security cam monitoring

[KellyCrabbieLove]

When saying I wish my tank was in our room so I could watch them at night my husband told me to pick out a security camera that is wireless so I can watch them from bed. Plus he doesn't want me to not only have a second tank but one that will wake us up at night with random thunk sounds from when they fall off of things. lol I looked and looked. I would have to mount my cam on the ceiling and full wireless is definitely a plus. I found this one and am almost positive this is what I will be buying when I get paid (this and a new light since mine died) . I just wanted to know if anyone had used it and if so what they thought. Thanks!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Arlo-Smart-Home-W ... tgear+ario

[Asheka]

Have not, I just ordered one myself of a different brand, but looks cool! Hope it works well for you

[KellyCrabbieLove]

He has been mentioning it here and there for awhile as a "someday" type purchase. Looks like my excitement about how awesome it would be to watch them from bed made it a "now" purchase. Lol he loves me.

[Asheka]

Haha that's awesome. I was looking at models while I was at work and a couple coworkers (who I have on Facebook, so have seen my pictures) think it'll be wicked being able to watch them whenever I want heh

I ordered this one: (will be here by Friday! )

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B00466X9SY ... W5R8PMT6W1

[Breeezy]

Are you guys installing inside or outside the tank? I've been wanting to do this, but haven't really done any research yet. Let me know how they work out!

[klowns]

I've got the new model Foscam 1 megapixel right now and it works ok. But I just bought 4 others, as i've got the next few days off and i'm going to test them all and see which works best also bought a new router just in case. the foscam works pretty good but it lags up a lot, dunno if its my settings or the camera, but i think camera. hopefully i'll have better luck on the others, i'll post my findings.

Oh and i bought a $10 tripod from amazon to put it on, and it just stands in front of the tank.

[Asheka]

With the humidity, I'll be setting up outside the tank. I'll be picking it up tomorrow, came way faster than expected, but probably won't get it up and running for a few days yet. The fiance is the technical one, so we'll see.

[Kleinerhejhog]

We have some DLink cameras of some kind that we got to spy on the cats to see which one was, um, being bad on the sofa. I hijacked one the other day to put on the crabs. It's just parked on the table next to them, on a stack of paperbacks. The resolution is not great, so while I can tell them apart, I can't see if they're actually eating anything when they sit in a food dish. The other difficulty is that the viewing angle is not that wide. It has night vision, so unless I put it up against the glass, there's light flares from whatever kind of light it uses to see in the dark. But, when I place it that way, I can't see the entire tank. I imagine there are more appropriate cameras available, which are probably costlier than the ones we have were. I can try to find some specs if anyone in interested in knowing what's not quite sufficient, lol...