Logitech Security cameras

[simonmason]

Has anyone had any experience with these new plug and play cameras and any thoughts on how you might interface them to Homeseer? Thanks.

[Rupp]

If you're talking about these http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/we.../4326&cl=us,en

They are very expensive for a wireless CMOS camera. You would be better off looking at a good wired camera or a good network camera. These wireless cameras simply do not play well with other wireless devices.

[GregHoog]

Any good suggestions? I looked at the Logitech as well... it looks pretty simple to install and use, but I would really like to be able to tie them into HS2.

Greg

[Steve Q]

I could not find any data on the "wireless" feature of the Logitech camera.

A week ago I purchased a wireless security camera (2.4 GHz). It was a disaster. I did not realize my phone system was also 2.4GHz. Even though the camera had 4 different channels, only 1 of the channels gave a reasonable picture, and that channel killed my wireless router. So I returned the camera and got a wired one.

Steve Q

[Uncle Michael]

Has anyone had any experience with these new plug and play cameras and any thoughts on how you might interface them to Homeseer? Thanks.

I tried one out. As Rupp says, they're on the expensive side, and I concluded I could do better. (They're 'wireless' in the sense that they use power line ethernet, so you just plug them in. The indoor cameras have a power injector included in the power line ethernet adapter, so there is just a cat5 from what is essentially a fancy wall wart to the camera. The outdoor cameras look like they have the ethernet adapter inside the camera housing.)

Pros: Software is very good. Motion detection algorithm, in particular, is good. Setup is easy, although it took me a bit longer than their advertising copy implied.

Cons: Expensive for what you get. They have manual pan and tilt and manual focus. Adjusting them is quite tedious, especially if you don't have a monitor sitting next to you. The best focus I could achieve was still what I would call soft. To get them to communicate across subpanels requires a bridge, which would have added about another $100.

I took it back for a refund.