Mounting surveillance camera in grow tent

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icurbyou said:

It's legal.

Even if it wasnt, the cops around here wouldn't seek out a 4 plant operation.

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this is the way I look at it. Cameras are great. You need sound as well. If I wear a mask can you tell who I am? . You need a Recorder of some sort tied to your cameras. As voice recognition is becoming big and the theft would be more a friends or someone you knows doing. Yes cameras show evidemce or can get you in trouble your right, but if police kick your door in and take videos,.pics etc for there own evidence your cameras wont matter much. you will get the same charge as they will collect enough evidence with out your cameras. Just make sure no one shows up on (friends., family) camera or there in trouble to for growing manufacturing etc.

I have done it before but in other places then where i live,Its a great way of keeping track of them i would rather have a camera in the trays at the bottom of the pots so i could see if they was any blockage,so i would not have to check for root blockage every so often .

Budley Doright said:

I monitor temps and get warnings using an ecobee wired into my heating, extraction, and lighting relays. If something happens to my room which causes temps to rise or fall I get an email but no cameras yet lol. If lights go out temps fall, I know it but can't do much about it if on a job site so I'll probably just panic lol.

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Tell me more about how much it cost and how you like it? Was it easy to install and set up? Which components did you get? This is one I'm very interested in.

Well it cost less than $100 but I pilfered a bunch of parts off of furnaces we were trashing due to changing them out. I used a 40 va 24v transformer to power two relays with double pole, double throw contacts and a furnace board with heat, cool, cont blower. and eac terminals, I also have a 120 v relay as well. The Ecobee 3 is really easy to setup and pick alerts re temp, humidity, mode and run times. It all seemed easy at the time lol. I think I posted a pic of the controller with just a reg stat on it recently but can get better pics.

Or, you could just buy one of these, plug it in and go. Been using these for 2 1/2 years, have 4 of them now for my rooms/tents. Quick look at the app, wherever I am can tell me if things are normal or something's amiss. I also have alerts setup so any temp or RH below or above the thresholds I set will text me. First one is about $100, after that they're about $69 per sensor, you can have 5 sensors connected to one controller. They have various add-ins for the sensors as well, e.g in my flower room I have a sump pump (it's a converted cold cellar), if it ever fails it could flood my flower room and basement, so I added a water sensor/probe which sits about 1/4" above the concrete floor, any water hits it and I get a text. Not bad fo9r the cost, they've saved my ass a few times by just looking at the app (after a while you know what "normal" is at different times of day), failed fans, inline fans, power failures that left a new fan off (default setting) when power returned...

Sample screen shot of the app in a browser:


I also use the Foscam cameras that have recording (snapshots or video) to an SD card or FTP site, they can be wired (Ethernet) or Wireless, built-in sound and microphone, they have some decent features for the price points. I don't use them for surveillance, they're just tools that help run my ops. If someone broke into my house and found the flower room I'd have much bigger problems than losing a bunch of pot, like 10's of thousands of $ in computer equipment/routers sitting just outside the flower room.

I bought a Nooie Cam 360 on Amazon for $25! Beautiful HD pictures, even at night thanks to the IR, amazing picture quality. I can watch them on my phone from anywhere, I can share the feed with friends even. My OCD is really paying off, watching my plants grow from anywhere. It also holds a Micro SD card, or you can do cloud storage, plus you can take snaps or video.

icurbyou said:

"hey sarg, we got intel on a 4plant grow. We are about to hit the jackpot. A 1985 Carolla, a shitty rental house, and the $500 in his bank account be all ours!!!!! Cha-ching!!!!!!!"

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