Home Invasion in my Neighborhood

[Dave_L]

I have the RING doorbell and its great. Motion detection, can chat via the doorbell, etc. Automatically records any activity and stores it on the could for me.

[Ronin13]

Doorbell camera.

https://ring.com

Awesome! Thanks! I'll chat with the wife about getting this... now if I could just remember if we have a doorbell pre-wired at the new house.

I have the RING doorbell and its great. Motion detection, can chat via the doorbell, etc. Automatically records any activity and stores it on the could for me.

Is this option on both models or just the pro? And do they offer a spare battery for when you're recharging the other? This seems like exactly what we're looking for.

[Dave_L]

Is this option on both models or just the pro? And do they offer a spare battery for when you're recharging the other? This seems like exactly what we're looking for.

The pro is worth it. 100%. I hardwired mine to the old door bell spot so battery life isnt an issue for me.

[brutal]

Not impressed that Ring doesn't interface with Blue Iris. I shouldn't have to pay to record motion detection from Ring.

[TheGrey]

We've run into bit of a snag- we can't install the cameras until our trees leaf out! If you have trees or bushes that will be in the line of sight for your cameras, keep that mind when you install them..

[Joe_K]

I recommend blue iris. Combine with any kind of web camera or POE or if you want to go all out there is some good POE PTZ 20x zoom cameras on Amazon if you want to look like the supermax. At any rate, blue iris is compatible with about 95% of the stuff out there.

I don't know crap about cameras.

Ideally it would be a live feed that would be remotely viewable on on our phones.

I don't want to spend more than a couple hundred bucks if I don't have to, but I don't want some POS that fails when the temps swing, or it rains, or the neighborhood kids decide to use it for slingshot practice.

Any help info would be appreciated. I dont have time to google this for the next week to become familiar with every CCTV system availible.

P.S. I installed two deadbolts on my patio gate, and braced it up stronger. Putting in window bars on the ground floor and the shatter proof window film ASAP.

Velocitas, Opprimere,
Violentia Operandi

[brutal]

I'm telling you guys - (with a lot of camera experience) if you are even 10% of a tech person, go with blue iris. You have 99% compatability with any type of POE or USB camera including webcameras, top end motion detection, and mobile access. Range of settings is impressive. Because you can use webcameras, you can also add high definition with almost no cost - just get 50' USB extension cables off of amazon. POE cameras are of course, slightly better in most applications. I've always used a mixture of POE and USB cameras in my systems. If you go with USB cameras, then you're talking plug and play and anyone who can figure out how to install a program and type on a keyboard could pretty much figure that out.

Any type of 24/7 recording system in comparison is nearly useless. Hardware motion tracking (e.g. DVR/CCTV) is also near useless unless you want to review hours of leaves moving. The PC/software combinations are a sweet spot, you can store months worth of video without making a dent, and review every *real* motion event quickly and with ease, so for instance, you could easily review a video of everyone who walked into your yard in the past seven days..... and only occupy perhaps 5-10 minutes of your day doing it. It's not recording leaves, and it's not *missing* anything. It leads any motion event with pre-and post footage so you can see what happened before and after it "detects" issues if you like.

24/7 videos are only useful when something happens, then you have to go back in time, watch it all, and save that clip. But unless you have no life, you're not going to be able to review the bigger scope and answer questions such as: Were they ever casing my place previously.

Old Android phones too... Good advice.