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[USAFRet]

Not only that, they apparently didn't even notice they already had it in their possession, right? Otherwise, why'd they go to you?

Right

 

[razor512]

In my experience of:

• having a car stolen from my driveway
• having the catalytic convertor stolen from my car in front of my house
• having my car broken into a couple of times

it does not matter if you have PoE cameras, wifi cameras, or no cameras at all. The police don't bother to investigate property crimes anyway.

I have multiple 1080p and 4K PoE cameras outside my house. Every time I have offered footage to the police. They don't come out to collect the footage. They might accept it over a Dropbox URL or something. Or they just don't even care to receive it.

It is heavily location dependent, In some cities and states, property crimes were heavily downgraded, to a point criminals can even rack up dozens of arrests and not get jail time.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKsmHeTnVkk

For example the criminal paid by credit card in a coffee shop and robbed Louis Rossmann on camera.

What ultimately happened was the police refused to do anything even though thousands of dollars worth of equipment was stolen. Even though the criminal was caught on camera, and the criminal used his credit card to make a purchase in the restaurant, and the restaurant was willing to provide the info to the police, nothing was done to go after the criminal.

While that is a bad outcome in that location, in others that take property crime more seriously, a report will often lead to an investigation since the police know that the arrest + evidence will lead to indictments that will lead to jail time.

With that in mind, it is still important to have video, since it can provide proof of damages if you have insurance on the property that covers theft, and it can also protect you in places that seek to punish self defense in the cases of home break-ins.

 

[bit_user]

Use this app to ping your router or any device on your network you need to monitor.
Every 30 seconds the device is pinged.
If the device takes longer than 2500 milliseconds to respond, a web request is sent.
You can use Telegram free for the web request.
If the device is unreachable, the cellular data will send the request.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobile.pingramapp.free

Does it ping them from outside of your network, like the cloud or whatever? Wouldn't you have to setup port forwarding for that? Does it use ICMP (which I think most ISPs will block) or something else?

Let's say you can't reach your wifi cameras. What then? How do you know it's not your internet, or maybe your router just flaked out? My Internet occasionally has outages in the middle of the night, when I suppose the ISP is doing maintenance. I'd hate to be woken up just for that! Or, what if your wifi router just flakes out (which has been happening to me, every couple months)?

Basically, the potential for false alarms it too high for these alerts to be actionable. Maybe if you're at home and awake, then it wouldn't be a big deal just to check and see if it's just an equipment/ISP issue or what. Otherwise, it seems like it would just create needless stress, a lot more often than not.