Even the trash cans. Just...put the trash cans in actual view of the camera? How would you buy a camera just to watch your trash cans and then not actually watch the trash cans with it?

Easy solution, jam the wifi signal while moving the mat. Added benefit of making them more concerned that the house is haunted. If the houses are close enough (likely, hoa so suburbs) you could just hook it to a basic wall-wart timer that actives at 3 and deactives at 3:05, and have it + jammer plugged in at the closest outlet to neighbors front door. Ring doesn't have a wired ethernet version to fix this vulnerability.

...why are you looking at me like that?

You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?

I have a Google doorbell and it's night vision is terrible. I've taken the garbage to the curb during the winter when it's the darkest and the doorbell didn't register anything not the noise not the motion. Even knowing what I was looking for I barely show up in the video feed, it looks like a ghost.

I love it. Perhaps it would have been more effective to just do whatever they did to the swings at the other parks? Either way it's good stuff

Good effort! Hopefully some of the local kids got to enjoy the swings after your heroics each day, & that the council/city eventually put them back after restrictions loosened again.

Someone who reports people's trash cans to the HOA so they can be fined for it probably aren't someone who understands camera angles.

Its not about the trash cans, its about making sure your neighbours know YOU are calling the shots. If it wasnt the trashcan it would have been the grass a half-inch too high, or the paint on the door chipped slightly, or gravel leaving the premises, or dirty windows.

A LLM that does not understand that you can’t avoid being seen by a ring camera by ‘approaching from a blind spot. ‘

Of course there are home owners associations in Europe. They're just not crazy.

OOP edited it to clarify

EDIT: since people keep asking about the ring camera - the welcome mat is by his side door. camera points at the driveway. but i'm not taking chances so i bought the same ring camera model and spent a month testing angles in my own house. there's a 2 foot blind spot if you approach from the left hedge. 10 second delay before recording starts. i can be in and out in 8 ;)

They've creeped into Canada. I always call people who voluntarily join an HOA authoritarian morons.

I have had some shitty HOAs and I now live in a home with no HOA for a reason. Fuck those overbearing shitheads.

Weird request, but okay.