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Meanie[_6_]

On 1/27/2017 5:28 AM, wrote:
Please list your objectives.
Why do you want this?
What is it gonna cost you to monitor it remotely?
Take a look at the data rate and divide into the
numbers on your phone data plan to determine how few
minutes you could watch it.

What are you gonna do when you get an email showing
you a ski mask making off with your TV?
How are you gonna power it?
Sounds simple until you figger out that the insulation
in your attic won't let you get to the other end
of the house to power it.

You can certainly come up with good reasons for some
people to have security cameras. Watching the news and
seeing someone stealing a Xmas package off someone's
front porch is compelling. For most of us, it's
a big, expensive hassle that won't do any good.

I put up a camera to watch the front yard mostly because
I got it for $5 at a garage sale. After using it for
a year, I want my $5 bucks back and the hours I spent
setting it up. Only thing I've ever used it for is to
play back the motion capture to see if the mailman has been.

Which comes right back to your objectives.

I dont know what I'd do if I had one of them, and saw a masked raccoon
on my porch, stealing that bag of potato chips that I forgot to bring in
the house after my last Bar B Que. And worse yet, if that sucker drank
my beer that I didn't finish. (Particularly if the coon is under 21).

I guess that's why I prefer the more effective security methods. My
double barrel shotgun works every time. I keep it right by my door, and
it's always loaded....

Is it wired or wireless?

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