Situations
The instinct after a break-in is to buy cameras. The order that helps is: repair the point of entry properly, add a second locking point, secure the side nobody reinforced, then add detection and recording. Cameras document; the first three change whether it happens again.
A forced entry tells you exactly where the weakness was, which is information most households never get.
Not cosmetically. A door forced at the strike plate has split the lining, and filling it leaves the same failure behind fresh paint. A longer strike plate and 80 mm screws into the structural stud are the repair.
Two locks at different heights spread the load. A door forced at one point still holds at the other.
Hinge-side bolts on a door, hinge-side locks on a window. Reinforcing one edge moves the attack to the other.
A contact sensor reports the moment something opens, which is earlier than a camera noticing somebody inside.
Because knowing is worth something, and because by now what it records is less likely to happen.
2K 4MP · F1.6 Starlight · 360° pan · IP66 · Wi-Fi or Ethernet
The model TP-Link points its own budget buyers towards. A 2560 × 1440 sensor behind an F1.6 lens gives colour at night without a spotlight, and unlike most cameras in this price band it can be wired to Ethernet instead of trusting Wi-Fi.
Best for: An outdoor position where Wi-Fi is unreliable and a network cable can be run, or where colour at night matters more than an unlit image.
≈ £46 / 43 €
Understandably, and it is not the most effective order. A camera records the next attempt; a cylinder, a second lock and long screws change whether the next attempt succeeds. Buy the cameras too — knowing matters — but not first.
The frame. A door forced at the strike plate splits the lining, and a repair that fills and paints without reinforcing leaves the same weakness behind new paint. Long screws into the structural stud, and a longer strike plate, are what actually fix it.
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