Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ

...and understand you need to protect yourself. We live in a surveillance society so why not take advantage of it?

If you roll up to my house you need to go through a locked driveway gate, then a 8 foot fence in a garden area around my front door. I have motion detectors if triggered turn on cameras (7) with audio and a window then pops up on my pc. The cool part is it can also be programed on any pc easily. I've taken it a step further and all footage recorded is then uploads to my server every 6 hours.

I spend a lot of time away from home and already caught neighbors stealing my mail/ netflix's, paper, and one who jumped the fence and decided to cut the lock on my shed and borrow tools. I later confronted him and he denied it of course and actually went into the how dare you accuse me performance.

Anyway, the whole setup costs less then a grand and bought it at Costco plus your homeowners insurance goes down a bit too.