Security, security, security. Looking after your hard earned property, be it the car on your driveway, various goods in your garden shed or even a few tonnes of green coffee and a chuffing big green 30kg coffee roaster - when you are not around in person to care of them it's nice to be able to know someone else isn't helping themselves to your property.
Fortunately technology has your back, and nowadays it is more affordable then ever to pick up security cameras that are backed by an app that will give you a notification when a person is moving around in the area they cover. All you need is a Wireless or Wired internet connection and a smartphone to install the device app on.
I already have the coffee shed hooked up to CCTV and of course a beefy burglar alarm system - but neither would give me a definite notification out of hours that someone was moving about inside the building that should not be. So I had a hunt around for a motion detecting camera that would give me an app based notification on movement - so while I'm sleeping at night I could set it to issue a really loud notification if someone moved about. Previous experience has shown many "motion detection" cameras just compare differences in still shots - which pick up anything from car lights through windows to dust and spiders. What I was looking for needed to be more precise - it needed Humanoid Detection.
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In the box you get the camera, and two WiFi antenna to screw on. The camera has an umbilical cable that terminates with three connections, a ethernet plug for set up and wired internet use, a power plug used with the supplied power adaptor, the third connector I presume is a video out plug. You get a manual in many languages and three screws with three raw plugs. To fit the SD Card you need to unscrew two cross screws to remove the mic cover and slot the card in.
Setting up the device is super easy, the manual has a QR code you zap with your mobile device and it downloads the app. You open the app, select register and enter an e-mail address and password. You are e-mailed a confirmation link to confirm and then you are set. In the app you can enter your WiFi name and password, which generates a QR code you can then show the plugged in camera and it connects itself to your WiFi.
Once connected you can plug your camera in wherever you like (20ft up on the warehouse cross beams for me) as long as it is in range of your WiFi - and if the WiFi is out of range you can just run a really long ethernet cable to it instead (I might run one in the long term just for quicker more stable video access)
Where this camera quite literally shines is the in built motion detection sets off built in LED lighting illuminating the area it is watching. So this is a motion detecting security light that records video as a bonus! And if you want you can set it to issue an sound alert at the same time to scare whoever is moving around at the same time. If you want to go stealth, you can turn the light and sound off - and just go for the app notification - but when you get the notification and view the live feed - you can turn on the light and alert siren manually - and scare the pants off whoever is in view (this works because my family did it to me when I was locking up tonight)
My only complaint is the motion detection can not be set to certain hours, it is always on. Personally I would like to set it from 8pm at night to 6am in the morning when I know nobody is there, at the moment it picks us all up moving during the day. But the Humanoid detection is perfect - it picks nothing up when we are not at work - something every other camera system I have tried failed at - dust, flies, car headlights through windows - it's not effective if all night it's telling you about the spiders making webs.
Using the app with a locked off device, I have the alert set loud during the night and if anything moves that is vaguely human (pretty sure it would pick up ET trying to grab a caffeine fix) I'll know about it - and as our local Police Station is 5 minutes down the road they will be on site well before I would be (and have more then a stern look to detain thieves with)
For the price this is a great value piece of kit to secure the front or back of your property, the led light up feature is a big bonus that would light up you driveway when you park with the added motion sensing alerts through the night if anyone might be trying to damage or break into it.
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I guess I can't sneak in and make myself a cup of coffee without you noticing then haha🤣
No sneaking at all, I've got the whole place covered with cameras now - but this one is the absolute precision - it only ever picks up a person moving, so if it pings me during the night I will know right aways something is wrong.
Smart move. Luckily for me none of my machines really fit out any opening i have without taking them apart. Hope it lets you sleep better at night.
For most of the last year I have been at work anyway, and the main access points are on a lit road that the Police use to get to and from the Station to other areas of town - day and night. So it would take an impressive level of stupid to even try and break in - but you never know and it's reassuring to know I can check all the cameras wherever I am - and this one will definately only send me notifications if a person is moving around.
Well the saying is you can’t fix stupid.... so you never know. But it’s a good piece of mind.
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