Recent content by JDJ

Do you already have an alarm system installed? If not, please consider getting one ASAP. A properly installed and functioning alarm system should alert you the second it is triggered, 24 hours a day. Security cameras provide great benefits. I like being able to observe my entire home...

Hi nats, facial recognition would be nice but in my situation it's not in the cards yet. I did come up with an interesting plan for the area in question (where the prowler went last time) which will have a damn good chance of a close up face shot the next time a prowler comes around. I...

Success! I got my new ASUS RT-AC68U router installed and I was able to connect the Kuna to the encrypted guest network. I'm glad to have this running again, this time securely, and appreciate the help.

Excellent. I was looking at the Ring Security System today and it looks awesome. In my house there is a siren near every door or window. A blaring alarm maximizes the odds that a burglar will run, so extra sirens are always a good idea. Since you are waiting on your camera system, you might...

Thank you very much, that helps a lot. It looks like I can't run the Kuna securely on my current Linksys router, and my Linksys is generally lacking additional security features which are built into ASUS routers. So I'm planning to buy a router that people on the forum have talked about, the...

Do you have an alarm system? If not, consider getting one. I've been happy with Simplisafe, easy to install, no contract, but there are many others to choose from. Get several sirens to increase the chance that an intruder will leave immediately without entering when he hears them blaring. It...

Will do. Thanks for your input.

Thank you fenderman, I got the guest network to show up as a selection for the Kuna, and it completes the connection process and gives me a Kuna "success" message. But then Kuna throws a "Wi-Fi error/Camera offline" message. My Linksys WRT 1200AC router documentation revealed this interesting...

I installed a Kuna exterior light before I knew anything about network security. Kuna is like Ring, allowing you to watch live video through your phone, serving as an intercom, etc. To set it up, you provide access to your Wi-Fi network, and it takes it from there. It's features are great, and...

That is true. With the layout as it is on this part of my property, a few seconds of blindness should be okay. There's enough distance that has to be traversed that it will take them that long as they get closer to the camera. I'm going to test it once I get my new cameras though to see what's...

Thanks actran. After having a DVR and a one location camera monitor for all this time, I'm going to appreciate having it on multiple tablets.

Good to know. I haven't had a false alarm since I switched out my motion detectors for magnetic switches and glass break detectors about a year ago. Thanks Looney2ns.

If my alarm tripped in the middle of the night, and there wasn't instant access to my cameras, I wouldn't know if there was a genuine threat, or if a shovel fell over in the garage. My planned solution is to create a Blue Iris/PC/Dahua system, built from what I'm learning in this forum, and...

Thanks Looney2ns, just bookmarked it.

This is very helpful. Like you, I need license plate quality cameras on the front and side of my house viewing the street in the dark, so it's good to know about the 1/1.9" and 1/1.8" sensors that worked for you at night. Last summer my neighborhood had two egging incidents in the middle of the...