Once, one could only dream with the possibility of being able to keep an eye on our homes no matter where we were; today, any one can do it without spending a fortune, though you'll have to mess with some complex configurations. Dropcam has become quite popular by allowing you to do it in a much simpler way, and now it gets even better by allowing you to create custom activity areas.
Let's face it: having a camera at home is nice, but after the first couple of days, you'll realize you won't spend your entire day looking at it; nor do you want to receive a motion alert every time someone heads to the living room or a pet wanders by. Now you'll be able to do just that with the new custom activity zones in Dropcam.
Now you can simply draw your areas of interest, be it a hall, window, door, and receive specific alerts for each zone - or not, if it's an area you're not interested in, in which you simply desire to ignore any alerts. You can still check for motion outside the defined activity zones, if you want; but the nice part is that you'll now get more informative alerts, like: "motion detected at the door / window / hall / driveway / etc."
The only drawback is that for this feature to work, you'll need to subscribe to one of their cloud-based recording plans (1 week or 1 month of video, starting at $99/year). But the nice part about it is, once you create a new activity zone, you'll be able to retroactively see when they had activity going as far back as your cloud storage allows.
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