t_andersen
Young grasshopper
I have a Chinese no-name 1080p cam with a CS pinhole lens looking at my house from a distance. To keep it discrete, I have hidden it in a birds nest box. The problem is that when the Sun is low by the end of the day, it enters into the field and it is difficult for me to change that.
I have now over the past year or two installed 3 or 4 cams in the nest box and after a couple of months, they all seem to stop working. In the beginning, I assumed that they were overheating, so in a desperate attempt to do something, I installed a thermostat to cut the power, when the temperature inside the nest box gets above 50 deg C (122 deg F) but it didn’t help.
I have now again removed a failing IP cam from the nest box but this time I put it inside the house right next to the network switch. Guess what? It has been working ever since.
The Cat 5e cable to the nest box is about 50 m (165 ft) long and has an POE injector, a POE splitter (both passive) and an Ethernet connector down the line, all with insertion losses. My present suspicion is that there is something fishy with the Ethernet line to the nest box. My question to you clever guys is then:
1) Is it “forbidden” to see the Sun with an IP cam?
2) Is there any simple way to test the Ethernet cable for losses or noise? I can’t afford an expensive network analyzer (and don't know how to use it) but maybe I could attach some dummy load and then run a test program to see if packets are lost?
Hope for your help! Thanks!
I have now over the past year or two installed 3 or 4 cams in the nest box and after a couple of months, they all seem to stop working. In the beginning, I assumed that they were overheating, so in a desperate attempt to do something, I installed a thermostat to cut the power, when the temperature inside the nest box gets above 50 deg C (122 deg F) but it didn’t help.
I have now again removed a failing IP cam from the nest box but this time I put it inside the house right next to the network switch. Guess what? It has been working ever since.
The Cat 5e cable to the nest box is about 50 m (165 ft) long and has an POE injector, a POE splitter (both passive) and an Ethernet connector down the line, all with insertion losses. My present suspicion is that there is something fishy with the Ethernet line to the nest box. My question to you clever guys is then:
1) Is it “forbidden” to see the Sun with an IP cam?
2) Is there any simple way to test the Ethernet cable for losses or noise? I can’t afford an expensive network analyzer (and don't know how to use it) but maybe I could attach some dummy load and then run a test program to see if packets are lost?
Hope for your help! Thanks!
