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Re: Wireless surveillance system



On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:24:02 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:


> Thank you all for the advice!
>
> 1) How good is the image quality? Cable quality? Dvd quality? Antenna?
> 2) Can other home appliances get fried accidentally? 3) The usb receiver
> needs some software (provided), which I assume runs under Windows. I run
> exclusively Linux on my pcs though. Can the images be handled by the
> v4l/v4l2 drivers? I know how to grab images via v4l and I can write my
> own interfaces, as long as I can access the usb port via the v4l
> drivers. Is there anything needed? Some usb stuff, maybe? Perhaps I
> should ask this question in a Linux newsgroup, but I'm asking it here
> too in the event that someone is using homeplug under Linux.

4) Would I need repeaters, etc. as you do sometimes with X10?
5) Won't the transmission spread to networks beyond my house? Won't my
neighbors see what's being transmitted if they plug in their own usb
receiver?



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