Cameras

[fruitsalad]

Can anyone, recommend wireless cameras for outside your home, nothing fancy or expensive, just something that does the job tia

[bhg481]

You need to decide exactly what you want the camera to do. Do you want it to record, record when an event occurs or just display a picture? If you want it to record do you want to pay for a subscription to a cloud or record to its own hard disc? Do you want to see the pictures on a TV, a computer or a smartphone?

[fruitsalad]

Yes I want it to record, to my smartphone but nothing to complicated, I already pay a subscription to ring, as I have a doorbell, but I would like something fixed to the side of the house also.

[Tuvok]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393416419666

I've got the above (select Camera and panel type 1)

Controlled via an app on my ipad.  I use it to watch my hedgehogs - I get an alert when there is movement outside.

You should see the cats when I shout at them through the cameras - it certainly chases them off!

I've not got round to permanently installing it, so have never used the solar panel with it yet.   When it does need charging I just plug it in.

[Tuvok]

It takes a sd card and records 10 seconds of movement.  But if you're viewing it you can record onto the ipad.

[bhg481]

We have one of these:

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It records to an SD card, you can adjust the sensitivity of the record sensor and you can steer the camera from your smartphone. It has a good wide-angle lens and is good in poor light. It's actually solar powered, so no wiring, but ours started having battery problems after about a year so, by the moring in winter, the battery was flat. I cured it by running a long USB cable from a nearby mains socket to replace the solar panel, making it fully live all the time.

[barry1010]

As you have a Ring doorbell maybe a Ring camera would suit you, too?  

What do you mean by wireless?  Battery operated? 

[fruitsalad]

My ring doorbell is not hardwired I just charge it when needed, and I would like something similar, maybe ring is the way to go, I have also heard of blink but not sure what they are like to use.

[bhg481]

barry - wireless cameras send a signal to your broadband router and then you can pick it up on your phone/laptop etc wherever you are. We check our cameras when we're away from home camping.

[barry1010]

A Ring battery outdoor camera

https://en-uk.ring.com/products/stick-up-security-camera-battery

[barry1010]

Yes, bhg, I have them - but wireless also means battery / solar powered. 

[bhg481]

I should have added - with some cameras you can hold a remote conversation via a built-in microphone/speaker on the camera and your phone/laptop.

[barry1010]

Yes, I do that too :) 

[bhg481]

Personal choice but battery-powered is no use to me as I am not disciplined enough to make sure the batteries aren't flat.

[barry1010]

Fruitsalad wants a battery operated camera.  You should get an alert on your phone/tablet that the battery needs charging before it runs flat.  

[bhg481]

That's handy unless you're in the South of France.

[bednobs]

i have blink, and it warns youabout ba`ttery a long time in advance

[fruitsalad]

Not lucky enough to go to the South of France :( but I do make sure its fully charged before I go off somewhere for a day or 2