Surveillance - on a budget

DatabaseError

ok then...
fit a security light with motion sensor (~£10)
Set it up so the light comes on when someone is infront of the window
hook the camera to the PC...add the motion capture software Ringo linked to earlier
Point the camera through the window to the area you expect someone to be

Check it all works....enter the garden...light comes on...software spots the change and starts recording. Check the quality of the captured feed...better to take 1 high res image a second than 25 low res ones

daska

Needaspirin - LOL are you claiming copyright for that? DH loves it too.

Ringo/DBError - thank you for the practical advice, we'll have a go at setting this up and move the equipment around when we've got it working.

needaspirin

daska wrote: »

Needaspirin - LOL are you claiming copyright for that? DH loves it too.

No, my gift to you. I'm glad you liked it and hope you get to the bottom of the mystery.

Poppy9

needaspirin wrote: »

Sorry...Couldn't resist

Does she have enough dough to pay him:o:D

bonzer

You mentioned you thought someone was climbing over the wall. Never used it, but you can get anti-climb paint which you put on wall tops above head height. It's a sort of gel of some description which leaves 'em with a nasty mess on their clothes and makes the job trickier. Don't think it's that expensive.

Also do you rent? Had you thought about asking the landlord for a security light rather than paying for it yourself?

sporedude

tomsutton529 wrote: »

its trespass. if someone came into my garden i would be protecting my self with my firearms.and then argue with the police that i used reasonable force.

maybe a big sign saying stop feeding the birds or I will set a pit with spikes..... you have been warned.

Very good, Someone walking through your garden and you arm yourself, How over the top can you get?

daska

Funnily enough I don't mind people just walking into the garden during daylight, I'm also not too offended when people get amourous under our bay trees not realising that we can see everything they're doing (they're usually only too happy to 'move along'). But I do resent having to pick up bread every day just in case a vindictive tw@ has laced it with something noxious.

Zazen999

So, say you find out it IS someone maliciously throwing bread into your garden and you have the photos to prove it.

What are you going to DO about it?

daska

That depends on whether a quiet word telling him we have a diary and photographic evidence stops him or whether he carries on...

(It isn't actually just the bread, there have been other things which we suspect might be him as well.)

daska

Poppy9 wrote: »

Does she have enough dough to pay him:o:D

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