QQ6 spy camera

[Marc Berry]

Hi guys

My brother in law thinks that someone may be going into his rented property while he’s at work such as the landlord or a previous tenant.

Has just gone to Thailand for a few weeks and asked me to order a cheap camera and leave it on motion detection.

Any one had experience with the QQ6 camera found on Amazon uk? I can’t get the motion detection mode to work.

In case anyone wonders, you are allowed to record while in your own property as no one should enter without his permission.

Cheers, marc

[Marc Berry]

Forgot to say that I can work it fine for continuous recording but that would run down the battery and fill the sd too quickly.

Also, I’ve followed the better instructions on the amazon uk review but still must be doing something wrong

[Dave Rice]

Looks like it doesn’t last much longer when doing motion detection.

I don’t think it’s designed for what you want to do.

[Marc Berry]

Dave Rice wrote:

Looks like it doesn’t last much longer when doing motion detection. I don’t think it’s designed for what you want to do.

cheers dave. as i say, i’m not confident i am getting it into motion detection mode as when i check back the footage it is just continuous 5 minute segments

[Dave Rice]

Looking at the sort of manual it saves in 5 minutes segments. Something to do with files sizes maybe? There’s lots of people out there who are having the same trouble.

[The Duke]

Does it not save in five min chunks, (mine can do 1/3/5 min chunks, then as the storage runs out it records over the oldest chunk.

If you manually hit capture, or the motion/g detector is triggered it will save that chunk to a dedicated  folder that won’t be recorded over automatically.

If your setting the camera up in the home, powered it off a USB phone charger, or a large power bank 15k mah should get you long stints.

Saying all that, you would be better off paying out a bit more (quite a bit) and buying a proper camera that streams the footage to an online server, then the landlord/trespasser, can’t just take the camera/sd card, well they could, but you’d still have the footage. This would be rather pricey, at about £100 for the camera, and a monthly sub for there integrated  online backup.

Your pest bet would be to buy a raspberry pi set up a camera on it, £30 total, have it capture 1 frame a second or 3 (so photo slide show) and have it upload to your home PC, or even a Google drive. I’m sure there is an If this then that (Ifttt) script to do this very easily.

You can hide a pi in an old tea/coffee/sugar can. And run it off a 15k power bank for full stealthness. Failing that a phone charger is stealthy too.

 

[PlaneMan]

Just set up an old phone, hidden somewhere.

Loads of options but you could start here.

I did it years ago before I got IP cameras at mum’s place.

[Marc Berry]

Cheers guys

Only problem with some of those suggestions, he has no internet. Due to being a 6 month rental agreement that he doesn’t think he’ll be renewing he never got it done. Also, the data signal isn’t great.

Do any of the Android apps save to device or are they all for remote viewing?

Thanks all

[PlaneMan]

Some of the Android apps will save to local memory (internal or micro SD), some are remote only. A very few will do both.

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