Latest idea for camera placement

[Jayne]

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:

 

[HMP]

Cool idea, will keep it in mind for the future

 

[GymB]

Lightning strike to any nearby tree and it'll all smoke, so keep it isolated from the rest of the network using a power line or wireless connection that can be just a few inches long.

 

[CZfool68]

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.

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Decker the goat is taunting me, he's already found a spot to sit outside of the new view:

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There is plenty of condensation and moisture inside buried conduit. Chances are the jacket and insulation will rot on that Cat5 at some point. But for $10 you're only out time and effort.

 

[georgel]

Which cameras are you using?

 

[Climberman]

I thought Decker the goat was a skunk for a second there.

 

[Jayne]

Which cameras are you using?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Z09G8C0

It strikes a nice balance between cheap and actually working. Image quality is OK, night vision is OK, frame rates are pretty good. Work well with Blue Iris. I've got 20 cameras in my setup now and this is my go-to camera when 3mpixel or more isn't required.