[Shop-talk] outdoor low light "security" cameras

[eric at megageek.com]

Here is my take on X10.  It's not the best out there, but it is easy to 
retrofit into a older home.  I have my last home (built in the 30's) with 
100% X10 and it was pretty good.  X10 can be a little slow to respond at 
times, and components go south every now and then.

When I moved into my currently house (originally built in 1810, and 
expanded on over the centuries) I made it 100% X10.  However in the past 
10 years of living there, I've been slowly takin gout pieces of it that 
are acting weird.  I'm definitely not as happy with it in this home as my 
last home.  I would not use it for security system if prevention of thief 
was your purposes.  For watching critters, it might be fine.

I use a system for my security cameras from  Grandtec. The X guard system. 
 All I can say is SAY AWAY FROM THEM!!!!  I will replace there system as 
soon as I can.  The drivers are a pain to install, their requirements seem 
to change every time I have a problem, and their stuff doesn't work.

If you want, I'll sell you my 9 port system from them!  8>)

Moose
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
Waldo Emerson