Caught my first theft from the house Saturday. This guy stole my neighbors bike off of the back deck. My neighbor calls me up to see if I had anything on tape = my hard drive. I was checking it out and called him back and said I got it. My neighbor suspected who did it and was down at his house and he confessed before I told him I had it but still it worked. These are IP cameras so I can be in miles away and look at what is going on around the house. The only problem is sometimes the router will kick the wireless camera out and wont hook back up which kind pf erks me for what I paid to get this system going which was alot and I still am getting three more cameras but those will have infra red sensors for the night time.
Actually I was home when this guy took the bike and four out of five cameras were down at the time. I knew they were down but didnt feel like fixing them since I was home but the one that needed to work was when he took the bike. Fixing the issue of them being down is just unplugging the camera and plugging it back in. I think I need a better router but havent looked into it to much as this is just a few months old.
These record to a NVR I bought and put in 3 terra bytes of storage which means I can record all my cameras at once 24/7 for probably four months till it records over the first file that I recorded prior.
My old sytsem that I will still use records by motion to a vcr. I have two vcr's that support 4 cameras each. In and around the house. These new IP cameras which I will end up having 9 total here (have 6 now) record to the NVR. The NVR supports 12 cameras though. So right now I have 9 cameras that are working as I type this. One IP camera is still in the box, buy three more and I have to fix a set of the old vcr camera system I have to get it back working again. This will end up being on three different systems around the house because sometimes they just dont work new and old. So all in all I will have 17 cameras going in this little space I call home. You can not come on my property and not get caught on tape no way no how. And I believe if you are going to kill something no better way than OVERKILL.
Oh and the guy is/was busted guy sold the bike. Cops got it back and the bike is back up on the deck now.
I just wanted to say get a camera system they are well worth the money invested for the piece of mind that it buys knowing you will be able to tell who is lerking around your house.
If you click on the pic it will take you to photobucket to see the vid. Which actually is clearer with the program I use to view it here at the house than here in PB.
Actually I was home when this guy took the bike and four out of five cameras were down at the time. I knew they were down but didnt feel like fixing them since I was home but the one that needed to work was when he took the bike. Fixing the issue of them being down is just unplugging the camera and plugging it back in. I think I need a better router but havent looked into it to much as this is just a few months old.
These record to a NVR I bought and put in 3 terra bytes of storage which means I can record all my cameras at once 24/7 for probably four months till it records over the first file that I recorded prior.
My old sytsem that I will still use records by motion to a vcr. I have two vcr's that support 4 cameras each. In and around the house. These new IP cameras which I will end up having 9 total here (have 6 now) record to the NVR. The NVR supports 12 cameras though. So right now I have 9 cameras that are working as I type this. One IP camera is still in the box, buy three more and I have to fix a set of the old vcr camera system I have to get it back working again. This will end up being on three different systems around the house because sometimes they just dont work new and old. So all in all I will have 17 cameras going in this little space I call home. You can not come on my property and not get caught on tape no way no how. And I believe if you are going to kill something no better way than OVERKILL.
Oh and the guy is/was busted guy sold the bike. Cops got it back and the bike is back up on the deck now.
I just wanted to say get a camera system they are well worth the money invested for the piece of mind that it buys knowing you will be able to tell who is lerking around your house.
If you click on the pic it will take you to photobucket to see the vid. Which actually is clearer with the program I use to view it here at the house than here in PB.