How far away does it record? Will I only get the person knocking at the door or will this record every passing car or pedestrian? How many feet away?
307389
You just get a digital peephole viewer where nobody on the outside can see a shadow pass over the peephole so they can't tell if somebody is watching them or not. No recording possible. Period.
307390
This model will not record, it is just a viewer, you have to press the button in order to activate the viewer when there is someone outside.The model that will record and save the picture in the Micro SD card is PHV133012. Thanks!
307391
please be advised that this machine record, you can see the person at the door and all the way to the street.
556740
Your using it to monitor the exterior of your home from the interior of your home directly through a window? If so, I don't have an answer for that. It wouldnt expect it to do that, it is not the proper camera to do so. Get an exterior camera with the proper width and leds to do so. Just for example, have you ever tried to recording through the inside of your house to the outside with your camcorder. It's never worked very well, very bad focus. Look into an exterior cam. Mine works great.
1884111
Doubt it would work for that. Battery life is fairly short, it's set up for cigarette lighter power. The camera has a pretty wide angle but unless they happen to look directly into the camera when the lighting was good or parked their vehicle in the camera angle it would be of no benefit. Picture what you can see through your windshield, if they vandalized the side or back of you car it wouldn't catch them even if the battery was still good and the motion sensor turned it on.
1079063
It should record as long a there is movement. I believe this can be set up.
1364042
What the "motion detect" does is record only movement such as a person walking by the camera or if the camera itself moves, like when someone hits your car. In between this nothing is recorded. If motion detect is set to off it only records while you are driving/moving, but once the car is no longer in motion it will not record something like someone walking around your car.
1682000
My camera was set to send an email when it detected motion. It was aimed through a front window towards the street and would send emails day or night when a car or person went by. It was useful for monitoring when a delivery was made to my front door. It would sometimes even send an email during lightning storms, probably due to the sudden change in brightness outside. I do not know how it detects motion, however.
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I would not expect it to. The Amazon site claims "Motion detecting range 40 ft Operating range up to 800 ft" Can you place the sensor within the 40 ft of the mailbox? I would expect yes and it would definetly sense the car. However you want the receiver 300 yards away. I believe that would be 900 ft which is 100 feet beyond an ideal case line-of-sight no obstruction situation which is the norm for a manufacturers specification. My general experience would suggest that if you get half (400ft) the rating under good conditions, you're lucky.
1594263
Hi Ginny Sorry, but the peephole does not have motion detect. It is going to take a picture or record a video when someone presses the bell.
883710
It has a motion sensor that activate recording as soon the vehicle starts running. I don't use it, because it causes the camera to stop recording while in a red light.
572227
I'm not sure what the specifications say but it is about 60 feet from where I mounted mine to the street and as it was adjusted out of the box, it was seeing cars in the street, so I adjusted the sensitivity and aimed it a little more downward so that it would only detect the closer motion near the door. Works great so far!
1099574
My camera is located in a remote motor coach that is at least 75 to 100 feet away. It also has to send the signal through the coach wall (metal skin) and the house wall (stucco) and one interior wall. The signal showing on the screen is five bars (full strength). I would therefore imagine that the range would be quite a distance farther as long as there are not too many large metal or electric/electronic pieces of equipment between the camera transmitter and the receiver.
229995
It will record every sound and if your moving with it in your handbag or pants pocket, it will record all movement. To me it records every sound not just voice.
520168
They sell License Plate Cameras DESIGNED to read license plates from a distance. You could set up two cameras, one regular security camera to record a normal street view, and one LPCamera, aimed at a precise spot within the regular view, to record the plate of a car driving by. Cops, banks, and other high security areas probably use these. You could use it to record someone illegally accessing, or driving through your property.anonj
1656250
So far, it gives you the location, but I tend to find that the device is not accurate past 20-30 feet. So if you are using to track a person with some sort of cognitive issue, you will know the general area to look, but not the specific area.
520170
It is a darn good camera, but I do not know what your trying to do with it. Yes it can pick up plates at a bit of a distance. It is not going to get plates very far at night, or if the vehicle is moving. I hope that helps.
1932796
The activation range of these sensors is limited, four to five feet. I have one in my garage by a window in the case of someone breaking and entering through this window. It sits on a shelf facing the window which is fully covered by drapes. The distance between the sensor and the drapes is under three feet. Anyone entering thru this side window will activate this alarm. I tried mounting it high on a wall about seven feet away from the window to prevent an intruder from disabling it. The alarm would not activate at that distance. I ran everything in front of it short of an Elephant, this gizmo would not not go into alarm mode. This is why I had to place it on a lower shelf facing the window. I don't believe the flaps on your entry will set them off if they are at least fout feet away, at the same token an intruder will have to pass within the three to four foot range to activate them, which gives the intruder the opportunity to grab and deactivate them. The y have a very limited range, certainly less tha advertised.
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My cam at the front of the house pointing to the front door can be triggered by traffic on the street which is 15 to 20 feet away, you can adjust the sensitivity to make it more or less sensitive to movement and create zones that are the areas that trigger the camI have been very satisfied with the two I have and plan to get another