Can someone use a video baby monitor to see inside my apartment?
Question by paparazzi_12: Can someone use a video baby monitor to see inside my apartment?
I have a video baby monitor that has excellent range, but it got me thinking, couldn’t someone buy the same monitor and switch to the same channel and see inside my apartment if they wanted to?
I have the “Summer Infant Day & Night Handheld Color Video Monitor” and I know it can work with an extra camera (if I bought one)… so in theory, couldn’t that work for my neighbors too?
Best answer:
Answer by steve p
Technically, this is possible. But generally, most baby video monitors and other electronics nowadays encrypt/decrypt their devices. For example, they can encrypt the signal transmitted from the video monitor, which is then decrypted by the receiver. This will prevent other video monitor/receiver sets from getting the same feed.
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It may be possible my sister discovered she has the same baby monitor as her neighbour. One night she just put my niece to bed went and layed down and went to sleep. She woke up a few hours later by this time is was about 1am and her husband was in bed as well now. When all of a sudden she heard a low man laugh coming from the monitor she woke up her husband half screaming and told him to get the baby. He got up realising something was wrong and ran into the nursery and picked up my niece and bought her into their bedroom. They couldn’t find the source of the noise and so the baby was in her room for the rest of the night. Then my brother-in-law was talking to them the next morning and they discovered they have the same baby monitor and they can hear them sometimes too and they freaked out when they first discovered it. I’m guesssing that the video one’s though would be different because they have the camera but anything is possible, perhaps you could ring the company and ask them about it.