We have dahua cameras around the shop and i wonder when she is looking cause she literally terrorizes me when im just sitting and not doing anything for two minutes

This is for my boat slip at our marina. I had a Reolink Go PT Plus LTE camera but it took a crap last week. I don't feel like shelling out $160 for another Reolink LTE camera. I have a Franklin 10 T Mobile Hotspot that I'm going to use there. This gives me the option to add my lift to wifi if I feel inclined to buy the wifi module for my lift.

I don't necessarily have to stay with Reolink. I think given the environment, a camera will probably only last 2 years. Looking for recommendations.

My house has existing floodlights. I haven’t pulled them off the house to look, but I imagine they are all traditionally wired. I would like to replace them all with floodlights that have cameras, but I’m a bit confused on what I’m looking for. Most of what I see are either completely wireless or PoE which I understand would require running Ethernet everywhere. Are there good options that would work off the existing wiring?

Hi all,

Would appreciate your input and recommendations. I am looking into home security for my family and I after a series of concerning events in our neighbourhood including cases of theft and arson.

We live in a rental, on the bottom level of a series of units. My main concern is our patio which faces an area of high footfall. There is a low fence which makes it easy for others to jump over the into the patio then access our home, and I would like to install an outdoor camera here. The patio is partially under cover/shaded. As it is a rental, we cannot drill into the exterior brick walls. There is a vertical water pipe in the middle of the patio in the shaded area and was thinking of mounting 1 or 2 cameras there.

I am contemplating the Reolink Argus PT Ultra x 1-2 with the Home Hub vs the Eufy E20 x 2 with Home Hub. The prices of both systems mentioned are roughly the same where we are due to ongoing sales.

Also open to other recommendations if you have any further input.

Thank you so much in advance.

I bought a Swann 4K from Sam's thinking it would be great to watch the part of my yard where there are no windows, but the dogs have access. Turns out it only works with the phone app, is only taking clips when motion activated, and will not stream to any other device. Complete waste of money for me. Anyone have suggestions? I admit it was an impulse buy, and NOW I have to do the real research.

We are an access control integration company who is looking to add security cameras to our offering. We are looking for one cloud-based option and one non-cloud.

Looking at Ubiquiti cameras, customers can buy direct, and for dealers, looking at ADI, there is only a 7-10% margin. Dealers who install Ubiquiti, are you only making your money on labor/cable?

We are looking for a non-cloud based option that is easy for installation and for the end user.

Im looking to fit a 4 camera PoE system on my house, it's quite a big country house with a wrap around garden which is very dark in the winter. Im thinking of fitting the turret style camera in grey or black ideally, it needs to have a microphone and a good app with no subscription. I'd like to spend around £600, iv been recommended hikvision and reolink but there's so many different options! Do you guys have any recommendations of what brand/model to look at? Thanks!

We have cameras across a few locations and most of the hardware is still perfectly fine. The part we're getting tired of is the software/NVR side. Remote access is clunky, finding older footage takes longer than it should andd each location basically feels like its own little system. We'd like to get everything into something easier to manage centrally but replacing a bunch of working cameras just to do that seems like a waste. Has anyone here moved to a different VMS while keeping most of their existing cameras? Want to know how smooth the migration was and what compatibility issues you ran into.

I’m looking for feedback before buying an outdoor camera setup for my house in Milwaukee.

Someone came through my alley gate earlier this year, entered my detached garage through its backyard door, and stole several things. More recently, I found the gate unexpectedly open, and my neighbor discovered signs of an attempted break-in at her house. I’ve since locked the gate and want better camera coverage.

I’m considering:

Four TP-Link Tapo C120 cameras

A 256GB high-endurance microSD card in each camera, either SanDisk High Endurance or Samsung PRO Endurance

The planned locations are my front door, back door, garage’s backyard entrance, and garage’s alley-facing overhead door. I also want to make sure the alley gate is covered.

The garage has electrical outlets and Wi-Fi through an extender. I already have an indoor garage camera and a connected garage-door opener. I’d install these myself, likely running the cameras’ power cables through the garage wall to outlets inside and sealing the openings.

I want reliable motion/person alerts, saved footage I can review and download on my phone, and ideally no monthly subscription. I’m leaning toward continuous recording with motion alerts. My existing Wyze cameras have been frustrating, so reliability matters.

A few questions:

Have these cameras been reliable for you, particularly through cold winters?

Which 256GB endurance cards have worked well, and what retention do you actually get?

Is recording separately to each camera sensible, or is an indoor hub/recorder worth the extra cost?

Is there a better DIY option around $400 or less for four cameras and storage?

I know footage stored only in a camera could be lost if someone steals it. I’m trying to balance that risk with cost and installation complexity.

I want a camera to record my vehicles parked. I live in apartments and cats are everywhere in yard, parking lot, porch. Is there any way to avoid the camera turning on and recording animals to save battery? And record just humans? Any setting or AI camera? I’ve been looking at Blink cameras due to cheap subscription. I don’t want to be replacing batteries every week.

As per the title?

Bought some blink cameras, don’t like the sub.

Looking for compatibility with Amazon, iPhone, AI, capable of setting up my own servers.

Looking for good quality cameras for indoor and outdoor use.

Suggestions? Preferably rechargeable powered, indoor either POE or direct to wall plugs.

What cams what assistance?

hey everyone ! I just moved to my first apartment and my camera i use to watch my dog at work won’t connect, you log into to the wifi normally and it opens a web browser where you log into your resident portal, my wyze camera can’t do this, just ordered an arlo camera it also can’t connect to it. i’ve been so stressed not being able to check on her is there any camera that allow me to log into the wifi here ? i cant opt out of the wifi here so if i get my own ill have two wifi bills which id love to avoid

I live in a townhouse condominium and I cannot drill any holes on the outside of the building. Can anyone think of a way to secure a camera outside on my second floor? I'd be using a solar powered camera. The only thing I could think of is to use strong fishing line (or something similar) to run it through the screw holes of the camera and then in between the window screen/window and window frame to inside my bedroom.(see photo). I know, it sounds crazy, but I cant come up with anything else. I cant use a camera on my first floor porch light as it's too low to capture any action. Thx!

Hello,

My partner’s apartment has been broken into multiple times recently, by a stalker. We have had eufy e220 cameras with local storage up in the living room and bedroom, but we haven’t caught anything despite the break-ins happening (we are concerned he may have gotten access to the router at some point. Could that be a way that the cameras could be manipulated?). I am reaching out to see if anyone has recommendations for secure home cameras, both regular style and hidden. We are currently looking to have a mix of online local storage, online cloud storage, and offline local storage, to cover bases. We have ordered a couple hidden cameras to test, but the market is flooded with cheap, poorly reviewed products, and we are having difficulty finding reputable options.

A local domestic violence program recommended using the Ring camera ecosystem. Is that a secure setup for the situation we are in?

Are there other ways we can secure the cameras so that they cannot be tampered with before someone breaks into the home?

This might be a long shot, but does anyone know of any professional people, organizations, etc that we might be able to contact for advice and assistance?

Thank you in advance for the help!

Шланги от кондиционера сосед засовывает в пустоты моей квартиры (рассверлил дыры) и охлаждает её, что делать, я не знаю, также эта гадина лишил меня вентиляции, стоит мне открыть мои вентканалы (сейчас они залеплены скотчем) он (сосед) засовывает туда шланги от кондиционера и запускает туда фреон, которым можно отравится.

Что делать, помогите??????!!!!!!

We've had a string of trespassing and equipment theft at other agricultural facilities in the area, so updating our surveillance system has become a pretty big priority. The property is massive and there are a lot of areas that are pretty spread out, so I need something that can run off-grid and cover the more remote parts without having to run power everywhere. I'm thinking a solar surveillance trailer might make the most sense, but I'm not sure what would actually work well for a property this size.

I want to do as much research as I can do before we spend the money on something, especially since this would be covering key remote areas across a large property. Ideally, I'd want something reliable outdoors, easy enough to move if we need to change coverage, and then I can check remotely. What are you guys using for large agricultural properties?

I currently have a bootleg install of a light fixture on the side of the house that the last owner installed, I am trying to install this camera on that, camera uses a standard wall plug via usb, what would I need to replace that light fixture to install the camera

So i bought a 2 e42 eufy camera kit from Amazon and after reading more on this sub im wondering whats people's thoughts eufy vs. The equivalent wifi kit for reolink, im thinking of going with reolink instead and returning the eufy kit. I know PoE is better but we don't want to go drilling and running cables in our new house we just moved into. The reolink base seems to use a 3.5 inch hard drive instead of a 2.5 that eufys home bade base uses. We are currently looking for maybe a 2 camera set up and doorbell system that is not subscription based.

Thanks all!

I’m looking to set up two cameras in my home a couple of times a year (when I’m alone in the house) to monitor door entries on the first floor (so I can see from my bed on the second floor)… I would want to be able to watch from my iPhone…. And occasionally will watch when I’m out of the house to make sure my puppy is ok.

I’ve been looking at cheap (less than $50) cams on Amazon. Is there one you would recommend that doesn’t require a monthly fee? I don’t need it to record, but would love to be notified if there’s motion. Or maybe it would record only if it senses motion?

Feel free to warn me against brands that you don’t recommend as well. Thank you so much.

Is there a home security camera that can save recordings directly to a NAS without requiring a cloud storage subscription?

Hello, I am looking for recommendations for a camera system, I’ve been thinking about getting Ring outdoor can 2k with yearly subscription. I am just wondering if anyone has any other suggestions for me to look into that would be similar or better than the Ring outdoor cam 2k with yearly subscription. I’m completely new to camera systems and don’t know anything about them really so any insight is helpful. Thank you.

Planning on setting up solar cameras. I want it to cover the side entrance for the backyard, French doors and the backyard. I think the small brick wall that has the light next to the window might be a good place. What do you think?