Home security gadgets on Hughesnet, who has any?

[oosik]

There are other items that have greatly reduced unwanted visitors to my property. I have a mile long driveway - it is the ONLY way in/out of my property. You have the balls to come in to rob me - you better know that you will have to exit the same way.

This next item - I would not recommend - but from my experience, it does work. I had a VERY offensive two gentlemen come to the property the first year I was here. They indicated that they had been coming here for years and just because I now lived, in residence, they were going to continue this practice - irrespective of my wishes. Mind you - they had come thru two gates, each with large "NO TRESPASSING" signs and entered onto my property.

I went in the house - called the County Sheriff - back out with my shotgun - two gentlemen face down on my lawn - held under citizens arrest for trespassing - turned over to the Sheriff when he arrived - INSISTED on prosecution.

It was like a news flash broadcast on all local TV stations - "this new property owner is serious about trespass and WILL insist on prosecution". Its been thirty seven years now - - I've had three vehicles come unannounced into my yard - they came to the door with maps asking where they were. They came in sedans - not the vehicle of choice if you intend to rob.

Those who I know - have my cell phone number and call before they come. Besides its a long trip for most and why come if I'm not here or otherwise occupied out on the property. My cell phone very seldom leaves the house with me.

 

[TractorGuy]

Here's another "I don't have specific answers to your questions" reply so sorry if you don't find it helpful.

I have a couple of Reolink wifi cameras I use to monitor wildlife. (I do not endorse the Reolink cameras) What I have done to interface is to use a GL-AR300 travel router. I will endorse this little router as it is awesome. I connect my router to the ISP device then use the router signal for ALL of my network devices. You can buy this little router for $45 on Amazon. Make sure to get the external antenna model as they are sold with external or internal antennas. Mine has a range of nearly 500 feet. Here is an article on how to connect a router to HughesNet. The GL-AR300 router will interface by wire or wireless. They have excellent instructions on their website so I didn't need any further support from them.

With any wifi camera connected to your home network via router your wife could access and see what the camera sees from her smart phone or a tablet or whatever regardless of internet connection.

The Reolink cameras were a colossal pain in the arss to get set up. Their support is very responsive and they will get you up and running one way or another. I eventually had to contact them by phone and let them have control of my system to get going. The learning curve was way more time consuming than I prefer so for that reason I don't endorse them. They do not require external storage. They have an internal micro SD card that retains the recordings. I don't know how it works but I can access them from my phone when I'm away from the network if the network has internet access. The internet connection can be completely void and I can interface with the cameras as long as I'm in range of the router. The network is not dependent on you having internet for any function on your premises. They only record when they sense movement. No matter how you set the sensitivity they will record every bug and bird that comes near. On the other spectrum if you set the sensitivity too low a deer can sneak right by. (go figure) You can set them to notify you of movement but I finally disabled that feature because of all the bug alerts. This is not as bad in the daylight as it is at night so may work for your situation. They will record constant in a rain but you can turn the record feature off if you want. It loop records so it doesn't fill the storage up so it doesn't matter that much if you leave it recording.

Another suggestion is the wireless driveway alarm sold at Harbor Freight. I don't know the range on it but it could provide early warning of someone approaching. Again, it will alert for any presence so cats, dogs, whatever passes by will cause it to sound the alarm. I have one I used to let me know when the armadillo was digging up my back yard. Tried to trap them for relocation but they proved untrappable by me. Shotgun solved the issue after I figured out how to get notification of their arrival.

I will echo the need for a gate on rural property. I got sick and tired of lost souls or possible criminals casing my place so I finally installed a gate. I can't endorse the Mighty Mule openers but they are inexpensive and mine have been fairly reliable. If you do have a problem their customer support is non existent. My wife wanted double gates and I have one side that opens much slower than the other intermittently but it always opens. I have them on a lawn tractor battery with a 30 watt solar panel and it never requires charging.

For crying out load find yourself a better job closer to home. Life is too short to spend it miles away at a miserable job.

 

[rekees4300]

Who actually has residential Hughesnet and what security/video devices actually work on it?

I'm an ex-Hughesnet satellite customer. FWIW I had nothing but negative experiences with them. Dunno what devices are compatible? :confused3:

 

[bigtiller]

I used to use dyn-dns and a domain name., then i could remote login to my system.

I'm half asleep so I googled WTF AT&T thinking it was some unfortunate product name. ahahhhahaha

dyn-dns ready, time to eat.

 

[3Ts]

Another suggestion is the wireless driveway alarm sold at Harbor Freight. I don't know the range on it but it could provide early warning of someone approaching. Again, it will alert for any presence so cats, dogs, whatever passes by will cause it to sound the alarm.

I can't endorse the Mighty Mule openers but they are inexpensive and mine have been fairly reliable.

I have the mighty mule driveway alert. It does not react to animals (or humans) only moving metal mass. There is a metal sensor that is buried beside the driveway and an alert is transmitted to the receiver which can be quite far. The only problem we've had is if the metal mass (car, lawnmower, etc) is moving really slow as it passes the sensor. It won't alarm at that point, so location is important.

 

[TheMan419]

Internet wise I went w
Unbifi.net. They use att signal. I am getting about 10mb but if I put up an external antenna can likely get 30 or more. Unlimited data about $90 a month. No contract.

 

[teejk]

I would be concerned with HughesNet being active 24/7. The 15Gb you get every month doesn't last long especially if you have software that is trying to update itself whenever it wants to (i.e. Windows 10 where they will push an update in the background with no notice...have had some of those that will silently chew through 1/3rd of the monthly allowance in the matter of a few hours).

 

[ericm979]

You could get a security cam that puts the pics up on the cloud.

Wireless Security Cameras | Free Cloud Storage - Consumer Reports

That would let you monitor it from wherever. A downside is that anyone who breaks into your cloud account or the provider will see your cam feed. It'll increase your data.

 

[plowhog]

The basic question stands, has anyone had any success with using video doorbells like ring, video systems and home security systems with cameras you can access online with Hughesnet.

First of all, the recurrent theme in your posts is a high degree of anger. Sorry to be blunt, but if you can't corral that you will have no patience for working with technology. I understand how frustrating it can be to work with technology-- especially when it is not working-- but getting upset will make it more difficult, not less difficult.

I don't understand your complaints or issues. I have Hughes net. The administrative interface lets me open it up, access the firewall, open and redirect ports as I want. Perhaps you have an older system but what I can say is that my Hughes system allows about the same configuration control as other systems I've used.

The dynamic dns works great and I believe its all-in cost is $15 per year. If your camera/security systems are not capable of always being reachable behind a dynamic IP address, the dynamic dns is your solution. dyndns.org I believe is the web site.

I am running inexpensive camera systems I bought at Costco to monitor my property. It updates itself so I don't need dyndns. From anywhere in the world, I can open an app on my phone and view the cameras at the property. A ring doorbell is no different-- I don't have one but I am sure it would work fine. If you talk back/forth there might be some latency (delay) but you would have to try it and see.

So, to answer, it seems I am doing most or all of what you want to do. Good luck and I hope you find the solutions you want and need.

Enclosed is a screen shot of my Hughes port forwarding page.

 

[plowhog]

The 15Gb you get every month doesn't last long especially if you have software that is trying to update itself whenever it wants to (i.e. Windows 10 where they will push an update in the background with no notice...have had some of those that will silently chew through 1/3rd of the monthly allowance in the matter of a few hours).

I *never* let applications auto-update themselves. Never. And I don't let the updates silently download in the background so it is ready if I want to update. If your system does that I would suggest you change it.