| 3159) |
John P |
Location:
Langley and bridge lake  |
  |
|
 Sunday, 30 October 2022 05:10 PM
Hi Rob. I see Your Camera system has really improved from the past years. Id like to set something like that up at my place. Im gonna start with a cellular trail cam and see how that works, Reolink makes a tilt pan unit that shoots 2k but probably a bit data pricy on cell. I think it would be so cool to be able to watch the snow and storms blow thru up there in the comfort of home. sort of virtually visiting, and no gas or diesel to burn. You're probably a busy guy but would be fantastic if you wrote a segment on here about your system, what software you use, and how all those s videos get backed up for us to see. Plus, the trials and tribulations and suggestions on how to avoid them. maybe a YouTube vid. The weather loos good up there. Were suffering an "atmospheric River" on the coast. I just call it rain.
Rob 
Friday, 30 December 2022 08:46 AM
well, since you asked. I'll try to answer without diving into the weeds to deep. My latest setup is running two POE IP cameras (reolinks). The magic behind the curtain is a software program called 'IPTimelapse' that runs on my PC here at the cabin. IPTimlapse orchestrates the making of the timelapse movie on my local PC and uploading still shots to my webserver in the clouds. I also have some temperature sensors running off a Temp08 serial card from Midon Design (uses 1-wire technology, pretty cool). Then there are a couple of simple powershell script files running from 'task scheduler' which 'get' the temperature and write it to a txt file for IPTimelapse to use on the still picture, and a script file to upload the movies to the web server. When the PC/router gets 'stuck' I'm able to physically reboot the power to them from using X-10 modules connected to the telephone landline interface here at the cabin.
I wrote all this down before, using Windows XT, dial-up modem scripts and analog cameras. Now that was hard! LOL
|
|