EPoe Build for Wildlife

[George Polansky]

Hi. I'm wanting to put some camera in the woods temporarily to monitor wildlife. Maximum run would be about 900 feet and would need 2 or 3 cameras. I'd like the cameras to have good night vision, but they don't need to pan/zoom - wide angle would be nice. Since it would be temporary, I'd just lay some cat 5 or cat 6 wire along the ground from my barn to the camera sites - I'm fine with the risk of something happening to the wire for the time it is out there. Can someone recommend a good combination of cameras and epoe switch that would work for this application, and would it be possible to connect to Blue Iris? I was looking at Dahua pfl2106-4et-96 or LR2110-8ET-120 epoe switches (not sure the difference between them) and not sure about the best Dahua camera for this application. Thanks for any help!

 

[Old Timer]

It will be hard to run a POE 900 foot the resistance in the cat5/6 would lose all of your power.
You might as well run an extension cord along with it to power your cameras.
Then the best way to get your data back would be a set of Ubiquity point to point links.
Nano beams are easy to set up and aim.

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I like the M5, they are rock solid out to a couple miles.

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[TonyR]

+1^^ to the Ubiquiti if you have decent LOS (Line Of Sight).

What's your geographic area ?

 

[looney2ns]

One option.
HDCVI Cameras
good for 1080p @ 800meters with a single cable using rg6 cable.

 

[George Polansky]

+1^^ to the Ubiquiti if you have decent LOS (Line Of Sight).

What's your geographic area ?

It's wooded, so no line of sight.

 

[George Polansky]

It will be hard to run a POE 900 foot the resistance in the cat5/6 would lose all of your power.
You might as well run an extension cord along with it to power your cameras.
Then the best way to get your data back would be a set of Ubiquity point to point links.
Nano beams are easy to set up and aim.

airMAX NanoBeam M5 - Ubiquiti Store

High-performance 5 GHz, 16 dBi bridge.

www.ui.com

I like the M5, they are rock solid out to a couple miles.

UniFi - Rethinking IT - Ubiquiti

UniFi is rethinking IT with industry-leading products for enterprise networking, security, and more unified in an incredible software interface.

www.ui.com

I had thought the Dahua epov switch and cameras were meant for distances up to 800 meters. Does that require different cabling besides ethernet - I think someone below mentioned RG6?

 

[sebastiantombs]

The ePoE solution from Dahua will go to 800 meters Check with Andy, from EmpireTech.

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[looney2ns]

I had thought the Dahua epov switch and cameras were meant for distances up to 800 meters. Does that require different cabling besides ethernet - I think someone below mentioned RG6?

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