So much political talk!
Anyways... Finally got the solar Wifi camera up. I set it up to push a notification as well as E-mail me when theres motion after 6 PM...we close at 4. Caught 2 cars just "chilling" in our parking lot.... Caught a guy doing donuts in the culde-sac... I wish the camera was louder so I could play shit to make people go away... but at least theyre on video. It's nice... it'll auto track them and keep them in the frame and move with them. Next step is to install a bullhorn where I can wifi through and tell them to GTFO the property... There is a few pre-made solution that play a siren, but then I'd be in another eco-system and not sure how well they work. The Camera is great though, ties into our existing system and is completelly wireless, It charged to 100% on a rainy day... and I've been remoting into it, downloading videos and everything, and it's still at 99%.
- Guy deciding to do donuts...
- This is it tracking a car and moving along with it... This one is a cop car (We were told to give this unit a heads up whenever we got an alert and they'd stop by and shoo people away for the next few weeks due to our break in... sadly the 2 cars that were there left before they did.) Video quality is nice... Its mounted up pretty high and looking down at a weird angle though, when lights are by the plate it cant read it due to the reflection, which kind of sucks...when the car is stationary it can. But for a $120 camera, not going to complain... It's mainly there to deter people. Fun fact... that white door you see on the bottom left near the end is the door they angle grinded through. was a $450 door to replace, but its finally replaced... adding a vinyl wrap to the front as well as reinforcing it with some layers of aluminum and rubber and few other surprises that will destroy an angle grinder disk.
it has a small light, ontop of the solar flood light we installed - It'll turn on when its tracking so people can see it... And its mounted right above the utility room door, but has 360 so it can swing around to see the front door too.
Just ordered 2 more cameras... one for the other side of our parking lot / building, and one for the other side of our building thats just fire doors and
windows... I have a camera system, but running POE on the roof was a pain in the butt so I slacked off and didnt do it for years. For a few hundred bucks, a system that records and uploads all videos to FTP as well as saves it to an SD Card... and alerts me the moment it detects someone... Well worth the price. At minimal I get alerted someone is there, and even if you can't see the plate or their face because its covered they wont have hours to try to break in.
Of course if they want to get in, they'll still get in. But between all the wired and wireless cameras that will send notifications as soon as they detect someone and movement in key areas... At least we'll know they are there.
Cops said with the amount of work, and how they went right for the power they think it was an "Inside job" for lack of better terms - not an employee, but first thing they did was ask if we got new equipment... which we did, a F1612 worth 100k CAD maybe a month or two ago... So their running theory is someone blabbed about having new equipment, and one of their friends tried to break into the building to get it. Seems a bit farfetched to me, but it also seems a bit more co-ordinated than our usual crackhead break in attempts, so who knows.
(100% sure it's not an employee because half of them have keys, and the reason the other half dont is because theyre not smart enough to know to shut the power to the building off.... plus they all know we have indoor cameras that are on backup battery power)
The zoom in isnt the best quality, but for a 36" wide sign, being able to make out the text is really good at 25 FT away.
