Re: security camera - save to disk advice please

["John J. Bengii" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are fake cameras with blinking LEDs that are cheap and may be
worth a try. The other technique that can be quite effective is to get
your daughter to apologize for being a bitch to somebody she pissed
off. There is usually a reason and it seems to be working.


"ColinK" <iam247@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1acd4cd1-7dad-421d-a35a-99691a1d9ca0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi
>
> I have no experience in this area - advice sought.
>
> My daughter has had her car 'keyed' / (scraped) several times
> outside
> her house (3 yards / meters from window).
>
> I would like to set up a camera which would be triggered when
> someone
> passes the car, it should take several stills or a few seconds of
> video.
>
> I would prefer to save directly to storage media - possibly a
> removable hard disk, although flash media might be an alternative.
>
> As car can be inspected each day, the media could be erased daily.
>
> I would appreciate comments on the practicality of taking the images
> (mostly at night) and the practicallity of saving images direct to
> recordable media.
>
> Note boradband / wireless internet is not available in the premises
> so
> IP camera will not be practical.
>
> Thanks ColinK
>