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Some douchebag broke into my boat and stole my amps and sub. The owners manual (2007 270 SLX) seems to have conflicting information about the size of the sub. The owner's manual says both 10 and 8 inch. What is the correct sub size? It seems to be 10 inch.

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I live in a condo and therefore the Dock belongs to the association. I own the slip. I would like to install a security camera on the slip. I would like to install a completely wireless camera (battery operated) that does not need to be connected to a router. Instead, I would like the camera to connect to Wi-Fi via a hot-spot. Can anyone suggest a camera?

Thanks for your time
Rich
 
#2 ·
I used Blink cameras for the past couple of years and worked great with wifi. This year I switched to an even more independent system and got an Arlo Go camera, which is wireless, battery operated and works with cell service instead of wifi, so I can be just about anywhere with cell service with or without power or wifi. Love the Arlo go.
 
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Main reason I changed to Arlo was that I wanted to continue monitoring in the winter when wrapped and on a parking lot. Camera activates with motion and sound, and I can talk to anyone who enters the boat, which is two hours away. It also has an alarm mode which can be quite noisy and deterring.
 
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The Arlo interests me. Do you have to subscribe to the cell service to monitor it remotely in real time? Can you do it through your own cellular carrier or do you have to go with someone they use? What is the monthly fee?
I would be mounting it high up on a utility pole and the thought of going up and down to swap out rechargeable batteries isn’t appealing. Can you use it with a solar charger to keep it going? Is there an option to hardware it for power?
 
#6 ·
I use two Samsung SmartCams. ~$90 each at Costco. They hook to the dock's WiFi and send me (and record) motion and sound alerts...
 
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I'd say 90° or so. No, they cannot be adjusted remotely, but they do have low light vision. I have one on the fwd end of the bridge and it covers the helm and hatch. The other one is between the salon and galley and it covers the full width of the aft salon (TV, sliding door, and elec panel...)
 
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I have AT&T service, so I activated it with AT&T. It's around $15/month as an add on to my AT&T account. I know they also do Verizon. Not sure about other carriers. I like that it can activate with motion or sound, that is has an alarm setting that will blast the thieves away from the boat, and that I can talk to anyone who enters the boat and ask them what they are doing, or that the cops are on their way.
 
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If you are talking about the arlo Go, the free plan is about storage of videos on the internet. You still have to pay for cell service if you want to monitor it remotely. Otherwise you'd have to use an SD card. I do both, the SD card saves everything, and with the free storage plan videos are saved online for a few days. You can download them and so forth before they disappear if you need one.
 
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I’ve got AT&T too. $15.00 a month for monitoring via cellular isn’t too bad at all.
I was hoping to get something that will give me the camera on the dock pointed at the boat, a second camera on the boat, and an alarm for cabin door with the ability to monitor cameras in real time from my iPhone or iPad and send me alerts if something triggers the alarm but the choices for doing all that without WiFi (none on my dock) don’t seem to be too plentiful so the Arlo may be my only choice.
Did you buy your Arlo Go directly from them or somewhere else? I’d definetly need the solar charger because I would be mounting it high on a wooden utility pole on my dock property. Hauling an extension ladder down to the dock (7 miles away from home) to swap out the battery or pull an SD card on a regular basis doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
 
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It baffles me that in this day and age any decent marina that charges $100-$200 per foot doesn't have decent high speed WIFI. At my yacht club we have 8 WIFI hot spots to provide strong signals anywhere on the 110 slip dock system. The cost is about 1/2 of 1% of the overall budget. No excuse anymore.
 
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I’m not in a marina, I’m on a piece of private property that is 25’ wide (curbline to water) with 50’ of bulkhead along the canal. The only structure I have on it is a 4’ x 8’ shed off in a corner that acts as my dock box.
The property has no address and although I have water and electric on the property I can’t get WiFi service there. Even if I could, the lowest month fee for it would probably be more than I pay for water and electric combined and wouldn’t make sense.
 
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LTD....we put a Ring doorbell system at my mother's house. We love it. Hers is the one that we have to recharge the battery because her original doorbell didn't have 12 volt wire driving it. Battery charge can last up to 3 months if you don't access the camera live too often. We pay the $30/year for cloud storage. The motion sensor can be adjusted to have a range that you desire.

Jaybeaux
 
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I’ve got the ring doorbell and stick up cams at my house. Absolutely love them. Motion trips automatic recording, you can ‘answer’ the door and talk from anywhere, and any motion notifications will pop up on your phone prompting you to access live stream if you wish. It will record for a couple of minutes when it senses motion regardless. Being able to adjust the motion zone sensitivity and proximity is extremely handy. Wi-Fi is needed for these to work though.
 
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I have several Ring cameras at my house, they work very well. I ordered the battery powered camera and solar charger for the boat, the camera came in, but no solar charger. I called Ring, they said the Solar Charger shipment has been postponed indefinitely due to product issues, still waiting on my refund... In the meantime I mounted the battery camera to a tree behind my house, works great, been a few weeks and battery still at 90%, there a space for a 2nd battery too. I get motion alerts on my iphone, and there are LED's that light up when motion is detected. You can even hit the alarm button and a 100db siren turns on. You can also hear audio as well. Just looks a little box-ish. Great product.
 
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