Home security camera systems

Thanks for the update..

I realised that all the bad guy needed to do was to nip the phone line and any IP based system would go down.

Perhaps the answer is not to let on your house is covered by cameras of this type then by the time they realise that they are looking at an IP camera it's too late, the images are in the cloud. Possibly a conventional CCTV outside and an IP camera inside? Not yet come to any conclusion.

I am going to give it over this winter to find my ideal system. The idea of a look at the rooms in the house whilst away really appeals to me but the system must be robust enough not to fail when you most need it.

Generally my broadband connection is pretty reliable. In the past it has been most unusal for it to go down but it only needs a power failure somewhere in the chain for this to happen. What is needed are modems which automatically synchronise rather than have to be manually started up again to go through a handshake procedure.

peedee

Mine's BT Hub 5 and I think it just re-connects. I think so anyway.

We do get several power outages each winter where we live, not usually for long but as you know just on/off and it goes through it's handshaking. Not noticed it with this modem but the clock in the bedroom always flashes to indicate the power has been off.

Another problem that I've discovered, having installed my system about 6 weeks ago...........spiders!!

I noticed on the night-time recordings, the images are obscured by what are clearly spider's webs.  They don't show up in daylight - just at night.

I mentioned it to my installer and he tells me it happens with all systems because, apparently, the infra red light attracts spiders and other insects - hence the spiders building their webs there. Things should improve in the winter!!

So- I've bought a Ken Dodd style tickling stick attached to a long pole and now have to go round on a regular basis, clearing the pesky webs out of the way.

Spiders are a real problem at this time of year. I didn't know infra red attracted them. We will have to do the same and make sure their webs are removed. It is almost impossible to keep them out of the house.

I remain happy with the two camera Arlo system I bought and was checking the price of buying a third camera from my local PC World/Currys. Dam me if they do not have an offer on for a three camera system with a £60 reduction making it only a few pounds more than the two camera system I bought. At the same time they have put up the price of single cameras by £10.....grrrr.

peedee

Spiders get into conventional I R detectors too. 

But why do they wait until you're on a campsite in the south of France 

We have a camera set up to show the central heating boiler, that way when in Spain we can see that it is behaving itself and if not I can call a neighbour.