Hive Indoor Camera

[TitanTim]

I have a Canary cam, always live, (for a fee) you can save video in the cloud and it sends alerts to my phone if something moves in it's field of view.
https://canary.is/uk/

Thanks for this, do you know if any of the cloud storage is free? or is just the live view and you subscribe to have any events saved? I'm guessing the alerts are free.

Tim.

From memory you had to pay £7.99 per month for this part https://canary.is/uk/membership/

Thanks for that Just been reading some reviews and understand Canary have increased free storage from 12 to 24 hrs. I'm unsure I would have many events to save as the only time it will record them is when no one is home lol which would be an intruder. It's a little different to my outside Ring cam where it will record a lot more events, postman, visitors, cold callers etc which is what I want it to do all the while. It's only £2.50 a month though for unlimited cloud storage which is pretty good value.

Tim.

 

[DPG]

Tim, thanks for the heads up on the hive camera. Was going to look at it but it sounds like it doesn't offer any more than my current DLink setup.

Think I am going to get a proper CCTV setup though.

Having being burgled in the past I know what you are going through Tom and it's not nice. I came home to find 3 of them on my drive just about to get in my Golf GTI after ransacking my house for the car keys and any tech they could take.

I didn't get assaulted but they nearly ran me over. I completely froze.

Still have flashbacks 7 years on.

 

[sp3ctre]

Wow Tom, I knew something had happened but didn't know the extent... I guess you were unlucky and lucky in lots of ways.

I have recently setup a CCTV system using the BlueIris software. I got the cameras from AliExpress, Dahua 4MP Dome cameras (£40 each). They are not too obvious to the general public but are pretty obvious to a criminal. I have them on each side of the house and they record all the time. You can set it to only record when motion triggered and you can also get it to upload the clips to the cloud.

Inside the house I have some "fake" PIR sensors (like you get on most alarms) but it has a hidden camera in it. These are only 1MP but the image quality is pretty good and they are only £11 a pop!

You need a decent spec machine to run that lot, but if you are a techie that has machines running anyway it's not so bad.

 

[TitanTim]

Tim, thanks for the heads up on the hive camera. Was going to look at it but it sounds like it doesn't offer any more than my current DLink setup.

Think I am going to get a proper CCTV setup though.

Having being burgled in the past I know what you are going through Tom and it's not nice. I came home to find 3 of them on my drive just about to get in my Golf GTI after ransacking my house for the car keys and any tech they could take.

I didn't get assaulted but they nearly ran me over. I completely froze.

Still have flashbacks 7 years on.

No problem, I would definitely have gone for the Hive but its simply not very good for what it costs and the only way to save events using just an SD card is a real put off. I've decided to go for the Canary as like the idea it has an inbuilt alarm and gets good reviews, I've already ordered the Cleverdog cam purely as its so cheap but still gets really good reviews which I will use along with the Ring cam I already have to cover the outside of the house.

Tim.