For the "bump in the night" possible intruder scenario, I'm looking for a nice medium between holing up in the bedroom and dialing 911 to let the police investigate, and searching the house solo for the source of the noise.
(I don't wanna dial 911 for every little noise, but I also would like to be able to go back to sleep being 100% sure that nothing's amiss- and right now that involves me clearing the downstairs myself.)
I was thinking that having the option to view my downstairs rooms via wireless camera could prove very handy in seeing right away if there is someone downstairs without me leaving the "safe room".
I'm in a rented house, so a permanently installed system isn't ideal compared to wireless.
I currently have 2 "baby monitor" type cameras with infrared night vision (each was about 100 bucks) that almost work for this, but they just lack the range to transmit to the monitors upstairs. (I looked at the x-10 type, but they don't seem that they would work well according to reviews).
There seems to be a lot of camera systems, and I just have no idea which are decent and which are junk.
Does anyone have any experience/input to help me out with this?
(I don't wanna dial 911 for every little noise, but I also would like to be able to go back to sleep being 100% sure that nothing's amiss- and right now that involves me clearing the downstairs myself.)
I was thinking that having the option to view my downstairs rooms via wireless camera could prove very handy in seeing right away if there is someone downstairs without me leaving the "safe room".
I'm in a rented house, so a permanently installed system isn't ideal compared to wireless.
I currently have 2 "baby monitor" type cameras with infrared night vision (each was about 100 bucks) that almost work for this, but they just lack the range to transmit to the monitors upstairs. (I looked at the x-10 type, but they don't seem that they would work well according to reviews).
There seems to be a lot of camera systems, and I just have no idea which are decent and which are junk.
Does anyone have any experience/input to help me out with this?
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