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Yes, I am heading in the direction of Nest, looks good, and the alerts are very interesting.
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For camera controller I use Blue Iris. It is amazingly powerful and very inexpensive. It does require a higher power PC. There is also a great mobile app for a few bucks more.
My most recent camera installation is the soccer ball-sized Sunba 601-d20X with pan/tilt and an amazing 20x optical zoom. Great camera, but an obscure web interface. Customer support by email is surprisingly responsive. It needs a higher power PoE (Power over Ethernet) to run the motors, around 45 watts. I'm using a 75w injector just to be on the safe side.
For interior pan/tilt cameras with audio, I have had several Foscam cameras over the years. Only one has died. I just purchased two of the newer F1931's for my wife's mother.
For fixed position, exterior installation, I prefer the HIK DS-2CD2132 mini-dome and the HIK DS-2CD2032 bullet because they have a PoE interface and that means fewer cables to worry about.
I hope that helps.
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Thanks, a lot of info! I'll take a look.
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Here is my $0.03. I have three indoor and two outdoor NEST cams. All have two way communication. They are all plug into the wall cameras. They are Wi-Fi cameras and have a pretty good app and website. I initially got them last December because ex-wife. Long story.
Likes: Can check any of them at any time. All of them appear on one page but can click on any and get just that camera full screen. Records up to 1080p. All have great night vision. I can create a 'zone' to be notified when there is anything in that zone. I can set to be notified when a sound is detected. It will put an indicator on the timeline colored to the zone or a gray dot if it's outside the specified zone. I pay something like $50/year for each camera to have 10 day recording storage. You can get I think 24 hours free. Also can have 30 day storage for a bit more. I'll have to check out the software posted earlier. I can also have the camera turn off if I'm home which can be detected by location of the phone or simply the phone being connected to the Wi-Fi.
Dislikes: Drops offline. Used to be a lot! Like 2-3 times a day! They must have done a firmware upgrade last month because now it's more like 2-3 times a week! That's about it really. Otherwise I'm very happy with these. I guess they reboot after 12 minutes because that's about how long they are off and I get emails and notices pushed to my phone when they've reached 10 minutes.
They will suck bandwidth but not so bad everything else in the house suffers. I bought the Netgear Orbi setup to extend my Wi-Fi since I thought it was weak in the house but that wasn't it. Just a firmware issue with the cameras. I have Xfinity (6 Mbs up, 120 Mbs down).
I also have the NEST Thermostat. Not that they all talk but that's how I knew it wasn't the internet because in the 10+ months I've had the thermostat, it's dropped like once.
It was pretty much the 1080p recording that got me. Plus them needing only a plug. The outdoor ones I drilled holes through the house wall to plug inside. The wide angle lens allows me to see the entire front of the house with just two cameras.
I think that about does it.
If you know what I mean...and I think you do...
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The Nest outdoor is head of the list so far, the two way audio, and image quality, and night vision, is convincing. THe alerts are good and the wide angle means I can have one camera cover most of the usable part of the house.
I also like the one that disguises itself as an outdoor light though, it is more 'sneaky'. However since we will be renting the house we will have to tell the guests there is an outdoor security cam anyway so might well go for the Nest.
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Daplie
hmm. $677,946 funds raised, estimated "delivery" Feb. 2017.
OK, it's 6 months later and their website is still "pre-order."
I would be annoyed.
Ah (from their website):
Cloud units will begin shipping in Summer 2017. We've had a lot of interest and are already working with one of the highest-quality server manufacturers in China to get Cloud ready.
Another odd question is, why a year later of "estimated delivery" for 1TB more of storage???
Hmmm...Crowdfunding...
Marc
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Here's one that has an absolutely fantastic video, has raised over $1.8 Million USD and is most certainly a scam and still hasn't shipped. Seriously watch that video.
It is so well done and this thing is based on an idea that everyone wants (cone of silence) that is impossible for a device this small but it definitely tricked a huge number of people.
Muzo - State of the Art Vibration Monitoring Sys. creates cone of silence[^]
Backers cannot get any responses really and they just keep slipping the date.
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raddevus wrote: Seriously watch that video.
Amazing. It seems like crowdfunding, which was originally a cool idea, has degenerated into a "whoever makes the coolest video / presentation gets the most money" even if it's all vaporware.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: "whoever makes the coolest video / presentation gets the most money" even if it's all vaporware.
Agreed! You've summarized the situation perfectly.
Too bad it's turning out this way. 
And, that video is just so doggone convincing. Good thing all the scammers aren't that good at video production.
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Marc Clifton wrote: crowdfunding, which was originally a cool idea, has degenerated
Like most of the ideas that get crowdfunded, how appropriate 
Dunno, crowdfunding makes me appropriate real investors. Now we see how much bullsh*t they have weed out.
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That sounds like it could be what my kid mentioned the other week. And if a sixteen-year-old can smell BS...
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Marc Clifton wrote: . . . one of the highest-quality server manufacturers in China . . .
Talk about oxymorons.
Anyway, just so you know:
this is all the work of Kim Jong-un (or his barber?). You've got to trust me on this.
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You could have helped fund a watch. Probably ship RSN (real soon now)
[^]
Only 11,000 comments. One would suspect that the folk(s) skipped town.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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The Spectrum Vega + is well worth a box of popcorn to watch the accusations fly back and forth - glad I resisted.
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Oops, another one learns the hard way. A couple of years ago, I "invested" in an Indiegogo startup for a micro drone. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Initial shipping date came and went and went and went, to the point that (a) the CEO's comments on facebook was a running satire and (b) continued solicitation bordered on fraud.
Setting aside the controller boards that smoke (once), the motors that don't work, etc, the product was so late that the contributors paid for an all expenses paid learning process for the company.
You pays your money, you takes your chances.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Is kindred the fear of visiting relatives?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Visiting? I'd say "having" is sufficient to install fear.
Marc
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Oh brother, not that one again! In related news...
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What's cousin ewe* to espouse these comments? Wondering what son your mind and if this is this related to any earlier posts?
* Considered a relative in Wales, no?
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Given that 'visitor' in (modern) Greek is επισκέπτης (episképtis), and 'relatives' in Greek is συγγενείς (syngeneís), I would say that 'episkeptical syngeneiophobia' would refer to fear of relatives visiting, and 'syngeneical episkeptophobia' would refer to fear of visiting relatives.
(or is it the other way round?)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Apparently it is.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes, it seems the concepts are related.
/ravi
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They'll probably prove it father down the road.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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