Bike security - good experience.

[Maccydee]

I've been working away a lot recently meaning I had to leave my house empty for a week at the time for several months, and I started to get really paranoid that after couple of months that I might return to a burgled house.

Anyway, I saw a repeat of the Gadet show from Channel 5, and they had these camera which send a picture to a mobile if they detect movement. Bought myself one and I'm so impressed with it. It sends 5 pictures every time it's triggered straight to my phone and can work in the dark. Been using it now for about 6 months and the only false alarm I've had was caused by a small (but looked fooking massive on the text) spider.

Now I'm back home I've shoved it in the garage to protect the bike. It's going to give me heads up the minute someone enters the garage and even better it sends me pictures of who did it, hopefully the police will be able to identify them if they don't catch them red handed because I've just called 999. Best bit is, even if said thieving fuckers see the camera the images has already been sent so it doesn't matter if they nick it or destroy it as I still have evidence on my phone!!!

Product is called Alert Pal but there's others, best bit is you can arm and unarm it by text. Definitely makes me feel secure that my bike is safe when combined with the usual security like chains and locked garaged door etc.

[Tungtvann]

Sounds interesting. I'll look it up.

[Benno]

Sounds awesome.

Unfortunately it's £300...
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[Maccydee]

[covent.gardens]

Something similar could be bodged together for minimal cost if you had power and internet (wired or wifi) to the garage. A cheapo webcam with some software that supports motion activation and custom commands on trigger would be the starting point.

Now if we talk about bodged security measures...

I love the idea of a smoke screen. You can't steal something you can't even see to get at. I used to make smoke bombs from KNO3/Sugar and when a pan of it accidentally went off in the house I couldn't see in front of my face for half an hour. Mixing that up and having it trigger in a shed or garage when an alarm is triggered (along with optional flash bangers for effect/drawing attention) would be a pretty impressive security measure and very very cheap, and safe if actually put together with some thought. Smoke screens FTW. They'd get used more if they weren't so expensive, all the ones I looked at seemed to cost a grand or more.

[yaigi]

[ZebraDriver]

My bike lives in a lockup about 1.5 miles from the house. I have a 12v caravan alarm system (no power at the lockup) it runs off a car battery that lasts about 3 weeks at a time. It has a PAYG sim card that costs me about £15 per year. If the alarm goes off it sets off the siren and sends me a text and phones me (anywhere in the world!). It has aux contacts that could be used for switching on an in-car type camera (that I can get for £25 or so) and more that could switch on lighting to assist the camera but I've never bothered with these. The system can be switched on/off by sending it a text (I do this in order to keep the sim card alive) or with either of the two remotes supplied with it. The alarm costs £150.



ZD

[dransy]

Car infront of garage works for me
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