Fight back against porch pirates and keep your packages secure

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Consumer Reports tests elemental tools to assistance support your deliveries

With the holidays coming up, it's much important than ever to cognize the tech that's disposable to assistance you support a watchful oculus connected what’s dropped disconnected astatine your door. (WJXT)

There’s a mode to combat backmost against structure pirates and support your delivered packages harmless until you tin get them inside.

Consumer Reports evaluates a batch of location information products connected the marketplace -- including video doorbells. But with the holidays coming up, it’s much important than ever to cognize the tech that’s disposable to assistance you support a watchful oculus connected what’s dropped disconnected astatine your door.

Package transportation boxes

Just arsenic the sanction sounds, a bundle transportation container is simply a large container you tin beryllium connected your structure that your transportation idiosyncratic tin driblet your packages into.

“They’re a large enactment if you tin get your transportation radical to usage them,” said Consumer Reports Home Editor Dan Wroclawski. “My acquisition was that it varied drastically.”

Keep successful caput that prices tin commencement astir $150, and they bash instrumentality up immoderate space.

Battery-powered video doorbell

Consumer Reports says a amended enactment for you whitethorn beryllium a battery-powered video doorbell that tin observe erstwhile packages are near connected your porch, nonstop you an alert and support tabs connected your entryway.

“Not lone are they truly casual to instal with nary analyzable oregon intimidating wiring but they are besides beauteous affordable. You tin get a large 1 for astir $100 oregon less,” said Wroclawski.

Consumer Reports says to Consider the $100 Ring Video Doorbell location information camera. A $3 monthly subscription to a Ring Protect program is required for bundle alerts.

Floodlight information cameras

To widen information beyond your beforehand door, Consumer Reports says to see adding oregon upgrading floodlights. Testers tried 3 floodlight information cameras -- truly conscionable information cameras that treble arsenic floodlights -- extracurricular Consumer Reports’ labs.

“The bully happening astir floodlights is connected astir homes they’re successful spots that are perfect spaces for cameras. And they are hardwired for power, truthful you ne'er person to interest astir recharging a battery,” Wroclawski said.

Consumer Reports says you tin easy swap retired your existing floodlights with the $180 Eufy, which lets you store recordings locally connected the camera itself truthful you tin skip that monthly unreality retention fee, too.

All 3 of the floodlights connection arsenic overmuch lighting arsenic regular floodlights and wide and crisp video monitoring. You’ll get a camera, floodlight and siren successful 1 package. And arsenic a bonus: you tin power your floodlight from your phone, astute talker and adjacent astute TV.

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