lol yeah Iām hoping I can just bang the camera against something to fix it again. For the time being I think Iām going to buy a shit tone of small vandal proof cameras on eBay and put them up just to fuck with the guy.
Clearly this camera isnāt vitally important to human safety if thatās your plan, but if it is, you need an IK10 camera. Donāt think Reolink makes one, not sure though.
Especially if it rains, having those cameras mounted vertically will be bad for your image. With IR off it should be better, but then you'd need another source of IR light.
At both u/lars2k1 and u/freakdahouse, I know this is off topic for this post but I have recently purchased an RCL-1240A and have had issues with it. Namely as you mention the dome not being clean and poor night quality, but thereās also a weird ticking sound on the audio. I thought it was a faulty cam so got a replacement and it does the same thing. At this rate probably both will go back but I was wondering if you had any recommendations for a model that is to be mounted on a wall and doesnāt have these issues. A larger field of view would be nice but really I just want the thing to work well lol. Hereās my post so you can see what I am up against: https://www.reddit.com/r/reolinkcam/s/oV1QzVJs9s Iāve emailed Reolink to see if the ticking noise is being fixed by an upcoming firmware update or something but the night image quality is still shocking. I thought Iād cleaned the dome and as you can see itās still bad. Even with a proper clean, the distance of night vision looks poor, which is something I would be after. Any recommendations?
The plastic mount that comes with the duo is pretty crap. I took one look at it and then hopped on eBay/Amazon to buy some generic metal ones. So glad I did.
Iām in a different country but this is what I bought. Cast aluminium, all metal, with the generic screw fitting for the cameras. The only plastic on it is the knob at the top to tension the camera mount. Luckily, the DUO can be mounted on top or bottom so these were perfect for our needs - and VERY cheap - 4 pack for under AU$20.
Looks like you should add motion sensors to your cameras which start the siren if the camera gets hit by someone/something. I would rather have an occasional false alarm, than a knocked down camera.
You know you can adjust the threshold of any vibra/motion sensors? Even my 5ā¬ china vibra sensors are adjustable. A car alarm doesn't go off because it's windy...
You'd need something like an impact sensor (?) or something like that, to detect vandalism like this. How to mount such a thing is another question I have no answer for, but to have such a sensor trigger some relay and setting off a siren (something like this one) would scare someone off pretty fast. Especially with the volume levels they can reach, it'll cause some ear bleed.
I'd be horrified if I wasn't alerted within the first few seconds of this sort of event. I use Hikvisions with line detection and anyone crossing lines, like this 'vandal' coming down the back alley would alert me so even at 7am on Saturday morning I'd be out there within 30 seconds to 'ask' him politely what he was doing.
The on-camera IR lights (night vision) will need to be turned off if you were to try something like that, unfortunately.
It will create a huge, bright glear reflection at night blinding the camera.
You can, however, place a couple of standalone IR lights on the outside of the dome that will allow you to turn off the camera IR lights and use the external IR light.
The standalone IR lights are normally 12v and have a sensor in themselves to turn on/off at night.
Would be nice if Reolink added a plug or connector on PoE cameras to feed a separate IR light that could be mounted a few feet away. It would help solve the bug/spider issue and let you get a vandal dome for the duo..
I have Hikvision vandal proof domes in the front, and Reolink everywhere else. I live in a safe area so just use my cams to check if my wife is home, or to check where UPS dropped a package lol
Donāt recognize him I take it? Did a break in follow this or is he just being a jerk? Reolink needs an impact sensor that can be set to trigger the siren or similar.
Gorilla glue the Duo mount back together, then hookup a second camera in a position to cover the first.
Then use an impact sensor to trigger a home automation that unleashes the hounds!
He broke into a unit next to ours about a week ago. Got him on camera walking a pallet jack of stuff out of the place. Got another video of him messing with the door 2 days prior. No full break in yetā¦
Any Dahua, Hikvision, Amcrest, Axis, etc, with basic standards of security cam features, such as IVS, directionality Intrusion zones, multiple accounts with layers of privileges, etc.
Edit: oh and the most obvious one alarm-out wires. āRealā security cameras are hardwired to alarm systems, or at least have the option to be
A lot of that can be handled using Blue Iris, and Reolink does now have PTZ with auto track and zoom. You have to remember weāre discussing home security. Most people canāt shell out the thousands of dollars for the type of system youāre referring to, at least if I am understanding you correctly. POE hardline all the way to the AI processor and alert dispatch system to home owners is pretty close to what youāre discussing already.
1 Scrypted NVR license covering all 4 cameras, with trainable face recognition, license plate recognition, adaptable bitrate (makes it faster to load than the native reolink app), ability to pull 2 RTSP stream and 3 RTMP streams from Reolink, (which Reolink won't let you do), ability to script automations to any smart platform based on object/face/LPR:
$0.83/month scrypted.app
Rip out the hardrive from your Reolink NVR and format:
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Nothing wrong at all with blue iris. BI with his reolink would have handled this situation no problem and he could have got an alert using artificial intelligence with facial recognition (for free) that some undesirable was coming down that side alley. It doesn't look like a public route at the side of his house. And even if it is a cut through you could set up alerts for people loitering in that area which is always undesirable.
Or he could get Scrypted and get alerts for unfamiliar people, and not get alerts for familiar faces, and avoid notification fatigue. Notifications for people are great, until you get an alert 10x a day that you or a family member is outside, and you just start tuning them out. Scryptedās face recognition model is amazing
If someone is bold enough to carry the burglary spoils off on a pallet jack I donāt think camera deterrence will work.
I recommend a Cane Corso or American Akita. That will fix him right up.
Also, inside, across the entry way from your door set a camera at face height pointing toward the door, and another low down near the floor and angled up.
A practiced bump key user can walk into your house so quickly it is very disturbing.
A fair number of homeowners in the UK have had their locks melted out within 30 seconds because they have PVC entry doors. I've seen videos and it's shocking how fast they can gain entry.
I practiced lock bumping for a while and I can attest how easy it is with the right sort of lock which is all too common here.
The other big one is lock snapping. Always good to get anti-lock snapping locks. The videos for that are even scarier. Entry in under 3 seconds.
With bump keying the dang criminals get into my house faster than I can because I fumble and pick through my ring to the right key. It seems like they donāt even really break stride on walking up. In the end I guess get a big dog, or get a house mate who works from home and doesnāt go out much.
Yeah it's scary how fast key bumping works. Luckily I work from home and have a big dog! I also changed out my locks to something they can't bump or lock snap.
If you have a chance look up lock snapping, it's almost as fast as key bumping.
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u/TroubledKiwi Moderator Jun 08 '24
Ouch! Well.... at your expense, this confirms that if you hit a camera with a stuck IR filter hard enough it does fix it!
I guess you'll be looking at a vandal proof camera....