Monitoring the garage

[rwalker]

I have been using a fairly cheap 2.4ghz wireless camera with built-in infrared LEDs. It died on me, so I went online and picked up a 5.8ghz version of the same camera (unfortunately I discovered that 5.8ghz does not go through walls as well as 2.4ghz. The new camera has MUCH better night vision, but the image is constantly being lost/fuzzy (the 2.4 was always kind of fuzzy due to the wi-fi in the house).

How do other people deal with this issue? Seperate camera, infrared LED lamp and transmitter/receiver? What frequency? Or is a wi-fi camera with a sepearate infrared LED lamp the way to go? Links to products you found work well would be most appreciated!

Thanks,
Roy

PS. Running a wire is unfortunately not an option.

[Lee Sharp]

For me, the headaches of supporting a wireless camera are worse than the headaches of running a cable. Much worse... And you can always add a supplemental IR flood to an existing IR cam. I have actually used IR cameras with bad CCDs as supplemental floods. However, some of the fuzzy could be a cheap CCD, so you might want to test that.

[rwalker]

Well after some time of playing with the wireless camera, it works pretty damn good... until I guess one of my neighbor starts using their phone. It goes crazy for about 10 seconds to almost 5 minutes creating tons of events. Then it will just clear up and return to normal. I have not been able to find a digital 5.8ghz wireless camera, they are all analog so interference is going to be a problem...

I wish I could run a cable to this location, but it would be next to impossible since I would have to go through several walls and a floor.

[zoneminder]

Are both ends on the same power main? If so can you not run a powerline ethernet link if the cam also has a wired port? I use that here to connect to my cams and it works much better than wireless. The 85Mbps ones are pretty cheap now and there's virtually no config.

[rwalker]

The powerline might be the perfect option. I will give it a shot!

Thanks