Looking for way to set up an outdoor camera at my door where I can see who is there from multiple locations?

Question

One to two cameras to be used but I need to see from more than one location in the home. Don't really need to record anything, just need to to see who is there. I already have an intercom buzzer but I would like to see who is there from the bedroom, from the kitchen, from the great room and basement.

Answer 1

An outdoor wired camera is best. You could also use a wireless camera but remember most of them need still have to be plugged in. Wireless cameras also present other transmission problems.

Which ever you choose you can feed the signal in to your home cable using a modulator. It simply takes the camera signal and gives it a channel, usually at the higher end, say in the 70's. Then you could turn on any TV to that channel and see who's there. Each camera could be modulated to a different channel. If you have cable boxes or digital cable boxes then you need a bypass filter for each as these devices usually block out modulated signals.

Out side of a modulator system then you would have to have a monitor in every room.

feel free to contact me with any questions [e-mail], I do a little of this with the low voltage and home theater part of an electrical

Answer 2

You can monitor 1 or more cameras from 1 or more monitors. If you have multiple cameras you will need a camera combiner to show them on the monitor. The smallest one has the capability to handle 4 camera. It takes the display and divides it into 4 parts and you can display a different camera in each part.

Another way is with an internet camera. You could see the pictures from any computer.