Seeking home surveillance insights.

submitted by JasonCarswell from (self.AskSaidIt)

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The big house I live in has 4 apartments and zero security.

The apartment building to one side has 26 apartments and 7 cameras (some cover us) that feed into a box. You can watch the feeds but no one's recording them as that box is broken and the landlord is a cheap ass. We are all also poor tenants, and most of them are old and tech illiterate - so it's down to me and a few others on a shoestring..

I'd like to get some cameras for our house with some kind of recording system and help the neighbours get their's recording again. It might be nice if both buildings could share with each other, and if the residents could see the feeds and/or recordings. Bonus would be some kind of wireless/bluetooth sharing. While I've got nothing to hide, and storing in a cloud would be convenient, I'm just not interested in supporting spying corporations who will use and abuse my data.

 

Similarly and kind of related, I've thought about getting our house and our neighbours to join forces with a few shared fiber lines with local community shared wifi (they tend to have bad wifi during certain hours as they only have 1 fiber line for 26 units with mostly wifi devices - and other buildings around are largely Boomers in apartments or single family houses). The only thing I know of is the B.A.T.M.A.N. network. Both the security and the local community network are neat equally important dreams of mine, but this post is primarily about seeking security solutions.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

 

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[–]noice 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can't help much with camera recommendations, but I'm thinking of similar things lately so will keep you posted if I do.

You can watch the feeds but no one's recording them

How can you watch the feeds currently? Any more info on the existing cameras? That will determine my advice on getting them recording again.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Here we two don't go d'accord.

My home is my castle. You shouldn't be able to get in whatsoever. This is imho the single-point-of-failure. When i am at home i want to feel liberated and this also includes no one - so not even myself - watching me. Me not being watched in my new home i easily achieved with two simple things: Me not chopping down the trees on my property and next spring i will start planting 2m tall evergreen hedges in every open angle that remains to look into it.

Of course i also have money to spend into a fence, e.g. . But i will hide it behind the one side i gotta shade up with the hedges.

But sharing camera feeds, possibly even live-feeds from my home for my neighbors to look at ?

That won't happen. Especially not over a public-accessible internet. Also don't over short-distance stuff like zigbee and such because these protocols are in beta-stage afaic.

Just the same as it never will happen that i plant any bug inside my own home.

Nobody gets the right to look at stuff i'm am reading and writing and don't want to share before it is done. And since i like to hang my index-cards on walls rather than forgetting them in any box: There always will stay certain secrets.

[–]Intuit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How do you handle electronic devices in your home, especially smart spyphones? Any WiFi?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

WiFi is only on-demand. I switch it on when i got visitors and they are complaining or i need an android update. I got a smartphone since about a year now because there was no reasonable way any more to get around two-factor-authentication through an app for online-banking. Otherwise i got two LAN-cables laying around for my laptop and another one for my PC. I never really trusted wireless networking because it is way too easy to piggyback with a reasonable password you actually can pronounce imho. And since whitelisting every MAC of every device that may use my WLAN is too much of a hassle:

My WLAN stays off most the times. I configured my router to automatically turn it off after 10 minutes without a connected device. And only i can turn it on, because you need to login to the router itself to actually do that.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For those who live in a real house with a yard, check out the security vids on youtube, the ones where thieves are interviewed. Lots of great tips like leaving a few kids toys in the front yard by the door. crims hate complications and a house full of kids is a complication.