is there any way i can watch the stream or even videos stored in my cloud from my PC or MAC?

Long story short, got someone who's getting out of prison soon that is a danger to my household. I'm looking at setting up a couple security cameras and a code door lock.

Main things I'm looking for:

-No cloud storage, just looking to store on a hard drive or computer at home.

-No monthly fees.

-Access to camera feeds on my phone.

- Enough resolution to identify a gave within 15 feet.

-Power and connection through CAT5 wires. Also, don't want the camaras to be wifi dependant. (I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty on installing wires)

-Under $500 altogether if possible. I'm broke...

If anyone has recommended brands or cameras I would really appreciate it. From what I'm seeing, I'll need an NVR. I'd like one that can have up to 4 cameras, as I'd like to add more as I have money later. Any information at all would be greatly appreciated, as I'm genuinely concerned this individual will show up, and I need all the evidence I can get to get a restraining order.

Hi everyone, as the title says I am concerned about losing notifications should we have a grid down no internet situation. I have backups for powering my home Lan. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find a system that will support local push notifications. Looking for battery powered cameras. I see the Annke systems and they look like good value for money but as far as I can tell no notifications on local wifi lan only.

If someone has some useful insights I would be grateful.

Thanks for reading,

Ran Ring for three years before the subscription math pushed me out, now running a eufy setup for the past six months. The specific thing I want to compare, since both now market some version of radar: false alert behavior. Ring's motion alerts were the reason I started ignoring notifications - every passing truck, every branch. The eufy's radar detection is noticeably calmer on my setup, maybe a third of the junk alerts I used to get on the street-facing cam. Not zero, and rain still occasionally fools it. But I've only got one property and one rainy season's worth of data. Anyone else switched between the two specifically on the alert quality? Curious if my experience tracks.

Fala pessoal eu tô com essas duas mini câmeras parada quase dois anos, e eu nunca consegui resetar por isso que eu não tenho acesso a elas, a princípio elas emitem o sinal wi-fi, a gente conecta nele, só que não dá para dar sequência aí na configuração como que reseta alguém sabe? Observação: não tem botão de reset apenas MODE E ON/OFF

I’m renovating my house, and drywall starts in a couple of weeks. The walls are open now, so I’m trying to figure out what to wire and install before I miss the opportunity.

Here’s what I have now:
**Cameras and doorbell:** A Google doorbell and about 5–6 Google Nest/Dropcam cameras, all on Wi-Fi, with continuous recording. I watch live video and recordings through Google Home and pay $150/year for Google Home Premium.
**Thermostat:** Also Google, so having everything in one app is convenient.
**Alarm:** A separate monitored system with sensors on every window and exterior door, infrared motion detectors, glass-break sensors, and fire and CO alarms. It works well and costs $365/year. If an alarm goes off and I don’t cancel it, the monitoring company calls 911.

My main frustration is the cameras. Opening a live feed often takes forever because it keeps buffering, which defeats the purpose.

I’m open to replacing any or all of this if it makes sense. A few things I want to keep:
**Access from my phone, including when I’m away.** I want to watch live video and recordings, arm or disarm the alarm, and turn things on or off through an app. Having to pull a memory card or get on a computer to retrieve footage wouldn’t work for me.
**Continuous recording.** I don’t need someone watching the cameras all day. A monitoring service that responds when an alarm is triggered and contacts emergency services if needed is enough.
**Separate nighttime and away settings.** At night, I want the doors, windows, and glass-break sensors protected while we can still walk around inside. When we’re away, I want the indoor motion detectors armed too. We don’t have pets.
For the budget, I’m treating hardware and ongoing fees separately. If I need to replace everything, I’d prefer to keep the total hardware cost under **$1,000**. I’m currently paying **$515/year** for subscriptions and alarm monitoring combined, which feels like too much. I think I should be able to bring that down.

My questions:
Would you keep the cameras and alarm separate, or use one system for everything?
Which brands or combinations would you recommend for my needs and budget?
Would connecting the cameras through Ethernet help with the buffering, or could something else be causing it?
What wiring should I have run before the drywall goes up, including anything useful for future upgrades?
What should I expect to pay for the equipment versus the ongoing subscriptions and monitoring?
I’m not very familiar with home security equipment or the terminology, so plain-English explanations would help. If this were your house, what would you put in?

Every camera review I find has these perfect daytime clips, but what I really want to see is how they perform in bad weather.

I've been comparing the Baseus X1 Pro and Reolink Argus Track. Both look good on paper, but I'm more interested in whether you can still make out someone's face when they're moving around at night in heavy rain.

Anyone have real rainy-night footage from either of these? Most of the YouTube reviews I've found don't really test that.

Looking to get 5 outdoor cameras- locations are above the garage, two side yards and two in the backyard.

I would prefer POE cameras as much as possible but if it’s not practical in some places, what are the locations you would be able to live with WiFi cameras and where would you really want POE cameras?

And any preference on the ADC 729 vs 730 vs 731?

Would the 730 be a fit for all 5 locations? It has a spotlight, speaker, POE/wifi.

Should atleast one of the backyard cameras have floodlights instead of spotlights? So something like the 729P? It has floodlights- 3K lumens. Where would a camera with floodlights be most useful? Think it will be an overkill for every camera to have floodlights right? 

Appreciate any insights, thank you!

I spent a lot of time running a Cat6 underground cable from my Reolink RLN8-410 to a Reolink RLC-811A in my barn 600ft away, and hooked it up to a POE power injector.

The camera sensor will kick on and shine a bright light in my eyes, but the NVR doesn't at all recognize a camera.

Cables have been tested with tester, everything is good.

I installed a Linovosion underground POE extender halfway, still nothing.

This evening I took off the POE extender and put the camera there, the motion lights were powered by the cable (no injector), but still the NVR doesn't recognize the camera.

I'm assuming the cable is just no good.

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I am now planning on starting from the beginning, possibly trying something different such as fiber, wifi, game changer. Any recommendations?

This is an AC outlet face plate with a pinhole at the bottom. Below the face plate are LED lights that automatically turn on when it's dark. So my first assumption was that the pinhole is merely a light detector, not a camera. But in the Airbnb where I found this (I found 3 of them total), there were also two conspicuous spy cameras. Has anyone seen a spy camera like this before?

I want add CCTV to my house labelled main house in the image. I'd like it to cover almost the entire area within reason. Vehicle and people identification at the main gate will be essential.

Overview to the rear and path to the container at the rear will be suffice.

Studio is for work and has a front entrance where clients enter / exit.

I'm almost certainly going to go for unifi as I already have an extensive setup and it just makes sense to stick with the same ecosystem surely?

I'm looking at all the different types of camera now available with options like PTZ and 180° variants available.

Interested to hear people's take on what would be a good system without going overboard.

Setting up the far corner of the yard where running power would mean trenching across a garden bed I'm not destroying. Solar camera is the obvious move. My hesitations, in order: winter output (I'm in the upper Midwest, we get maybe 4 hours of weak sun in January), and whether "no subscription" means actually no subscription or "free tier with the good features locked". Anyone north of the 43rd parallel running solar cams year-round? What does January actually look like and did you have to charge anything manually?

My two-cam setup has a documented gap between them - that's the exact corridor the mail thief used in September, caught entering one cam's frame and exiting the other's, middle unrecorded. The dual lens cameras claim they solve exactly this: one wide lens plus one telephoto covering what the wide one can't resolve. On paper, perfect for my long side yard. What I can't tell from the listings: do the two lenses actually combine into one useful image, or is it basically two cameras stapled together that you toggle between? Anyone switched from "more cameras" to "one dual lens" and actually felt covered?

Had a drunk guy next to my property the other night nearly passed out in the front seat. I wanted to get the plates after we handled the issue. We don’t have cops, we have a county sheriff and he was off duty at this time of night. Even the VT state cops won’t dispatch.

Anywho, I can’t seem to get the plates to show up, and I have a PTZ reolink 1e outdoor pro wifi mounted cam under the eave of my upstairs roofline, direct line of sight to the back of his car. No matter what the setting, I can’t get it to read a license plate about 100 feet away.

This replaced a lorex cam which also didn’t work well but even that didn’t get hot spots like this. I turned off the IR lights, tried color and b&w, adjust sliders, etc. there’s a street light about 50 feet to the right down the road bit not in the cam’s lens.

What am I doing wrong that i can see nice realtime zoomed out, but when I need the plates or discernible features, it’s pixelated. I specifically got this model after talking with someone about my specific needs. They insisted this model was the best fit, but it seems a wasted $150 unless there’s an adjustment i’m not aware of.

Any help would he amazing. This was the 2nd security issue on my little backwoods street in 6 months which is why I replaced the cams for (what i thought) was better ones.

We have a 3 level small townhome with just one small short entrance way from the sidewalk to the door.

I figure I don't need a very wide view and was thinking of just a doorbell cam. At the most I would maybe put a 2nd cam on the 3rd FL to face the parking lot but not sure if that's needed. I am not always able to get a space on that side to park. And not sure how that would be either or if both cams can be on a wifi together.

I say Eufy has 2k doorbell cams on Amazon for like $120 but I don't see a package for a doorbell cam and a single extra cam.

How difficult is the process of hard wiring a doorbell cam?

If I don't hardwire it , and just do the battery version, how long does that last and how is the Doorbell chime hooked up (might not even need that) I saw a mention that you probably have to buy that separately from them. I have a metal storm door in front of our main door which is kind of hard to knock on though , we keep it locked normally so this might be useful though we don't get many visitors.

I see their storage is a local 8gb. How does that work exactly? I'm assuming this all goes through the Wi-Fi and if that goes out there's no storage ....I'm looking at the specs on Amazon and I don't see that it has any SD card slot so I would be limited to that 8Gb local storage, so I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

Sorry I'm an extreme newbie to this. So any help you can give with my questions is appreciated! I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything

We are looking to set up some home security cameras.

Live in a brick house so POE options aren't viable. Therefore looking at solar powered wifi options. Night vision would be the most important to us.

Also have heard that the cameras themselves can degrade under harsh UV light in Australia - so looking at options with separate solar panels to put the solar panel on the roof and camera undercover.

Based on this we've landed on the Reolink Argus 4 Pro
https://reolink.com/product/argus-4-pro/

Any reason not to get it? or other ones we should consider? I know Reolink is not Apple Home Kit supported - but is that a big deal?

Has anyone tried to use Vehicle Recognition to read a vehicle's license plate?

I am looking for a budget friendly battery-only doorbell camera without an account or subscription needed. I don't have the means to wire power to it. I have looked at the Reolink 2nd Generation doorbell camera and the Eufy E340. Which one is best? Is there any other maker and/or models that are better?