A quick suggestion(s)
You have two problems - lighting and recording
Lighting - someone suggested a PIR lamp the type that switches on when it detects body heat, you can buy the £30.00 that when the lamp comes on a small plug unit chimes, so you plug the chime unit in your bedroom etc and if the lamp comes on the units chime should wake you. there is no additional wiring for the chime the signalling is done over your house mains wiring
Recording - even a VHS recorder on LP will only give 6 hours ??-- there are cheapish camcorders (try ebay second hand) that will sit on a standby mode and only start recording if there is a dramatic change in the scene (picture) . thus the camcorder will sit there on not recording until scumbag approaches then as the scene changes quite quickly it will start recording, small changes in picture or slow changes (sunrise etc) will not set them off...I'll try to look up one of these beasties...
You have two problems - lighting and recording
Lighting - someone suggested a PIR lamp the type that switches on when it detects body heat, you can buy the £30.00 that when the lamp comes on a small plug unit chimes, so you plug the chime unit in your bedroom etc and if the lamp comes on the units chime should wake you. there is no additional wiring for the chime the signalling is done over your house mains wiring
Recording - even a VHS recorder on LP will only give 6 hours ??-- there are cheapish camcorders (try ebay second hand) that will sit on a standby mode and only start recording if there is a dramatic change in the scene (picture) . thus the camcorder will sit there on not recording until scumbag approaches then as the scene changes quite quickly it will start recording, small changes in picture or slow changes (sunrise etc) will not set them off...I'll try to look up one of these beasties...
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