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Security Cam Flash
Rather than just having a light go on when it senses an intruder, a single, very bright split second flash. | |
Since most security cameras like the ones I have around
my house can see in the dark, any motion sensing lights
(which I also have) are mostly to scare intruders off.
This would do a better job of that. A very bright flash
would register to any person that they've just had their
picture taken,
and in conjunction with security camera,
there would be a recorded clear, bright picture of the
potential robber.
But to be clear, everybody knows lights can get triggered
automatically and if you look at it, you see the sensor
and know there's not somebody in the house that saw
you and turned the light on. A flash would be
unexpected and I think more intimidating.
You also wouldn't be clear on where it came from so you
couldn't inspect the source so see if it was just some
automatic motion sensing device.
Now if these got popular, the shock effect would wear
off, but for now I think a bright flash would do a much
better job of deterring would be robbers. Think about it,
if you were trying to break into a house what would
freak you out more?
Check this out
https://www.amazon....1297577955725&psc=1
[21 Quest, Mar 18 2022]
Strobe light
https://en.m.wikipe...g/wiki/Strobe_light
[doctorremulac3, Mar 18 2022]
[link]
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Baked. Wyze cams now have a floodlight attachment that
comes on when motion is detected by the camera. |
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No, not a motion sensing floodlight, all security systems have that, this is a single bright flash like a picture has just been taken. |
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Just thought of another reason this would be a good thing. You could just pull up the flashes taken that night rather than motion sensor triggered videos. |
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Just looking as a sheet with pictures on it would take a second whereas when I look at motion trigger alarm videos I have to sit through... "Okay, mailman... cat... Amazon delivery... gotta move that flag that sets off that cam when the wind blows." etc. All that stuff could be looked at on a single screen. |
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"Toggle on and off manually using the Wyze app.
Automate using Rules in the Wyze app.
Switch between low and high brightness levels.
Control with 3rd party integrations such as IFTTT." |
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So you could program this to just do a single flash?
Has anybody ever done that though? |
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If not, that might be a good way to program one of
those things no? |
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Well, the idea in the link is a bright light that stays
on. This is a bright single flash that implies that a
picture has been taken. |
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They have security strobe lights? |
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But if there really was a suggestion to set up a flash
to startle intruders this would be baked. Do you have
a link? |
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I really, really wanna say I've seen that flashbulb booby trap
in several movies. I can't think of any off hand, but that
sounds really familiar. |
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Okay, click on one of those 6,870,000 links to see
what a strobe light is. It’s not this. A strobe light is
a regularly repeating flash. Strobe is from a Greek
word to whirl. This is a flash, not a strobe. (link) |
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But if somebody already suggested a SINGLE flash
the concept would be baked, although a single
flash setting on a security system would still be
useful and as of yet non existent, at least in the
few security strobe light Google search results I
clicked on. |
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If there’s a single flash setting on an existing
security system I’ll mark this baked. |
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I'm awarding this a croissant on the sole justification that I, too, am immensely frustrated by people finding anything even remotely related to an idea and calling, "baked". |
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