Baby monitors suck. Despite claiming to be "digital" and using the 2.4GHz frequency range, they don't actually seem to use spread spectrum radio technology. As a result you get terrible interference if you live anywhere with lots of radio noise, like say a modern suburb under the flight path.
I've got Cat6 running from the baby's room, and I can easily patch it through to the Cat6 in our lounge room. So could I rig up something to act as a baby monitor that way? Thoughts?
GeordieGuy · 4 July 2010, 08:25
Why not? Why not just use a simple microphone component from an electronics store and a speaker / variable resistor combo on the other end? Should have change out of $5!
davewongillies · 4 July 2010, 09:42
Get something silent and small like a beagleboard, install a distro on it that supports pulseaudio, share out the audio to the network using pulseaudio. Or perhaps have the audio streaming out in something that a squeezebox could consume. Oh the possibilities!
Simon Rumble · 4 July 2010, 11:45
Yeah I was thinking something along Geordie's idea, but don't know much about impedance and the like for that kind of circuit. Surely some kind of amplifier is required too.