Old dog needs new tricks

PenrodPooch · 2025-02-16T07:50:53+00:00

Sooo I am on a natural progression. Background: I have a 2 acre property with a creek that runs down one side. It can be dry in summer but in winter it can be pretty big. So I like to capture video of logs and stuff in winter but in summer I'm starting to get homeless walking down creek. Not often but enough to worry me when I'm on the road. I first got some Arlo cams many years ago but they were terrible. Not worth explaining why we all know. I then switched to reolink and they were awesome for recording deer out by fence, checking out ducks and turtles on creek but even the deer cam out in North 40 couldn't pick up enough detail in a face at 15 feet for me to find the trespasser and know 100% that i was having a "discussion" with correct person. So I want to get some big boy tech. I have shielded direct bury cat6 copper I'm using now. I think I will keep some reolink cameras for nature observation but put a IPC-T58IR-ZE S3 on either end of creek and on driveway for facial and liscense plates but the reolink spotlight camera to let me know Pizza guy is there and light the driveway. Is this a good camera? Would I run Blue Iris? Do you run it on an old computer? I do home automation so want to integrate with my system. Any recommendations on that. Oh and let's not debate Reolink I know what it is good at (looking at deer and turtles) and what it's bad at (anything to do with actual security) see below best/worst reolink deer video ever and my creek. Not i can't identify face of deer