Security Cameras

How it works

1. Learn them with Electrician magazines: Security Laptop at 30, Security Camera at 40, Security Monitor at 50. Craft them at a workbench.
2. Place the Security Laptop first. Cameras placed within 60 m link to it on their own and get the next free number.
3. Put cameras on walls or ceilings and wire them to power (5 each), like a light. A camera with no wire yet shows NOT WIRED; wired but the generator, battery or panel is off or empty shows NO POWER.
4. Open a camera: set its number and name, switch it on or off, see what it sees, or link it to another laptop in range.
5. Open the laptop: every linked camera with its status (ONLINE, OFF, NO POWER, DAMAGED, DESTROYED) and health, an on / off switch per camera and a live view of the one you pick. Rename, renumber or unlink cameras there too.
6. Place a Security Monitor (wall, desk, small, large or CRT), wire it to power and open it: pick its laptop, then SHOW one camera, or CYCLE through the cameras you tick, 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds each. Each monitor keeps its own setting.

Tips

• A camera below 30% health is DAMAGED: the head hangs and the picture is gone until you repair it.
• A destroyed camera stays on the laptop as DESTROYED. Put a new camera on the same spot and it takes over the old one's number, name and link; or REMOVE it from the list.
• Pictures are live only while you are near enough to have that area loaded. Monitors only draw while you are close (about 20 m) and facing them.
• Only you, your party and your allies can use your cameras, laptop and monitors.
• The laptop screen itself cycles through its live cameras.
• The laptop needs no power. Monitors do: an unwired monitor shows a red NO POWER card, and one with no camera picked (or its camera off) shows NO SIGNAL. The preview in the monitor window works even without power.
• When a picture is missing, the live view tells you why: no power, switched off, damaged, not linked or too far away.