Recent content by Cam_curious

That looks like it should work. It looks like the lens can be focused. I wonder if it can focus to as short a distance as is in a mailbox.

I am thinking that I may do something along those lines. Or, I may dig the trench and lay an Ethernet cable and run a POE camera. Any thoughts on a suitable camera for this application? Would an indoor camera be OK? It would be protected from the rain but not from the temperature...

The mailbox gets some sun, but a lot of shade. It probably gets hot inside; a black metal box in direct sun (at least some of the time).

My shop is in my basement.

My mailbox is about 200 straight line feet from my house, but there are trees obscuring the view.

I already have a door switch on my mailbox connected by the wire that I mentioned. It operates a doorbell chime in my workshop. The problem is that I may not be in my shop when the mail comes. Then I miss the alert. I was wondering is there is some sort of modem device that could send...

I have seen those, a great idea. I can't see my mailbox from my house.

My mailbox is metal and so would be a problem with a Wi-Fi antenna inside the box. I would like to have a camera that had an external antenna that I could mount outside the box.

I would like to install a camera inside my mailbox. I just want to see if I have mail, we don't have a mail theft problem around here. I want to know if I have mail so I don't have to go out in the rain or snow unnecessarily. I was thinking of one of those small cameras that I could install...

When I want to look at what is eating up a lot of space I use a free utility called windirstat. Just google it. I have no association with it I just like it.

I was wondering about that, but I thought who cares about a computer mouse?

I would ask that you keep "mouse". One of the things that I use BI for is to try to find out how mice are getting in my motorhome. I can imagine that a lot of people would use BI for these types of things.

I agree. But alas, the model number is not there after I upgraded.

I bought 2 IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E cameras from Andy at the same time. They both work OK but I am not done setting them up. However I notice differences here and there in the firmware. The firmware versions are the same but there are differences. Here are the two version pages: Notice that this...

I must have better mice so I need better traps. Actually, the mouse walked all over the first trap but the second trap got him. Another thing, when i look at the DeepStack tab in BI Status I see nothing. Each of the 3 panes is blank.