After years of different sports car ownership I have been looking for an MX5 NC 3.75 as late as possible and as low mileage as possible and after looking at hundreds of cars online and viewing quite a few I eventually purchased a 30k full Mazda history 2.0 sport tech coupe in true red a couple of weeks ago which I am over the moon with.
Not long after getting the car I started having issues with the Eufy wi fi cameras I have in my drive way and kitchen through the wall from the garage & driveway. After multiple router, camera homebase & camera resets and head scratching I suddenly found when moving one of the cameras the mazda interior protection alarm went off and the penny dropped. Following switching off the interior protection on the fob (lock car and press bottom right button within 20 seconds and alarm will flash 3 times) everything back to normal. Wanted to share in case anyone else in future gets wifi interference.
My first set of security cameras were radio linked on the official frequency, and the four cameras worked very well, to begin with. (2005 Swann from Maplins).
BUT if I used a standard radio-linked Logitech mouse to its USB dongle, it splatted the camera pictures.
And then so also did the Panasonic microwave oven.
And then a Nokia 6100 “triband” mobile phone.
And a taxi outside in the street.
And the motor control on the washing machine.
And the short lived mini-fluorescent bulbs, all replaced by LED in 2009.
The list grew and grew with more sophisticated domestic appliances.
I tried everything, hard-wired mouse, moving the cameras and receivers, and in the end I binned the radio cameras and hard-wired the lot.
The benefit of the hard wiring connectivity meant that the third generation of cameras were plug and play while now being full HD and with superb night vision, and I can have up to eight including POE (Powered Over Ethernet) and PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) before the recorder wants to be upgraded for more channels.
Alas, now the excellent Hikvision (made in China) system I use has been heavily frowned on (rightly or wrongly) by security conscious people. So I don’t let mine have internet access.
Here’s a lower res phone photo of local network showing nighttime views taken a few minutes ago gathered on a PC screen. The TV’s in bedroom and downstairs also can watch this HD output. Useful to see who’s calling
