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Hi
Having had an attempted break in at my house a few weeks back, multiple cars broken into on the street since then, several other attempted break ins on the street and last night a neighbour was broken into, I feel the time to reconsider CCTV may have come (until about 4 months ago this was a lovely quiet street).
So, I'm looking at CCTV cameras to cover the front of the house (footpath running past it and road), the side of the house and possible the back/garage (not so worried about the back as to get to that someone would have to come round the side, or wade through a stream, up a steep bank and over a fence).
The house is a detached one, with a road/path running in front of it (there is about 6-10 foot of front garden with hedge and path), a shared drive to one side leading to the garage and back garden.
The path out front is reasonably well lit by street lighting, the back garden has a couple of PIR's (one covering the back gate and set to only come on if someone is within about 3 foot of the gate, it rarely goes off unless somoene is at the gate).
Only one side of the house has no real existing lighting, but it also has no windows/doors (the other side has an 8 foot high wall, with about a 12 foot drop onto various nasty bits including bits of scaffolding* if someone tried climbing over it into our garden).
I'll try and post a rough diagram of it later.
My initial thought is possibly a 3 or 4 camera standalone setup with two cameras covering the front (pointing both directions), and one covering the side or the back.
My thought is that possibly for the side if the cameras is low light/IR sensitive, rather than go with cameras that have IP lamps on the camera, fit a discrete IR source triggered by a PIR so it's not obvious that it's on, but illuminates better than a camera mounted light.
But I have no idea which system out of the dozens/hundreds out there to possible go with.
*we use it to store some bulky DIY gear that isn't used much and not overly affected by the elements (it's below the level of the back patio).
Having had an attempted break in at my house a few weeks back, multiple cars broken into on the street since then, several other attempted break ins on the street and last night a neighbour was broken into, I feel the time to reconsider CCTV may have come (until about 4 months ago this was a lovely quiet street).
So, I'm looking at CCTV cameras to cover the front of the house (footpath running past it and road), the side of the house and possible the back/garage (not so worried about the back as to get to that someone would have to come round the side, or wade through a stream, up a steep bank and over a fence).
The house is a detached one, with a road/path running in front of it (there is about 6-10 foot of front garden with hedge and path), a shared drive to one side leading to the garage and back garden.
The path out front is reasonably well lit by street lighting, the back garden has a couple of PIR's (one covering the back gate and set to only come on if someone is within about 3 foot of the gate, it rarely goes off unless somoene is at the gate).
Only one side of the house has no real existing lighting, but it also has no windows/doors (the other side has an 8 foot high wall, with about a 12 foot drop onto various nasty bits including bits of scaffolding* if someone tried climbing over it into our garden).
I'll try and post a rough diagram of it later.
My initial thought is possibly a 3 or 4 camera standalone setup with two cameras covering the front (pointing both directions), and one covering the side or the back.
My thought is that possibly for the side if the cameras is low light/IR sensitive, rather than go with cameras that have IP lamps on the camera, fit a discrete IR source triggered by a PIR so it's not obvious that it's on, but illuminates better than a camera mounted light.
But I have no idea which system out of the dozens/hundreds out there to possible go with.
*we use it to store some bulky DIY gear that isn't used much and not overly affected by the elements (it's below the level of the back patio).
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