We had some problems with break ins and vandalism in the neighborhood so I got 3 Axis 207MW camera's setup around the house facing out exterior windows. They're a bit pricey at around $350-$400, but they're the only thing I could find at the time in that price range that did 1280x1024 and were wireless. I couldn't easily wire coax or cat5 to two of the cameras because of my house layout (brick) and I didn't want exposed wires inside the house for aesthetics or outside the house where they could get cut. They do a decent job. I wasn't terribly impressed with the built in motion detection and capturing. You can record video or still pics to an ftp site or have pictures emailed to you, but the buffer is so small that you're not going to get any decent frame rates or length of video at any of the higher resolutions. I ultimately just have my desktop capturing their feed live using zoneminder. http://www.zoneminder.com/ I have it setup to record at 4 fps constantly and then if it gets an alarm (senses motion) it captures as fast as it can. That way I can always be sure and review what's happened before and after an event...even if the camera doesn't alert or I want to see something not captured in the "alarm". So far the only thing the cameras have been good for is helping the police prove a drug dealer was lying about getting shot outside my house. That, and it's helpful in the rare occasion the girlfriend accidental sets off the alarm when she gets home for work. I get a text on my cell phone and then can lookup the cameras remotely.
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We had some problems with break ins and vandalism in the neighborhood so I got 3 Axis 207MW camera's setup around the house facing out exterior windows. They're a bit pricey at around $350-$400, but they're the only thing I could find at the time in that price range that did 1280x1024 and were wireless. I couldn't easily wire coax or cat5 to two of the cameras because of my house layout (brick) and I didn't want exposed wires inside the house for aesthetics or outside the house where they could get cut. They do a decent job. I wasn't terribly impressed with the built in motion detection and capturing. You can record video or still pics to an ftp site or have pictures emailed to you, but the buffer is so small that you're not going to get any decent frame rates or length of video at any of the higher resolutions. I ultimately just have my desktop capturing their feed live using zoneminder. http://www.zoneminder.com/ I have it setup to record at 4 fps constantly and then if it gets an alarm (senses motion) it captures as fast as it can. That way I can always be sure and review what's happened before and after an event...even if the camera doesn't alert or I want to see something not captured in the "alarm". So far the only thing the cameras have been good for is helping the police prove a drug dealer was lying about getting shot outside my house. That, and it's helpful in the rare occasion the girlfriend accidental sets off the alarm when she gets home for work. I get a text on my cell phone and then can lookup the cameras remotely.