I just wanted to send kudos to HomeSeer. Last night someone tried to break into a vehicle in my driveway. The motion sensor saw him, HomeSeer announced that someone was in the driveway, turned on the front lights, and scared him away. This is the 2nd time HS has caught a thief before he had a chance to do any damage!
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I put up cameras this last year, so I have it all on video! (It feels so good to be able to put a face to the crime!) The motion sensors are on the house - so it watches over any car that's parked in the driveway, and it alerts us before someone has a chance to get inside the vehicle. Plus, it's kind enough to turn on the lights for us when we arrive home after dark.
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Originally posted by CJVann View PostI put up cameras this last year, so I have it all on video! (It feels so good to be able to put a face to the crime!) The motion sensors are on the house - so it watches over any car that's parked in the driveway, and it alerts us before someone has a chance to get inside the vehicle. Plus, it's kind enough to turn on the lights for us when we arrive home after dark.
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+1HSPro 3.0.0.458, Z-NET with Z-wave plugin 3.0.1.190, RFXCOM + 2x RFXtrx433E, HSTouch, Squeezebox plugin, iTach IP/WF2IR & GC-100-6 with UltraGCIR, BLDenon, NetcamStudio, Jon00s Webpage builder, Harmony Hub plugin, SCSIP (with FreePBX), Arduino plugin, IFTTT, Pushalot plugin, Device History plugin.
Running on Windows 10 (64) virtualized on ESXi (Fujitsu Primergy TX150 S8).
WinSeer (for Win10) - TextSeer - FitbitSeer - HSPI_MoskusSample
Are you Norwegian (or Scandinavian) and getting started with HomeSeer? Read the "HomeSeer School"!
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Video was "okay" - he was bundled from head-to-toe because of the cold, but you could pretty well make out basic features like sex, nationality, approx age, height & weight, and he has a mustache. It also helps to see he's walking around at 4AM with a backpack, baggy pants that you have to hold up to walk in (for those fast get-aways), and the video showed where he walked, so we got footprints and were able to see 3 other houses he was at.
Since he didn't take anything there wasn't much for the police to do, but we did notify them and let them know we have video and photos of him in case anyone else reports a break-in. I also notified my neighbors, and the neighborhood watch.
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This is great news for you - I'm happy to hear it worked out so well.
About a year ago I decided to ramp up the security scripts at my home, and one of the "features" I added was to turn on the front porch light if there is an unwelcome visitor while we were gone. This would be a signal to us not to enter the home. (note: I do have HS sending our phones emails, but I wanted a backup just in case)
Anyway, I was up laaate one night working on this, trying to perfect the script. Each cycle of the test would turn the front porch light on. The next morning I went to my vehicle and found the center console in my vehicle open with the contents sitting on my seat. Nothing was taken - I know it was my testing the scripts that scared the would-be thief away. I'll take dumb luck over no luck any day.
That encouraged me to add some sort of security to my vehicle, but never got around to it. Maybe someday...
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