I'm glad I found this forum. My neighbor's Prius was jacked up this morning (at 7:22 am!) and had their catalytic converter stolen, which is apparently a trend.
We all have
doorbell cameras and I have a wireless Reolink Argus Eco, but none of the cameras were able to successfully capture the license plate of the thieves car and the police report will basically be meaningless without that bit of evidence.
I've been doing research all day on different LPR systems. I also had a consultation with someone from Flocksafety, which would be $2,250 a year for one camera or $4,500 for two cameras... which, when split between the neighborhood wouldn't be terrible. My only thing about DIY is doing ethernet cable runs, which is never fun.
A lot of the specific "LPR" cameras I've been finding are hella expensive, with one from Nelly's (NSC-LPR832-BT1) being the cheapest at $700 a pop. But from what I'm seeing here, it looks like you guys are mostly using Hikvision or some other type of camera and then leveraging OpenALPR.
Is that the best course of action for saving a buttload of money and having a highly configurable system?
Thanks, and apologies in advance for the noob post.