Misty on Nostr: Increased Activity in the Courtyard ++ https://m.primal.net/KviY.jpg After a few ...
Increased Activity in the Courtyard
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After a few days, Maverick finally got better. Today, though, he's sleeping well past his usual time.
He may have been awake during the night. There's been extra activity in front of my place the last several nights.
Since increasing the sensitivity of the doorbell camera, it now catches the movements of headlights, stray cats, bugs, lizards chasing the bugs, and even the folks across the other side of the parking lot.
It also catches when my neighbor's new doorbell camera lights up. I can't see what his camera sees, but I know there's movement my camera can't see and can almost triangulate it.
That neighbor has been up most nights since I notified him of his peeping fellow. Since then, he's gotten a camera but stays up most nights. He has people coming and going at all hours. They've noticed I've increased the sensitivity of my camera as it catches most things now.
Some nights, I noticed all of them wore all black, and before I'd changed the settings, the camera wouldn't pick up all their movements. I checked because that night, I'd been up earlier than usual.
They were outside when I went out, but when I checked the feed, they weren't on it. Before, they were.
That's when I knew. They've been testing my camera's sensitivity in some ways. Why?
There were definite patterns as I reviewed the footage.
Some nights, they gathered closer to my door. Then, eventually, they gathered further from the door. I noticed where they were some mornings, but they weren't on the camera. They'd pegged the range and were gathering just outside of it.
It didn't make sense if they were bothered by my camera specifically because they were still directly in front of the other neighbor's camera. So it can't be the fact that they're on camera.
Part of me thinks I know why, but my suppositions are not always correct.
I don't understand how the other neighbors aren't complaining about the noise levels on some nights.
Last night, they were at the end of the courtyard (before, way out of range; now, not so much), and their noise woke me. The thing is, they were right in front of the other neighbor's door.
Regardless of what's actually happening, I'm allowed to set up the doorbell camera to catch motion and talk about what I see. At that point, they are in public and do not have the same expectations of privacy as a person does in their own home.
I got this camera after someone threw their body against my door. Coupled with that and the lights on the breezeway (and Allah's grace), I have no more problems.
I may set back up my motion lights in each window. They don't work behind the screen but will shine brightly the second someone cuts the screen and moves it.
Maverick is still in bed, missing his morning outing. I'll rouse him for our long walk before the heat sets in for the day.
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After a few days, Maverick finally got better. Today, though, he's sleeping well past his usual time.
He may have been awake during the night. There's been extra activity in front of my place the last several nights.
Since increasing the sensitivity of the doorbell camera, it now catches the movements of headlights, stray cats, bugs, lizards chasing the bugs, and even the folks across the other side of the parking lot.
It also catches when my neighbor's new doorbell camera lights up. I can't see what his camera sees, but I know there's movement my camera can't see and can almost triangulate it.
That neighbor has been up most nights since I notified him of his peeping fellow. Since then, he's gotten a camera but stays up most nights. He has people coming and going at all hours. They've noticed I've increased the sensitivity of my camera as it catches most things now.
Some nights, I noticed all of them wore all black, and before I'd changed the settings, the camera wouldn't pick up all their movements. I checked because that night, I'd been up earlier than usual.
They were outside when I went out, but when I checked the feed, they weren't on it. Before, they were.
That's when I knew. They've been testing my camera's sensitivity in some ways. Why?
There were definite patterns as I reviewed the footage.
Some nights, they gathered closer to my door. Then, eventually, they gathered further from the door. I noticed where they were some mornings, but they weren't on the camera. They'd pegged the range and were gathering just outside of it.
It didn't make sense if they were bothered by my camera specifically because they were still directly in front of the other neighbor's camera. So it can't be the fact that they're on camera.
Part of me thinks I know why, but my suppositions are not always correct.
I don't understand how the other neighbors aren't complaining about the noise levels on some nights.
Last night, they were at the end of the courtyard (before, way out of range; now, not so much), and their noise woke me. The thing is, they were right in front of the other neighbor's door.
Regardless of what's actually happening, I'm allowed to set up the doorbell camera to catch motion and talk about what I see. At that point, they are in public and do not have the same expectations of privacy as a person does in their own home.
I got this camera after someone threw their body against my door. Coupled with that and the lights on the breezeway (and Allah's grace), I have no more problems.
I may set back up my motion lights in each window. They don't work behind the screen but will shine brightly the second someone cuts the screen and moves it.
Maverick is still in bed, missing his morning outing. I'll rouse him for our long walk before the heat sets in for the day.