What is this cylinder bolted to my neighbours wall?
What is this black thing, roughly the size of a coffee mug, cylindrical in shape, attached to a circular bracket, on the side of my neighbours house? Its position can be adjusted, doesn’t light up or make noise. Not sure on weight as it is fixed to the wall. We think that it’s plastic.
Could be a motion detector for other chained lights or security. Could also be an infrared directional camera, as others have noted.
In the interest of giving more info…I wouldn’t put a motion detector there cause it’s between two houses, there’s a walkway on our side and you couldn’t get much more than a pack cigs between the fence and their house on their side.
Doesn’t mean it’s not though…
Could be a microwave proximity sensor, their like x-ray cat. Can see through wooden doors & can see criminals on the other side.
Point your phone camera to it when it's dark. See if any light emanations come out of it. Sort of like when you point your camera to your remote controller light.
Wild guess here. Looks like the downspout and gutter are also painted matte black, perhaps they had a discount painter paint everything they saw as an external fixture.
Doesn't look like a camera to me though. Looks more like a very large electronic weather sensor.
I'd say ..... Dummy camera.
That’s what crossed our minds, but there’s no lens type thing on the front.
Don’t get on though, so a camera wouldn’t surprise me…they’re “well do as we like and you can get fucked” type of people.
Many things are transparent to infrared that are not transparent in optical light, especially black plastics. It could still be a camera.
Are you sure that's not just a tinted lens cover? That's what it looks like to me from your photo, anyway.
Could be an antenna to extend or receive their signals.
Is it a cover for some conduit in case they want to install a security light/camera later? Does it unscrew or slide off?
Dang, you must have a huge m&m tube
Could it be a light fixture of some sort that they haven’t turned on? May be worth pointing your camera at it at night too so you can see if it’s putting off any infrared light.
Besides that, is there anything they may want controlled remotely in the general direction it is pointing in?
Infrared camera?
As I said in another comment, I’d ruled out a camera cause there’s no lens bit…but can you get cameras like this?
Technically yes, but there's no way your neighbors would probably have something like a lidar array:
Check out this page though, it has some really interesting visuals on what it does :)