Trail Camera Help

Brian Miller

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My dog found 4 plastic shopping bags with about 10lbs of rotting chicken breasts in plastic shopping bags on our wooded & brushy property just inside our 5 ft chain link fence. I walked the .9 acre fence perimeter and found no holes in-under the fence rulling out coyotes dragging them into the yard. So it is likely that someone walked into my neighbor's unfenced yard to 75' back from the road and tossed it over the fence where my dog found it and started chewing up the bags. Other critters including deer, and a bear have also been sighted in the neighborhood and I would also like to know if they are coming into our fenced .9 acre yard.

I want to be able monitor
The 70' of fence at the front of the house to the neighbor's lot.
220' along the fence & path to the back of our lot.
And the 100' of fence and path along the 5 acres of forest behind us.

I will add another integrated surveillance camera for real time monitoring of the front fence line.
But along the sides and back of the lot I think trail cams would work.
At this time I don't think I want to hassle with or pay a subscription for cellular cameras.


I see @Billy uses Browning and Muddy in his threads. What brands and and models are y'all using, and what are the day-night motion and image capture distances you get?

*adding IR no glow vs red glow? I could imagine having a red glowing camera closest to and pointing towards the the road up out of reach that I can service using a ladder might actually be a deterrent, and keeping it under surveillance with a no glow camera further from the road might be a good idea.
 
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Do you have power on the property?

I use Blink camera at my hose and have a couple set up to see any critters around, quite inexpensive for as manay cameras as you want.
Day or night they work great and have sound and can adjust just about every setting, but you'd need internet to get the pics sent to your phone.
 
If going for trail cams, what are you after? There's a few ways to go depending on what you want to spend.
 
My neighbor is going to out up a spare wireless camera she has on the side of her house since the bags of rotting chicken were found inside my fence about 15' from her master bathroom window.

Do you have power on the property?
Yes, but I'd rather not trench 100' to bury conduit to where I would put up the 1st remote camera. I see they have wireless units with "2 year"(?) battery life. The wiresless devices are supposed to have a 400' range to the sync module. What's the range of the motion detector and a clear image capture?

If going for trail cams, what are you after? There's a few ways to go depending on what you want to spend.

Ideally it could connect to my home wifi to access from my phone or a laptop. But I think they probably have their own wifi like my Olympus camera that I'd have to connect to with my phone to configure the camera settings and download pics. It would be nice if they had motion sensitivity to trigger the camera to capture detailed sharp day or night images of moving objects 50' to 75' away that I could download to my phone.
 
My neighbor is going to out up a spare wireless camera she has on the side of her house since the bags of rotting chicken were found inside my fence about 15' from her master bathroom window.


Yes, but I'd rather not trench 100' to bury conduit to where I would put up the 1st remote camera. I see they have wireless units with "2 year"(?) battery life. The wiresless devices are supposed to have a 400' range to the sync module. What's the range of the motion detector and a clear image capture?



Ideally it could connect to my home wifi to access from my phone or a laptop. But I think they probably have their own wifi like my Olympus camera that I'd have to connect to with my phone to configure the camera settings and download pics. It would be nice if they had motion sensitivity to trigger the camera to capture detailed sharp day or night images of moving objects 50' to 75' away that I could download to my phone.


The Blink cameras are wireless as long their within a certain range to the controller(80' is my farthest with a wall in-between) they are quite simple and easy to use, if you want to talk pm me
 
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