Wireless Security Camera System
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All you can do is keep your "digital footprint" as small as you can manage.
I tell people that facesuck is a reflection of the world at large - EXCEPT for ONE demographic. IT and other "computer people". We know better. There's probably fewer of us who are smartphone owners as well.
That's OK, nothing Wi-Fi or cell phone is critical path, and I intend to keep it that way.
Agree 100%. This is a wide angle (270) Dahua POE camera wired with a CAT 6 to a dedicated Dahua NVR. The capture is at night and still shows accurate colors.
Question? When you are not at home how do you get alerts and a video feed?
If you are a high value target the thieve will surveil your house know your movements and strike when you’re not home. Sure you’ll have great high def pictures but they will know you have cameras and cover up. Unless their faces can be connected to a name photos are of limited value.
While dogs offer some protection they can be circumvented. I have a friend with a business in a high crime area. Several break ins. Finally got a guard dog service. The service release the dogs at night and return them to an onsite kennel in the morning before employees come to work. This still does not stop his issues as they have been able to scale the fence with razor wire and move above the dogs on pallets, equipment and his connex boxes. They still steal but steal less. Also his liability insurance went up substantially due to the dogs. If the dogs get out through a cut fence there will be mahiem. If his alarm goes off the dog service must come out and put them back in the kennel.
Bottom line is you can’t stop a determined thief. Best you can do is make your place more work to get into than other targets and limit the time they have to go through you stuff.
Back in the early 80s when things were less PC the Sign Shop I worked at started to get burglarized. After about the third time my boss hired a dog service. Highly trained dogs with their vocal cords cut and trained to wait for the burglar to enter before attacking. Sure enough the very first night we found the gate open and no dogs in site. What we did find was a big chunk of hairy scalp attached to a bent back rearview mirror on one of our boom trucks and lots of blood. Never had an issue after that. The service was stopped after 1 night. The message was sent out to the neighborhood.
I don't use that camera for notifications. I have several systems. I have a CCTV system with 15 cameras, then the IP cam, then 5 Ring devices and one Simplisafe camera in the shop. The Ring and Simplisafe cameras are the ones I use for alerts. This is in combination with a monitored alarm system that also notifies me and the alarm company. The shop has a Simplisafe alarm the notifies me, I only set that one when we travel.
All of this is not necessarily because I am paranoid, or because we live in a high break in area, but more because I was in the electrical contracting business and we installed camera systems as a sideline so I did a lot of testing at my own house. I was able to buy the cameras and equipment at a big discount. Probably the biggest deterrent is the visibility of the cameras, most thieves will move on. I have caught a few tweakers checking to see if our car doors were locked in another driveway you can't see in the pic, but that was before I installed gates. I used to have a driveway alarm and I actually chased one guy down once at 2 AM and put the fear of God into him. I decided the gates were a better idea after be woken by the driveway alarm too many times, and probably safer for me as well.
The main reason for the wide angle camera covering the intersection is in case there is ever an accident. We live on a blind curve and even though it's a bike route with a 20 MPH speed limit with speed bumps and a traffic circle we still get all kinds of crazy drivers coming through when trying to back out of the shop driveway, speeding and going the wrong way around the traffic circle. My neighbor across the street was already badly injured last year when a distracted driver hit her parked car and drove right over the top of it. She had been standing off the curb in front of her car waiting for him to pass so she could get in and her car ended up getting rammed into her and flipping her onto the hood then into the street. The police were grateful for my recording.
Setting us a camera system involves some design skill, for example in a business you put your close up high resolution cameras at the entrances. You can use wider angles to follow people throughout the property then refer to the close up high resolution cameras for identification. It also helps to have decent coverage of vehicle entrances and parking areas.
Like anything, a camera system isn't a complete security measure, you need layers. Cameras, alarms, security doors and windows, music playing on outdoor speakers, fountains, cars in the driveway, neighbors checking up, dogs, it all helps. Another trick is a sign on the door that says "Day Sleeper, do not ring bell"
CreepinDeth
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Of course once this becomes prevalent in your AO (Big Cities esp) you need to change your security measures
I will always defer to wired 1st, but not everyone needs it
My wireless is my secondary
I have a 16 4K camera setup thats wired as my primary
Only 12 are in use, 4 are spares
I do NOT recommend anyone use RING
Their cloud services are law enforcement accessible/shared
Always keep 100% of your monitoring local
CreepinDeth
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Theres multi-level security and this is most definitely one I have always employed. BFD
Big F**kin Dog
Use to be 100lb+ male pit bulls, but now a 130lb Rottie
The 6% demographic reaponsible for most crime really dont like BFDs
I understand needing multiple layers of protection. Which do you prefer Ring or Simplisafe? I haven’t pulled the trigger yet because I can’t wade through all the choices of systems.
I have 2 driveway entrances to my shop and I want to put decent cameras at both. When I’m in town I spend the majority of my day at the shop 8am-10pm. I do travel extensively or I’m out working at one of my rentals and would like to get notifications of entry.
Can’t have dogs due to my travels. I do have a big flag pole in front of my house displaying the American Flag which I’ve been told by several Cops sends the criminals a message that I’m willing to protect myself and sends them to an easier target. It also suggests that I own guns which could be good or bad.
Not much that can’t be replaced at home but I have lots of tools and equipment at the shop that I would like to better protect.
I like Ring because it is easy and dependable. You also have two way audio.
I was not impressed with Simplesafe. Ring has options for opting out of all neighborhood type sharing and enabling encryption at rest, transmission, and end to end.
The only reason I have Simplisafe is for the alarm for my shop. It came with one free camera. But I do prefer my Ring devices.
Creating an atmosphere of someone being around goes a long ways. I've had outdoor speakers playing for the last 25 years. One time we had a neighbor checking on the house for us while we were away and we forgot to tell him about it, when we came home he said he got really spooked when he heard voices. We also have a fountain that runs 24/7 and there is always at least one car in the driveway, it all adds to the illusion of people being around.
They also have these, which makes it look like someone is inside watching TV: https://www.amazon.com/FakeTV-FTV-11-US-Bright-Burglar-Deterrent/dp/B00BTKGHDE?tag=wranglerorg-20
They also have these, which makes it look like someone is inside watching TV: https://www.amazon.com/FakeTV-FTV-11-US-Bright-Burglar-Deterrent/dp/B00BTKGHDE?tag=wranglerorg-20
We virtually NEVER have a car in the driveway - nobody can tell if someone is home or not. There actually is someone at home 99% of the time, but nobody can tell. We also have accent lites on timers, so on the odd occasion we're not at home at nite, the lights are still on.
I actually was waiting for a delivery, and got a phone call: "When will you be home?" "I am home." "Our driver called and said nobody's there!" "Did they ring the doorbell? Is it a grey Toyota pickup?" Typical Florididiots - nobody, and I mean NOBODY parks their car in the garage, except for us.
I actually was waiting for a delivery, and got a phone call: "When will you be home?" "I am home." "Our driver called and said nobody's there!" "Did they ring the doorbell? Is it a grey Toyota pickup?" Typical Florididiots - nobody, and I mean NOBODY parks their car in the garage, except for us.
Good point, we live in an older neighborhood and nobody has a garage. A few have carports. I do have a large garage/shop where I keep a couple vehicles but on the opposite side of the house is where there is a 2 lane driveway with no garage, just a shade sail.
These houses were all built with a 2 car car port - but all but about 3 of them have been converted to garages over the years. Which are all full of crap. I'd think that here in Florida, of all places, people would actually use their garages, the sun here is BRUTAL. I added a car port on the side of the house for the Jeep. I just wish the garage was a BCH bigger - the old MBZ fits with about 9 inches to spare.
KennethS
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CreepinDeth
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You guys were warned RING is not to be trusted
https://www.tomsguide.com/home/home...video-from-your-doorbell-and-security-cameras
You have any of your home security running thru someone elses cloud servers, you get no protections or privacy. Why help the surveillance state??
https://www.tomsguide.com/home/home...video-from-your-doorbell-and-security-cameras
You have any of your home security running thru someone elses cloud servers, you get no protections or privacy. Why help the surveillance state??
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