Trail camera drafted for home defense??

[QuietDan]

We live in a neighborhood with really one major way in and out, and yet we are getting a lot of drive-by traffic after 10 in the evening and on the overnights, some of it loud with the thumping stereo and some of it quiet.

I've considered installing a trail-camera or two on a post in the front yard, maybe near the mailbox, maybe in a heavy glass box so it can't be easily stolen or vandalized. I'm kind of designing it in my head. I understand that a lot of them have an infra-red flash and are triggered by a motion sensor. I imagine ?? some have timers that can be set for hours on the overnight. Do any have wireless transmission of pictures?

I hate re-inventing the wheel, so, has anyone else done this kind of thing? How well does a trail camera work, and how would you pick one (or two, for the angles)? (Maybe I just want to run power to the mailbox area and mount a pair of security system video cameras with an encrypted wireless connection.

Are there any "privacy" issues - you know, real actual legal privacy issues? The cops often say that "nothing good happens after midnight" and there may be a good reason for folks coming and going down residential streets at odd hours, but I'm thinking that doesn't mean I don't have a right to know what's up.

Thoughts? Pictures? Stories?

[TLRMADE]

Yes there are some that have the wireless transmission of pictures. It has to be within a certain distance though. Be careful with the legalities of "spying" on people not on your property.

[wewoapsiak]

Not a trail camera solution, but Woot! has some gear surveillance gear up today. No clue if they are deals or not. The first doesn't come with a hard drive.

http://www.woot.com/

http://moofi.woot.com/moofi/theygrowsofast

[Fallguy]

If you are taking pictures of your property, the public road or anywhere they don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. don't see where any problem could be.

39-13-605. Unlawful photographing in violation of privacy.

(a)

It is an offense for a person to knowingly photograph, or cause to be photographed an individual, when the individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without the prior effective consent of the individual, or in the case of a minor, without the prior effective consent of the minor's parent or guardian, if the photograph:

(1)

Would offend or embarrass an ordinary person if such person appeared in the photograph; and

(2)

Was taken for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification of the defendant.

(

As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, "photograph" means any photograph or photographic reproduction, still or moving, or any videotape or live television transmission of any individual.

©

All photographs taken in violation of this section shall be confiscated and, after their use as evidence, destroyed.

(d)

(1)

A violation of this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

(2)

If the defendant disseminates or permits the dissemination of the photograph to any other person, a violation of this section is a Class E felony.

http://www.lexisnexi...ttopics/tncode/

Edited March 27, 2012 by Fallguy

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Yeh, it took me a while to find it, Dan. That neighborhood is a maze.

[gl19gobang]

We live in a neighborhood with really one major way in and out, and yet we are getting a lot of drive-by traffic after 10 in the evening and on the overnights, some of it loud with the thumping stereo and some of it quiet.

I've considered installing a trail-camera or two on a post in the front yard, maybe near the mailbox, maybe in a heavy glass box so it can't be easily stolen or vandalized. I'm kind of designing it in my head. I understand that a lot of them have an infra-red flash and are triggered by a motion sensor. I imagine ?? some have timers that can be set for hours on the overnight. Do any have wireless transmission of pictures?

I hate re-inventing the wheel, so, has anyone else done this kind of thing? How well does a trail camera work, and how would you pick one (or two, for the angles)? (Maybe I just want to run power to the mailbox area and mount a pair of security system video cameras with an encrypted wireless connection.

Are there any "privacy" issues - you know, real actual legal privacy issues? The cops often say that "nothing good happens after midnight" and there may be a good reason for folks coming and going down residential streets at odd hours, but I'm thinking that doesn't mean I don't have a right to know what's up.

Thoughts? Pictures? Stories?

One way in, one way out, traffic after 10:00 p.m. not a shortcut to walmart, sounds like a drug dealer back in there somewhere to me. Edited March 29, 2012 by gl19gobang