My wife got spooked last night when she though she saw someone messing with her car and then heard noises outside the window she had just looked out.
She has agreed to my idea of adding security cameras to our house. We already have a Ring Pro that covers ~70% of front and ~50% of drive during the day and some the yard but is not reliable for the drive at night. We already have 2 cameras that link to our existing security system on order for inside the house (main room and garage). We have an existing rear floodlight that a Ring floodlight cam would easily replace and cover rear door and 60% of back yard + shed front. One could also replace the driveway light at the top of the garage door and cover the drive to allow me to change the angle of the Ring Pro to cover the front windows.
The major disadvantage of Ring is if the motion is not tripped, you have no record of what happened.
The plan is either to add 4 wired house mounted cameras facing the 4 yard sides and drive or 3 wireless tree mounted cameras facing back towards the house + 1 over drive.
The house mounted cameras would alert to anything approaching the property as long as it is in view and have good footage, but will require more cameras to have coverage
The tree mounted cameras would have fewer false alarms and easier tracking of movement around the exterior and more coverage per camera but footage would only see it's back.
I looked into Arlo cameras several times and am still iffy on them due to price, wake delay, and battery issues.
The good threads on INGO are a couple years old now... so, what else are you guys using? Can you post experiences and stills?
She has agreed to my idea of adding security cameras to our house. We already have a Ring Pro that covers ~70% of front and ~50% of drive during the day and some the yard but is not reliable for the drive at night. We already have 2 cameras that link to our existing security system on order for inside the house (main room and garage). We have an existing rear floodlight that a Ring floodlight cam would easily replace and cover rear door and 60% of back yard + shed front. One could also replace the driveway light at the top of the garage door and cover the drive to allow me to change the angle of the Ring Pro to cover the front windows.
The major disadvantage of Ring is if the motion is not tripped, you have no record of what happened.
The plan is either to add 4 wired house mounted cameras facing the 4 yard sides and drive or 3 wireless tree mounted cameras facing back towards the house + 1 over drive.
The house mounted cameras would alert to anything approaching the property as long as it is in view and have good footage, but will require more cameras to have coverage
The tree mounted cameras would have fewer false alarms and easier tracking of movement around the exterior and more coverage per camera but footage would only see it's back.
I looked into Arlo cameras several times and am still iffy on them due to price, wake delay, and battery issues.
The good threads on INGO are a couple years old now... so, what else are you guys using? Can you post experiences and stills?
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