Guides

Straight answers about camera security in South Africa.

Plain-English answers to the questions South Africans actually ask about camera security. No jargon, no scare tactics, and we will tell you when the answer is "you don't need us for that".

All guides

• How to get alerts from the CCTV cameras you already own
  Four practical ways to turn existing South African CCTV into something that warns you in real time — what each costs, what breaks, and how to choose.
• Why motion alerts cry wolf — and what actually fixes it
  Motion detection compares pixels; it cannot tell a person from a moth. Here is why CCTV false alarms happen, and the three settings that genuinely reduce them.
• Load shedding and your security cameras
  What really happens to CCTV during load shedding in South Africa, what a small UPS does and doesn't cover, and how to know whether you are still protected.
• CCTV vs armed response: what you actually pay
  Real monthly costs for armed response, camera monitoring and DIY alerting in South Africa — what each one does when something happens, and how households combine them.
• POPIA and your home security cameras
  Plain-English guide to how South Africa's POPIA applies to home CCTV — the household exemption, cameras pointed at the street or a neighbour, footage sharing, and practical steps.
• Someone is on your property right now
  A calm, practical order of actions for the first two minutes when you spot an intruder on camera in South Africa — who to call, what to say, and what not to do.
• Will my cameras work with other software?
  How to tell whether your existing CCTV cameras or DVR can stream to third-party software — what RTSP is, how to find your stream URL, and what to do if the camera is locked down.