What, you wanna see the musk ox in your yard?

Haha, no. I want to see the luscious green grass of the golf course at my getaway spot....while looking at those stupid shaggy beasts out my windows here. Lol

I've been using Ring Stick Up cams along w a Ring doorbell. Easy setup and 6 months in I am quite satisfied. I do notice battery life is a little worse than advertised w my driveway cam when I have the motion activation turned on. This cam needs to be charged about every 2.5 months.

I just installed Arlo by Netgear. Works great! You can adjust the motion sensitivity, how long it records, etc.. all recording is to the cloud, for free you get seven days and 1 TB I believe. From the phone app you can pull up and view any camera anytime.

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How long do the camera batteries last?

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Don't know yet, I've had it up and running for a month . Each camera uses 4 Cr123 batteries (looks like a small C battery).

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I'm also using Arlo. Good cameras, don't take up much room. Only negative I've seen is that it takes a second or two for the motion detector to spin up, so you have to place them with that in mind if you're trying to catch something.

If I had to do it all over, I might have gone with the Arlo pro to provide 2 way audio.

I like that it is completely wireless. I've had for about 4.5 months now and is pretty good.

Been looking at the Amcrest cameras. I like the ability to swivel and pan remotely.

Again, these aren't really for "security". More of a "what's going on" with the ability to maybe work in a security function.

justgeorge wrote:

I just installed Arlo by Netgear. Works great! You can adjust the motion sensitivity, how long it records, etc.. all recording is to the cloud, for free you get seven days and 1 TB I believe. From the phone app you can pull up and view any camera anytime.

Just a word of caution about Netgear. I have their Vuezone system installed. They have announced they are dropping all support for it at the end of 2017 so I will literally have a piece of crap unless I "upgrade" to Arlo. My present systems works great, it's paid for but in 365 days it will be valueless. Netgear can rot in hell. This is no way to treat a customer, soon to be an ex-customer.

https://community.netgear.com/...stomers/td-p/1108771

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NOTE: I read through the posts. It appears that Netgear has decided to provide on-going support for existing Vuezone hardware. This should be stated.

I bought a Nest Outdoor rated WiFi camera using a Cyber Monday promotion. Have yet to hook it up as I was going to use it initially as a baby monitor....for whenever we get the boy to sleep in his own room (not happening so far). But I figured instead of buying a specific child monitor version to get the Nest to use it as a regular security camera afterwards since the time window of needing it for that purpose isn't really that long. Got it based friend's recommendation as that is what they use for their baby. It is powered by the USB cable and has a speaker/mic (to talk back and forth if used for the front door).

Only thing I haven't tried to figure out is how to bypass the Nest cloud service for recording and have it dump the video into a HD instead. Would like to do this but haven't looked into it yet....I'm pretty sure somebody has tried but unsure if they were successful or not.

We have a Nest Outdoor camera overlooking our porch and driveway. The only two negatives we've seen are the monthly fee for keeping recordings (paying for it for a while) and that our flag, blowing proudly in the breeze, often sets off motion alerts.

We did catch the UPS guy doing a 4 or 5 foot "aerial" delivery to our porch (dented the box but didn't damage the contents).

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