Hello,
I've been doing some research for a while as far as setting up a 24/7 live-streaming set up for capturing wildlife (elk herd, bears, moose, birds of prey, coyotes/wolves, etc...) and crazy sunsets/storms that come through at our cabin. The kicker is that we see temperatures down into the -40 to -50F range a couple times during the winter, so the selection of cameras are greatly reduced. I've seen some HikVision, Axis, as well as Empire Tech cameras that do go this low with a heater, so I think those may be the only options. I feel like a PTZ camera with a solid zoom would be ideal since there's a pretty big area of coverage to watch (ie; elk herd migrates to an open field for a while each year). Ideally it would be cool to have thermal/night vision capabilities or even IR with some ability to detect what is going on at night as it becomes a very active area when the sun goes down. The goal would be to run this through OBS over to either YT or Twitch, so supporting RTSP would be ideal.
A few practical questions that I have:
1) Is a PTZ camera suitable in extreme temps if the camera suggests it is capable of running at those low temps? Or would you just not actuate any movement in the super extreme temps (not sure if the heaters keep the external case from being frozen?) If a temp drops a few degrees below the rating, what actually happens? Does it fail, or just turn off? A lot of cameras stop right around -40F, and we might see 1 day every couple years that hit -50F.
2) Can you run a heated camera with a POE injector that would provide more power than a POE switch? Or is this completely vendor dependent?
3) Since there is a decent amount of time that we are not here and would leave the stream up - are there any PTZ cameras with a wiper that might be recommended to keep the view reasonably clean? Or any other hacks to put on the surface to keep drying rain, etc etc.
4) How is Empire Tech overall? I've seen a couple that look like they might be a good fit, and are priced a lot better than an Axis, and Hikvision equivilent (ie; EmpireTech PTZ5A4K-25X)
Anyone else running a set up in a similar environment? What camera are you running? I've included a pano from an iPhone of the area of view to ideally be able to capture and a cool sunset pic.
I've been doing some research for a while as far as setting up a 24/7 live-streaming set up for capturing wildlife (elk herd, bears, moose, birds of prey, coyotes/wolves, etc...) and crazy sunsets/storms that come through at our cabin. The kicker is that we see temperatures down into the -40 to -50F range a couple times during the winter, so the selection of cameras are greatly reduced. I've seen some HikVision, Axis, as well as Empire Tech cameras that do go this low with a heater, so I think those may be the only options. I feel like a PTZ camera with a solid zoom would be ideal since there's a pretty big area of coverage to watch (ie; elk herd migrates to an open field for a while each year). Ideally it would be cool to have thermal/night vision capabilities or even IR with some ability to detect what is going on at night as it becomes a very active area when the sun goes down. The goal would be to run this through OBS over to either YT or Twitch, so supporting RTSP would be ideal.
A few practical questions that I have:
1) Is a PTZ camera suitable in extreme temps if the camera suggests it is capable of running at those low temps? Or would you just not actuate any movement in the super extreme temps (not sure if the heaters keep the external case from being frozen?) If a temp drops a few degrees below the rating, what actually happens? Does it fail, or just turn off? A lot of cameras stop right around -40F, and we might see 1 day every couple years that hit -50F.
2) Can you run a heated camera with a POE injector that would provide more power than a POE switch? Or is this completely vendor dependent?
3) Since there is a decent amount of time that we are not here and would leave the stream up - are there any PTZ cameras with a wiper that might be recommended to keep the view reasonably clean? Or any other hacks to put on the surface to keep drying rain, etc etc.
4) How is Empire Tech overall? I've seen a couple that look like they might be a good fit, and are priced a lot better than an Axis, and Hikvision equivilent (ie; EmpireTech PTZ5A4K-25X)
Anyone else running a set up in a similar environment? What camera are you running? I've included a pano from an iPhone of the area of view to ideally be able to capture and a cool sunset pic.
Thanks!
