n1tnguy

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. The camera has to be inside because the HOA doesn't allow outdoor cameras... I know. I'll clean the window extra well! The zone that I need to record is no more than 20 feet from the house, it's not far. All I need to record is the breed of the dog, that is sufficient enough to identify the owner.

Indoors, it will be on a window sill.

Howdy everyone, I thought this camera business would be pretty easy. After ordering a relatively cheap camera on Amazon I tried to set it up. It didn't work. I returned it thinking perhaps that the camera itself was faulty. Turns out, the entire camera line and firmware for this company is very poor. So now here I am, I want to know who has not been picking up after their dog in my front yard. I consider myself pretty tech savvy, I have a decent desktop which I can record the video on. At first I was thinking to record video of the entire day while I'm at work but I think that may be quite an inefficient use of resources. I don't really want to use cloud services because I have my own storage right at home. Every camera has mixed reviews and I'm not sure what to believe. What do you guys think? Thanks in advance.