Surveillance cameras for older parents

[Antler Daddy]

I figured I would ask here...need a holiday gift for parents that already have everything!

With all the Hollywood murders, drug heads, and illegals running about, we want to put some cameras out so if someone decides to rob, assault or murder our parents that we can seek revenge.

Parents are 80 now and live off the main county road. There is a long concrete drive that circles around the home. They have fast internet, but router is in basement currently.

We need some motion detecting cameras that kids can access via 3 different states. We don't need one inside the home yet, just outside to monitor as needed and again...to have a video if some low life decides to visit.

Red is wanted and yellow is a possibility. I know the farthest one is probably not a possibility, so maybe 200 yards range would cover it. Everyone drives to back door so a front door camera is not even wanted. We just want to cover sides of home, back door, garage area, and basement area.

Looking for any ideas for a dependable, all-weather, cost effective set-up that we might be able to add more cameras as needed and would have an app or something that we can access on our phones. It would be neat if it had a real time turn on feature just to look at the farm or something.

I don't even have a ring type camera on my home yet, so I am clueless.

 

[thale51]

I've had pretty good luck with the Arlo brand cameras. They can be a little pricey and do run on batteries that you have to pop out and recharge every so often, but they do make a solar panel option as well to keep them powered. They also have a cellular camera that you can use without WiFi. Tactacam also has a security camera that runs on a cellular connection and includes a solar panel with it. I'm sure others will chime in with their experience with other brands as well.

 

[MrJim43]

EUFY....... Check out there web site........Wifi and or Cell with/or with out solar all have batteries . Stand alone or hard wired. Units have SD cards as back ups. You can see what is going on 24 hrs a day from anywhere. Door bell cameras and live cameras. Been using on wifi at the house for a year now. Price is a little high but they do work good.....Good coverage.

 

[vr1967]

Also, may be a hindrance at first, but what about an automatic gate also, with camera monitoring the gate? (I see the dot at end of drive, but can't tell on gate)

 

[Chiflyguy]

Arlos are good.
I've had mine 15 years and no issues.
You can even get access to get alerts.

 

[Deer Assassin]

Arlo

Made a life saving difference one day

Mom started to wander off when I was at work

I made it home just in time

 

[WTNBowHunter]

We have Vivint at our home. It's not the cheapest but the app works very well and can give you notifications real time if desired.

 

[Omega]

I would run a wire along the driveway and put driveway alarms at the red dots with different tones for each to warn anyone inside that someone is coming toward the residence, a floodlight camera at the top and bottom yellow dots and maybe even at the red dot on the back barn/shed, it will illuminate your target, and alert them that they are being recorded. The rest of the red dots could be regular cameras, many cameras can actually reach pretty far, the new Blink cameras can reach 400 feet, and some of the more expensive ones can do a little better. If those two outbuildings have power, you can add a wifi extender to make sure the cameras always have signal.

 

[mike243]

I'm a blink camera fan, have 5-6 and 2 floodlight camera's that are hard wired. they make rechargeable battery's that work well on them but the lithium can last over 2 years .

 

[Mag]

I've had pretty good luck with the Arlo brand cameras. They can be a little pricey and do run on batteries that you have to pop out and recharge every so often, but they do make a solar panel option as well to keep them powered. They also have a cellular camera that you can use without WiFi. Tactacam also has a security camera that runs on a cellular connection and includes a solar panel with it. I'm sure others will chime in with their experience with other brands as well.

We also run Arlo's at our house. Rechargeable battery powered and I keep two on the charger so I can just swap out when needed. Has speaker ability as well (which I have been known to freak out the Wife from time to time )

 

[Tnshooter15]

We have simply safe. To say that I am pleased would be a huge understatement. The ease of setup, the quality of video, the audio of the cameras, and price are all excellent.

 

[trout]

I used Stealthcam wireless to monitor my folks PA property and visitors effectively.

 

[PillsburyDoughboy]

Wireless driveway alarms are pretty cheap https://www.walmart.com/ip/1-2-Mile...5pq8Fk6hNIint4zMf2qWoii6HXGXETXoaAg8MEALw_wcB

A decent system like WYZE is dirt cheap. They have flood lights and indoor and outdoor cameras and wireless cameras. You may need some sort of extender or extenders depending. Again dirt cheap. A good wired system for poor wifi areas or poor cellular areas is NOT a bad idea and can serve as a back up. Usually requires professional installation and at a cost.

I have BOTH .a wired system into a DVR and two different WIFI camera systems. WYZE and Blink. I'm not paranoid. I just belive in redundancy.