ip webcams?

[Stephen]

Hello,

Lately I have been getting visits from Jehovah's witnesses and a today, a pushy salesman from a company called Britannia, offering to give me a free survey for damp and condensation. I can see how elderly people can be bullied into having unnecessary work done!

I do not have any CCTV at the moment, so I thought it would be nice to get a camera to see who is at the front door before I choose to open it. I figured having an internet one might open up possibilities such as remote viewing or receiving a message via your phone or email when someone visits whilst you are out.

What are the specs for look for in a good camera? And how is best to mount it? Ideally I want to see the visitors' faces, rather than the top of their heads but if it were at eye level, doesn't that also mean it is at tamper level?

Thanks, Stephen.

[Harry Bloomfield]

We used to be troubled by them, I mostly solved it with s notice on our gate saying no ????, no ??? and a warning that we had dogs on the loose. Replace ??? with who ever you don't want calling.

Remote viewing from anywhere in the world you can get Internet. Mine can send an email with photos, when ever it spots motion, but its view needs to be limited or you will receive a flood of emails.

X, Y, Z means the head can be rotated up/down, left/right under remote control. Ours is an indoor only unit, so have it mounted looking through a first floor window. Its main use is to watch for the postie, so I can ensure the dogs are in. It has both wired/ wifi access and has been on for a few years now.

[Brian Gaff]

There are commercial devices that are a doorbell, door phone and video link around on many web sites, why reinvent the wheel? Brian

[tim...]

or just get a spy hole

tim

[Chris Bartram]

There's a lot of crap out there, at least from a security point of view, but they work. Axis cams are great, but expensive.

[ss]

I use a cheap webcam (£5) which allows me to see who is approaching the door, internal but facing out of a window towards the front door. Does it for me.

[Andrew]

Or just look down from an upstairs window and if you don't recognise the caller, ignore them.

[Dave Liquorice]

You've found somewhere that doesn't get Jehovah's witnesses? Wow!

Even up here we still get them, 3 times FFS! (in the last 15 years)

(BTW I woldn't place JW's into the "scum bucket", they are normally very polite, take "no thank you" with good grace and leave. On the odd occasion when I've engaged them in conversation they remain pleasant, they just have an excess of "faith".)

[Harry Bloomfield]

Dave Liquorice used his keyboard to write :

There are I think a couple of female JW's who go in a local pub/restaurant I often use, the same day/time each week. Would they be JW's in a pub?

They certainly have an excess of faith, I can often hear them chatting between the two of them and it is pitiful to over hear them. Their faith has no bounds and sounds unshakable. They often sit there saying prayers. They chat as if each trying to convince the other. One quite old and telling the other what will happen when they die - it sounds as if she can't wait 8-o .

[Huge]

In the 23 years we lived down a 1/4 mile of unmade track in North Bedfordshire, I think we had 2 or 3 cold callers. Only one of those was a Ghod-botherer. He asked if I wanted to know Jesus, I said "No" and he left.

We've only lived here a year, so too soon to tell. We do now live on a "road", but it is two strips of tarmac with grass down the middle.

[Huge]

They may come into a pub to proseletise (sp?), but they don't drink alcohol.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Huge used his keyboard to write :

They would seem to have a meal, but not I'm sure what they were drinking. I will try to pay more attention next time.

[dennis]

Having been to a few Asian weddings, where they also aren't supposed to drink, I recommend not drinking the cola if you are driving.

[whisky-dave]

I;ve obly had them twice in 25 years.

I've not realy found them a problem. When they started they asked me "why d o you think you are here" I said it was because they rang the door bell, if they hadn't I'd be up stairs watching TV.... that amused them. They then asked if I believed in God I said sort of, well it was written in the book Gene Rodenberry wrote. The told them that capation kirk visited the virgin mary adn that is where the phrase to bodly go where no man has g one before, well Mary was a bit of a minger..... they weren;t sure how to respond. Wheneverv they mention an angel or anything I said yes well that was spock (or one of the other cast. I think they got bored with me interupting them to quote star trek. I've not yet found a need to insult or asualt them.