Semi machine related, sort of! I have a detached shop that's about 60 feet from the house and shares the same power. Right now, and for a long time, I have used a intercom that evidently traveled through the 120v wiring to function. It has now given up the ghost and I need to replace it.
Everything I see now is wireless. Is this what I want..has the other type gone by the wayside?
Does anyone use a intercom or have a recommendation as to a brand or style/type.
Stuart
I'd probably just pull Army Signal Corps WD-1 commo wire and use ignorant telephones.. CAT5 right beside it...
...even so..
You can still get Ethernet-over-house-wire or "Powerline Networking" goods. VoIP goods ride it just as easily as internet access can do.
Better yet...?
I had three campuses, two adjacent, to do full new from-scratch PABX & Data comms systems, around 3,000 handsets, HKIS, Repulse Bay, HKG some years ago.
Primary School and Middle School were separated by a roadway we were unable to get permits to run under, wide bridge over that had been approved but not yet built.
Under a hundred feet, but may as well have been the English Channel.
Solution was an Infra-Red 100 MBPS laser pair.
Then we had voice, data, video, - ANYTHING you could run over a 10/100 CAT5 cable, internet access included until the bridge was done and could carry Copper and fiber.
Those are point-to-point. Aiming is dead-easy. Weather was no big deal, and it is as "private" as whatever you chooses to connect to it. Or do NOT choose to connect to it.
A(ny) broadband solution could do more than "just" intercom. Video conferencing, internet searching for info, materials ordering, and security cameras, for example.
At 60 feet, "cheap and basic" WiFi may or may not do so well and may have to compete for an open channel if you are in a comms-competitive area with other households and/or businesses.
Here's a sample of the high-end gear:
FSO IR Laser Wireless Links
At under a hundred feet instead of several miles, there's
plenty of cheaper stuff, and even DIY isn't hard.