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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...

I would be interested to know more about what you learned from your experience. Assuming you are happy after your final upgrade, what cameras, added security lights, etc., finally did the trick? Thank you.

That is solid advice looney2ns. Thanks for the comment.

Note: Barring this one lucky incident, my current cameras are not very helpful (beyond 20 feet) in the day, and worse at night. A few years back I bought my off-the-shelf security camera system, nothing special, and maybe six weeks later the police informed me there had been a break-in next...

I was watching this video, finding it quite interesting, and wondering what the heck is going on with this person. Then the completely unexpected final seconds gave me the best laugh of the day. Thank you for sharing.

That is amazingly clear, definitely face ID quality. I'm adding HDCVI to my research list. Thank you.

Thanks actran, I like the Dahua 2MP Starlights a lot. I'm going to see how bright the new floodlights make that particular area when they get installed next week. Of course, I might be "forced" to buy a 2MP and an 8MP to compare them side by side. You can't have too many cameras, right?:)

A couple of weeks ago I caught this guy on video in the middle of the night. The video is useless, but he did leave when he saw the camera, and he didn't steal the bike (forgotten outside on a fluke) that he was apparently after. He ignored my motion activated floodlight, which was interesting...

Interesting article on the subject. Link to the full article below. A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa -- the voice-controlled smart speaker -- and that the recorded audio was sent to the phone of...

Overthinking? Guilty as charged. :) Just out of curiosity, I would value your opinion on whether a lower-cost camera would be worthless once the cables are cut.

If one of my cameras is stolen, I want to insure that the thief won't bother to steal from me again by forcing him to damage or ruin the camera as he steals it. In this scenario, assume the thief would only have exterior access, and would spend at most five minutes, because perimeter sirens...