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If you decide to buy it set it up high up and out of reach. At night when the PIR's are activated and the camera takes a picture, the IR LED's will probably glow red for a second indicating where the camera is if the prowler is clued up. I'd have a PIR activated floodlight covering the area as well. It is a good deterrent and he won't be able to spot anything in the surrounding darkness.

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The wife's father bought 2 ip cameras off eBay £25 and he put one inside the house and one outside,it was sending him live footage of the fish swimming around in there tank.so he had to adjust it so they didn't set it off and it's infa red and volume

another mistake I made early on was hiding it in a hedge and not trimming any stray twigs or long blades of grass around it, after a windy night I had to wade through around 200 photos of a branch blowing back and forth across the sensor, so now all moving items are trimmed or tied back but it's another good reason to check them dailly if you can

False triggers,f***ing hell i set a trail cam up low-down somit looked along a footpath,it was peeping through a hole in some brambles,i trimmed back the foliage so the cam wasnt triggered by wind blown foliage,good to go,came back a few weeks later,hundreds of pics???The day i left the cam a moggie came sniffing around and gave it a squirt to mark it,till the time i came to collect it loads of moggies came and sniffed,to add insult to injury a fox squatted right in front and had a crap.

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The wife's father bought 2 ip cameras off eBay £25 and he put one inside the house and one outside,it was sending him live footage of the fish swimming around in there tank.so he had to adjust it so they didn't set it off and it's infa red and volume

another mistake I made early on was hiding it in a hedge and not trimming any stray twigs or long blades of grass around it, after a windy night I had to wade through around 200 photos of a branch blowing back and forth across the sensor, so now all moving items are trimmed or tied back but it's another good reason to check them dailly if you can
False triggers,f***ing hell i set a trail cam up low-down somit looked along a footpath,it was peeping through a hole in some brambles,i trimmed back the foliage so the cam wasnt triggered by wind blown foliage,good to go,came back a few weeks later,hundreds of pics???The day i left the cam a moggie came sniffing around and gave it a squirt to mark it,till the time i came to collect it loads of moggies came and sniffed,to add insult to injury a fox squatted right in front and had a crap.
He put his up in the corner of his living room but the fish tank must of been a bit to close but since he moved it he hasn't had a problem.when it was going off his phone was going nuts with the live video it was doing
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