hgupta1 said:
Whoever is coming onto the property is hopping over the 6 foot wooden privacy fence: has anyone ever tried to rig up something to detect when a fence is hopped over?
I'm not familiar with what is out there, but could you rig a beam type detector (I originally was thinking vinyl fence, but I see you have a wooden one) to break the beam from one corner to the next. Doesn't sound real clean though, nor very covert.
While I haven't gotten to that point in my setup, I was planning on cameras covering all sides of the house. Anyone checking out the house is going to notice them (even using small ones) and probably going to move on. Why go to the extra trouble when you can skip it and get an easier one up the street?
That was my logic (along with the 'alarm monitoring' sign to further reinforce the message of 'move along to an easier house'). Because you know I am only doing this to protect the property, I have no other interest in this stuff... <_<
On the camera note, I got my 4 channel modulator off ebay recently (found a 5445 for $90 or so plus shipping, which even without IR (the 5545 has IR) is great since I have a zoned xantech system in place already) which will probably go to piping the external cameras to internal tv channels.
If you do that, you could theoretically bring up pip or the outdoor scene when movement is detected (or the doorbell for the front door cam).
If you tie outdoor motion detectors to the cameras the capability to review events that occured when you were not home should be available too (not sure how hard/expensive this is, but I've seen some mention in the posts here on it).
Got a little off track there but hope that makes sense.