Do you mean the "But here are the daytime pics from my camera (with the person standing still in the perfect lighting), how can you dispute this" posts?
I have an "idea" of what I think I want/need to do, but that has changed a fair amount over the last couple of days of reading here. That is why I decided I needed to get a camera (other than the little Wyze Cam V3 that I have been playing with) and get the license for
Blue Iris and play with them. Get familiar/comfortable with what BI and a good camera can offer so that I am better able to determine what I need and want (I think those are the same, but my wife often explains that they are not the same)
After seeing a couple of the posts with test rigs, my ideas on how to test the cameras in various locations has changed. I had never thought about putting them on a "stick" and positioning them for testing. My thought was get familiar/comfortable with BI and the 1st camera and then add additional cameras where I thought I wanted them. But after seeing those posts, after I am familiar/comfortable with the 1st camera and BI, I will now I use a test rig to try the camera in various positions to get the coverage I want from it at the front door, and mark that spot. I will then move the camera to the next position to determine where camera #2 should be and what type of camera should be there, etc. until I have all of my cameras mapped out.
I think when #1 is setup, I will take a screen capture of the view from BI so that I can then compare the coverage of the additional front cameras to verify that I have overlapping coverage like I want.
Right now, I think only the front door camera needs the identification, the ones facing down the driveways just need Detection and Observation (at least initially) since they will only be providing additional "intruder detection" to supplement the driveway alarms I have, although that is subject to change of course.
That is when you realize that the DORI numbers the manufacturers provide are WAY overestimated LOL. Those are under perfect conditions with no movement. Realistically you cut it in half for day time and then cut that half in half again (or more) for nighttime.
That sounds like vendors of all tech hardware/software I have ever seen, or come to think of it vendors in any industry... We are %100 x when in reality it is only 100% x when in a perfect world, but the real world is 50% x maximum.
Or an event happens and you realize you need some more cameras.
The first time I miss seeing a skunk or raccoon (they are viscous little monsters) and my wife takes the dog out and finds the critter I will definitely know that I need to add cameras or adjust things!
Testing for a stranger will be a little more difficult because I am semi-rural and don't have many neighbors. I do however have a neighbor that has a couple of adult kids with families who often meet at his place for get-togethers, so I may see if I can talk him into getting 1 or more of the family members to come over and walk by the cameras. I could then go to his house and see if I can determine who I caught on the camera. I could probably bribe them with some beer or scotch. Don't know if this will work or not since I am making it up on the fly based on what you said about identifying strangers.
This is another of those projects where I think a person could very quickly wind-up way down the rabbit hole and have fun learning a whole bunch of new stuff. Probably frustrating as hell at times as well but the payoff of getting past the frustration is part of the fun.
Later,
Eric