Remote camera

[Banana Bar]

Bit of an odd one. I have a remote grainstore that someone is going into regularly and helping themselves to a pail of wheat. I know the easiest answer is to lock the store but I really want to catch the offender ( I think I know who it is ) and send him an astronomical invoice with his picture attached. Any suggestions for a camera that will do this with good clarity?

BB

 

[Kam]

Any of these should do the trick provided you have a suitable location to mount it https://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Cameras/b?ie=UTF8&node=454836031

 

[del_boy]

Get yourself a cheap dash cam with a motion detector off eBay. And a 32 gig card. Will only record if its triggered so you'll have plenty of storage. Powering it might be a problem unless you have power at the building already. If not a cancam has its own battery storage and will record for days on motion detect but will cost about £200

 

[Badshot]

Trail camera, but try to get one with black leds for night vision.
The red ones are a real giveaway.

 

[Half Pipe]

Make sure you have a CCTV sign up or the footage will not be usable as evidence

 

[Against_the_grain]

Have some of these. https://www.arlo.com/uk/products/arlo-go/default.aspx

 

[Exfarmer]

Make sure you have a CCTV sign up or the footage will not be usable as evidence

This is just so incorrect, have you not thought about all that dash cam footage?
I dont think BB is hoping to bring a prosecution anyway

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Keep us updated if you catch them

 

[Half Pipe]

This is just so incorrect, have you not thought about all that dash cam footage?
I dont think BB is hoping to bring a prosecution anyway

I have thought about dash cams, but don't know the rules for them

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-your-business/using-cctv

 

[The Agrarian]

Have some of these. https://www.arlo.com/uk/products/arlo-go/default.aspx

I've been looking at this and the reolink Argus 2. I take it there is no solar panels with yours? Do you have them just on local memory card or uploading on 4g? If so, what does this cost to run, and how long do you get on a charge? Thanks

I nearly plumped for the reolink and solar panel, but read bad reviews about the WiFi connection, and motion detection delays meaning it can be too late.

 

[Bob c]

Have some of these. https://www.arlo.com/uk/products/arlo-go/default.aspx

how much

 

[General-Lee]

Get yourself a cheap dash cam with a motion detector off eBay. And a 32 gig card. Will only record if its triggered so you'll have plenty of storage. Powering it might be a problem unless you have power at the building already. If not a cancam has its own battery storage and will record for days on motion detect but will cost about £200

Powered off a car battery?

 

[lim x]

If he's doing this regular i'd feckin sleep there!! With a big stick !

 

[Exfarmer]

I have thought about dash cams, but don't know the rules for them

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-your-business/using-cctv

Data protection is entirely different to using video evidence.

 

[Against_the_grain]

I've been looking at this and the reolink Argus 2. I take it there is no solar panels with yours? Do you have them just on local memory card or uploading on 4g? If so, what does this cost to run, and how long do you get on a charge? Thanks

I nearly plumped for the reolink and solar panel, but read bad reviews about the WiFi connection, and motion detection delays meaning it can be too late.

I have the Go which is wireless and runs off of a battery or small solar panel. I have the solar panels and they work mostly well. One spot which doesn't receive much light was struggling for power during the winter but was also a busy site. They run on vodafone 4G and can be viewed worldwide on their app so long as you have internet connection and the login details. Generally ours are set for recording between evening and morning otherwise they would be seriously overloaded with images and that would drain the battery further. They can be viewed live at anytime. Notifications can be set up to send a text or email when movement is detected if required.
They can be a slight delay on motion detection but its all about how you position the cameras and what you are trying to achieve.

 

[The Agrarian]

What does a 4g contract cost for that?

And why do you not just set to record on movement?

 

[milkloss]

be careful of game cameras, even the black infra red ones: they click when moving the IR filter internally and gives the game away and could get stolen.

 

[principal skinner]

Alarm mine and a black powder blank........

 

[Against_the_grain]

What does a 4g contract cost for that?

And why do you not just set to record on movement?

Costs £4/month/camera. If i set it to record between the hours of 6am-6pm it would wear the battery down faster and fill my account up with videos of legitimate people coming and going which I currently have no need to record. They dont know that though obviously. It would literally be recording almost constantly as there is a lot of traffic in that particular area. If there is less traffic then its set to record movement 24/7

 

[Bogweevil]

Bit of an odd one. I have... with his picture attached. Any suggestions for a camera that will do this with good clarity?

BB

I just wonder if the mature response is to leave a notice and say you would be happy to supply a few sacks of wheat for cost price, say 20p per kilo, but would they please desist from helping themselves. I expect they just want some grain for their chooks. That would put you in the right and show you to be a mature and sensible person and make them a sneaky immature little jerk, no?