No! I’m NOT DONE with my System!!!!!

[Jan J]

About a Month ago, we had a Bear walk back and forth across the porch on front of our house!!
(Hello Again from Across the pond—Western NC, a few 1000 feet from Smokey Mountain Natl Park!!)
We have camera facing pond from porch, and Garage facing house, but Mr Bear avoided both!
Wife made decision for me: PORCH CAMERA!!!
Moved another camera there. POE switch provided power, PVC Pipe, Mount And Cat6=$22.
Camera is 2CD2942WD-I
Ftp Pics, not video
I use Synology NAS for pics storage, and Surveillance Station’s 2x Free licenses to convert Stream to video and store on NAS.
SS has 2x Free licenses I needed a third , but instead of buying a license, I fired up a retired NAS that is old and weak (215J), and freed up enough processes on that to convert the 2CD2042WD-I stream to 1080/30 video!
Yippee!!
Then found a brand new 2042 camera for $70 delivered!! To replace camera I borrowed for the Porch!!
$92 total cost!!

 

[Phil]

Well Done, and now we wait for bear videos

 

[Jan J]

Ask and you shall receive! Unfortunately Porch cam sensitivity not set right, but Pond and Driveway picked it up!!!

 

[Jan J]

You said videos....

 

[Jan J]

Ok. Re-adjusted Porch Camera mot detect, and sprayed for spiders on all.
2 neighbors have confirmed its the same “Teenager” who has visited their porches.
He walked entire porch, and on left side got up on railing to examine hummingbird feeder, but lost interest. We had bird feeders in house.