Ok, I'm curious, has your neighbor explained what is up with the IR panels? What has he told you? This seems like it may be a matter requiring good communication and working together before things get uglier.
I have a camera pointing towards my neighbor's house. I have absolutely no interest in capturing their property but it is in the FOV of mine and the street, which I am interested in. Because I believe in privacy rights and being a good neighbor, I would work with them if they brought it up as an issue. But that's me and I'm a nut.
It's a long story. But I'll see if I can summarize.
Back in 2018/2019 neighbors were friendly to the wife and I. The same guy that is giving me trouble now, played the victim that his next-door neighbor was doing what I suspect him of doing now (starting to see the picture?). Those two had constant issues (cameras, lights pointing at each other) and he complained that his neighbor was causing his service disruptions.
His neighbor worked for Spectrum as a technician. He decided to sue his neighbor and the company he works for and solicited other neighbors to testify on his behalf. All the time telling everyone he was the one under attack. So, few of us took the bait and testified via zoom in early 2020. It was a miserable failure on his part. It was all heresy testimony and Spectrum's lawyer made all the neighbors and him look like complainers. Judge ruled in Spectrum's favor.
After his loss, he and the neighbor turned it up 100 notches. It was a daily fight on public display. Both would stand outside with handheld devices hell bent on disrupting service. Unfortunately, it also disrupted everyone else's service. It got to the point that I couldn't use the internet regularly which my business is an online store.
The neighbor who lost the suit suggested I switch providers from Spectrum to ATT. So, I switched and the internet disruption went away for me in April 2020, He was my friend, right? I had to trust him, right?
The feuding went on until late 2020 when the Spectrum guy and his family sold their house and moved. We all thought it was over.
I installed cameras at the end of 2020, beginning of 2021 because of crap happening in the neighborhood. It was great, our hibiscus flowers were on the ground in the morning and not gone like before. It was all good. Then I would have random PTZ camera movements at night while sleeping. I would wake up, check the live feed and my one PTZ would be pointing down at the ground. And another camera would go black and then come back on and repeat. So, I disconnected net service and that issue stopped. Unfortunately, I lost remote viewing and notifications.
But then the issues reappeared, even with the net being disconnected. It was then that I found out he was accessing my network through the Wi-Fi connection on my laptop. I disabled Wi-Fi and used the ethernet connection. Stopped for a while and then new issues. That's when I purchased an external router and put the ATT modem in pass-through and disabled Wi-Fi on the ATT device. At that point, I knew the problem was local. I then realized, it was the guy I'm having trouble with now who was the problem, not the Spectrum guy who left.
I'm not sure why he is hell bent on others not having cameras. None of my camera equipment is connected to the net, but the strange issues still happen. With the coil of wire he has, I'm thinking he may be using it to bombard us with signals causing the issues. I'm unsure, so I would like to test with a detector/scanner/spectrum analyzer to know for sure
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