TheVision wrote:
I've ordered a massive repeater cable.. I think that's what its called anyway.
I'll see how I get on with that but if this carries on, and things become a big problem I'll be happy to throw some more money at it.
I've always thought about proper CCTV for the house but that's definitely a last resort option.
If you go down that route, the Avermedia stuff that RF Concepts sell is aces. The in laws have one after having previously had a PC solutions. PC's crash and get upset. The Avermedia unit has been running for well over 2 years now with no intervention needed at all. If there's a powercut it just continues on its merry way as soon as power is restored:
http://www.rfconcepts.co.uk/digital-recorder.htmThey have the older blue 1304 model. I'd give it 950 Bananas. Once you set it up, you can just forget about it. The remote makes it easy to watch the footage as well. The only gripe is the unit doesn't adjust for daylight saving so you need to take that into account when searching through footage.
The HD is so big you don't even need to worry about motion detection (which is just as well as there's a spider that insists on building its web over the camera every night).