Re: [Motion-user] Recording Skip

[Barry M. <bar...@gm...>]

Hi Harlan!

> Only thing I can say about WIFI is whenever my microwave is used the 
> camera connection was bad so I switched to shielded cat 7. If there is 
> outside interference strange things can happen. VHF TV has glitches 
> when LED lights are turned off and on.

The problem occurring with the microwave potentially makes sense: IIRC a 
microwave ovens' magnetron uses a beam to cook (really energize the food 
molecules and so cooks) at 2.4 GHz, essentially the same frequency as do 
the WiFi 2.4 GHz bands.  (The explanation is a bit sloppy, admittedly!)

IoT (Internet of Things) also can use the same radio band -- I'm pretty 
sure the remote-read electric meter wiped out the reception of my 
outdoor thermometer up here.  Works fine in other parts of the house, 
but up here on the same side as the meter there is no connection.

Here at the house I haven't noticed a correlation with microwave usage.  
Also the RPi camera units are (currently) 5G, though that has a shorted 
range than 2G.  Did check signal level and that doesn't seem to be the 
problem.  ...The cameras' RF path doesn't cross / isn't near anything 
(known!) to cause interference.  Plus this little update is giving me 
some education on PoE.