wire's gonna make a solid cold weld with the crimp pins.

Just feeding the beast.

[taroven]

curl | sudo bash: Every cell in my linux-user body just quaked.

[BrunodeSouzaLino]

8:56 I don't know about how much space you have under your roof, but it would've made more sense to have the cable inside the roof only coming out with enough slack in case you want to remove the camera to inspect it. With it being exposed like that, you run the risk of it being damaged.
9:37 A better way of doing that IMO would be having excess cable that went down to the ground, crimped the connector there, then you pull the excess cable from the server side.

[alicekittleson]

Incredible project and very nice delivery. Love it! If only I has a house...

[felicytatomaszewska]

I did surveillance system for my home and home office ( a two room hut 120 meters away from my home), in total 17 POE cameras (very similar to reolink cameras) with a 24-port POE switch... it has been working nice though a few times i had to make some adjustments. I am already thinking of upgrading it because it has saved me quite a lot of trouble in these two years.