Does Anyone On This Site NOT Use Video Surveillance At Their Own Home?

Alarm guys routinely don’t have alarms. 

I do not for a handful of reasons

1. I would not put Hik or Dahua on my house and cannot afford what I would like.

2. I do not feel a constant presence of security fears.

3. When the choice is taking my kids to Disney World and saving for college or spending $7k to kit out my house the kids win every time.

I find it an odd assumption... I don't see any reason why I should set up surveillance in my apartment. It would freak out friends and provide nothing more than administrative burden and plentiful cat footage.

If you are in any type of ownership position, I think its a sin if you dont have some of your equipment installed on your own house. 

The last thing I want to do at home is run cable. So I have Arlo cameras on the exterior, Canary for the interior. 

I work for Eagle Eye Networks.

As a manufacturer, I have a system in my house.  We also provide systems to our employees for their use.  It gets them more familiar with our offering and also provides a set of users to test new features on.

Mainly I do because the home is my test bench where I can see if cameras really perform and work out bugs w/o going to the office or out to the job on weekends or early am when no one is around or up to see the sunrise. 

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I have many different technologies around my home. These include different models of cameras from different manufacturers.

I like to walk the walk and test what we sell so I can give an informed recommendation on a product and understand better if that product would best suit the needs of a client.

It also gives me the opportunity to be creative when if comes to hidden cabling and test new ideas and techniques. I now have perfected the art of reconstructing door frames to hide cables around them. The only problem is I keep adding new toys and now have a 19U comms cabinet behind my desk in my study!

A lot of us may work with what I'll call 'professional systems' that are for commercial and not really priced for the home.  I have a few cameras, but am not crazily worried about break-ins and also don't pay for an alarm service.  It would be a high price to put the cameras we sell in a residence.  Guess could go with Hik or Dahua or a Costo kit but have not.

I find that I don’t have a need for cameras at my home. I already have the best surveillance/intrusion detection/deterrent system available. 

Dogs. 

That said, the TCO for cameras would be much lower since cameras don’t eat. :-)

I don't.

But should.

Too busy with work ... LoL

Not only do I have surveillance at home I am always upgrading and installing new equipment. I have to test everything out. I have three servers running in my basement with different VMS's, several different kinds of switches and a ton of wireless stuff. 80% of what's in my house I thought was awesome before I put it in. After using it for a week or so or even just a few hours I decided I would not sell it. 

I never did and would always lock up everything at night, then one day when I saw my wheels missing off my car that changed everything.

I have the history of video from 1986 in my basement in boxes and/or shelves. Most of it only worked for a few months at a time to prove/disprove/compare performance from manufacturers demo equipment. It must be some sort of industry madness I've contracted that I can't throw away a 30 year old vidicon tube! Still trying to find a Saturday to throw out a bunch of 1" lenses! Anyone need a bunch of properly terminated RG59 jumpers of various lengths? LOL! IPVM did what I wanted to do! Congrats John H for launching a successful business on real world results of devices and software rather than what datasheets have lied about for years!

I have had cameras on/around my house for a pretty long time. The image below is from my first "video analytics" installation/test, in 1999. This was on an analog camera (of course). The 4 white squares were movable, and the system would create a tripwire around the perimeter. You could adjust for object size/sensitivity (somewhat).

The unit itself was a 1U box that provided a single channel of analytics (plus some relays to signal others systems, and digital inputs for arming/disarming).

It was expensive, unreliable, and quirky. And it was awesome (for the time).

I can not recall the brand, it was nothing that was well known.

I focus on security solutions that meet my customer's needs.  Cameras do not alleviate my personal security concerns for my home, but I have put security measures in place which do.

I have a 16-port Hikvision NVR, a Darkfighter PTZ, and several domes and turrets for an 800 sq ft bungalow. I use them frequently and have caught crime in action. I don't live in a bad neighborhood but thieves travel. Thankfully the worst that's happened around here is punks trying for unlocked vehicle doors.

Like some have echoed above it allows me to familiarize myself with a product or line, learn idiosyncrasies, further my knowledge, and indulge in what is also something of a hobby. For me my home cameras are also toys that I enjoy playing with.

 I do, so do two of my employees. All my employees get video systems at cost. They also get an alarm and monitoring for free. Most of them have taken the company up on it. The ones that haven't are either under contract or didn't know it is a benefit we offer.