Home security: A good neighbor can be your best ally |
- A good neighbor can be your best ally
- Previous owner stole camera receiver
- Can I use a MicroPC to record to an external harddrive? 4 cameras, 5MP each.
- Best Value in Home Security - Seek Safety Now Security Systems
- Experienced opinions on hikvision license plate cameras
- Lorex Cloud on MacOS Catalina
- Looking for the best cameras to install around a home.
- [Question] Does Hikvision DS-7108HGHi-F1/N support Wireless
- Three cars broken into within about a month and a half timeframe. What can we do?
- Three cars broken into within about a month and a half timeframe. What can we do?
- High quality camera system recommendation.
| A good neighbor can be your best ally Posted: 02 Mar 2020 06:24 AM PST On Saturday my wife and I were out killing time in town. In truth, we were at Belks where she was figuring out how fast she could blow our paychecks. I'm standing at the counter at Belk's watching the total count up when my phone started going nuts. I pull it out of my pocket and see I have several alerts from our Alexa devices, "Smart Alert - Smoke or CO alarm sound". I immediately thought, "Jesus Christ our house is on fire!". A little panic sets in, but I am trying to remain calm in the store and not look like a lunatic. I immediately thought about our dogs and the thought of their loss was worse than that of our house, which started to really bring on the potential seriousness of the situation. The house is insured.It's replaceable. Our fat lazy dogs aren't replaceable. Then I realized it could be a false alarm since the devices are listening for the "beep beep beep" of the detector. I've had a ton of false positive "glass break" alarms from the Alexa "guard". Then it dawned on me, call our neighbor, who was fortunately home. I was able to remotely open our garage door and give him the pin to our keypad to enter the house. No fire. Just two excited dogs from all the beeping from those fancy networked smoke detectors, one goes off they all do. We don't have any in house cameras, I suspect they could have been helpful in looking to see if there was a fire. Just a tool though. Nothing like human eyes on the scene with a human sniffer. Yet, the lesson we learned from this is establishing a relationship with neighbors. You can have all the technology in the world, but could any of it had taken my dogs to safety like a human could have? Don't forget that this is part of home defense, creating positive relationships with those who live around you. The ability to lean on one another can make all the difference in the world. And most of all, don't panic, react. [link] [comments] | ||
| Previous owner stole camera receiver Posted: 02 Mar 2020 02:32 PM PST
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| Can I use a MicroPC to record to an external harddrive? 4 cameras, 5MP each. Posted: 02 Mar 2020 01:45 PM PST I'm in the process of setting up a small home security camera system. At most it'll have 4 cameras, at deployment it'll start with 2. The cameras record 5MP resolution, I'm aiming for 15fps at a minimum. They are POE cams and will be connected to a 16-port (Overkill, yes. Free, also yes.) gigabit switch that will be wired to the MicroPC. I figured I could get a refurbished MicroPC from Lenovo (M73/93 etc) or Dell (3040M etc) and record to an external 3.5" hard drive. I have a spare enclosure I would probably put a 2TB WD Purple or Seagate SkyHawk in eventually, though I might deploy the system with a 500gb WD drive I have laying around to test and verify. The enclosure uses USB 3.0, so should have plenty of bandwidth to record 4 cams simultaneously. The CPU *should* as well, though it's tricky to find benchmarks on this. I've seen a range go from i3-4th gen to i5-6th gen in the potential refurb units. The reason a PC is 'required' is to keep the surveillance system separate from my main home server, so when I move out I don't have to re-setup the system for the parentals. Also, it needs to run Windows or Linux as the camera's monitoring system is yet TBD, but it might be any of these three: camera company's proprietary software, BlueIris or Zoneminder. I would be able to use Win10 or Linux on the MicroPC. Is there any issue with this plan? Are there additional risks (besides having to occupy two plugs on the power bar/UPS) to recording to an external enclosure, rather than a drive connected via sata? I'm trying to keep the system as compact as possible, and tuck it away in a closet. Open to all questions, suggestions, and criticisms. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] | ||
| Best Value in Home Security - Seek Safety Now Security Systems Posted: 02 Mar 2020 01:58 PM PST
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| Experienced opinions on hikvision license plate cameras Posted: 02 Mar 2020 01:05 PM PST Anyone here spent time working directly with a few of hikvisions product line? They have a lot on the market, all in the $600-$1k range. The main reason I'm looking at them as their ability to filter out strong sources of lights (headlights, taillights) and increase contrast on plates which makes for a much higher capture rate. Has anyone use one of their cameras and have thoughts on models and placement? I'm looking at using one to target a range of 70-100ft at a 30' spread from an overhead height of about 20'. My estimates are that 30-40mm should be enough but that's based on a lot of googling and tinkering with estimates. Thanks! (side note, not looking to use openALPR. Looking for dedicated hardware to ensure good nighttime capture.) [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 12:11 PM PST Anyone using Lorex NVR/DVR here? Does Lorex Cloud Client work with Mac Catalina OS? [link] [comments] | ||
| Looking for the best cameras to install around a home. Posted: 02 Mar 2020 12:07 PM PST By best cameras I am referring to quality and connectivity, as well as motion detection which works flawlessly. Budget: $1000, but would be interested to hear about systems that may cost more. Information: I am looking to set up 7 cameras around a home on a half acre lot. One on each corner of the house, one facing the front and back door, and one further out from the house facing the gate entrance. The house is not finished yet, so I have no problem with the wiring and burying the line to the gate. I believe my best bet would be to get some good PoE cameras. I have researched around, but I mostly find consumer grade stuff that does not seem to work very well. I would like something that is more commercial grade, or at least in between that can work with my budget. I would also like it to be viewable from smartphones. conclusion: Looking for commercial grade cameras that are good quality, have good night vision and motion detection, and are very reliable. Willing to pay a high price as long as it's reasonable. [link] [comments] | ||
| [Question] Does Hikvision DS-7108HGHi-F1/N support Wireless Posted: 02 Mar 2020 05:33 AM PST I have read the manual and I found no mention of WiFi or wireless support. Only LAN interface. Does this model has a built in WiFi card and catch my router signal? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] | ||
| Three cars broken into within about a month and a half timeframe. What can we do? Posted: 01 Mar 2020 10:46 PM PST Hello Reddit friends. I'm on mobile so I apologize for any errors. Also, I'm hoping this is the correct subreddit, I'd not I apologize and let me know where would be best to post! The title gives a brief explanation of our issue, so here's more detail. My husband live in a basement apartment so we're wanting to find ways to further protect ourselves. We rent from his aunt and uncle, so this is how his cousins cars are involved. His (my husband) truck was the first to get broken into (happened on Christmas sadly), then about two weeks later or so his cousins car was broke into. And then early this morning (estimated time for the third car break in was 2-5 am) his other cousins car was broken into. As far as we are aware the neighbors haven't had this issue, thankfully my car hasn't been hit yet but I'm scared it'll be next. I park in the driveway so I'm not sure if that on its own is a deterrent while the three cars that were hit are parked on the street. What my husband is worried about is that, assuming this is the same person, is that they'll get bolder and try to break into either the main part of the house or our basement apartment. There are security cameras but where the cars are parked, they're just out of range of the cameras. I believe our landlord (the hubby's uncle) is planning on getting more cameras to get the street in range. Is there anything we can do to better protect ourselves and our separate entrance? With us renting I'm not sure if there is so thought I'd post here for any advice. EDIT : thank you for the responses thus far you guys! I really do appreciate it. I forgot to add this in, I don't know if it's coincidence or if it's possibly related? Sometime last week my husband noticed on one of his rear tires that he had like 6 or so nails/screws they seem to have been intentionally placed into his tire. They're all in one section of his tire where it doesn't seem possible he could've driven over them, and rather than coming out on an angle like they normally would've, they're flush with his tire. We could be paranoid but who knows? Any thoughts on this would be appreciated too if you guys have any theories! Have at it. TLDR; Renters in a basement apartment. Three cars that belong to the same household have been broken into within a month and a half. Nervous home break in may be next. What to do? [link] [comments] | ||
| Three cars broken into within about a month and a half timeframe. What can we do? Posted: 01 Mar 2020 11:05 PM PST | ||
| High quality camera system recommendation. Posted: 01 Mar 2020 06:15 PM PST Hey guys, I currently work and live on a small (legal) farm in California and am trying to setup a security camera system to replace the current one, as we are undergoing an expansion.I'll explain what I'm looking for and my thinking, so hopefully you guys can sanity check me and give me some recommendations. It's a cannabis farm, which means that during certain times of the year, there is a concern that we will be vulnerable (or perceived to be) to theft. Employee theft is a concern, but so is the possibility of armed intruders looking to make a quick buck (think backwoods bank heist). Alongside other precautions, we will be hiring an armed security guard for the highest risk time periods and most or all of our high value product will be contracted out and processed off-site. So mainly, I want recommendations on a camera system. Hopefully this gives an idea on the situation. The area is extremely rural, with only satellite internet. This makes purely cloud based systems impossible. The area that needs monitoring is also quite large and is comprised of indoor and outdoor areas, so I'm thinking we will need some high resolution cameras see detail at long distance. (4k?)I don't know if its reasonable to expect ai systems for a small business, but if the system can generate something like incident reports and alerts for things like cars or people outside a certain time that would be ideal. I'm hoping to spend less than 5k once all's said and done, including installation costs. Any input on types of systems, keywords I should keep an eye out for brands etc would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Edit: Some details [link] [comments] |
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