BishopNsunset
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Three weeks ago, at 5am as we were getting up to go to New Orleans for the day, four guys were standing under the security light at the gate.
We did not notice them because we were in the kitchen making coffee at 5am. We pulled out of the gate at 7:20am and noticed our mailbox was down in the ditch. Since we were leaving I propped up the mailbox against the keypad and we headed for New Orleans.
When we returned at 8pm that night, I began playback the security system to see what happened to the mailbox. The recording at 5:00 on the dot, shows a car pulling over to the side of the road and hit the mailbox as they tried to hide the car behind the bushes 30 feet from my gates.
The four would be robbers were standing under the light with ski masks covering their faces for three minutes planning their job at 5:03am.
The guys came in behind the gates in a place used by UPS to deliver small packages.
The so called leader hit the nearest security camera with the butt of a shotgun to disable it, but the camera continued to record.
Another camera caught the four as they came down the 225' driveway toward the house.
My wife turned the house lights on at 5:06am and robbers ran back to their getaway car.
We never knew they were there that morning.
SO, what I'm looking for is a simple wired intercom system between the gate entrance and the house. I have three unused circuits to the gate. I want to convert the speaker in the keypad to a mic/speaker intercom that I can monitor from the house. The total wired distance will be near 300".
I'm having a hard time finding a diagram that will work for me.
I would have liked to hear what they were saying just before they tried to breakin our home.
The four went next door to us and kicked in the front door of the home. The couple was not home at the time.
Does anyone here have a intercom wiring plan I can use? I have three spare sets of twisted cat5 wire inplace.
I can't seem to find a simple wiring plan online, but maybe I'm just getting old.
Thanks
We did not notice them because we were in the kitchen making coffee at 5am. We pulled out of the gate at 7:20am and noticed our mailbox was down in the ditch. Since we were leaving I propped up the mailbox against the keypad and we headed for New Orleans.
When we returned at 8pm that night, I began playback the security system to see what happened to the mailbox. The recording at 5:00 on the dot, shows a car pulling over to the side of the road and hit the mailbox as they tried to hide the car behind the bushes 30 feet from my gates.
The four would be robbers were standing under the light with ski masks covering their faces for three minutes planning their job at 5:03am.
The guys came in behind the gates in a place used by UPS to deliver small packages.
The so called leader hit the nearest security camera with the butt of a shotgun to disable it, but the camera continued to record.
Another camera caught the four as they came down the 225' driveway toward the house.
My wife turned the house lights on at 5:06am and robbers ran back to their getaway car.
We never knew they were there that morning.
SO, what I'm looking for is a simple wired intercom system between the gate entrance and the house. I have three unused circuits to the gate. I want to convert the speaker in the keypad to a mic/speaker intercom that I can monitor from the house. The total wired distance will be near 300".
I'm having a hard time finding a diagram that will work for me.
I would have liked to hear what they were saying just before they tried to breakin our home.
The four went next door to us and kicked in the front door of the home. The couple was not home at the time.
Does anyone here have a intercom wiring plan I can use? I have three spare sets of twisted cat5 wire inplace.
I can't seem to find a simple wiring plan online, but maybe I'm just getting old.
Thanks