So one of my fears occurred this morning around 2:30 AM. We have three-quarters of an acre with bamboo, fruit trees, California natives, and bougainvillea among others. Either a firework from a neighbor or someone on the property managed to set a fire. I'd been awake listening to the pop-pop pop-pop-pop of fireworks for about 30 minutes when I heard a truck pull up and keep idling. When I went out to see what was happening, a fireman told me there'd been a tree on fire.
HWMBO (hah!) checked this morning and it was the bamboo grove. There's leaf litter and it all scorched, plus some of the canes. On the positive side, everything down there got watered really well!
If it is someone coming in at night (there are homeless around and the area's not really visible from the house), we'd like to stop it. We don't have any dogs, nor plan to get one in the near future.
So, signs on the fence, and I'd thought at least one trail camera. From other threads, I saw recommendations for Moultie and to check out http://www.tattletale.com . Any other recommendations?
Here's the view on Google Maps: @34.1266449,-117.2047572,76m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en"> https://www.google.com/maps/ @34.1266449,-117.2047572,76m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en. The fire occurred on the south end. The street view version is from several years ago (palm tree fell a year or two ago), and it's more overgrown and harder to get to fence in most places.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions. .
I have been looking at the Logitech circle and circle 2 camera system and a variety of motion detectors.
One problem to get past is that it is very common that intruders will steal game cameras and other detecting equipment that are visible and most have a light that show that they are on and many will flash when taking pictures.
Just FYI...every time I run into a game camera strapped to a tree I have to stop and "mark" my spot like an old dog.
Be careful what you really want to record.....;)
I have a couple of Blink cameras. They work well and are very reasonably priced. Need to be in range of wifi for them to work but will send video or stills to a smartphone when motion detector is triggered. At one point I was getting a new video every 5 minutes because of curious flies inspecting the lens. That got old quick.
I have a Bushnell Trophy HD trail camera and I am happy with how it takes pictures.
You need to have a fairly focused area that you want to watch, like a pathway.
A place that someone is likely to walk by.
The area exposed by the infrared flash is not that large and if the person is walking quickly, all you will get is a blurred picture.
I would suggest building something to camouflage your camera if you decide to go that route. It's probably the cheapest way to see what goes on while your gone. The videos are pretty decent at night.
I was given a high end Cabela's brand trail camera and the timing between daytime and night time flash was completely off. As a result I got lots of pictures that were just white. Took it back and got the Bushnell. It does good during those transition periods.
Those blink cameras look like they would be perfect!!!...if you have wi-fi internet
I have a moultie trail camera in my yard for a while now. works great. I just put up 3 blink xt cameras today in hopes of recording this stupid kid in the neighborhood who likes knifing tire. he got my wife's excursion twice. the same back left tire on two different occasions. just put 6 new tires on the dually today. don't want no flats from knifer boy unless he's on video. blink gotta have wifi within close proximity. the trail camera has exceeded expectations and emits no light at night.
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Special_ops, post: 433874, member: 12541 wrote: I have a moultie trail camera in my yard for a while now. works great. I just put up 3 blink xt cameras today in hopes of recording this stupid kid in the neighborhood who likes knifing tire. he got my wife's excursion twice. the same back left tire on two different occasions. just put 6 new tires on the dually today. don't want no flats from knifer boy unless he's on video. blink gotta have wifi within close proximity. the trail camera has exceeded expectations and emits no light at night.
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What the heck is going on with people these days?!
Today I was walking to lunch and I see this car waiting to pull out of a parking lot. There are two elderly ladies in it. Along comes this kid riding his bicycle down the road (on the wrong side of the street). He rides in front of the car which was just starting to pull out. I hear them exchange a few words as he rides by. Normal I figure. As I walk into KFC, I catch a glimpse of him throwing down his bicycle violently and start walking fast towards them, all puffed up like he was going to assault the old ladies!
I'm not having that, so I walked back out of KFC and quickly headed down the sidewalk to intercept this punk.
When he sees me - he instantly turns a 180 and heads back to his bicycle and rides off down the street like nothing happened.
What are kids thinking these days!
I have a feeling both people - the driver and the bicycle rider just lost their temper and are probably both decent people.
Still things like this shouldn't happen. Everybody should just be courteous to each other. Life is better that way.
Not a Bushnell Trail camera. I have one as a backup, disguised as a bird's nest, and the photo quality is poor. Oh the other hand, the batteries last forever.
Not the new Logitech Circle cameras. The reviews on Amazon are just awful.
imaudigger, post: 433884, member: 7286 wrote: What the heck is going on with people these days?!
Today I was walking to lunch and I see this car waiting to pull out of a parking lot. There are two elderly ladies in it. Along comes this kid riding his bicycle down the road (on the wrong side of the street). He rides in front of the car which was just starting to pull out. I hear them exchange a few words as he rides by. Normal I figure. As I walk into KFC, I catch a glimpse of him throwing down his bicycle violently and start walking fast towards them, all puffed up like he was going to assault the old ladies!I'm not having that, so I walked back out of KFC and quickly headed down the sidewalk to intercept this punk.
When he sees me - he instantly turns a 180 and heads back to his bicycle and rides off down the street like nothing happened.What are kids thinking these days!
I believe it is the parents lack of discipline in our case. their form of discipline is a firm talking to. my dad would have lite my backside up with a belt. my mom used to whoop me daily just for good measure. lol
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I have a trail cam buried downstairs (I think I know where) which did a decent job. Not wireless, have to take out the memory card and put it in a computer. Caught the ex neighbor doing something I didn't want him doing (throwing trash on my yard to hide his breaking it).
I secured the camera to the tree with a bicycle cable and padlock. The cable was fed through the eye hole of a screw thing into the tree.
imaudigger, post: 433884, member: 7286 wrote: What the heck is going on with people these days?!
Today I was walking to lunch and I see this car waiting to pull out of a parking lot. There are two elderly ladies in it. Along comes this kid riding his bicycle down the road (on the wrong side of the street). He rides in front of the car which was just starting to pull out. I hear them exchange a few words as he rides by. Normal I figure. As I walk into KFC, I catch a glimpse of him throwing down his bicycle violently and start walking fast towards them, all puffed up like he was going to assault the old ladies!I'm not having that, so I walked back out of KFC and quickly headed down the sidewalk to intercept this punk.
When he sees me - he instantly turns a 180 and heads back to his bicycle and rides off down the street like nothing happened.What are kids thinking these days!
Lack of parenting
mkennedy, post: 433825, member: 7183 wrote: So one of my fears occurred this morning around 2:30 AM. We have three-quarters of an acre with bamboo, fruit trees, California natives, and bougainvillea among others. Either a firework from a neighbor or someone on the property managed to set a fire. I'd been awake listening to the pop-pop pop-pop-pop of fireworks for about 30 minutes when I heard a truck pull up and keep idling. When I went out to see what was happening, a fireman told me there'd been a tree on fire.
HWMBO (hah!) checked this morning and it was the bamboo grove. There's leaf litter and it all scorched, plus some of the canes. On the positive side, everything down there got watered really well!
If it is someone coming in at night (there are homeless around and the area's not really visible from the house), we'd like to stop it. We don't have any dogs, nor plan to get one in the near future.
So, signs on the fence, and I'd thought at least one trail camera. From other threads, I saw recommendations for Moultie and to check out http://www.tattletale.com . Any other recommendations?
Here's the view on Google Maps: @34.1266449,-117.2047572,76m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en"> https://www.google.com/maps/ @34.1266449,-117.2047572,76m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en. The fire occurred on the south end. The street view version is from several years ago (palm tree fell a year or two ago), and it's more overgrown and harder to get to fence in most places.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions. .
If you have wifi available where the camera will be installed, and if you 110v power, I suggest getting a Nest video camera, sold at Best Buy. Extremely good. If you have wifi and do not have electrical power you should consider the ARLO. It uses lithium polymer batters that will stay up a month or so. The latest Moultrie trail camera with cell modem is sloppy, in my opinion. You might not get the image or video for 30 minutes to an hour--very unpredictable in my experience. If you do not need an instant notification, and you just want the best trail camera ever made (in my opinon) get the latest ones by Nikon for about $100. They do excellent still, video with sound, and will do time lapse for a month on one set of batteries. Their video and sound are astonishingly good. Plot Watcher Pro makes a good time lapse camera, but it won't take night pictures. I have used and still use all of these cameras. ARLO, Nest, and Moultrie are reasonably good. Biggest gripe with Arlo is the lag time turning on, often missing motion until the object has been moving around a little. Nest does constant surveillance and will send you an email when it picks up a face or whatever you set it on in the settings. Moultrie will send you a text or email, and you can download the image. I think you can use a car battery with 110v converter with the Nest camera. If you can get power to the Nest camera and if you have wifi where it is set up, that is the one to get. If you just need a good trail camera with no wifi, the Nikons are absolutely unbeatable. I can't believe they sell them for $100. They are better than all the others, especially with the video and sound--looks just like an iphone output on video and sound.
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You might want to consider one of these, SWMBO 😉
https://www.amazon.com/Waterproof-Wireless-ONVIF2-1-Surveillance-Security/dp/B018QA5X70
If you visit that page scroll down and check out all of them. 😎
mkennedy, post: 433825, member: 7183 wrote:
Thanks in advance for any suggestions. .
Forget about game cams. You want a wi-fi enabled IP camera that connects to the internet easily, is accessible from your computer or phone 24/7, and has motion detection that will email or text you alerts that something has been detected, IMO.
Like this one:
rfc, post: 434015, member: 8882 wrote: Forget about game cams. You want a wi-fi enabled IP camera that connects to the internet easily, is accessible from your computer or phone 24/7, and has motion detection that will email or text you alerts that something has been detected, IMO.
Like this one:
That is the winner.
The right tool for the right job, if you want to watch wild game get a game camera, if you want home security get a home security camera.
Thank you everyone for all the useful suggestions! The location is probably 75-80 feet from the house, and the current wi-fi is on the opposite side of the house. Maybe with a booster. There's no electricity down there that I know about. That's why I was thinking about a game camera.
On a side note, we used to have gang taggers hitting a cement block wall. They stopped after HWMBO had a fake camera installed.
I wouldn't buy camera's. Id' take a few strolls around that apartment complex to the east and glare then smile as you pass kids 14-18, dollars for donuts your culprits will "believe" you know who dun it, or the one who dun it will hear about it:)
I like my foscam camera. Instructions are lacking but the software is pretty easy to figure out. Support is good too.
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