Advice needed for CCTV

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Mellow yellow, Jun 25, 2020.

  1. Mellow yellow

    Mellow yellow Supporter

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  2. I would highly recommenced the google nest cameras: https://store.google.com/gb/magazine/compare_cameras

    I currently have 4 installed, externally and internally.

    £10 a month cost for 10 days worth of storage at full quality, any movement is sent via push notification it your phone, this can be set up for movement / sound / specific areas.

    Ability to talk though them also if required.

    i bought all of mine second had for around £100 / £130 a unit. plug them in connect to wifi and off you go.
     
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  3. I have been using a system i purchased from amazon. Cost about 180 and is briilz.
    Records onto internal HD and viewable on phone too.

    Happy with what i would call an basic cctv setup. Hd cams and IR.

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  4. Coda

    Coda Supporter

    I put up 4 decent but not expensive wired cameras that go to a linux server (hidden somewhere in the house) that runs Shinobi and records 24/7. The server and cameras are powered from a UPS so if the power is cut they will still run and record for a considerable time before dying. I already had the linux server (its my media server) so the 4 camera setup cost me about £250.

    IT is my bread and butter so it was quite easy for me to set this up but I understand its not everyones forte.

    You can buy a kit from someone like Swann that contains a recorder device and 4-8 cameras for not too much money so you dont need a separate server. That would be a lot cheaper than £1000 and you dont need to pay £ per month running costs unless you really want cloud storage. If your recorder is hidden somewhere you shouldn't need it.

    I would also recommend having some stickers on your door saying something like “Alarmed”, “Unsolicited callers not welcome and will be photographed and reporrted”, and “camera monitored premises” etc along those lines.

    What you really gain by having *any camera system* is partly deterrent, partly improved piece of mind and better sleep.
     
  5. I live in a close and like you we have experienced dodgy chancers knocking on doors and obviously checking out the properties and occupants. Maybe you could speak with your neighbours as some have cctv and experienced what you have. Personally I would not open my door to anyone I don't know and if you have a side gate then keep it locked so they can't wander round the back.

    Elderly folks like me are often targeted and seen as easy.
     
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  6. Coda

    Coda Supporter

    I wish the gubmint would sponsor all pensioners for free gun handling courses, then give out free 12 gauge shotguns to those that can demonstrate a steady hand with it while shouting 'get orf my lorn!' Should weed out a few of the dodgy characters over time.
     
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  7. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    I think one of the problems with travellers is that if they nick your bus, the police won't touch them no matter how much cctv footage you have.

    A builder who once did some work for us watched in disbelief as a couple of scrotes drove off with his pickup. He immediately contacted the police and a patrol car followed the pickup for several miles but as soon as it drove into a traveller's site that was game over. They refused to go in.

    You might be better spending your hard earned on serious preventative measures than cctv. Put some dummy cams up to deter the amateurs.
     
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  8. ^this
     
  9. Coda

    Coda Supporter

    On what grounds can the police realistically refuse to do their job?
    Never-mind, don't answer that - I just remembered I had a motorcycle nicked 25 years ago in broad daylight outside my house, neighbours gave descriptions and number plates of the thieves to the cops and they refused to follow up... and they wonder why the suicide rate in this country is going up every year...
     
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  10. Adrian1975

    Adrian1975 Supporter

    What I have done on my gated driveway is bolted a security ring in the floor and chain it to the front beam, it's a bit of a pain laying underneath to unlock,lock but its almost invisable, you can only try to make it difficult if they want it they always find a way

    DO NOT wire it to the mains electricity

    Apparantly it's illegal, who would have thought
     
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  11. Coda

    Coda Supporter

    I think eventually we will all have to start taking the law into our own hands anyway, seeing as the law 'enforcement' here are getting more incompetent and focusing instead on what brings them funding like trivial speeding fines/parking tickets.
     
  12. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    I can believe the police may have felt discretion the better part of valour in so far as going into the site at that time, but “game over”? They presumably followed this up? I can’t believe it was left as that.
     
  13. I know you said that a dog is out of the question. But my experience is pikeys hate big dogs. I lived in a rough area for a few years. Loads of houses got done by the pikeys. I had two Rottweilers. Never had an issue. Cold callers. Trick or treaters. Pikeys. General neighbourhood a holes all no problem. 6 stone of loyal killing machine with the jaw pressure of a crocodile does make people reconsider.
     
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  14. Exactly the same thing happened to my mate. His work van was stolen from his house at 4 o’clock on an august afternoon. Neighbours took down the Reg of the vehicle who dropped off the thieves. Traced to a pikey site at Redbourn. Police refused to go in there and gave him a crime number instead.
     
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  15. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    There’s a murder trial for the poor copper dragged to his death over a quad bike.

    Not all police officers are the way your post portrays them.

    If the insurance companies got off their arses and pursued civil law recovery cases against thieves, rather than simply up theirs premiums, it would make a difference.
     
  16. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    All the farmers around me make a point of letting all their dogs out when they get a visit by our jovial peg selling no fixed abode friends.
     
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  17. Coda

    Coda Supporter

    I used to have a couple of ferrets. They would make you think twice. The fact that they were cuddly and benign was not the point (well, one of them only liked to bite the wife, but that's another story).
    Cheaper to run than Rottweilers too :thumbsup::p
     
  18. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    Prevention is key.

    What’s the point of Hollywood like film quality of someone nicking your stuff?

    If you live in a close, get hold of the crime prevention officer and organise neighbourhood watch.

    The more aggressive it is the better, make a point if a few of you coming out and filming anyone or anything not usually in the close of you can’t see someone from the road with them.

    You are well within your rights to film in a public space....if two or three neighbours do this each time together then the scrotes will soon p**s off.
     
  19. Coda

    Coda Supporter

    CCTV is the first point of prevention, it will deter a good percentage of, if not all, opportunists who have not pre-planned and pre-meditated the activity.
    A good picture from CCTV is useful for capturing evidence, and also for playing back interesting events that your wife said happened next door while you were at work :burp:
     
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  20. Baysearcher

    Baysearcher [secret moderator]

    That makes no sense to me. Surely you want visual deterrents, not something hidden away under the bus that won't be noticed until they've tried to drag your bus away?
     
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