Hidden camera installation?

[Eric B.]

Hi,

I'm looking at setting up some hidden cameras to monitor my nanny and other
people that may be in my house when I am not around. I am completely new to
this concept (my wife is insisting on the hidden cams), so I am looking for
any advice or suggestions where to find more information about it. Any
searches I do online seem to point me to the commercial sites selling hidden
nanny cams (ie: the stuff hidden in smoke detectors, or in alarm clocks,
etc). Is there no way to find/buy some pinhole cameras and wire them up to
a PC to record any movement in the room? I'm rewiring a few rooms, and I'm
not even sure what/how to wire for them. Is just Cat5 good enough? Do I
need to provide for some type of power, etc?

Any advice, suggestions, or links to where I can find more information about
hidden cameras for the home (not the kind hidden in smoke detectors, but the
kind I could hide myself in door frames, bookshelves, etc) would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks,

Eric

 

[alarman]

Eric B. wrote:
(my wife is insisting on ....

You have a training issue, my friend.

 

[Jim]

Hi,

I'm looking at setting up some hidden cameras to monitor my nanny and other
people that may be in my house when I am not around. �I am completely new to
this concept (my wife is insisting on the hidden cams), so I am looking for
any advice or suggestions where to find more information about it. �Any
searches I do online seem to point me to the commercial sites selling hidden
nanny cams (ie: the stuff hidden in smoke detectors, or in alarm clocks,
etc). �Is there no way to find/buy some pinhole cameras and wire them up to
a PC to record any movement in the room? �I'm rewiring a few rooms, and I'm
not even sure what/how to wire for them. �Is just Cat5 good enough? �Do I
need to provide for some type of power, etc?

Any advice, suggestions, or links to where I can find more information about
hidden cameras for the home (not the kind hidden in smoke detectors, but the
kind I could hide myself in door frames, bookshelves, etc) would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks,

Eric

Those websites with the covert cameras also carry pinhole and
miniature cameras.

Try: www.Supercircuits.com
Try: www.SCDlink.com
Try: Watching that new show ...... Wife Whisperer.

 

[A.J.]

No wire to run :-

http://www.surveillance-spy-cameras.com/self-contained.htm

My favourite is the motion detector version.
http://eyespypro.com/products/Motion-Sensor-Hidden-Camera-and-Self-Contained-SD-Card-DVR.html

 

[Eric B.]

Eric B. wrote:
(my wife is insisting on ....

You have a training issue, my friend.

Of the wife? Or the nanny...

Eric

 

[alarman]

Of the wife? Or the nanny...

Eric

The wife.