Thanks. Your post helped a lot. After reeding of all posts here, I think I am looking for very similar solution.
- IP camera
- POE (Power Over Ethernet)
- "Direct To NAS Recording" (FTP or SAMBA)
- inputs for PIR sensors
- Infra Red light for night vision (the problem is some cameras have IR LEDs, their light can be visible a little bit, when lighting)
- Mechanical IR-Cut Filter Switch
- basic surveillance functions incorporated in to the camera (camera sends stream when preset event occurs)
- .......
- NAS
- nas4free www.nas4free.org (I have it already and it ROCKS with ZSF file system 4 TB RAID Z2 )
- ANALYTICS SW - this is a big question right now, I have to study all above mentioned solutions
Anyway, thank you very much for your "novel" :D