Question re: video of property

[woodsprite]

I had a question re: video streaming/img capture of your own property. Hubby set up a camera mounted in plain site on one of our trees near our temporary storage locker that insurance co. is paying for -- it's totally full of stuff we had to move out of our house for our Sandy repairs. The camera only displays our immediate property and driveway close to the garage (no neighbors, not the street or sidewalk, etc.). It's doing streaming so we can see if we have visitors (can't see the drive at all from the living area of our house) and time-lapse captures so we can put a video of the rebuild together. Since everything is in the open and it's only our property we're looking at, hubby said he didn't think we needed a sign notifying anyone. I feel like we should have one of those signs up. We also have a camera in the kitchen to watch the unsecure door and our dog. We're in a decent area, and thankfully our German Shepherd would take care of anyone who decided to just walk into our house uninvited.

I'll be glad when all this is done! Anyway, which would you do -- sign, no sign?

[Scuba]

1. A sign may help as a deterrent. If there's a law against it, it's a bad law.

[jeff47]

2. The law wouldn't require one. But you may want one anyway

(Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. I could easily be wrong about the law, especially in a state I don't live in.)

Anyway, putting a camera up doesn't require a sign. Even if it manages to get a glimpse of your neighbor's property. The camera is allowed to record anything you can see when you're standing somewhere you can legally stand. Don't point it in the neighbor's windows, but if it sees their yard you're still OK.

But if one of your goals with the camera is to deter theft, you may want a sign anyway. The sign is a better deterrent than the actual camera, which is the main reason that the signs are put up.

If theft deterrent wasn't one of your goals with the camera, then I would recommend not bothering.

[woodsprite]

3. I think I'm going to put a sign up when we head home at lunch today.

The camera was originally for the time-lapse image capture. We've been almost 8 months without 1/3 of our house, so we're pretty happy that we're finally getting it rebuilt. I feel pretty creepy knowing how exposed we are right now since the demolition and rebuild started. Maybe I'll have hubby turn the camera on full capture for when the workers are at lunch and nobody is there and in the night (it does infrared).

This situation looks like it might last for a few more days to a week more before we get closed in again. I'm more freaked out by the fact that somebody could just walk in. I think I'll push our daughter's bed up against her door that opens out into the work area tonight. We can always move it again in the a.m. so the workers can access her door.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Agree with everyone else. Don't think it is an issue...

UNLESS you have audio. I think audio makes it a bit dicey. And that varies from state to state.

[shireen]

5. what kind of setup do you have?

I'd like to do something like that to monitor the bushy-tailed rascals at my birdfeeder.