Capture barking dogs audio/video

[Dave Nemo]

I need a way to capture my neighbor's dogs barking on audio/video with time/date stamp. I don't really want to just set up a camera and turn it on every night and then have to review 8 hours of video/audio the next morning. So I'd like to set up audio detection to start the video and have it run for, say, 2 minutes before stopping the recording.

I thought a good trail cam would have audio detection but I guess they don't. They just naturally have motion detection. I read somewhere that some do have audio detection but haven't found any. Anybody know of one? If not then I'm back to the idea of a baby monitor or video surveillance system that might have audio detection. Still in the market for the best solution. I'd appreciate any suggestions. I need this for evidence for the Animal Control officer and down the road perhaps for court, but of course I hope it doesn't go that far.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

Dave

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Nest cameras have sound triggers. I cant remember how much cloud storage you get with the free subscription but its a day or more. I have them at my house and they work very well

 

[Dusty Stevens]

You can see here what triggers will give you a timestamp point and then you can see the quality. Thats not even the good cameras thats just the doorbell cam. You can set up multiple zones for motion too.

 

[Dave Nemo]

Thanks I'll look into that!

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Thanks I'll look into that!

Best buy or lowes both have the different models in stock. Once you set up an account you just scan the new devices in and it automatically adds them

 

[Texas10]

Best buy or lowes both have the different models in stock. Once you set up an account you just scan the new devices in and it automatically adds them

Dusty, do these require hard wiring, besides power? Do they upload when tripped? Friend is trying to do this so I'd like to offer some suggestions.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

Around here after ten you can call the cops. Yes I have a few times.. Cops come dog goes in house. I go to sleep. One night the neighbor dog turned my trash barrel over. I heard it went out and saw his ass sticking out of the barrel. Went back and got my smith 22 with bird shot. Yes I popped him in the ass.. He never dumped my trash again. No it didn't kill him but I got his attention.

 

[Texas10]

I need a way to capture my neighbor's dogs barking on audio/video with time/date stamp. I don't really want to just set up a camera and turn it on every night and then have to review 8 hours of video/audio the next morning. So I'd like to set up audio detection to start the video and have it run for, say, 2 minutes before stopping the recording.

I thought a good trail cam would have audio detection but I guess they don't. They just naturally have motion detection. I read somewhere that some do have audio detection but haven't found any. Anybody know of one? If not then I'm back to the idea of a baby monitor or video surveillance system that might have audio detection. Still in the market for the best solution. I'd appreciate any suggestions. I need this for evidence for the Animal Control officer and down the road perhaps for court, but of course I hope it doesn't go that far.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

Dave

I'm going to guess you'd like to make the dog barking stop. Been there too, unfortunately Animal control and courts are reluctant to do anything. There are other ways.....

Unless you make the dog barking the owners problem, they are unmotivated to change the dogs behavior. I told my neighbor that I could tell when they were away for the weekend because the dogs were out all night barking at every leaf the moved. If I could figure that out, so could a burglar. Well that didn't work, so......

Imagine a tone generator hooked up to an amplifier and loudspeaker with a program written to generate brief, very loud, high pitched sounds only within the dogs hearing spectrum at random intervals between midnight and 5 am. When the dog owners start losing sleep, things will change quickly.

If you own a Harley, you could decide to go for brief rides every half hour during the night. That's guaranteed to work, and perfectly legal.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Dusty, do these require hard wiring, besides power? Do they upload when tripped? Friend is trying to do this so I'd like to offer some suggestions.

They require power for the cams but the signal is wifi. The doorbell cam wires into existing doorbell transformer and signal is wifi. They upload every second but show a trigger event when whatever you have it set for trips it whether that be sound, person, motion, etc. you can set zones and say i only want a notification when a person steps into zone 1 and it also has a friendly face feature so like your wife wont trigger a notification even in zone 1 (if thats how you set it up). It even has a dog bark notification as seen here and you can see how zones can be shaped

 

[Dusty Stevens]

And you can add any home automation. I have a thermostat and some other devices. When you go away from the house you can set it up to put your thermostat in eco mode and set the alarm, turn lights on at certain times etc. its endless what you can do

 

[mr45man]

I'm going to guess you'd like to make the dog barking stop. Been there too, unfortunately Animal control and courts are reluctant to do anything. There are other ways.....

Unless you make the dog barking the owners problem, they are unmotivated to change the dogs behavior. I told my neighbor that I could tell when they were away for the weekend because the dogs were out all night barking at every leaf the moved. If I could figure that out, so could a burglar. Well that didn't work, so......

Imagine a tone generator hooked up to an amplifier and loudspeaker with a program written to generate brief, very loud, high pitched sounds only within the dogs hearing spectrum at random intervals between midnight and 5 am. When the dog owners start losing sleep, things will change quickly.

If you own a Harley, you could decide to go for brief rides every half hour during the night. That's guaranteed to work, and perfectly legal.

I heard if you just go open the gate they go away and bark some where else

 

[Dave Nemo]

I'm impressed with the quality of these pix. And this system can record video and sound, I assume...? And can you set the threshold for loudness of sound before it triggers and can you set the length of recording, like 2 minutes after the sound triggers? Sorry for all these dumb questions...

 

[memilanuk]

Another option may be to look into some ultrasonic anti-bark devices. Basically when the dogs bark, it emits an ultrasonic tone that you can't hear, but the dogs can... and they don't like it.

Some dogs, that's enough of a deterrent and they (eventually) figure it out.

Some dogs... the sound just agitates them and they bark *more*.

 

[ppaul]

I need a way to capture my neighbor's dogs barking on audio/video with time/date stamp. I don't really want to just set up a camera and turn it on every night and then have to review 8 hours of video/audio the next morning. So I'd like to set up audio detection to start the video and have it run for, say, 2 minutes before stopping the recording.

I thought a good trail cam would have audio detection but I guess they don't. They just naturally have motion detection. I read somewhere that some do have audio detection but haven't found any. Anybody know of one? If not then I'm back to the idea of a baby monitor or video surveillance system that might have audio detection. Still in the market for the best solution. I'd appreciate any suggestions. I need this for evidence for the Animal Control officer and down the road perhaps for court, but of course I hope it doesn't go that far.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

Dave

Have ya tried talking to your neighbor?

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I'm impressed with the quality of these pix. And this system can record video and sound, I assume...? And can you set the threshold for loudness of sound before it triggers and can you set the length of recording, like 2 minutes after the sound triggers? Sorry for all these dumb questions...

No you cant change the threshold- a bird chirping sets it off. It records 24/7. If you go to a trigger spot you can start there and go for a day or 1min. Its recorded to a cloud so i can go back to a specific minute say 5 days ago and see what car came by like if a neighbor asks

 

[Texas10]

I heard if you just go open the gate they go away and bark some where else

So I took the fence down between our properties

My fence was old and falling down, so I asked him if he'd like to go in on a "good neighbor" fence. He declined, so next day I took it down. Two weeks later he asked how my plans were going for putting up a new fence. I said I decided I liked better the view with no fence, makes the yard look bigger. Should've seen the look on his face.

A week later he's offering to go in on a fence. I tell him to put one up and show me the bill and I'd pay half, which I did.