The camera isn't in the shop. It is outside on my pheasant shed looking down the driveway between the shop and the house. Too far away to get a signal from the main router in the house, but plenty close enough for the shop router. Not hard wired in.
Here is the explanation for the cheap cameras. I get it, they're cheap. I don't plan on buying any more, but if I do, I'll do some research first. Unlike I did with these.
I haven't paid more than $50 for a wansview camera, I bought the Reolink indoor for $70. It started with the cheap $25 wansview, which wasn't detailed enough for my wife. So while looking for a 1080p movable camera to watch the puppies, I bought the Reolink and my wife bought the
Amcrest at the same time, and we didn't tell each other that we had bought them until the next day, which was too late to cancel. We setup the amcrest and it worked great for the puppies. A couple months later I figured I'd try the reolink, which didn't work. A few months later I finally got the replacement from Reolink, they sent the better 4mp c1 pro, which I just got setup. For amazons thanksgiving sales, I got the other two outdoor wansview cameras on sale. But I didn't set them up until Christmas because they were presents, so my wife could watch the dogs while they were outside too. So I've spent less than $180 total on the 4 cameras I bought. Anything of decent quality would have cost me much more. For me the cameras are just fun, to watch the deer and see what happens in the driveway anyway, it isn't worth spending any real money on them. Since the puppies are gone, my wife doesn't need anything nice either, but would like to see what the dogs are doing outside, and they work for that.
I figured with all the experience I've seen displayed in the posts on this site, that someone would know exactly how to loop this last camera in and save me the trouble of spending another hour or two searching to figure it out.
