What's everyone doing now that wifi jammers are used?

Depends on the type of jammer. A plain noise generator just makes a broadband noise signal so it’s very easy to spot with the right test equipment. Your access point will only see it as undesired (unknown) signals. Depending on the sophistication of your AP, it may or may not be able to tell that it’s there.

More sophisticated jammers may be much harder to detect because they will just appear to be a legitimate signal.

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What brand name?

I have been considering getting a Unifi system and then using my Wyze routers in Bridge Mode…then I can have a lot more settings and control like this.

I’m using Meraki enterprise grade access points. They are not the latest and greatest (way too damn expensive). They also require a management subscription (not overly inexpensive either). They do allow A LOT of configuration and management. Currently I am using model MR-42 APs which are some of the older ones that do support WPA-3. I really do want to get one of the fairly new outdoor APs, but even on the used market, they are going for over $1K which I can not afford!

I would like an email that the system has stopped. For whatever reason. Or, a text would be good also but I am told that neither is possible. Am I wrong?

I don’t believe that is currently offered. You might try to submit it to the WishList area.

I was told that it would be too expensive for Wise to notify me if my system is operating. Probably easier for me to just monitor the home for internet on somehow and be texted? That would tell me power and the internet is on. Thanks for the reply.

Indeed it would probably be beyond what they can afford to do.

It might be possible in multiple types of ways by 3rd party things and possibly only in some complex way that most people won’t understand.

For instance, if you just wanted to check if the cam is not connected to wifi, then it would be absolutely possible to check via ping and alert in that instance. But, ping and other things there already get into things well beyond most people.

Thx & cheers!

Keep guns handy, know how to use them, and be sure your action in shooting intruders is legally sound.

For sound information about what constitutes a justified self-defense action see Andrew Branca on The Law of Self Defense YouTube channel.

If security cameras are your primary effort at protecting your home and family, you have a false sense of security.

Make your home so secure that burglars, intruders, and robbers go next door to your neighbors without security.

Cameras of any kind aren’t protection against crime. They merely inform you of situations. Don’t allow a camera to lull you into a false sense of security.

Be able, whether at home or out, to protect yourself. Take a course in firearm self defense, carry a gun, and be prepared to use it.

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I agree that a lot of this is beyond most end users and some of what I am going to mention is not capable with typical consumer routers, or services.

If you have a public IP address that does not change (or changes very seldom), or have a domain name with a Dynamic DNS service, there are free services that will check to see if your internet is alive and report via E-Mail and / or text if it is not. To make it better, if you have internal services that are NAT forwarded so they are reachable from the internet, those specific services can be reported. For example, I have an environmental monitor in my data cabinet that can be reached from the Internet, and my monitoring service can let me know if that device is not responding. One advantage of an external service is that if you loose all power and / or Internet, the service can still send you notification - unlike something running at your house that will have no way to get the message out (even it it has backup power). I am using a service called Uptime Robot for this. They have more involved paid services as well, but what they offer for free meets my needs. They can be found at: https://uptimerobot.com/

As for internal monitoring, the advantage is that an internal device generally has access to things to monitor inside your local LAN that in most cases, something on the Internet can not detect / monitor. However you have to have a device that is capable of testing your devices. In my case, I am NOT using a consumer router. My Mikrotik router can have scripts written that will ping devices on my local LAN and report if something fails to respond. All of the about 60 IoT devices on my various LANs are tested by my router every hour. If any fail to respond, I receive an E-Mail. For an example, a few days ago we had a very short (about half second) power failure (or a really serious dip). Two of my V2 cameras locked up. The next hour I was notified of the failures and a simple power cycle of those two cameras brought them back up. There are both hardware and software solutions for local network monitoring.

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Who needs WiFi jammers when you’ve got trash bags?

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Who needs trash bags when you’re protecting your health with bandit masks, hoodies and a dark monochrome motif. :slight_smile:

I somehow think that thief must have been known to the homeowner, so they had to completely hide their bodies and even gait. Except their shoes, but oh well.

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If you dress like that around here it might not be healthy for yourself

Proactive, are you? :wink:

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Whoops, thought you’d recommended firearms training in another thread recently, different user, looks like, sorry. :blush:

You may have meant heat stress. :sun_with_face:

Can you imagine someone going trick-or-treating in this? :wink:

Those look like female feet to me.

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They had very unique footwear though.

This is why you need a camera that sees more than just your porch. I have cameras that see all the way down the sidewalk. Someone would have to walk all the way up in the trashbag and all the way back. :rofl:

Plus my whole house gets an announcement when a person is at the front of my property before they even approach the house/porch. Plus I work from home, so they’d have to move a lot faster than that to get to my package before I do, and they’d have to be able to outrun me in their pink crocs! :rofl:

I have been seeing that places are now selling “sublethal” camera guns. Some fire paintballs or pepper balls, and some fire something similar to rubber bullets. Some of them are automated, while others require a human to manually press a fire command. Wouldn’t surprise me to see more of those being made, but I think there is a lot of liability risk with that.

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Byrna maybe Carver? Non lethal but hurt like the jeebies.