• mrnobody@reddthat.com
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t believe it… Moving a welcome mat when the guy has a camera doorbell? C’mon…

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      3 minutes ago

      You have no idea how many of those things are mounted such that you can walk up from the side unseen.

      Source - my neighbor’s an idiot

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      2 hours ago

      I have a Google doorbell and it’s night vision is terrible. I’ve taken the garbage to the curb during the winter when it’s the darkest and the doorbell didn’t register anything not the noise not the motion. Even knowing what I was looking for I barely show up in the video feed, it looks like a ghost.

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      3 hours ago

      Even the trash cans. Just…put the trash cans in actual view of the camera? How would you buy a camera just to watch your trash cans and then not actually watch the trash cans with it?

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        3 hours ago

        No, you’re overthinking it. Say the cans are on the opposite side of the house from where op is. If he crosses in view of the front door, he’ll (op) be spotted. So he goes through the backyard instead for access to the cans.

        He’s (op neighbor) not buying a camera and pointing it straight at the cans from the property fence or something.

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      3 hours ago

      Easy solution, jam the wifi signal while moving the mat. Added benefit of making them more concerned that the house is haunted. If the houses are close enough (likely, hoa so suburbs) you could just hook it to a basic wall-wart timer that actives at 3 and deactives at 3:05, and have it + jammer plugged in at the closest outlet to neighbors front door. Ring doesn’t have a wired ethernet version to fix this vulnerability.

      …why are you looking at me like that?