If their car is parked further away would you want their tag #? I understand what you are saying as well. If you are spending the time and money anyway a few $ more would cover everything I'm talking about. When I get a few minutes later on I'll try and find the most cost efficient system that you will have access to buying.
Sure, I d like that!!
But,
My situation - I live on a cul-de-sac and my front door sets about 20 ft back from the front of the garage and the garage itself blocks the view from my doorway area to the street and also to the driveway itself. My door is about 50ft from the street.
IOW, the only way for me to get the license plate number would be to start adding more cameras and probably need to position at least one in the front yard closer to the street in order to get a good enough angle to read a license plate#
I live on a hillside and the back of my house butts up against service/fire road that has a single locked chain blocking access to the road. I have a wrought iron fence in the back.
I do have 'alarm dogs' - not guard/attack dogs.
IMO, an inexperienced opinion, my priorities are:
1) The front door. Damn porch pirates! And then, from there,
2) The side gate area which leads to a side yard with a man-door that goes to the garage.
3) The other side fence yard area
4) The back yard facing the service road.
Somewhere on the list I'd like to cover the big garage door facing the driveway but unless I take a camera away from above, Id have to add more cameras. Ive taken precautions so that someone cant use the coat hanger trick to pull the emergency release cord on that big garage door from the outside.
I'm mainly looking to get good facial pics of anyone on my property near the entry points.
That's what I understood the OP was after as well.
