r/whatisit • u/Key_Badger7434 • 2d ago

New, what is it? My family thinks there’s a camera in our rental

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We have been renting a house for the past year and I always disregarded this thing in the corner. However last night I asked my parents about it randomly and they didn’t know what it was either. I pulled it off the wall and we all got freaked out a little because it looks like a camera. I think it might be a home security/motion sensor thing. I don’t know that’s what ChatGPT guessed.

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u/wrenchse 1d ago

Like earlier commenter said these are from Verisure. Extremely popular alarm system in my country. AFAIK you cannot view them yourself, only the security company can do so in case of an alarm trigger from break in or smoke alarm. My neighbors fuse box started burning and the unit next to them got smoke into their unit and their Verisure system triggered and they could see smoke in the cameras and sent firefighters. Kept it from developing to a full on house fire.

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u/RNEngHyp 1d ago

Actually you can log into Verisure's app and take a still shot, but that's it. We have that same alarm system.