Has anyone installed one of these in a similar area? Is this camera suitable? Particularly the 520 being 'outside', but in a very protected area. Setup looks very simple, I literally install the camera, plug in a cable from a PoE switch, and it will obtain and IP (or static IP) and I'm good to go? I can't find a manual online to confirm this. The home alarm itself will hopefully be the deterrent part.
I guess for home security it would be about picking up enough info of the 'bad guy' to be useful to the police etc. You'd struggle to get in the house without being up by this camera. Out the front under a veranda / eve type thing, that covers a wider area. I have a central location in my house that can see lots of areas (open plan) and it's unlikely that if anyone got in the house that they would go there.
The camera locations I'm thinking of are: At the moment the Geovision GE-FE520 look pretty good as I can use them with PoE, look like they would easily meet the requirements of a home install, plus I like the fact they're reasonably unobtrusive. I'm interested in installing a couple of cameras in my house to basically record 24/7, with a rolling storage on my NAS (of whatever size I need). I'm very new to IP cameras / home security, so I'm likely to ask some silly questions, but here goes anyway.
