Just wondering if anyone here has enough specialist knowledge in the field of tech to recommend an affordable but effective piece of audiovisual equipment to properly capture evidence of the following ongoing and disruptive pattern of behaviour:
Noise from the flat upstairs, which happens between midnight and dawn, and for sustained periods 1 or more hours)
Thudding and shouting from same
Noisy shower/plumbing being run frequently through the night (I appreciate this last one may be too much of an ask to get recognisably recorded, but.. nothing ventured etc.)
This is for someone I know who is being tormented and kept awake most nights from this relentless and deeply antisocial pattern. They are themselves nuerodivergent so even lesser things would over time be overwhelming, but the stuff that's going on would, I believe, even have a neurotypical person at their wits' end.
To be clearer, the tech required would need to do a couple of specific things:
1. Be useable in the noise-victim's flat, to be certain of adherence to law etc.
2. Records in a way that is effectively sensitive to fluctuating audio/vibration coming down through the ceiling from the flat above above.
3. Is visual as well as audio: while I know this would record only a static shot of the affected flat (and not the actual activities upstairs) it should be in a video-type format to allow for editing and submission to housing authority, police, noise abatement people etc. This is because captions describing more particulars are very helpful in such cases.
4. Will timestamp on-screen, for reasons I'm sure I don't need to explain :-)
5. Is user-friendly for someone who's technology comfort level doesn't go far beyond putting the telly/radio on.
Huge thanks in advance to anyone tech-y who might be willing to offer an 'I know just the thing!' and a link or any similar pointer to getting the thing/stuff in question. Like the person affected, I'm also pretty clueless about technical stuff in general, so any help greatly appreciated.
