Exterior security camera systems

[Brian]

Another BI user.

Re: Nelly's. You mention you have a video doorbell. Do you have their branded version of the Uniden doorbell cam? I've been pleased with mine (Uniden) with the exception of not being able to turn off the IR. Instead of hacking the hardware, I just covered the IR ring with a vinyl cutout. However, it still attracts bugs and spiders.

There's also some BI integration with Alexa and some Home automation products. I have the video feeds hooked into Hubitiat Elevation aka Hubitat aka HE dashboards but don't yet have any HE to BI controls (3rd party dev) setup.

Yep, that's the same one I have. I had a couple issues getting it set up the first week or two but I did a cheap upgrade on the doorbell transformer and it's been very solid since then.

[brutal]

Yep, that's the same one I have. I had a couple issues getting it set up the first week or two but I did a cheap upgrade on the doorbell transformer and it's been very solid since then.

I upgraded my transformer but that didn't solve the weirdness.

I ended up putting a resistor across the feed line and that fixed it for good.

Haven't we had this convo before? LOL

[FoxtArt]

For the BI users out there, you can use the push notifications to a cell to get notification when someone is, for instance, pulling into your driveway. Use the motion zones and setup an A-->B (From A, to B) rule to make it one way. Additionally, you can duplicate cameras to setup more complex notification rules - so you can have your normal recording on the first camera, then duplicate it, and set precise motion zones with precise rules on the duplicate camera to send you push notifications, which you keep hidden. So many cases when that kind of precise notification is useful (kid, dog training, etc.) Lots more advance configurations you can do ofc too. You can also setup the rules like above (e.g. when A--->B) to trigger other cameras, like having a PTZ look at your door when another camera detects someone walking towards your door - but not away from it.

ETA: If your computer has the hardware to do it, you can also setup pretty much an unlimited amount of pre-recorded buffer on a camera. If you have headroom, you can easily do a full minute in advance of any trigger. The push notification also can be configured to send a jpeg image or video clip and in my experience, it is very fast (using an image). I don't have much of a need for a doorbell, or doorbell camera, for instance.

[brutal]

For the BI users out there, you can use the push notifications to a cell to get notification when someone is, for instance, pulling into your driveway. Use the motion zones and setup an A-->B (From A, to B) rule to make it one way. Additionally, you can duplicate cameras to setup more complex notification rules - so you can have your normal recording on the first camera, then duplicate it, and set precise motion zones with precise rules on the duplicate camera to send you push notifications, which you keep hidden. So many cases when that kind of precise notification is useful (kid, dog training, etc.) Lots more advance configurations you can do ofc too. You can also setup the rules like above (e.g. when A--->B) to trigger other cameras, like having a PTZ look at your door when another camera detects someone walking towards your door - but not away from it.

ETA: If your computer has the hardware to do it, you can also setup pretty much an unlimited amount of pre-recorded buffer on a camera. If you have headroom, you can easily do a full minute in advance of any trigger. The push notification also can be configured to send a jpeg image or video clip and in my experience, it is very fast (using an image). I don't have much of a need for a doorbell, or doorbell camera, for instance.

I had to do zone crossings in the motion triggers to keep down the false positives.

FWIW, someone might steal my computer, but I save the recordings on a drive location that gets copied to the cloud for safekeeping.

I think there was another security cam thread here where we all discussed BI quite a bit. I'm not using it anywhere near its full potential. Hell, I paid maintenance last year to get it and haven't even upgraded to V5.

[stevew]

I used to install alarms systems. So I have installed a few cameras for myself as well. This is the place I was last researching:
https://www.backstreet-surveillance.com
My big problem is making sure it is -20 capable since I am in the mountains. Its not just us mountain types that need that type of temp capable stuff though. I used to get that type of temp out north and east of Kiowa.
Out in Kiowa I had a really high dollar one that was even blast rated and 20x but didn't want to spend that much lately so was researching else.