So fun fact I just found pottering around in the settings of our new NVR: With the Dahua PTZ security cameras you can use another camera as a “spotter” camera to direct the PTZ camera…

In our case we have a panoramic camera mounted on top of the shed which captures the whole… well, neighbourhood really. But mostly street in a 180 degree view. You can set that ridiculously wide coverage camera to tell the PTZ camera - which is a much narrower / closer view - where to spin around and zoom in on to capture those nice high res close ups of numberplates / faces / what someone had for breakfast. This feature means the panorama’s wide view lets the PTZ “see” everywhere even when its zoomed in. Technology is so rad I love it.

tl;dr if you enter our property you can run but you can’t hide (well actually right now you can cause I haven’t set it up properly, so wait a few days before you break in pls)