Techies and MacGyver types. I want to put a security camera on or around our back porch to keep watch on the back yard. There is already a motion detector floodlight out there, and my camera could be powered by that so it’s only on when it is dark and the motion detector is triggered. I want it disguised as a bird house or something common to back yards so that doesn’t look like a camera. I know they sell such cameras pre-disguises, but they are about 10 to 15 times as expensive as plain security cameras. I’m thinking a Bluetooth came and a Bluetooth app on my computer to open a popup window on screen whenever the camera comes alive do to movement out back.

I’m looking for suggestions on what I can cobble together to disguise the camera, and what hardware and software to buy. The computer is a PC running Windows 7 and is already Bluetooth equipped. It’s about 50 feet from the computer to the back porch, so I’ll need a class 1 Bluetooth device.