Can you buy a cheap security camera that has usb or memory card?
i am in the uk.
i need a security camera to record upstairs from my bedroom all the constant violence etc from the pub behind my house. because it can only be seen from my bedroom above my 6ft fence i need one that’s got to have a usb port so i can record on to a memory stick or even that records on to a memory card like a sd card or something.
for obvious reasons it is too far to run a cable downstairs to my tv or pc.
my wife and i are sick and tired of yobs waking us and our baby up and we need to record evidence for the police and council.
thank you
Unless you can afford a ‘proper’ CCTV camera you may have to be satisfied with a Web Cam .. problem here is that most Web Cams are really only intended to ‘work’ when you are sitting directly in front of them and in decent light …
The ‘low end’ of the CCTV market (see link) are little more than web-cams with IR diodes .. they typically have very poor resolution – a ‘proud boast’ of 640 x 480 is actually only about 1/3rd mega pixel (just about OK to tell the difference between an intruder & a cat 
– and 600×800 is ‘high end’ (less than half a mega pixels) although if you are very lucky you might get 1024×768 (which is still less than 1 mega pixels)…
Even the cheapest ‘normal’ digital camera will have over 4 mega pixels = some of these have a USB cable operation mode .. this might allow a computer to control the taking of ‘normal’ pictures .. so I suggest you investigate that route .. (you will need one that takes an external power supply and can be configured not to turn itself off automatically) – a few high res. photo’s are going to be a lot more useful for identification than some grainy video … of course a combination of the two will be even better ..
Then you will also need suitable software .. try Google ‘open source cctv recording’ and see what comes up ..
NB. the eBay reference above is for a “digitizer” that allows a ‘nromal’ CCTV camera to be converted for USB i.e. it’s not an actual camera) ..
PS With today’s “blame the victim” culture (same mentality that allows the house breaker to sue you when he cuts himself climbing over your back wall ..), chances are YOU will end up in court charged with ‘invasion of privacy’ so some such …. so perhaps you might want to post your video’s anonymously
You might be better off simply fitting a security light with movement sensor to scare them off … (if it doesn’t scare them, then it should at least provide enough light for the camera to operate by )
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