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Mr Turner

Sep 23, 2019

Help Needed!

Hi, I wondered if someone could help me with this.

My partner and I have recently opened a small electronics shop. Within the shop there is also a small watch and jewellery repair counter, which the guy rents from us. The counter has its own shutters and is closed at nights. So the dilemma we have – the watchmaker guy is only interested in getting CCTV at night, because from his perspective, there is a very low risk of any damage done to his goods during a day (as he is always there). On the other hand, we are mostly interested in live monitoring CCTV during a day. There is also a bit of a debate as to who should have access to video footage.

Anyway… long story short, we are looking for a system that would allow us to have live stream access for monitoring during a day and separate video recording at nights.

The other difficulty is that the monitors that I would like to use for monitoring only support HDMI. They have a few more inputs but I don’t have a clue what they are – can take a photo of them if it helps though.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Armsec

Sep 24, 2019

Hi Mr Turner,

I am not sure I fully understand the rationale behind what you are looking to achieve. However, from what I understand, you basically want video monitoring when the shop is open, which would then switch to recording at night. You also want to use HDMI for monitoring.

In that case, the Hikvision HDMI series might just do the trick. The camera is equipped with an HDMI output that can do directly into your monitor and RJ45 jack that you can use for recording.

Hope this helps.