Re: Wireless surveillance system

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

"Amadeus W.M." <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>1) How good is the image quality? Cable quality? Dvd quality? Antenna?

Most of the companies have sample video on their web sites.

     http://www.wilife.com/About/Videos.aspx

If you go with a HomePlug camera server, you can use the network camera of
your choice.

>2) Can other home appliances get fried accidentally?

I don't understand the question. Why would other appliances be affected?
HomePlug has been in use for a few years (it's much more popular in Europe)
with no epidemic of fried appliances.

>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.

The WiLife cameras need Windows Media Player. My guess is that if you can
deal with .wmf files you'll be OK but that's a guess.