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BearGFR

BearGFR

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May 8, 2025
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Parker County, Texas
Howdy,

New guy here, in Parker County Texas (45 min or so due west of Fort Worth).
My main goal is to find a camera solution that's REALIABLE and does what I need for it to do, which is mainly:

1) Monitor various areas on our property and alert whenever certain wildlife (mainly feral hogs) are around.
2) Be solar powered/charged and linked via WiFi for at least some of the locations.

Right now I've got several different models of Reolink cameras that I -thought- were going to work, but am discovering that they pretty much suck, are unreliable, and their monitoring client software on both Android and Windows is horrible --- other than that, they're great. (LOL)
 
You might be better off on a quality Dahua or Dahua OEM cameras and Blue Iris. Train the Blue Iris to alert on your Feral hogs? Using Blue Iris and Code Project Ai you can train on the Wild hogs and should be able to get some good alerts. Won't happen on just setting up a 5449 or a 5442 camera and Blue Iris you will need to setup and train the software so it knows and understands what you want. But yeah personally think your best bet would be a quality IP camera with 1/1.2 or 1/1.8in sensor..
 
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Rob2020 said:
:welcome:

Blue Iris and Dahua (EmpireTech) is a solid system for the hardwired portion. Avoid wireless as much as possible.

Read the cliffnotes in the WIKI.
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Thanks, but avoiding Wifi isn't possible for me. The places where I need to deploy cameras have neither power nor network cabling available. We're on 13 acres out in the country and some of the areas I need to monitor are nowhere near the house, my shop, or any of the other buildings.
 
Welcome! Hang out and search the archives. We've had some discussions about similar situations. I remember talking about cell modems and low bandwidth solutions like LORA. You may find what you need is an alert or a low-res snapshot at the edge of the property, and a video feed only near the house.
 
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