i'm looking to install a security camera system outside of my home...i have been looking mainly at arlo and blink but i don't know that either of them will work for my application...i live on a main road and don't want notification and clips of every car that passes all day and these systems don't seem to have detection zones unless they are hardwired...well actually blink seems to have "sensitivity" settings which is useless for me and arlo seems to have detection zones but only when hardwired...ideally i'd like to have a porch camera, a driveway camera and a backyard camera or 2 (my driveway wraps around the side of my house and i have a shed)...also are these things true motion or are they infrared motion?...basically if you put one inside your home and it's infrared motion it's not going to pick up someone on your front porch through the window but it will if it's true motion...if it's outside infrared would be better i assume cause it may not pick up the cars so much?...i'm just getting into this so i don't know too much about them just yet...the main things i'm looking for are...
-long battery life
-detection zones
-free cloud storage
-undecided right now on true motion vs infrared motion
at the moment i'm sometimes running a free app called Manything with an old iphone 4 on a small bendable tripod pointed outside acting as the camera...it's true motion not infrared motion so it works surprisingly well through the window, has detection zones, records the clips, alerts you, view the clips through the app...the problem is the iphone has to be plugged in all the time and the phone old so i'm worried about the battery blowing up...also i think they may have made it so you have to pay...i haven't used it in a while or updated the app so it may not be free anymore...i'll have to try it and see but i'm looking for something a little better
-long battery life
-detection zones
-free cloud storage
-undecided right now on true motion vs infrared motion
at the moment i'm sometimes running a free app called Manything with an old iphone 4 on a small bendable tripod pointed outside acting as the camera...it's true motion not infrared motion so it works surprisingly well through the window, has detection zones, records the clips, alerts you, view the clips through the app...the problem is the iphone has to be plugged in all the time and the phone old so i'm worried about the battery blowing up...also i think they may have made it so you have to pay...i haven't used it in a while or updated the app so it may not be free anymore...i'll have to try it and see but i'm looking for something a little better