Security cameras for brick lowsets, hillside split levels, acreage and brand new estate homes, from Rochedale South down to Yarrabilba. Each camera gets its own cable back to a recorder inside, and you can see every one of them on your phone before the job is signed off.
Proper Cat6 terminations • no electrician on the invoice
A network camera runs on Power over Ethernet: around 48 volts, delivered through the same Cat6 cable that brings the video back. Because nothing touches 240 volt wiring, the work falls under data cabling rules, which Richard is registered for. One person handles the cable, the recorder, the router settings and the phone app, and you skip paying electrician rates for low voltage work.
Word of Mouth service awards every year from 2014, decided by what Zoo Computer Repairs customers wrote about us.
Choose what fits your situation. We plan each system around the building in front of us, so a quote in Logan reflects the real cable runs and camera positions.
Driveway, porch, side access, yard, garage and carport. On brick homes the cable goes through the roof and down the cavity; on split levels we plan the route around each level so nothing ends up stuck to the brickwork.
Retail shops, takeaways, medical rooms, warehouses and townhouse complexes. Cameras on the counter, the back door and the car park, with access you can hand to staff or a strata manager.
Dead cameras, a recorder that won't boot, a phone app that stopped working, or an old analogue system that looks like it's filming through fog. We test first, then tell you if a repair or an upgrade is the better spend.
Already bought a Swann, Reolink, Eufy, Lorex or Hikvision kit? We'll put it up with proper cabling and get the app working. Our labour and cabling are covered by our warranty; the hardware stays covered by the brand.
Cameras that flash, sound off and talk when they pick up a person or car in a set zone. The aim is to have someone leave the driveway before they try the door.
Live view and playback from anywhere, on phone, tablet or computer. Passwords are changed from the factory defaults and you're shown how to download a clip before we leave.
Most camera systems only tell you what happened after the car has been taken or the shed cleaned out. Active deterrence cameras react on the spot. When a person or vehicle crosses a zone you've drawn, the camera fires its strobes, sounds a siren and plays a warning, and your phone gets the alert at the same moment. They work on a fresh install or added to a system you already have.
“You’re Being Recorded and the Owner Has Been Notified”
Every camera live on one screen, alerts the second someone steps onto the property, and recordings you can scroll back through from the couch or from the other side of the country.
Each system we install in Logan is handed over with the app running on every phone that needs it. You'll get live view, alerts and playback, and we'll show you how to save footage for police or an insurance claim.
Detection on the camera itself separates people and vehicles from a swaying palm or a passing cat, so your phone stays quiet until it matters.
The drive, the front step, the patio and the side gate on a single screen, live, from work, the footy or a holiday up the coast.
Works on iPhone, Android, tablets and Windows or Mac computers, with access you can limit for each person.
A two camera job on a Woodridge lowset gets the same finish as a ten camera job on a Crestmead warehouse. You end up with a working, tidy system and know how to use it.
No grey conduit running across your walls. Every cable ends neatly in a cupboard, the garage or a small locked rack.
A plain comparison of the main options and the property types each one suits in Logan.
One Cat6 cable per camera, running back to the recorder for both power and video. No batteries, no Wi-Fi in the chain.
✓ 24/7 Continuous: Records continuously, so nothing is missed between motion events.
✓ Zero Wi-Fi Jams: Can't be interrupted by a wireless jammer.
✓ $0 Subscriptions: Recordings live on your own drive, with no cloud plan.
A good fit where cabling would cost more than the camera itself, as long as you know about the charging, the signal and any subscription before you buy.
• Rental Friendly: Comes down when the lease ends, nothing left in the walls.
⚠ Battery Charging: Batteries need a ladder and a charger every two or three months.
⚠ Motion Lag: Recording starts a moment after the motion sensor wakes it.
Resolution, field of view, night vision, detection, deterrence and audio are matched to each spot rather than one camera everywhere.
👁️ 4K vs 4MP: 4K holds detail when you zoom in on a face or a plate.
🌈 ColorVu Night: A bright lens shows clothing colours at night with little light.
🧠 AcuSense AI: Tells people and cars apart from trees moving in the wind.
These are starting prices with the inclusions listed underneath. Anything your property needs on top, like extra cameras, a split level or trenching to a shed, is itemised in writing first.
We'll mount and cable the kit you've already bought, whether it's Swann, Reolink, Eufy or from a big box store.
4K network cameras on a wired PoE recorder, recording 24/7 to a drive inside your home. Nothing to pay monthly.
Cameras with strobes, a siren and a spoken warning that fire when a person or car enters your set zone. Made for driveways, carports and back gates.
Simple steps, a fixed price, and the same person from the quote to the handover.
What kind of property it is, how many levels, what you'd like covered and what's already up there. Photos help us give you a ballpark straight away.
We confirm the blind spots, the cable paths and how long footage needs to be kept, then send a fixed price in writing.
Cameras up, cables run, recorder configured, each view checked after dark. We take the rubbish with us.
You get a walkthrough of the app, all of your passwords, and a direct number for when you change phone or internet provider.
Richard quotes the job, installs it and answers the phone afterwards. The work is never handed to a subcontractor you haven't met.
ACMA Master Cabler • QLD Security Installer
Zoo Computer Repairs is a sole trader family business. From the first site visit to showing you the app at the end, you deal with Richard and nobody else. No sales team promising things the installer then has to deliver, and no subcontractor rushing the cable runs.
Zoo Computer Repairs has worked on computers and home networks since 2010. Today's camera systems are networks in their own right, with cameras, a recorder, a PoE switch, a router and an app all talking to each other. Most problems after an install have nothing to do with the cameras. The app drops out after a modem upgrade, a budget switch keeps losing a camera, or remote viewing stops when the NBN provider changes the connection.
We sort out routers, Wi-Fi and NBN issues every week, so we set up the network side properly from day one. When something changes down the line, the same person can come back and fix it.
There's a cost benefit as well. Network cameras are powered through the data cable, which means no electrician. Richard holds cabling registration and runs every cable himself, typically for around half the price an electrician would charge.
What that means for your system
A brick lowset in Kingston, five acres at Chambers Flat and a warehouse in Crestmead each need a different setup. These pages go into the detail for each.
All 69 suburbs and localities in the Logan City council area. Tap a highlighted suburb for its own page.
Plain answers to the questions Logan homeowners and business owners ask before they book.
Four is the starting point for a standard block: one each on the driveway, the front entry, the side gate and the back yard. Logan has a lot of split level homes on sloping blocks around Daisy Hill, Shailer Park and Springwood, and those often need a fifth camera because the lower level has its own door that the others can't see.
On acreage around Greenbank, Jimboomba, Chambers Flat or Logan Village, the gate, the house approach and each shed usually get a camera of their own. We walk the block first and show you what every position covers.
Mounting and cabling cameras you've bought yourself starts at $490. Our four camera 4K wired package, with recorder and hard drive, starts at $1,690 installed. The active deterrence package, with strobe and siren cameras, starts at $1,890.
What pushes a price up is more cameras, higher resolution, longer cable runs and difficult access, such as a split level with no clear path between floors or a shed fifty metres from the house. You get the price in writing before the work starts, and that is the price you pay.
Most jobs are booked within a few business days, sometimes the same week. Richard does every install himself, which keeps the quality consistent but limits him to two jobs a day, so getting in early helps.
Broken systems get priority. If your cameras went down before or after a break-in, let us know and we'll move things around to get there sooner.
A four camera job on a single storey home is usually done in three to four hours. Split levels, double storey houses and acreage with long runs to sheds can fill the whole day.
You won't be left guessing at the app. It's installed on your phone, you're shown how to find and save footage, and every camera's night view is checked before we pack up. If you're at work, we'll text you a photo of each camera position.
Wired, unless something genuinely stops it. A wired camera runs power and video down a single cable, so there are no batteries to swap and no dropouts when the Wi-Fi is busy. In a brick home the cable is hidden in the roof and wall cavity and stays protected there for years.
Wireless makes sense if you rent, or for one camera on a far gate. For a shed or workshop out on acreage, a point to point wireless link back to the house usually beats a battery camera, because the camera itself stays wired and records continuously.
Usually, yes. Split levels need a planned route between floors, often through a cupboard, a wall cavity or the roof over the upper level. Single storey slab homes are normally cabled through the roof and down into the walls, with the recorder in a linen cupboard or the garage.
The harder cases are raked ceilings, homes with no roof access and rendered walls with no cavity. We check those on site and tell you straight what's achievable before you commit to anything.
An internet outage won't stop recording. Footage is saved to the recorder's own drive, so it keeps filming through NBN drop-outs and modem restarts; you only lose the live view on your phone until it reconnects.
A power cut is different, so a small UPS on the recorder is worth having if your street loses power in storms. In low-lying parts of Logan near the Logan and Albert rivers, we put the recorder somewhere high, not on the garage floor.
Yes. We regularly mount and cable customer kits, including Swann, Arlo, Eufy, Reolink and Uniden. Keep in mind that many of these run on the brand's own app and cloud, so we can install the cameras and get a good picture, but faults inside their software are up to the manufacturer.
Tell us the brand and model when you get in touch and we'll let you know exactly what we can and can't do with it.
Send a few details about the property and you'll get a written quote with every item listed.
Thanks, Richard has your details (QLD Lic #4930731, ACMA #A058225). He'll go through what you've sent and get back to you with an itemised written estimate, normally within 15 to 30 minutes during trade hours.
Every year since 2014, Zoo Computer Repairs has received a Word of Mouth service award. They're based on reviews customers posted on an independent Australian review site, and they can't be bought.
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Awarded because customers kept saying the same things: on time, neat work, and still answering the phone after the job.
WINNER
Customers point to fixed quotes that didn't change, cables you can't see and plenty of patience with app lessons.
Word of Mouth (womo.com.au) is an independent Australian site where customers review businesses they've hired. The annual awards recognise businesses whose reviews stay strong year after year.
