Customer Reviews

Black & Decker FW7000 Indoor/Outdoor Monitoring Kit

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This thing works great as long as youi have ideal lighting, meaning complete sunlight. I did not expect it to work perfect in the dark, but in a well lit area I would have thought it would at least provide some type of image that you can see. Truth is that unless yoiu have plenty of natural light this thing won't work at all. They should tell you this on the box, but instead they have a picture indicating that it will in fact work in a dark room.

I purchased this back in January 2006. It is a great system and works with my existing X10 Home Automation. It was plug and play basically. Nothing magical. I purchased it to monitor my baby but the image in low lighting looks more like the ultrasound of our baby! You can see a spot and can hardly make out the head and body etc... Too grainy. With moderate lighting I can make out the body better. For monitoring outdoors it does the job no issues.

For the fun of it, record your child in bed on tape and then pick up the child while dressed in complete black. Then one day when you and your spouse are watching the TV to monitor your child, without your spouse knowing, play the recording as if it were live. See their reaction when your child is picked up by a stranger in your own home.

The remote is a multi-function remote and should you buy that on its own you would pay over $20.

BEWARE if you have a 2.4Ghz phone at home. This system shares the same frequency and you WILL get interference due to just having your phone plugged in anywhere in the house. I found I was able to minimize the interference by carefully adjusting the receiver's antenne.

All such systems have the same frequency as far as I know and have tried.

I gave it 2 less stars due to the quality of video indoors. Otherwise no complaints.

I was surprised at how easy this was to set up. I only needed one camera for the outside of my house and it works really well.