spy cam??

[powerade]

is there some tiny damn thing i can put on my door and watch on my comp or something ??

keep getting mysterious knocks on my door once in a while, hell where i lived before got weird door bell ringing annoyances at weird times

its really weird ...

 

[Shogo]

I just moved into a "less safer" neighborhood where there is alot more of crime and vandalism and one day at 4AM i head someone screaming in the upper appartment and heard some guys laughing in the corridor and talking like gangstah shit guys. I took a baseballbat and the telephone and hide behind the door and checked through the little hole on the door to see if someone was coming. I finally felt asleep , the next morning 3 cars in the street were smashed....

If you see some suspecious thing, get the telephone ready ehe.

Hmm i miss my hometown living with my parents haha

 

[powerade]

ya dude ill be honest it freaks me out i dont even check the door to see who the hell it is, one knock and i dont hear anymore


dont hear any car doors / or people walking off or anything, the door next door is facing a diff angel and is 10 feet away so i know its my door

 

[jpmkm]

Yeah I'm going to be setting up a camera to look out the back of my apartment. I want to be able to see who is knocking at the door. I'm just paranoid like that. Anyway, I am probably just going to hook up an old webcam and aim it out the door. I don't really need high resolution or high framerates, so a webcam should be sufficient for what I'm doing. I might even build an IR LED flood light or something so that I can see in the dark. Anyway, it's a USB webcam so I'm just going to use standard v4l capture stuff to grab the video, then I'll be able to watch it anywhere I want(either on my workstation or the tv or anywhere else). If you want to go with a standard security camera(which i actually recommend; i just don't want to spend the money on it), then you'll need some sort of capture card. There are 4 channel capture cards on ebay for dirt cheap that'll probably do the trick. Then just get a camera(there are tiny pinhole ones on ebay for cheap also) and connect it all up. If you want to get fancy, you can get software that'll do time-lapse and motion detection and all that awesome shit.

 

[powerade]

sent ya a pm.. would have to be a pinhole cam or w/e cause living in a college town is sad, literly houses dont get modernized, (trust me its hard finding a decent apt so i looked at alot)

water pipes viewable running up / down the walls, stand up heaters in each room, lead paint that is almost chipped and other shit like that, common in all places here

only saying that cause theres alot of windows, and even on my door the damn glass runs all the way down to my door knob,

 

[xlastsilverstarx]

well on the market there are alot of differnt webcams/spy cams. Its pretty much how much u want to spend. There are webcams with a internet address just type it in and watch it live. That would be your best choice becuase its safe and easy. Also a webcam that can go to a monitor where you can watch. although i dont know the distance on one of these but the one at school is color and look pretty good. i will go and look on tuesday. If u want sound, sometimes good to have and maybe even record it for evidence if you have problems with that kind of stuff.

 

[powerade]

the thing is i live in such a dense area, 3 colleges in town + a large lake in eye shot of my house, so with all the apartments / houses soooooooo close by it would be hard to use a webcam, and stick it in the window or w/e even try to hide it lolol

 

[xlastsilverstarx]

im sure they wouldnt notice it. they arnt that big

 

[powerade]

ur joking ?? how can u not notice a webcam in a door, maybe only a blind person

 

[Frobozz]

ur joking ?? how can u not notice a webcam in a door, maybe only a blind person

Common.. you're not thinking [H]ard enough. Take the webcam apart.. see what you can mod it into to help conceal it.

Some quick thoughts:
A fake or real plant
Holiday decorations
Replace the peep-hole in your door with it (if you have one)

 

[Frank4d]

Spycams are cool... I have three of them outside my house hooked up to a screen splitter and 30 hour VCR. One day I went out because I heard a crack like wood breaking and found my mailbox post had been run over. I rewound the tape a little, found the video of my mailbox being run over and printed a couple of pics. When my nextdoor neighbor returned home I confronted him and he said he didn't run over my mailbox. So I showed him the pics and asked if that was his truck in my front yard? ROTFLMAO! He asked if it would be ok for him to replace my mailbox post the next day.

 

[powerade]

no i have no peep hole in my door, otherwise i wouldnt be posting

theres a glas window in my door that runs all the way down to my door knob (that big) i even have to slide the blinds over just to unlock the door

so as i was saying since im in such a dense area i would have ot leave a hole open in the blinds or w/e with a webcam looking through (to obvious) plus i would be viewable lol

hell kinda pissed cause after these privacy blinds i still gotta buy curtains(like 30 bucks a piece for decent curtains...) cause uc an look in from the side of the blinds where theres nothing lol

 

[1c3d0g]

...
If you see some suspecious thing, get the telephone ready ehe.
...

Bullshit.

*loads shotgun*

 

[qtwre]

You could cover the window in black vinyl like 100% black window tint, but leave a square with limo style tint for the webcam to look through.

 

[powerade]

is that legal ?? got more info ??especialy on price ...??

cuz curtains cost more then blinds... now i need curtains to cover the sides that the blinds dont get

 

[CyByte]

if you think there is a possible problem remember the police or 911 can put you on hold and won't be there for at least 15 minutes in most places. I hope you all have firearms training. If not get it. If you don't like guns I can't feel bad for you much.

that out of the way

There are IR cameras you can get systems that go outside your home for less then 2,000 dollars that work in pretty much all weather conditions.

 

[x_dreamer]

hey cy, yeah yeah, a fire arm can be usefull, but honestly its often not neccisary. rather have my shit messed with than have to live with killing some1. but, heres what u should do as an alternetive. buy a 12 gauge shotty, then get hold of rubber bb shells, make ur own rocksalt shells, hell theres like 100's of non lethal shells. the ruber bb's are cool, cause they think theyve been shot and they think htier gonna die, but if i remember it only goese through a few layers of skin. the rock salt stings like hell. lastly, this 1 is hella sweet, get a pepper ball gun. just like a paintball gun, but theres a really strong pepper spray like thing inside it, basicly they go down struggling to breath. since u probably cant afford that crap though, maybe just find a way to mold in a old web cam, or i think u should do what that guy said, and tint it all really dark, and 1 spot not quite as dark, and put ur webcam there behind it.

 

[powerade]

y is some guy saying i shouldnt live if i dont have gun training ??

ya im not afraid for my safety just annoyed and kinda weird about living in the big city cause of those things i posted

 

[Detman101]

I'm also looking for a good spycam setup.
I found this 50 dollar color spycam in another thread for a casebuild.

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/VC-24/135/MINI_COLOR_PINHOLE_CAMERA_.html

The only sucky thing is that you have to buy the power supply to get 12volts DC to the camera.
And the guy that did the mod found a way to rig the connector to the molex cable and run the camera off of that while it was in his computer case.

How he did it I don't know. I asked him earlier, if he replies i'll forward the info to this thread.

The power suppy only costs 8 dollars at that website that I referenced.
But I really need to know how dude modded the Power supply for the camera into his psu cable.
It looked so smooth too..

I blame AllElectronics.com for the hole in the top left corner, $46 for a pinhole camera w/mic means I have something else to cram into the mod... not a problem, I fit it in.

So now that I have a video camera going into it the mod will also be able to pull security duty on top of all the other things I have planned for it, I'm going big while still keeping things really small and after coming this far I have a new found respect for mini-ITX modders.

 

[powerade]

lol so y does tha dude hav a cam in his case ?? or am i missing something

so he can see who gets on his comp or what, and where did u get those pics of his at ??

 

[Rofl-Mic-Lofl]

I wouldn't mind having a spycam at my desk. I've had 5x headsets just.. break while I'm not at home.