ring camera for garage?

[r4_rick]

Morning All
I'm thinking of buying a ring camera to place in the garage, does anyone have any experience of the best model to purchase.

Only thinking of the picture quality at night time. Need the version that will pick up detail in the dark.

Thanks in advance!

[Somebody]

Any camera that lets you adjust IR intensity for use in the dark will work fine.

[Philvrs]

Spiders are attracted to IR, expect some night time alerts from giant looking arachnids

[LimaDelta]

Philvrs said:

Spiders are attracted to IR, expect some night time alerts from giant looking arachnids

Concur. Terrified the kids with a video of a giant white spider creeping across the lens. We have the standard 'stick up' from Ring in the garage. Primarily so I will know if I've locked a cat in there.

[ARHarh]

Philvrs said:

Spiders are attracted to IR, expect some night time alerts from giant looking arachnids

I didn't know that, but it explains the massive spider alerts I see when viewing the footage..

[AndyAudi]

[quote=Philvrs]Spiders are attracted to IR, expect some night time alerts from giant looking arachnids[/quote ]

I joked with the guy who comes & cleans/services our cameras

“did you bring the anti spider spray?”

Turn out they do actually have such stuff…

[Sheets Tabuer]

Why inside and not outside?

I have floodlight cam on mine and it's great, did try an unlit one but it was pants and susceptible to condensation, also needed and IR lamp I found.

[Gary C]

AndyAudi said:

Philvrs said:

Spiders are attracted to IR, expect some night time alerts from giant looking arachnids

I joked with the guy who comes & cleans/services our cameras

“did you bring the anti spider spray?”

Turn out they do actually have such stuff…

Do they also have sheep tea ?

[MrBig]

Following this as I want something similar. Problem is the two cameras I have already tried are very marginal on the wifi.

[AndyAudi]

Gary C said:

Do they also have sheep tea ?

I don’t get this ?
(Spider spray is genuine)

[ARHarh]

MrBig said:

Following this as I want something similar. Problem is the two cameras I have already tried are very marginal on the wifi.

You are going to be up against wifi issues if you want good quality footage through walls etc, it probably has as much to do with the router as it does with the camera, as wifi is a 2 way process. In my experience you will lose a lot of wifi power through a brick wall, if there are 2 or 3 walls it will always be difficult to get 100% reliable, add in neighbours with wifi, all the other stuff in the house sending out 2.4ghz radio and you are asking for trouble, 5 ghz will not travel as far through walls as 2.4 either.

[Quags]

I have a ring camera in my garage with a Mesh wifi set up. Works really well, I'll grab a pic of it now as I'm at work

[Essel]

We've got some Tapo C200 inside cameras, mostly for dog watching. Under 25 quid, pan/tilt, good phone app with alerts if you want. I'm quite impressed with the night vision on them.

Edit: photo added

Edited by Essel on Wednesday 1st May 16:37

[sgrimshaw]

AndyAudi]hilvrs said:

Spiders are attracted to IR, expect some night time alerts from giant looking arachnids[/quote ]

I joked with the guy who comes & cleans/services our cameras

“did you bring the anti spider spray?”

Turn out they do actually have such stuff…

They certainly do:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09FB4QX9H?psc=1&r...

several on Amazonia

According to my alarm engineer, spiders dislike WD40 ... so spraying (carefully) around the PIRs and cameras will also deter them.

[pghstochaj]

If you already have other Ring devices so pay the monthly fee, just use a basic Ring plug in camera.

https://en-uk.ring.com/products/mini-indoor-securi...

[Far Cough]

pghstochaj said:

If you already have other Ring devices so pay the monthly fee, just use a basic Ring plug in camera.

https://en-uk.ring.com/products/mini-indoor-securi...

This all day long ..... got one of these thrown in with an order I made so put it in the garage. Superb day and night view and comes with all the "Ring" extras thru the app. If I want to move it to somewhere else. I just unplug it and move it. So simple

[megaphone]

Ring cameras are notoriously poor at picking up wifi, so ensure you have a good strong signal in the garage. Also you'll need to pay a subscription if you want to view recordings etc, the cost goes up regularly.

[judas]

I have a couple of Simplisafe cameras in my garage. It's a bit far from the house, so I used a powerline network extender to give the garage its own wifi hotspot. Works mostly, just needs the occasional reset if the cameras drop offline.

[r4_rick]

Thanks to everyone for the replies
My latest thinking is to skip the camera
And just go for the ring alarm