@show_the_maw there are a lot of guides for beginners to get started with various packages for fancier networks that support VLANs and other such things (the route I went), and there’s also always the option of just setting up a second consumer router for the bad devices to connect with and leave the real devices on your actual network, but I respect the decision to avoid the hassle entirely.
I’d made the same decision until the new home came with almost as many smart things as I had on the main network, and I couldn’t remove a fair amount of it.
We live in a rural neighborhood and delivery drivers, particularly FedEx, are already in a hurry to meet quota before they have to drive out here and secure a signature. I had one particular delivery that was about to be returned because the FedEx driver had left three fail to deliver slips. Trouble is, I work from home within sight of the windowed front door and if he had rang the doorbell, the auxiliary doorbells (dogs) would have gone nuts. So, I got a doorbell camera so that I could record future evidence as needed. As I am alergic to cloud based anything if I don’t have to, I chose one that works locally, an Amcrest AD110. Ironically, the first important motion detection event it capture was not a delivery but escaped horses! It started a small avalanche and I now have 7 security cameras, including the doorbell.
@macromeh Yes they do exist. I’ve known people that have them as pets. Now my Grandfather kept them (the angry watch dog type) on his dairy farm to chase off intruders during the great depression. Milk theft was common in those days.
We live on a farm and have a wired camera that faces the front gate, mailbox and package locker (just a big cooler) and then we have a few more wireless cameras around.
Side note, we have some really awesome videos of our ex-postman bitching about the number of packages we buy, dropping packages from waist height into the locker, complaining we should control our dogs (who were safely behind a gate/fence and were barking because we’d just moved in and they weren’t familiar with daily life yet.)
Not that anyone cares, but he disappeared from our route after a couple of our packages “got delivered to a house down the street that apparently hadn’t checked their mail in a while and the packages were still there.”
Postman antics alone were worth the cameras. Easy to prove things weren’t delivered when there’s a timestamp and no postman.
Our house, and the house around me never had doorbells installed when they were built. Rather then pay for wiring etc we got a ring doorbell. It is really nice to be able to hear and see when someone is outside.
I have one. I get to know every time my wife lets the dogs out while I’m at work. At least they recently upgraded the app so now you can sleep the alert for more than 4 hours.
As an “alert” mechanism, it’s worthless, because it activates anytime a car drives by on my street (almost every other minute during the daytime). I have been able to nab a ne’er-do-well or two, but you have to work your way thru a lot of footage of innocent drive-bys, walkers, joggers, and kids on bikes to find the actual malice.
I know every time the wife goes to check the mail or look at the flowers in the yard. Also every time a big white truck drives by. And also when UPS or Amazon is dropping something on the porch. I’ll have a great video when the home break in happens, if they come through the front, but not from the back… My only complaint is that it takes 5 minutes or more to see who was there if I’m not home.
We don’t have any but I would like one. We pretty much get our packages, sometimes we’ll go through periods where they’ll deliver them to different neighbors but we know our neighbors and get them back. Around the holidays is when it gets bad bc of all the temp drivers. The neighborhoods around here have had a lot of crime lately but thankfully it hasn’t come into our neighborhood.
I’m an IT lifer, so I’ve got a camera on my front walk, my back patio and up high on the side of my house. I’ve got them on their own VLAN (dork talk) so they can put their data on the cloud but can’t see my internal network. One business trip, I had just landed in Orlando for a Citrix convention when two dumbasses decided to steal my lawnmower. Cameras had my back. They were arrested before I had dinner thanks to my dorkiness. Really good grouper by the way.
I have a tiny Blink camera mounted on an upstairs window frame that covers the whole front door area just fine. And it’s almost invisible, unlike an obvious doorbell camera.
Our house (at least 100 years old) came with a barely audible doorbell (the ringer is in the basement below the front hall!). I put up a field camera to record comings and goings with no internet connection. We recently got a Eufy package delivery box (it works well) that records some front door visits, but not all, since it is not adjacent to the door, and it sends a notice via WiFi.
In a world of internet of things, I don’t need some low/no security chirp box sitting on my network just looking to be tunnel into my shit.
Also, I don’t know dick about properly hardening my network so I’m taking an abstinence approach to just not put shady shit on my network.
@show_the_maw there are a lot of guides for beginners to get started with various packages for fancier networks that support VLANs and other such things (the route I went), and there’s also always the option of just setting up a second consumer router for the bad devices to connect with and leave the real devices on your actual network, but I respect the decision to avoid the hassle entirely.
I’d made the same decision until the new home came with almost as many smart things as I had on the main network, and I couldn’t remove a fair amount of it.
@show_the_maw you’re almost half-way there in cybersecurity buzzword bingo.
Yes, I have one from a previous sale here.
No, I still have not installed it.
Does that count for “more complicated”, or is it just typical for Meh customers?
@phendrick
Judging from the bidet I received in an IRK (but never installed) I would say it’s par for the clientele.
@phendrick @chienfou The video security cams I bought here 6 years ago are still diligently monitoring the inside of their packaging.
We live in a rural neighborhood and delivery drivers, particularly FedEx, are already in a hurry to meet quota before they have to drive out here and secure a signature. I had one particular delivery that was about to be returned because the FedEx driver had left three fail to deliver slips. Trouble is, I work from home within sight of the windowed front door and if he had rang the doorbell, the auxiliary doorbells (dogs) would have gone nuts. So, I got a doorbell camera so that I could record future evidence as needed. As I am alergic to cloud based anything if I don’t have to, I chose one that works locally, an Amcrest AD110. Ironically, the first important motion detection event it capture was not a delivery but escaped horses!
It started a small avalanche and I now have 7 security cameras, including the doorbell.
/showme a house that looks like a camera
Nope. I got a herd of cacti protecting me.
@yakkoTDI Nice…but I have angry geese
@detailer Cacti make way less noise.
@detailer @yakkoTDI Do happy geese even exist?
@yakkoTDI True, but they won’t chase your ass into the next zip code. Looking at you holy rollers.
@macromeh Yes they do exist. I’ve known people that have them as pets. Now my Grandfather kept them (the angry watch dog type) on his dairy farm to chase off intruders during the great depression. Milk theft was common in those days.
My place is so small that getting my phone out to check a camera would take longer than just looking out the window.
The current doorbell is so old that it’s an actual bell. As in you can visibly see the hammer strike the bell when someone presses the button.
@brennyn Nice!
@brennyn At this point, it’s vintage and will shortly be all the rage.
Yes, and I like it fine for what it is…
/showme a doorbell, but it’s a shoulder tv camera
/showme a house that looks like a movie camera
@mediocrebot maybe that one window…
Are you trying to spy on my? I will neither confirm nor deny the hidden cameras watching the doors and yard.
We live on a farm and have a wired camera that faces the front gate, mailbox and package locker (just a big cooler) and then we have a few more wireless cameras around.
Side note, we have some really awesome videos of our ex-postman bitching about the number of packages we buy, dropping packages from waist height into the locker, complaining we should control our dogs (who were safely behind a gate/fence and were barking because we’d just moved in and they weren’t familiar with daily life yet.)
Not that anyone cares, but he disappeared from our route after a couple of our packages “got delivered to a house down the street that apparently hadn’t checked their mail in a while and the packages were still there.”
Postman antics alone were worth the cameras. Easy to prove things weren’t delivered when there’s a timestamp and no postman.
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
Our house, and the house around me never had doorbells installed when they were built. Rather then pay for wiring etc we got a ring doorbell. It is really nice to be able to hear and see when someone is outside.
I have one. I get to know every time my wife lets the dogs out while I’m at work. At least they recently upgraded the app so now you can sleep the alert for more than 4 hours.
As an “alert” mechanism, it’s worthless, because it activates anytime a car drives by on my street (almost every other minute during the daytime). I have been able to nab a ne’er-do-well or two, but you have to work your way thru a lot of footage of innocent drive-bys, walkers, joggers, and kids on bikes to find the actual malice.
/giphy hell-yeah
What the funyon?
I know every time the wife goes to check the mail or look at the flowers in the yard. Also every time a big white truck drives by. And also when UPS or Amazon is dropping something on the porch. I’ll have a great video when the home break in happens, if they come through the front, but not from the back… My only complaint is that it takes 5 minutes or more to see who was there if I’m not home.
We don’t have any but I would like one. We pretty much get our packages, sometimes we’ll go through periods where they’ll deliver them to different neighbors but we know our neighbors and get them back. Around the holidays is when it gets bad bc of all the temp drivers. The neighborhoods around here have had a lot of crime lately but thankfully it hasn’t come into our neighborhood.
I’m an IT lifer, so I’ve got a camera on my front walk, my back patio and up high on the side of my house. I’ve got them on their own VLAN (dork talk) so they can put their data on the cloud but can’t see my internal network. One business trip, I had just landed in Orlando for a Citrix convention when two dumbasses decided to steal my lawnmower. Cameras had my back. They were arrested before I had dinner thanks to my dorkiness. Really good grouper by the way.
I have a tiny Blink camera mounted on an upstairs window frame that covers the whole front door area just fine. And it’s almost invisible, unlike an obvious doorbell camera.
Our house (at least 100 years old) came with a barely audible doorbell (the ringer is in the basement below the front hall!). I put up a field camera to record comings and goings with no internet connection. We recently got a Eufy package delivery box (it works well) that records some front door visits, but not all, since it is not adjacent to the door, and it sends a notice via WiFi.
Yes, but never one from Ring.