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My neighbor has installed a new type of camera with dual thermal imaging and video imaging. I understand these cameras have longer vision and can see through hedges and trees. He has two of these cameras pointed directly toward my house. One on my front yard and another on my back yard. When I go out to get the newspaper their camera sets-off some sort of silent alarm and I see them coming to the windows to check what's wrong. When I'm on my back patio the same thing happens, even though there are bushes and trees. My experience with CCTV is limited to setting up a Samsung Smartcam to monitor my fish pond. I don't know if the neighbor is just generally paranoid or is worried about me, but it's freaky; I don't feel like I can have friends over on my patio. Is there anything I can do to get some privacy in my own yard? I can't raise the fence, it's already the maximum height my city will allow. I've found playing a radio on the patio when I'm outside helps with the listening but what can be done for the camera's? I appreciate any help. Thanks

Al, I took this picture of the camera nearest my house for your info Last night I tried to find a camera like this on the internet, it looks the same. This LTS Platinum Fixed Lens Turret Camera looks the same. Maybe I'm the paranoid neighbor, the second sensor may just be for night vision IR. If so I'm sorry to waste your time. I started a hedge a couple of years ago to help screen the old cameras, if this camera is just a normal camera, that hedge should eventually work. It's just slow to grow. If my wife and I want to lay out naked on the patio (we're retired so that's not likely) we will hang up a space blanket and think of you with kind regard. I'd like to thank you again for your great advice and help.

Thank you Al Drake, Oguruma, and Tomcctv, for giving me good advice. I knew a flood light might help with the visual camera but I read it doesn't help with the dual thermal/visual camera they have put in. This neighbor has had camera's for years but these new thermal/visual cameras are kind of unusual. From what I've seen they cost thousands of dollars each and they are able to see for blocks, right through trees and bushes. That's why I called the neighbor paranoid, I don't know what he scared of. Since everyone seems to want to know why I don't talk to the neighbor: About 5 years ago I filled an insurance claim for my brick garden wall and a lath structure that are undercut due to soil grading my neighbor did to make a level RV parking pad on his side opposite the wall. The neighbor shirked responsibility for the damage that resulted on my side. My insurance company filled against his insurance company, neither company settled or paid anything. I've heard thermal camera's can't see through glass. I can't afford glass, and the city doesn't allow a higher fence, but I'm thinking of still trying to install something above the fence, do any of you think corrugated fiberglass panels would work?

Maybe you should go into the ministry and give up CCTV. I guess you are practicing in the CCTV Ministry. Thanks for no help at all.

Thanks for responding. Unfortunately we don't talk to these neighbors due to some things they've done. That's a long story. They've used different listening devices over the years, long before the camera's were installed, I can go into this but think it would be too much info. He has a background in electronics and seems to be interested in surveillance as a hobby. I think the cameras are thermal and video because they look the same as cameras I've found on the internet. The cameras have two same size sensors, one with a rounded metal screen face, the other with a normal camera face. The dual sensor unit is turret mounted under his roof eaves. Originally the camera's were installed by professionals with one looking down his driveway and the other looking down his front door sidewalk. A couple of days after install I woke-up to see him working outside around the cameras at 3 AM (3 AM is not unusual for him). A week or so later I noticed the front door camera had been turned to my front yard and away from his front walk and the driveway camera had been turned away from his driveway toward my patio.