Camera Security Systems???

[Industrial Toys]

The next time that one guy is in a hurry, he should remember a belt for his pants! Should have grabbed one off a trimmer!

 

[dragoneggs]

A friend who is in the lawn and garden equipment business brought this to my attention.

Alpine Lawn & Garden - Break In - October 2, 2�17 - YouTube

There is another video of them outside messing about, throwing stuff into a stolen U-Haul truck.

It is excellent video and yet TOTALLY USELESS!

Crime occured, stuff gone, gate and doors wrecked, perps never caught!

Had there been a few hundred watts of sirens going inside and outside, this would not have happened.

But hey, there is some entertainment value in it. So maybe they got the value out of their "security" system.

Thus the proper terminology is 'Surveillance' system. Should only be one facet of a security system.

 

[ovrszd]

I think I said this before. I'm in a lightly populated County. I kust need video good enough that I can pass it around until someone says "Hey, that's Jimmy!!!!" The rest will be secondary.....

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Here is a short video I captured last night with the Reo Link Go camera at my deer feeder. One thing about the Reo Link camera is that I can view and capture video on my smart phone, but not on my computer. Hopefully they will add that capability soon.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

This video is a little longer (1 minute) and I turned on the 'talk' feature and tried to scare the pigs off. I think they ignored the sound of my voice because they probably couldn't here me very well during the heavy rain. Still pretty cool I think.

 

[TractorGuy]

This video is a little longer (1 minute) and I turned on the 'talk' feature and tried to scare the pigs off. I think they ignored the sound of my voice because they probably couldn't here me very well during the heavy rain. Still pretty cool I think.

This is why I will never use an automated deer feeder. My neighbor had one right off the back corner of our property a couple of years back. When the hogs came they came on my property and tore my back yard up.

The trapper that helped me get rid of them said sour corn on the ground would attract wild hogs quick.

After I finally got rid of the hogs I started feeding the deer in pans and only put out what they would eat in a day. So far the hogs haven't returned.

 

[Sysop]

I think I said this before. I'm in a lightly populated County. I kust need video good enough that I can pass it around until someone says "Hey, that's Jimmy!!!!" The rest will be secondary.....

I'd go with something that has good lenses built in, or has good lens options. The only way to ID people at a distance is with a camera that has good enough lenses to reach out and grab the image. A typical wide angle camera from a kit is never going to do this. As with all cameras since cameras were a thing, the optical grade lenses are the expensive part of the purchase. Do not expect to be satisfied with the images produced by anything reasonably priced.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Yeah, you can identify the make of balacalava or maybe tell they are wearing Hanes over their head.:shocked:

And EVEN if a perfect facial image is recorded, a smart criminal will say "that's not me" I'm not talking to law enforcement, I want my lawyer. End of case!

 

[jcummins]

I concur that Blue Iris is the way to go. I've been using it for the last 7+ years. The developer, Ken, is available and responsive. I'd pay 10x the cost just support his genius.

I currently have 35 cameras - mostly Hikvision and Dahua PoE IP cameras. The program is on a dedicated i7-4XXX machine running windows 10. The CPU runs between 60 and 80% (depending on the activity level of the cameras), and I have about half the cameras set to 15 FPS, with the remaining set to 25 and 30 FPS. Most are set to 1080P.

All but about 5 of the cameras are hardwired. And some runs approach 500'. The max distance for cat5/6 cable is about 330', but if you use solid copper (23ga) you can push it to about 450' w/o issue. If you need to go longer, you can get mid-span switches that act as a signal booster.

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Are your cameras attached to an NVR....and your pc views the cameras from the NVR....OR are they attached to the PC. Seems the NVR can do a lot of work of making the cameras work, without complexity in the network.

Having said that.....I bought some time back an IP systems from Supercircuits. They use Hikvision cameras, although I've only bought the Superciruits cameras. I cannot use anything to view the NVR except, the outdated Internet Explorer because Hikvision requires Web Components which all the other browser have abandoned...or their propriety ACMS client, which is horrible, and very taxing on the laptop. They do have a mobile app that works reasonably well. Well Blue Iris access this NVR?? I do have two monitors attached direct to the NVR on different floors of my house for constant monitoring. On those occasions I want to monitor from my laptop both Internet Explorer or the ACMS client is just less than ideal.

Are you using any power line adapters to drive the cameras? I have used, but lightening has taken it out twice. I've also used a longer Ethernet cable run, that also was taken out with lightening. Have you had those issues, and if so how do you deal with it?

 

[ovrszd]

Yeah, you can identify the make of balacalava or maybe tell they are wearing Hanes over their head.:shocked:

And EVEN if a perfect facial image is recorded, a smart criminal will say "that's not me" I'm not talking to law enforcement, I want my lawyer. End of case!

I don't recall mentioning law enforcement.

 

[DieselBound]

I don't recall mentioning law enforcement.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I'm suggesting that a savvy, well informed criminal can be identified one hundred percent, using casual observation, but unless he does something stupid like confess, there is still no evidence against him. Now, if his fingerprints were found at the scene where they had no reason to be, that could be a different story. But it depends how much time and money the prosecution is willing to spend on a given case.

 

[ovrszd]

So if someone you knowxin your community violates you your course of action is what?

 

[Sysop]

Starts with a growl and ends with having flowers delivered? :laughing:

 

[ovrszd]

Starts with a growl and ends with having flowers delivered? :laughing:

And candy. Candy is a nice touch.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Police in my area will put security cam pics on facebook, shoplifters, etc, and ask for help identifing. The get a lot of people identified. Whether they actually get prosecuted is another matter.

 

[Industrial Toys]

And that's another point I would like to make. All this window dressing and then, no prosecution. Here, the most laughable notion is that the Poh-leece, are "investigating" your sad, turn of fortune.

Who knows, maybe they conduct these "investigations" while they TAX people texting or not wearing seat belts.

 

[goeduck]

One of the most frustrating aspects of motion detection security cameras has been spiders. If anyone comes up with a long term repellant I want to know about it. Just sprayed mine with bug stop a few days ago. Rain came the day after and spiders are back.

Before anyone suggests peppermint oil, forget it. That doesn't last 10 minutes if it works at all.

Broom.