If he/she/they wear masks then the only thing I get to do is call 911 if/when I get a smartphone alert. I'm not rich so my home would not draw super sophisticated thieves. So, theoretically, the bad guy would already be recorded if he were to cut the cable or power. One of my cameras is positioned to "see" the area of my house where power and cable enter the building from underground. The biggest drawback is hard work to get power and network cable to the hidden location. I have pondered the idea of the hidden hard-wired NVR so that remains a strong possibility. Hope there's some useful information above. An Amcrest NV4108-ES NVR and a 4TB HD would cost around $200 at Amazon. Then put the NVR in a hidden or locked place somewhere in your house. I suppose if the bad guy first cuts power and internet cable supply to your house, not much would be recorded in any case.Īnother thing to think about is to attach a NVR to your LAN with an ethernet cable. With five Wifi(?) cameras, you will need to consider wifi usage and uptime, and also your ISP upload bandwidth for the data volume being sent offsite. There is probably a way to FTP to Google Cloud but I suspect you would be paying for it. Your Amcrest camera can be set up to send snapshots or MD files using FTP directly to a paid offsite FTP server service, or possibly to your own offsite PC with free Filezilla FTP server. Your Amcrest camera can be set up to send MD files directly to paid Amcrest Cloud service.Ģ. What might work for you would require some research and testing.ġ. I totally believe that off site (well outside of the home in my case) is the ONLY answer.Ĭlick to expand.I understand that you want to store motion detection(MD) files offsite immediately when the motion event occurs. I may have the wrong idea but I really don't have any video content to 'hide' so there are no privacy issues for me. I'm still a novice and a beginner when it comes to surveillance cameras and all that goes along with them and the learning curve. I should, and probably will, upgrade to a router with integrated VPN, but I believe the HTTPS and SSL encryption backed by strong passwords should be acceptable "best practice". I understand the scare factors of the cameras being hacked and being controlled by 'bots' but I think you still have to think of outside storage. So, I think cloud storage has got to be the preferred "best practice" that you refer to.Ĭatcamstar, would you put a pointer to where it says that SD Cards or NVR is more secure than off site? Any moron could just remove the SD card, or steal the camera and/or NVR box and there goes any hope of knowing what the heck happened or who was involved.īy "non-hosted surveillance", I mean not monitored by ADT or some other paid company. Otherwise the whole reason for having non-hosted surveillance is moot. If someone did "bad things" to my home, like rob it or some malicious mischief, I want the recording to be off site. I totally believe that off site (well outside of the home in my case) is the ONLY answer. This is not Fort Knox but if someone broke into my house and smashed the cameras I would like to have some videos of them that they could not reach.Ĭlick to expand.I may have the wrong idea but I really don't have any video content to 'hide' so there are no privacy issues for me. I would like to avoid paying for off site storage. I like technology but I'm quite frugal as well. Can, should, I connect them all to my smartphone using P2P? I already can access them using my local wifi from the phone or my PC.Īlso, is it a reasonable idea to connect all the camera's outputs to free cloud storage like say, Google Drive or something like that? Since then I bought 4 more cameras for surveillance (two Amcrest IP2M-841's and two IP3M- 943's). Is this safe and secure since it was connected to my phone using the QR code I believe. Is that correct? The profile on my smartphone says the connection is P2P. I'm not connected to a local wifi hotspot so the only way I can imagine is that it connects using cellular. If I'm in a town 20 miles away and open Amcrest View Pro on my smartphone, how does it find my camera? I thought it was only accessible from my personal wifi but I guess not. I was impressed but confused and concerned. I installed a camera for maintenance reasons in my crawlspace and found out I can be anywhere, even miles away and still view my crawlspace.
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