What do you do with your old cameras when you upgrade?

[Arjun]

I myself have sold a countless number of cameras; some I have even passed them on to my neighbors as a mutual benefit. However, I noticed that I always have 2-3 cameras on the side wondering what to do with them and in what best case scenario they can be utilized.
There are some areas in my deployment where one camera acts as an overview and the other is focused on just one part of that area. I feel like I may already saturated my options and not sure what the other cameras can be utilized for. Sure, they can be utilized in temporary measures as backups in case one camera fails but that is rarely the case with the kind of cameras we all discuss about here enthusiastically.

What are your thoughts?

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

I'll give you my address...

 

[Sybertiger]

I repurpose them to cover areas I had not covered before. Example: I took an old 2MB Dahua cam and mounted it in a tree in the front yard to look back at the house. All my other cams point outward from the house. This one I can actually see that the house is not on fire.

Thread 'Tree Cam Installation'

Jul 11, 2024

I recycled an older 2MP HDW5231R-ZE that was in the backyard which was replaced with a T54IR-ZE-S3 recently by mounting it on a tree in the front yard. All my other cams point outward away from the house but I always wanted to have a cam looking at the house so I could see if there was a tree laying on the roof after a big storm, or shingles missing off the roof or smoke billowing out, etc....or just assurances that everything would appear as it should.

I had previously installed a tree cam at my parents house (as seen HERE) but on that install I purposely left the camera white...

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