Several years ago in our old house we had a home security review. The person who came out said that our alarm should be fine, but that we should add in cameras on the front and back doors for additional security. I know he was a salesman just doing his job, up selling us, but I was not sold on the need. On my next trip to Micro Center I saw a system called Logitech Alert and decided to give it a go.
The system, like most, comes with a main component, which includes a camera and base station. Then you can add additional cameras. Unlike other camera systems I have seen, the cameras connect to the base through the electrical wires. That's right, plug the cameras in and they find the base over your copper. No additional networking needed. I picked up the base component and an additional camera
and for many years proceeded to catch nothing but all the pesky squirrels that went through our yard.
When we moved to the church, for reasons I did not investigate, the system will only work if the cameras and the base are on the same electrical circuit. I was already going with a different camera system for security, and decided to drop the Logitech system into our cellar. It would still notify me if something, most likely water, was moving down there.
The system is several years old at this point and one of the camera’s night vision feature stopped working. This led to a very interesting demonstration of the night vision capabilities of the system, as I now had a camera with night vision on and one with it off, right next to each other. As you can see in the pic, its quite impressive what the night vision can see!
