Trying to send a video feed from a brick building into adjacent brick buildings

[Stevel10268]

I have a Zowietek POV camera (NDI HX3) hardwired by ethernet cable into my LAN that I am using 24/7 to monitor my church building. It is a brick building, so WIFI signals don't pass through it easily. To compensate for this, I have exterior antennas, connected to my LAN, that transmit the WIFI signal from the exterior of the church building. The two other adjacent buildings that I want the video feed transmitted to are a parish hall and residence. Since those are also brick buildings, the WIFI signal, even transmitted from the exterior of the church, is not easily received into them.

I am trying to decode the NDI signal inside my brick parish hall and residence using a Zowietek "Zowiebox" for each building that converts the NDI signal to an HDMI signal feeding video monitors. The problem I seem to be having is getting an adequate WIFI signal from the church inside of those buildings. Outside of each building, the signal is adequate, but inside not so much. The Zowiebox needs to be connected to ethernet cable, so I have them plugged into WIFI extenders inside the buildings. However, I am still having reception issues. Can anyone recommend a good WIFI extender (booster) that I can connect the Zowiebox to via ethernet cable?

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Do you have line of sight?

Setup a Point to Point connection between the two buildings, using something from Ubiquiti or Mikrotik, etc

Amazon.com

https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Ubiquiti-LOCO5AC-PRE-CONFIGURED-Nanostation/dp/B0CCLMVSMT/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&sr=1-1

Better yet, can you dig a trench between them? Run fiber and connect the buildings

 

[Stevel10268]

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately digging up the surrounding asphalt and the building's slab foundations does not provide an easy way to connect them with fiber.

Before I went the NDI route, I tried using the following 5ghz HDMI extender without much success:

https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Transmitter-Binken-Streaming-Projector/dp/B0DF7GQ656/ref=asc_df_B0DF7GQ656?mcid=0125aa8347273868910840557514d125&hvocijid=1114683878275699301-B0DF7GQ656-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1114683878275699301&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1024716&hvtargid=pla-2281435176858&psc=1

So the Ubiquiti wireless bridge that you provide a link to looks interesting, but I wonder how it would be much different than the 5ghz HDMI extender that I already tried.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Extending HDMI will never work well, you want to extend the network instead using directional antennas, if you can't trench fiber

 

[wittaj]

The nanostation wireless has a range of almost 10 miles - let's see you get 500 feet with a wifi extender lol

 

[Broachoski]

These are great to extend "ethernet"
Where ever you may buy them, make sure they include the needed 24 volt POE power injector (not to be confused with powering POE cameras)

https://www.amazon.com/NanoStation-NS-5ACL-US-802-11ac-Wireless-POE-24-7W-G/dp/B07K351LGD/ref=pd_ci_mcx_pspc_dp_2_t_3?pd_rd_w=kQgZm&content-id=amzn1.sym.cd152278-debd-42b9-91b9-6f271389fda7&pf_rd_p=cd152278-debd-42b9-91b9-6f271389fda7&pf_rd_r=CPHMMNXCSG2RMEB4A1Z8&pd_rd_wg=QKlhj&pd_rd_r=20e65748-b58c-4c72-88ac-c6504b084f77&pd_rd_i=B07K351LGD

 

[TonyR]

I'd go with with either a pair of Ubiquiti Nanostation 5AC Locos or a pair of TP-LINK CPE-510's.

Unlike a link between Wi-Fi devices, extenders, repeaters, etc. the radios I linked both use proprietary protocol, channel widths and more to provide fast, reliable connections between the 2 devices, creating a wireless layer 2 transparent bridge much like a straight Ethernet cable as far as data is concerned.

You configure them with unique, static IP's in the same subnet as your LAN (but outside of your router's DHCP pool); no port forwarding required OR advised. The configuration instructions found in the Ubiquiti link covers the terminology and methods for both the older "M" devices (as in my schematic below) and for the newer "AC" devices as in my recommendation.

The image below is for remote IP cameras but just sub in any other network device.