Mines bigger than yours

They look fab, I’d like one of them out the back of mine looking out over the sea at the ferries.

A quick Amazon search finds a Sony one 2mp 20x 360°× 90° with 80m ir for £240. Which to me seems a decent price.

How much is are your units. I’d imagine cheaper, as I doubt Amazon is anywhere near the cheapest for this type of kit.

In the summer we are scaffolding out the side of our house to paint it and do some work on the chimney. I may chuck one one up.

It can Partol the back yard  at night, not that it needs it, but it is very secluded, so wouldn’t hurt. And I can boat watch in the day.

Though I’ll sell it to the wife as home security, and not another toy. Could also Aim it at at my next door neighbours car (6 series bm)   and see who keeps scratching it. Or rather catch the poisonous oap from next or but one.

Edit-ooh a quick Google shows up £550+ for the hakivision models. I won’t be able to sell on on that much.

Awsome, just put a cheap (£50) motion activated camera up myself.  It is very good a picking up clouds, not that great at people.

Dave those cameras do look pretty stunning, however they do all appear to need a real time operator to select and zoom in on the object of interest. I fear that a few ‘fit and forget types of amateurs’ will hope to get the same advantage while scanning for wild life or low life.

This is not really going to happen quite so simply and brilliantly effectively, ‘zooming in’ after the event will not be quite the same.

Still the cameras have come on a long way over the past few years. While the price you are paying appears high against the low end kit, compared to what would pay for something considerably inferior a few years ago it is well worth going for the best your budget will allow.

Dave, you have confirmed what I surmised. It is vital to confirm what you want and most of all what is essential before you buy. Items on the wish list can be nice, but if you buy something of medium quality/price and upwards you are more likely to get some of those nice to have options already. Above all, it take considerable forethought and understanding before specifying and buying.

After seeing the Japanese at work I developed the idea of the tadpole project development curve. Get the eyes out front, apply intelligence and shed loads of really hard, detailed work. Select the methods and kit you require; then the deployment and commissioning is relatively simple and easy with no nasty surprises. In short you get what you set out to achieve.

A bit like the average tadpole in shape really, head and eyes first, with a tapering tail of movement type activity.

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Glad to say we in the Senior Ghetto do not appear to need cameras. We had one “prowler” last week who made the mistake of ‘prowling’ around the Close at around 1:30 am. His problem was that many of us cannot sleep well (not me) and there were several Oldphart Mafia soldiers still up. They rang each other, rang the police, advised them to leave off the bells and whistles. One unsuspecting dog walker, another village insomniac, almost ended up in the pokey. Surprising that the police took only about 5 minutes to get here though, they must have been in the area. Lincolnshire is not known for good police coverage: not their fault, manpower has been cut to the bone and it’s the second largest county, with poor roads and villages often some distance apart.

He will take another route next time he wants to walk the dog after dark, I expect. :yes:  🙂

Ed, I agree that you can get some quite satisfactory hobby kit that might once have cost a fortune for less capability. However, since some is built down to such a low set of values your second point about security is vital. I have sometimes wondered about putting something in place to monitor the garden, just so that I can see where the dogs are when SWIMBO throws a panic attack that they are missing. I should add one parameter that you did not include in your list, the time and mental bandwidth to take on the items that you need to understand before you start. That is the one thing that is currently in very short supply for me at the moment. I certainly do not have any slabs of time to spend on fully debugging a set up. The ‘average home user’ is something between the fully clued up bod who knows what they want and need and the fully clueless who will connect any tat to anything with the right shape sockets.

Two way audio just uses programs similar to those you would find on a ‘Mint’ distribution (remember the Pi fully supports a secure VNC). Mobile phone connection to a pi, just use SSH to go into the pi, if you want a call-back from the pi on motion detection just use a push notification link, and/or combine it with Raspcam remote! (app link).

I would not pretend that this is a commercial option, but it is a very viable (relatively cheap) way of a home-user learning the underlying basics of a cctv security system.