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andy3055:
I live in the east bay in Concord. There is an app/site called Nextdoor Sierra where people can share information, exchange goods and services, sell stuff they don't want etc. etc. I found it very useful as people always share this type of video clips and someone else identifies the culprits some times. It is also helpful to the cops. Even the city officials are on it. I believe this is a service available in a lot of areas. My relative who lives in San Diego has joined Sierra in that area.

Not sure where you are. This might be something to look in to. It is totally free as well.

See below:

https://nextdoor.com/news_feed/
james_s:
Yep, already posted it on Nextdoor, already found one other neighbor who says they had a package stolen by the same people around the same time, says he has video footage too with a better view of the car and the female accomplice driving it. I've reached out to him and also gave the deputy I talked to his contact info, with any luck we'll get a few more data points over time. If I can get his footage I'll post it here too, I'm very impressed by the car image that was stitched together from the video frames.

When this sort of thing happens around here it's usually someone who drives in from some neighboring community, in this case judging by the appearance of the suspects, the relatively expensive late model car being driven, the overall idiocy of stealing worthless items and the general area, I'm betting these are a couple of relatively stupid young girls driving driving their yuppie parents car out looking for easy drug money or toys to play with.
andy3055:
cAgreed. Some of them are looking for checks in the mail. Some are looking for credit card statements so that they can hack your accounts. I must say my postman is a gem in that regard. He will leave the package near the door but never the letters, even if they came the same day! I was thinking he should but now I am glad he does not.

We had our cul-de-sac mail boxes left open one night and the next day I put in a lockable box. When we go away for a few days, I stop the mail and so far, it has worked well. I must get cams installed. Waiting for Costco to give a deal during the holiday season.
james_s:
I've been pretty happy with the Amcrest IP cameras and NVR that I have. The software pretty much sucks however ALL of the mid range camera systems seem to be based on the same ancient Chinese software. I'm a fan of wired PoE IP cameras due to the flexibility, I have mine all plugged into a network switch that has a group of PoE ports and then a group of regular ports that I have all my other gear wired into. I've played with some wireless cameras and they're a pain, less reliable, some of them are uselessly flaky and will drop off the network right when you need them. Also you have to run power to them anyway so in many cases it's not much harder to just run a single CAT5 and be done.

Once I got mine all dialed in I use the mobile app most of the time which is decent. If I need to access the web interface on the NVR or cameras I fire up Internet Exploder (uhg but whatever) and use that, it's the only thing I still use that crusty old browser for. The only time I ever do that is to pull video off it onto my PC, I could also do it locally using a mouse and monitor connected to the NVR but it is locked away in a relatively inaccessible location so I access it remotely over the LAN.
andy3055:
Looks like you have it under control.  ;)
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