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So I had someone comment about power being a problem with most setups. So I got
to thinking?why not use solar power to run the camera during the day and charge
a 12v gel cell battery for night use. This will also solve the problem of
someone cutting your power cord. I going to investigate this further. For now
I thinking about a panel like this?
I always been fascinated with time
lapse photography. There something about seeing things happen faster than realtime. When I was in the planning phases of building my house, I wanted to
have a record from start to finish. I wanted to see the construction from
developing the land, to the end product. One way I could do this was to mount a
camera and keep it there recording the whole process, but that would give me
about 1.5 years of realtime footage. The other option was to take snapshots
during the day and then later turn those into a movie sequence. Doing something
like this in the past wasn't very practical, but today, with Wi-Fi and Network
Cameras you can do it fairly economical. I first asked a couple of my friends to
see if they had any extra network cams laying around, that got me a Axis Cam , this is one of those IP camera that can FTP an image to a server at
a given interval. Once I had the camera, I had a few other challenges?first,
how do I get the camera weatherproof? Second, how do I mount it and supply power
and third, how do I get a WI-FI signal to the camera rig.
The first one
was easy, I went over to SuperCircuits and
bought one of their heated camera enclosures. That allowed me to mount the
camera safely away from the weather?during extreme cold conditions, the heater
keeps the electronics and window frost free.
Next, I had to convert a non Wi-Fi camera to wireless?I
bought a Linksys WET11 wireless bridge and dismantled it (this voided the warranty). Next, I
marked and drilled a hole on the side of the camera enclosure for the WET11
antenna. The WET11 fits perfectly in the case, like it was meant to fit inside.
With all that aside, I had to figure out how to power
all the units. The camera, the WET11, and the heater. I visited my second home,
Home Depot, and found a PVC enclosure that was big enough to fit my power
supplies.
Next, I mounted everything on a 4x4?post, 16?in the
air and ran an extension cord down the mast and plugged her in. After setting up
the camera and the WET11, I was taking in a vantage point I couldn't usually
see.
The house is pretty much done and I have thousands of
snapshots that I can now turn into a nice timelapse movie. With the camera
original purpose fulfilled, I repurposing it to act as my fourth outdoor
security camera.
You probably wondering why I skipped the part on how
I got Wi-Fi to the camera?that going to be in a separate post, where I
explain how I lit up my whole block with a Wi-Fi access point, signal booster,
and a waterproof outdoor signal repeater (coupled with a 8db omnidirectional
antenna). I live across the street from a park and it was a no brainer to also
give it some Wi-Fi loving. Anyways, I'll try to get that DIY posted here this
week or next. Stay tuned?
Network camera server:
TYHO wireless network video server
designed specifically for wireless video surveillance.
DM642 products based on the embedded system design
1500e network video servers
1500e through ISDN, PSTN, or xDSL Router, LAN,Wide
Area Network or the Internet to facilitate international
interconnection to achieve video transmission
1320e IP network video servers
carries a one analog video input;a conventional analog video output.
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