Setting Up Multiple Video Surveillance Cameras in Your Home

It's fairly easy to set up a single video surveillance camera such as a nanny cam and hook it up to your computer or a VCR recorder to save the video.  Things can get more complicated when you are setting up a whole home video surveillance system with multiple cameras in different rooms or even monitoring the outdoors.  If you're the do-it-yourself type and prefer not to spend money on a professional security installer, you can start at a place like Smarthome.

Their GrandTec 4 Camera Color Quad Processor is designed to handle the feeds from up to four different video cameras and it can output images to your television, a dedicated monitor, a computer monitor, or a VCR.  It can work with different kinds of cameras.  Smarthome offers both wired and wireless video cameras such as the SecureTek Day/Night Sunshade Camera , a wired video camera that works in color by day and automatically switches to black and white (more effective in the dark) at night, or the WiFi-ready Wireless Video Observer , which is a pan/tilt able IP camera that is reasonably priced.