My sister has had acid thrown on her car twice and want's some sort of cctv fitted to the house. We are going to fit what ever we get ourselves but we aren't really sure what the best option would be. It's going to be mounted at garage roof height and needs to record to some sort of self contained storage, ie she wont be having a pc running that's connected to it. Any advice would be great, thanks
That's so messed up :/ When you say acid, do you mean acid or paint stripper? It's immeasurably screwed up either way, but acid (whatever type) seems pretty specific, whereas any idiot vandal could pick up some paint stripper at a hardware or paint shop. The Raspberry Pi offers a great way to set up a low cost, self contained security system. The only problem with it is lighting - if this vandalism is happening at night, the RPi cam or webcam that you'd be using wouldn't hold a candle to a dedicated night vision security camera in terms of recording usable footage in low light conditions.
I have a Swanview system that I picked up from Maplins for around £200 and includes nightvision recording. It works fairly well although the mobile app is terrible. http://www.maplin.co.uk/swann-house Alternatively I've heard good things about Logitech solution http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/video-security-systems
Thinners/stripper don't usually do serious damage to paint in a random attack - most common substance for that is brake fluid.
Not sure if it was acid, paint stripper or brake fluid but it damaged every panel, melted window rubbers, rear lights and door handles.
There a nice family who live in a nice area so don't understand why they are being attacked. My nephew is a very promising footballer who's being hunted by scouts so maybe it's jealousy.
Could be a case of mistaken identity. It's how I got my car keyed twice (the remaining four times were apparently just random envy --I've now decided to trade it in for a functional, unexciting looking old banger because I can't be asked with the hassle). Angry people are blind people. Whole innocent families have gotten killed because some murderous **** got the address wrong and couldn't be arsed to just double-check before, you know, killing someone.
Another vote for Swann. I have one. For the money, miles ahead of the competition. Look for 600+ TV Lines, D1 or higher DVR. Connection can be with Coax or, via Balun's, CAT5 for longer runs (50M-250ish Metres). I quite like the Mobile app, but I'm on android. Not so keen on the IOS version.
I can't be asked telling Nexxo to fix the typo in his post Sorry dude, had to On-topic, paint stripper will attack pretty much anything you put it on, depending on the base and the type of paint it's "applied" to; Clicky. I once saw a new (at the time) VW Golf at the filling station where I worked which had been badly vandalized using paint thinner on several panels including the roof, rear hatch and bonnet. It had eaten all the way through to the bare metal and was extremely fresh. The owner told me it had happened the night before and had no idea why anyone would do such a thing. He'd had the car less than a week - it was probably jealousy
Exactly the same thing happened to a friend except no deaths involved. His dad got ill over the stress of it all - sleepless nights, ended up losing his job, all sorts of horrific stuff. Turns out it was mistaken identity; and football violence related. The blokes scumbags went to prison for it when they were caught
