Anyone know of some wireless, motion activated surveillance cameras?

olds

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Neighbor is becoming a nuisance.
Something that will send the video to my computer and store it on a hdd.
 

olds

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Originally posted by: RossMAN
I thought you lived in BFE?

I do. The neighbor about .5 miles away started something that I finished. The other neighbors tell me he's the type to retaliate. I want video if he does something when we aren't home.
 

olds

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I called a couple of companies, they say wireless, motion activated cameras are buggy and turn on from nearby interference. May have to go with a DVR system.
 

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I use CatSpy, it seems to work fairly well. I'm borrowing the wireless cam from a friend so I don't know the brand, but I think it was about $80. I just run the RCA video feed into the composite in on my VIVO card.
 

Mill

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We had some motion activated cameras at work, but they were not wireless. I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes in being buggy. X10's products aren't of the highest quality, but they would probably fits your needs in this case.

I have seen/used the DVR systems. They are nice, but not cheap. Honestly, a regular camera with long VHS tapes would do probably just fine. Typically, they will record for quite some time. Are you worried about being away for a long time?
 

olds

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Originally posted by: Mill
We had some motion activated cameras at work, but they were not wireless. I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes in being buggy. X10's products aren't of the highest quality, but they would probably fits your needs in this case.

I have seen/used the DVR systems. They are nice, but not cheap. Honestly, a regular camera with long VHS tapes would do probably just fine. Typically, they will record for quite some time. Are you worried about being away for a long time?

We live in the woods so someone can come up from any side of our house without being seen. We are gone all day and on many weekends.
We need a four camera system that is motion activated so that we don't have a lot of video to wade through if something happens. We'd long record times so we don't have to delete footage too often.