Toying with a new idea for camera placement around the barn area. Instead of mounting the cameras on the barn, I ran 60' of cheap conduit ($17 for 100 feet of 3/4" poly pipe at Home Depot) under the paddock and made a wacky bird house looking thing to mount the camera on the fence. It gives a pretty good view looking back at the coop and barn so when the goats are laying in the sun up against the walls we can still see them.
I'm using 1" PVC for the vertical parts of the run, way easier to work with that along walls.
100' cat5 cable was $10 on amazon and it's working with a PoE injector at that distance. It's not an outdoor or direct burial rated cable, but it's in conduit the whole way so it should last until the next lightning strike.
Decker the goat is taunting me, he's already found a spot to sit outside of the new view:
I'm using 1" PVC for the vertical parts of the run, way easier to work with that along walls.
100' cat5 cable was $10 on amazon and it's working with a PoE injector at that distance. It's not an outdoor or direct burial rated cable, but it's in conduit the whole way so it should last until the next lightning strike.
Decker the goat is taunting me, he's already found a spot to sit outside of the new view: