Garage CCTV (no internet access, see text)

[retroman]

Hi folks,

I have finally managed to secure a lock-up garage to rent for my bikes within a one minute walk of the house, distance door to door about 150 metres.

The garage has light and power (normal plug socket) but obviously no wifi or internet access.

I'd like to fit an internal CCTV camera which would ideally send footage and alerts to an app on my 'phone. So I suppose this would have to be via a cloud based system.

Is anyone out there in GS land aware of such a system/would recommend, before I waste hours trawling for one? Or is this a non-starter?

FWIW I do have Amazon Prime and icloud accounts for cloud access.

Thank you in advance,

Dave 'retro'

 

[DJ123]

Depending on Budget, something like Nest for cameraas or something similar may be the route. Then have a wifi hot spot device as your internet connection to send out the packets of data.

 

[retroman]

Depending on Budget, something like Nest for cameraas or something similar may be the route. Then have a wifi hot spot device as your internet connection to send out the packets of data.

Thanks! Will look into that.

 

[retroman]

I've made enquiries with both NEST and DDS (who suppiled the hard wired CCTV system in my house), both require the router to be within 50 feet with line-of-sight. So looks like this is indeed a non-starter, sadly. Unless there are any other ideas?

 

[DJ123]

If you had a mobile phone or other mobile device working to provide the (wireless) internet connection. You can connect a wireless router in as a repeater to connect the cameras to.

something like this

 

[retroman]

If you had a mobile phone or other mobile device working to provide the (wireless) internet connection. You can connect a wireless router in as a repeater to connect the cameras to.

something like this

Makes sense - will look into it. Thanks.

 

[retroman]

I'm resurrecting this thread as technology has moved on, prompted by a massive increase in thefts from farms and other rural locations with no WiFi access (or even, an electrical connection).

These cameras seem to be just what I've been looking for. Anyone on here use something similar?

RuralView | 4G and Wi-Fi Rural & Farming Security Cameras

RuralView 4G/Wi-Fi security cameras are made for rural and farm security. Buy from our range of wireless, solar-powered CCTV surveillance cameras in the UK.

ruralview.uk

 

[Deleted account 260111001]

If it were me, I’d get a net gear nighthawk MR1100 4g, with an unlimited data plan, then I’d get a Ring alarm, add contacts to the door, and a motion sensor. Then you can add a ring camera(s) to view.

This way if a contact is broken on the door, you know for sure that the door has been opened, the motion sensors will also trigger and the cameras will upload to the cloud.

I’d suggest that you need more than one trigger to go to convince you it’s not a huge spider setting off a camera and then false alarms would mean you stop looking.

 

[retroman]

Thanks for that but seems complex to me!! In the event I took the plunge and went for the RuralView bullet camera. It worked perfectly via a 4G plan for two whole days until the camera (apparently) fried the SIM and went bang . I've lodged a complaint with them and await advice, instruction and rectification. In the meantime, this is a still of the footage:

 

[retroman]

Update there was a weekend outage by the Multi-SIM provider (does not fill me with confidence for the future) but now up and running again, so I'll see how it goes.