Re:Who’s Watching Your Porch?
by marcosdumay on Monday January 27, 2020 @01:20PM
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> I suspect you'd be better off with a chunky 7/11-style CCTV camera over your front door.
Get one of those outdoors camera covers, and fix somewhere people can easily see. Don't bother with an actual camera.
There is a simple test for when a camera is useful: if you saw something happening on the camera, will you do anything differently? A camera that watches some hidden corner near your front door that lets you decide not to go in there right now can be useful (but then, getting rid of the corner is much better).
Get one of those outdoors camera covers, and fix somewhere people can easily see. Don't bother with an actual camera.
There is a simple test for when a camera is useful: if you saw something happening on the camera, will you do anything differently? A camera that watches some hidden corner near your front door that lets you decide not to go in there right now can be useful (but then, getting rid of the corner is much better).