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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kingfish" data-source="post: 3922534" data-attributes="member: 50496">I'm not sure what you are expecting from a security cam system.  If you are looking to document when a crime has occurred, they are good for that.  What useful information the cameras will provide to law enforcement is a bit iffy.  Providing night time infra red videos to identify perps is not good unless they get up close to the camera.  But you might be able to recognize a neighborhood kid or the cops might recognize a known perp with a good image.If you are expecting to get an alert when someone comes on your property so you can intercede and stop them, you will be disappointed.  Night time infra red cameras will be constantly triggering from bugs flying around the cams.  They are attracted to the light.  Getting alerts all night long will drive you crazy and you will soon disable that feature.  Even in the daytime cameras will trigger from birds and four legged creatures passing through the cameras FOV.  Even the wind blowing trees around will trigger the cams.So my system is a wireless 4 cam one.  I would prefer to have a wired one with the capability of providing power over the ethernet cable so you don't have to locate cameras near outside power outlets.  It also lets you only need one UPS for the recorder.  Locating wireless cameras where you want them to be looking and having a strong enough signal to reach the wireless receiver/recorder can be hard to do depending on the size of your property.  You might have to use signal boosters on some cameras.Having overlapping camera FOVs might be useful in certain circumstances.  My personal opinion is it's much easier for a thief to just pull a ski mask over their face rather than running around your house disabling cams.  Most crimes like your gas theft are ones of opportunity and they are not even concerned about being caught on camera cause they are probably high on something.  What I get the most use out of my system is if I hear a sound outside at night, I can check my phone or iPad to see what might be going on rather that running around the house trying to see out windows in the dark.  Each morning I check my recordings to see how many deer came through my yard and if any of them were big bucks.Fog and rain will fill your recording at night making them next to useless, but I  guess you could run through the night's recording at high speed if you needed to look for something in particular.One thing I have always been undecided about is putting up a sign saying the property is under 24 hour video surveillance.  That might make some criminals decide to move on to an easier target, or it might make a savvy perp wonder what you might be hiding in your home that is worth stealing.</blockquote>

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