How to Keep your Home Security Camera Secure

A home security camera is a great tool for keeping an eye on your home or business.  You want to make sure that only those that have permission are the ones that are accessing your home security camera.  We provide some advice and tips on how to keep it secure. Some of our advice comes from good security practices that should be in place across your network.  Other tips come from personal experience in setting up my own home security cameras. Our intent with this article is to provide a high level overview of what you should do so that it’s … Read more

How to Eliminate False Motion Alerts on an Amcrest HDPro or HDSeries Camera

You have to love the Amcrest HDPro and Amcrest HDSeries home security cameras.  Great pieces of hardware.  These cameras can do almost anything asked of it.  The trick is knowing how to get it to do something.  Today we discuss how to eliminate false motion alerts on an Amcrest HDPro or HDSeries camera.  Both camera models use the same web interface so when we refer to the HDPro in this article, it also applies to the HDSeries. First, if looking to understand how to setup motion, first setup email.  We have a detailed article on how to setup email on … Read more

Nest Cam vs DropCam Pro

Google purchased Nest who purchased DropCam.  That’s a lot of purchases.  The Nest Cam is the upgraded version of the Dropcam Pro.  This article will help owners of the DropCam Pro decide if an upgrade to the Nest Cam makes sense.  It’s Nest Cam vs DropCam Pro. We previously wrote detailed reviews on these cameras if you would like to read all about them first: Nest Cam Review DropCam Pro Review You might be surprised at the results and the end recommendations.  They are both terrific home security cameras.  Let’s get on with our head to head analysis. Software This is one of … Read more

Canary versus Blink Home Security Camera System

The Canary All-in-One Home Security System and the Blink Home Security Camera System are marketed as easy to install do it yourself home security devices.  Each offers motion detection, cloud storage and notification services.  They both market home temperature monitoring.  Let’s look at how these cameras compare.  It’s the Canary versus Blink Home Security Camera System face-off. We previously wrote detailed reviews on these cameras if you would like to read all about them first: Canary All-in-One Home Security Camera System Review Blink Home Security Camera System Review Let’s get on with our head to head analysis. Software This category … Read more

How to Get the Canary Temperature Monitor to Work Properly

I recently installed a Canary All-in-One Home Security Camera System.  Excellent video with some nice security features.  You can read our full review here.  Installation was easy however I had immediate issues with the Canary temperature, humidity and air quality monitoring to work properly.  This article will help you to get the Canary temperature and other environmental monitors to function properly. There were two issues that I ran into regarding the Canary temperature.  The first was getting an accurate reading of the temperature and that was simple to fix.  The second issue was that the Canary temperature, humidity and air … Read more