Some Zavio IP camera models have built in surveillance microphones. In order to enable remote monitoring of the audio surveillance on Zavio IP cameras, you must enable the speaker output when you access your camera through a web browser. [Audio is currently only supported using IE web Browser]

First, login to your IP camera from a web browser as you normally do to access your camera.

Next, look in the lower right hand corner of the live view screen and make sure that you un-mute the audio. You can see the mute button cirlced in red below.

Here is a list and links to some of the Zavio IP cameras that have built in microphones for audio surveillance.

Zavio F312A Wireless IP Camera

Zavio F3106 Wireless Network Camera

Additional models can be found on our Zavio network IP cameras page.

A customer contacted CCTV Camera Pros today with the following question:

Our business is interested in using the iDVR PRO model surveillance DVRs with audio at several business locations. In addition to video, we also want to use an audio surveillance mic. We would like to connect the HDMI output of the DVR to a 42 inch LCD LED television. Can you please tell us if the HDMI output also supports audio?

Here is our answer:

Unfortunately, at this time the HDMI output of the iDVR-PRO8 and iDVR-PRO16 does not support audio. The RCA audio outputs must be used for this.

Is it possible to record audio surveillance with the NUUO SCB-1004 DVR card? At this time, I can only have audio preview. The recording is not working.

Thanks for your help.
Toni

A customer contacted us with the following questions related to audio surveillance:

I am in a situation where we need to have the house wired for sound - a living room/kitchen/dining room combo open area and two bathrooms and two bedrooms - the bathrooms could be omitted. The need is strictly for audio surveillance. Could you please give me a guesstimate as to cost? Is it something that your people could come and install relatively inexpensively? I have very limited funds, but this is becoming a high priority to get done and I am not a tech person.

We answered these questions as follows:

Although CCTV Camera Pros' specialty is video surveillance, we are also suppliers of surveillance microphones. You can find the one that may be a good fit for the situation that you described here: stand alone audio surveillance microphone.

The simplest solution that we have to offer is to use these microphones with an inexpensive DVR card that supports the number of channels of audio that you require. Our DVR cards can be found here:

http://www.cctvcamerapros.com/NUUO-DVR-Cards-s/298.htm

The cabling that you would use for this can be found here:
http://www.cctvcamerapros.com/RG59-Siamese-CCTV-Cable-s/259.htm

All that being said, I am not sure if a surveillance system is the best fit for what you are trying to accomplish. You may be better off with a home intercom system that has a feature to let you activate or leave certain rooms on (the ones that you want to hear) or be able to select the room from the remote speaker location.

I would actually recommend looking into that first, especially for a residential install. If what you are seeking is more hidden/covert, then you should consider our audio surveillance equipment.

Please post any follow up questions to this forum post.

Thank You.
-Mike