Neighbors had an incident.

Vandalism... not theft... but a real mess. Local family building a new home... they waited FOREVER for their window and door package. Some kids broke every one of the new doors and windows (they had just arrived and were staged in the unfinished garage).

Bottomline... a real mess.

Kids have also been seen up driveways... "Looking around garages etc."

Six of us on this very rural dead end road... Pondering a 6-8 camera system. There is 120v power and very good structure to place cameras capture stills/video. There is also some great "shooting lanes" to ID anyone coming or going.

I know nothing of this ever changing technology.

Ideally, 2-3 of the cameras would transmit high resolution wirelessly 300-400 yards. The other cameras would transmit 50 yards or less on wireless.

Can anyone recommend specific modern technology?

Thanks

Budget... under $5k if possible.

Under $1k would be better.

Cell service?

Look at Reolink goPT

I've been out of that game for a bit now but there are all kinds of systems on Amazon for under a grand. It's all much less expensive than it was years ago. I wouldn't be afraid to buy a relatively generic system.

Are you looking for wireless or hard wired? Just make sure the system you choose has a couple T bite hard drive along with the mux or you'll be shopping for one to fit after install.

ETA: Sorry reread your intitial post, 300 to 400 yards wireless....That might be a stretch without cell technology involved. 50 is pretty easily done.

Thanks... I'll study that.

I am thinking more of a dedicated DVR type recorder with some 1,000 Terra hard drives or something like that.

High resolution... PROSECUTABLE IMAGES.

YES on the wireless... running hard wires 300-400 yards is a PITA... unless that is absolutely essential.

Resolution would be priority for me. Can’t tell you how many job sites thefts end in “we got pics but can’t make out the plate/faces”.

I gave a key to my place to the full time neighbor, take him nice country ham/booze for Christmas. Deeded them an easement for access etc…. Best security system money can buy. He’s ran off quite a few scheit heads for me.

YEPP... same.

The vandal fuggs are NOT LOCALS (fugging come here yankees)... we know exactly who they are. Now to bust their asses.

They are terrified of my dogs... and my AK.

Good thing. If they were local, the local LEO’s wouldn’t do scheit. Had a trespassing thieving POS last year and the commonwealths attorney refused to do anything. Long story but I have an email from her that would got her disbarred if I’d felt like pursuing it.

I put up a Ring floodlight with a camera in it. It was less than $100. It uses my Wifi router, and will send me an alert whenever something passes it. I can see video and zoom. I can also turn on a siren or speak with someone in front of it. I’ve had it about a year, and it’s great. Easy to install and use; even for a tech challenged old fart like me.

I’ve not done it, but neighbors can connect to each others’ systems as well if the agree to.

They make different products for different applications, but the floodlight works perfectly for my situation.

Greg giving some good advice , stepson has a similar system at their house .
It’s pretty dam good for the cost .
Plus side you can get the system direct to your phone , I think .
I can find out the system if you like .
The ones I have are older and go to a monitor with an SC card and today’s thieves know to take the card or monitor.
So if you go this route put the monitor in a gun safe or hidden place .

I have mentioned this here before , but will mention it again .
Some years ago witnessed a case get thrown out because the property owner had not posted notice that property was under video surveillance.
Don’t know if it was an azzhole judge or law .
Do know that a lot of businesses have such signs in their windows .
Something you might want to look into .
Kenneth

Lot of info on this site.
https://www.backstreet-surveillance.com/

I like the way you think!

How strong is your internet? That's the limitation of my cameras

Very Strong

Impressive...

Why bother with cameras? An aluminum bat makes a very rewarding "PING" when it meets kneecaps and elbows.

I have an Arlo system on my houseboat with ATT cellular WIFI hub. The resolution on their cameras is very good.

If you have decent cell service consider this model. With the solar panel it would be a solution for the remote cameras. There is a monthly charge for the cell service.

Arlo cellular camera

If you have WIFI near your home their other cameras will work well. You will receive notifications when motion is detected. You can buy a hub and record everything.

Setup is very simple.

I bought a Blink camera at Best Buy for like $60 and put it in my deer stand in Wisconsin. I see what it sees on my cell phone—in Northwestern Ontario. Easily identify faces and liscense plates on vehicles driving by.

when looking at the surveillance cameras for my system which is a lower priced Zeos setup, I wanted wireless thinking they would be battery powered. They were not so I still would need to have a power source for them.

I wanted a camera close enough to the road that if someone broke into our car we would have high enough resolution at night to identify them and possibly a license plate

So I ended up buying a stand alone unit that was battery powered, similar to Blink, and let it record straight to an SD card in a loop. The downside is that I had to move a router to the window so that it would be able to access my wireless internet to get a strong enough signal to send video.

I have a blink doorbell and a couple of indoor cameras. I also bought the blink hub so I could record the video locally on an SD card without a subscription but after trying two different usb memory sticks, I never got it to work. Admittedly I didn't screw around with it very much as I use the indoor cameras to mostly check on the dogs during the day.

so I ended up with a hodge podge of stuff and have 3 different apps on my phone to monitor it.

We had to get a wireless booster antenna to receive wireless camera footage at 250yds. My wife had a computer geek come out and set it all up to a hard drive and backed it up with Cloud. Pretty neat to see what's happening at your place 24/7 as long as you have phone service. Whatever you do get a solar panel to keep the batteries charged in your camera's. Haven't had a problem with 5 cameras in over 2 years.

not that up on this stuff but I was talking to a previous neighbor about it and he had actually set up one of his cameras inside the garage looking out (covering the man door and roll-up door.) That sounds like a good +1 for your situation...

I work in an area with a need for intense security footage. When we upgraded last year I asked the security contractors what they would use on a home.

The unanimous answer was the hi def arlo system.

Pretty cool technology...



PTZs with 300+ feet of color rated night vision. AI for license plate capture.

Better a PITA than $15K in construction damage. Hire one of those companies who contract to Ma Bell, that run the underground phone wires. Dude came out with a little tractor gizmo and ran 100 yards of cable to my house in about 10 minutes. Took him longer to set up than it did to actually run the wire.

That's an awesome setup, our system isn't nearly as good.

Try the "Ring" doorbell camera. I get 180 degrees from just the doorbell. It will alarm me wherever I am when someone comes into the range of the camera and the activity is recorded in case you ever had to look up what happened...

I've got 24 cameras around the house and on the property ... inside and out.

Several layers.

Closed Circuit along the roads and out front ... 400 yards down the driveway along with motion sensors. That was an expensive installation but worth it in the overall scheme of things given we live down a 2 mile dirt road and it takes Sheriffs awhile to get out here. We just recently had an attempted break-in, while she was alone inside with the babies, down the road at a young couple's house and the LEOs were able to use my closed circuit footage to catch the cracker slimball crackhead who tried it in his beat-up old Lincoln ... had footage of him driving past our driveway at 1:57 in the morning minutes after she ran him off with her pistol ... he ran back out to the road and jumped in his car and took off and came right by our place at 2:06.

We used to have zero crime ... but crackheads drive around looking for homes remotely located back in the woods these days and it is happening everywhere.

If you do hard wired closed circuit, it is expensive but get the pros to install it because if they are not properly installed and grounded they are prone to take lightening strikes plus you have-to hard wire power out to them ... and coax and #14 are not cheap. If I did it again these days I would power source them with solar and batteries but you still have to bury coaxial cable and ground it plus they put arrestors on the lines and have to waterproof them and all that. Took them two days to get them installed and up and running. Your yard will habe trenches in them until the grass grows back too plus you have to jump through hoops with the power and phone companies to make sure your lines are not cut.

Might not be as difficult for people hard wiring their systems up close to their homes.

We have Ring and SimpliSafe up close around the house ... great cameras and alarm systems but both have limited wireless range. I like their monitoring abilities and their apps.

Arlo out at the shop, the chicken houses and at both barns, but I had to have separate Internet installed out there. My Foreman monitors those on his phone and tablet but he tells me he loves them so far. We just had those installed this past November after being warned about SJW attacks on farms around the Carolinas.

Best deal going, imho, are the Geeni systems. I have them inside the home and at the MiL's house and two of their outdoor cameras up there at her place. Easy installation, very affordable, and a great app for viewing plus they have remote lights and alarms. So we can flick lights on remotely, monitor cameras 24/7 on our phones and tablets, plus the great thing about those is that their cloud service is suoer cheap plus you can install chips for more memory.

If I were on a limited income or just starting out I would start with the Geeni system. They're sold everywhere snd their camera motion sensing technology is outstanding as is their IR capabilities.

https://www.uhaul.com/

I’ve got 6 arlo’s at 2 different properties. With solar panels. They are great. I have good WiFi both places (you might be surprised how far from your house you can get a WiFi signal). I have not tried their cellular. You don’t need a hub to record - for a small monthly fee you get free unlimited storage in the cloud for 30 days and can download from the cloud to your phone or computer if you want to save them for longer than 30 days

I am using their storage service, but I keep my houseboat at times in an area with spotty cell service. The hub is to record will be a backup if the cell service does not work. In the future I will upgrade my cameras at home and use the same basic setup.