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Thanks for all the responses everyone. Some really great info here. This is great. Exactly the idea I was looking for. Told my brother about it that lives in the same neighborhood and he is very interested. What can you expect out of battery life? Year? Any way to hook this into an Insteon or...

That is not a bad idea! My only concern, would you be comfortable placing an $800 camera somewhere fully accessible like that? I did think about building a custom mailbox out of brick or something and having one side of it for the mail and the other for a camera that would be hidden that could...

That was why I asked my original question. Security camera's have their purposes for many things but what good are they when thieves are fully aware of them now and are concealing themselves? In that case a camera will show what they were doing but will be useless in identifying someone. Also my...

I live in a relatively good neighborhood but because of the location (out of the way) we have a lot of issues with people's cars being broken into and even stolen. 2 cars in the past year, that I know of, have been stolen from my neighborhood. This morning I received a message to check my...

Thanks for the replies guys. Some good stuff here. Can you explain what you mean here? I did change the switch over to layer 3 more for a learning experience. My camera's were on the same subnet as my other devices on my network but it appears they have a different IP range since being...

Thanks for the reply. While I'm not a network admin I know enough to be dangerous. In preparation for this I have spent a fair bit of money. I replaced my SOHO router with PFSense. The PFSense has 6 NIC's installed so I have plenty of room to segment physically. I purchased a 52 port non POE...

I have 5 Hikvision camera's connected to my home LAN network. A year ago I purchased a Hikvision NVR and connected the camera's to the NVR. I really like this device and have had zero issues. With that being said, to be perfectly honest I have never been comfortable with those devices being on...