Building a surveillance system for a house with a do-it-yourself NVR

["Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal () gmail com>]

Hi all,

I apologize if this is off topic since I am dealing with a home situation
here. I am considering implementing a surveillance system for my house. I
plan to use IP cameras. Yes, I already have a network in place and have
figured out the placement of the cameras. 

The network video recorder is proving to be the most expensive bit of
equipment in the whole setup. I was wondering if it is possible to use a
desktop pc instead. I would connect the cameras to a switch and have a
desktop pc interrogate the cameras and relay the feeds in real-time to a
television such that a user can change channels to monitor the different
camera feeds. Yes, we get TV tuner cards but do we get software that does
something like this? I need non-computer savvy users to be able to monitor
the cameras.

Pranav


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