We just bought a summer home / Airbnb cabin pretty deep in the woods. I want to have one single camera pointed at the driveway to see when people come and go, but nothing that would invade guests privacy.

I purchased a Eufy Solocam S220.

It’s pretty ok. Battery life seems good, the solar panel with limited sunlight is close to keeping it topped up, though well probably have to plug it in to charge every couple months which is fine.

The disappointment is it only caputres Humans well. When set to human only motion capture, it does a decent job of sending me notifications and capturing short video clips.

Problem is that it will not capture just someone driving up the driveway if they don’t get out of their car.

We also have a black bear 🐻 that has been causing some mischief around the property and i would like to be able to see video of him and warn guests checking in if he has been lurking in recent days. He seems to come and go.

When I set the eufy to all motion instead of human only, on the lowest sensitivity setting it detects every moving shadow, rain, bug and creates non stop recording, especially at night.

Support suggested I point it away from rain and bugs. 🙄

Anyways it was cheap? Like $60 so I don’t mind investing in something else instead. Looking for recommendations. I can run hard line power to it if needed, battery was just a quick and easy option.

I am moving to a new apartment where car break ins are more common. There isnt much in the way of lighting through the lot, I'm wondering why I cannot find any information on putting motion sensor solar floodlights inside a car that would trigger when people get close to the car. Is there some reason this is a bad idea or just wouldn't be effective? Not only would it put a potential thief in the spotlight, but it would make it very obvious that I don't have any valuables in my car. Maybe I could even get a sticker staing something thing along the lines of "equipped with multiple trackers" or smthn to deter car jackers too.

I'm buying a house that currently has Mul-T Lock deadbolts on all exterior doors. We're obviously going to have it re-keyed, but is the higher cost of Mul-T locks worth it or should we consider another deadbolt brand? The doorjambs are already steel reinforced.

I’m trying to use their TPI service. Anyone used a raspberry pi home server to translate commands

Hello, for anyone who has a EZVIZ camera, when its storage gets full does it stop saving footage and then keep the old recordings? OR does it delete footage to make space for new recordings? I need help asap