Home Security - Video

[jimbrown1]

People also steal checks and whitewash them from personal mailboxes. I always take items by the post office and drop them off, unless there is a cluster box nearby. Dog won't help this issue.

[Mckenzie]

Thanks guys

 

My issue was with someone stealing 2 packages from my mailbox (items I sold and was mailing)

Just run them by the post office or find one of the big blue USPS boxes you can drop it in?

[redjewel2ss]

in this case, if you just need one camera. a game camera camoflauged in some bushes or bolted to your house/garage, then painted to match what you bolt it on would be your best bet. at least it would be the cheapest route to surveil your front yard and mailbox

 

you can get one for $100 at your local sporting goods store

[sab316]

in this case, if you just need one camera. a game camera camoflauged in some bushes or bolted to your house/garage, then painted to match what you bolt it on would be your best bet. at least it would be the cheapest route to surveil your front yard and mailbox

 

you can get one for $100 at your local sporting goods store

 

You can also get one that when it takes a picture it sends it straight to your computer/phone. That way if someone hears the camera taking a picture they can't find it and smash it and take the chip out of it. I would look into that. Plus if you don't have any further need for it, there is always someone you can sell it too.

[dirtfan21]

Thanks guys

 

My issue was with someone stealing 2 packages from my mailbox (items I sold and was mailing)

 

 

Too bad they didn't get hit by a truck crossing the street...

[RyanbabZ71]

Yea we don't have a post office close, the local oneclosed down last yr. Our neighborhood is pretty quiet why it pisses me off. I lost $100 on the theft which pissed me off so much. I am going to look at cabelas for a camera. Also thought about a dummy one for the mailbox

[music]

Is this happening at night? Do you have good enough lighting for a non-flash photo/video?

[sab316]

Yea we don't have a post office close, the local oneclosed down last yr. Our neighborhood is pretty quiet why it pisses me off. I lost $100 on the theft which pissed me off so much. I am going to look at cabelas for a camera. Also thought about a dummy one for the mailbox

 

Try looking at www.mackspw.com as well. They may have some.

 

Is this happening at night? Do you have good enough lighting for a non-flash photo/video?

 

Game cameras take infrared photos.

[RyanbabZ71]

Is this happening at night? Do you have good enough lighting for a non-flash photo/video?

 

Nope happened once between 10am and 11am

[amlumber]

http://www.q-see.com/

 

My buddy at work has a 4 camera system from Q-see, and the picture quality at night and day are great. It sends e-mails, to your phone and you can view it from any smart phone or computer. Hope this helps.

[5829BMG]

I feel your pain, my house was broken into twice in 10 days. I bought a outdoor 4 camera system from a 123securtiy for a decent price. Put it in myself over a weekend and love it. I'm really suprised how much activity goes on around here that I would not know about. Be carefull with the ones on Ebay the marketing is very deceptive as far as frame rate vs record rate, good hard drives and cheap ones,internet and smart phone on and on.Research reveiws. I missed the part about wireless, wired is much better do to transmit distance from camera to harddrive.

[Jeffrofox]

I use icam by skjm. You can download it for like $4.99 from the AppStore and android market. It controls USB webcams, ip cams wired/wireless. All you need is a webcam and a computer. No DVR required. It uses push notifications to notify you of any motion detection(almost instantly). It's a great program and I've been using it for a couple years to check on my house and dogs. I have a cam outside to check on my truck at night and one inside. Ive connected 4+ at ounce with no problems. The only downside to the program is that it captures still images not video. About 2+ frames per sec. The quality is superb though and you can also pick up audio which is great.

 

Currently Im using 2 USB Microsoft cinema lifecam's for about $50 a piece.

My next purchase will be some outdoor wireless ip cams from foscam.

I have already caught a young teen trying to break into our cars and successfully stopped them!

[RyanbabZ71]

I use icam by skjm. You can download it for like $4.99 from the AppStore and android market. It controls USB webcams, ip cams wired/wireless. All you need is a webcam and a computer. No DVR required. It uses push notifications to notify you of any motion detection(almost instantly). It's a great program and I've been using it for a couple years to check on my house and dogs. I have a cam outside to check on my truck at night and one inside. Ive connected 4+ at ounce with no problems. The only downside to the program is that it captures still images not video. About 2+ frames per sec. The quality is superb though and you can also pick up audio which is great.

 

Currently Im using 2 USB Microsoft cinema lifecam's for about $50 a piece.

My next purchase will be some outdoor wireless ip cams from foscam.

I have already caught a young teen trying to break into our cars and successfully stopped them!

 

Interesting. How did you setup the web cam/pc? Where does it save the photos? Do you select the location on the harddrive?

[Jeffrofox]

First you need a desktop/laptop connected to the internet, wired or wireless. Icam is auto-comfig. So once you install the software/drivers for the webcam, you install icam-source (from there website) to your computer. From there you can access your connected webcams through the program and set sensitivity and other settings. You select where you want to store your images. You may also selet the size of the folder and it will delete when necessary. I use dropbox to back them up offline incase my computer is stolen. The entire process is very simple.

[&CDFiXER%]

If you are looking for ease of installation and networkable, consider one that has POE. POE=power over ethernet=you only have to run one cable. Generally these are going to be better quality AND more expensive. Plus since they have the networking built in, you will have a system that supports that software mentioned above (ip cams as mentioned above).