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Have a couple in the backyard, but none in the front - would certainly make it easier to mount them higher up than pedestals without looking odd. Trenching the wire is the only tricky part as it’d have to pass through some mature gardens (and their tangle of roots) to get to the house.

True, it was an old system probably installed when the house was new (~25 years) - when we looked at it afterwards it was just a set of EEPROMs and Relays without an IC in sight. Fortunately we tested ours afterwards and it worked as you said - as soon as we got close to a motion sensor (you’d...

Much appreciated! Hard to come at problems like this from a purely theoretical point of view, so definitely can use any experience that I can get! Makes it tricky as I’ve got no structures closer than 65’ from the road to mount a camera on, so geometry is my enemy here - to get smaller angles...

Good point - right now everything goes to my DVR, but I could get a PoE switch and relocate the recorder somewhere else. One of the DVRs uses coax so I couldn’t do much for it, but it’s just a gap filler so it’s not critical (and could be a benefit as they may assume they got it all after...

I’ve had a surveillance system for a few years now and have good coverage of my property, but I intentionally aimed them to minimize overlap into adjacent properties as I didn’t want to intrude into their privacy. A neighbour was robbed a couple weeks back, however, and that’s made me...