Haven't seen much movement on this thread in a while. I guess that's a good thing. I finally got my unit installed on the chimney of my vacation pad... Here's a cool video of the install, while the masons where still applying stone.
It is 75' from the camera to the LAN switch. I'm using PoE injectors and the stock 12VDC power supply. No issues whatsoever.
Because I'm running my BI on an i5, I've scaled all of my cameras (23 so far) back to 1280, and set the frame rate to 15 fps. Even with that, the CPU is running at about 70%. I'm having the camera record a frame every 10 seconds between sunrise to sunset.
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And this is a sample of the zoom to the river - which is about 1 mile horizontally, and 1000' lower in elevation that the house site:
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Aside from the disappointingly slow pan speed (well below the 200°/sec published spec), I really must say I'm impressed with this camera. So much so, that I just bought three more for the property (at the new $222 price)... Came out to a total of $666. Good thing I'm not superstitious
One of the things that I've done with this camera is set a schedule on Blue Iris. At noon, every day, it zooms to several preset positions, snaps a photo at each location, and uploads them to my FTP server at home. The hope is, that after a year, I'll have 365 frames of each site. A 12 second video to cover the entire year ought to provide some pretty stunning video.
It is 75' from the camera to the LAN switch. I'm using PoE injectors and the stock 12VDC power supply. No issues whatsoever.
Because I'm running my BI on an i5, I've scaled all of my cameras (23 so far) back to 1280, and set the frame rate to 15 fps. Even with that, the CPU is running at about 70%. I'm having the camera record a frame every 10 seconds between sunrise to sunset.
.
And this is a sample of the zoom to the river - which is about 1 mile horizontally, and 1000' lower in elevation that the house site:
...
Aside from the disappointingly slow pan speed (well below the 200°/sec published spec), I really must say I'm impressed with this camera. So much so, that I just bought three more for the property (at the new $222 price)... Came out to a total of $666. Good thing I'm not superstitious
One of the things that I've done with this camera is set a schedule on Blue Iris. At noon, every day, it zooms to several preset positions, snaps a photo at each location, and uploads them to my FTP server at home. The hope is, that after a year, I'll have 365 frames of each site. A 12 second video to cover the entire year ought to provide some pretty stunning video.
