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I know my CCTV cameras inside out - and have the latest POE system running at home, but have been approached to help out on a small challenge because of it.
I think I have an idea of what I want to do - but thought I'd run it past the 'experts' of TP - to see if I'm missing anything obvious, or there's any alternative solution.
The challenge is to set up an owl camera as a 'live view' for the local community - the small problem? they are at the top of the local church tower, and the church itself has no broadband. There is a church hall next door (a 6ft gap) which does have broadband. One thing I want to avoid if possible is drilling through the silly thick stone walls of the church to run a cable in.
I'm aware that likely the best choice of camera will have the Real Time Streaming Protocol RTSP - and there's a good chance that I can get power up at high level - so the challenge is to link the camera to the broadband router in the church hall.
My initial thoughts were to run a cable from the router to the outside wall to an external WIFI transmitter/receiver, and then at the other end run a camera to an access point that would connect to another external WIFI transmitter/receiver on the top of the church tower - the vertical distance between the two would be about 50m clear line of sight.
I'm only just beginning to put together my thoughts - as I want to leave the village with a little legacy project since my dad's passing, as he had strong links with the church, and with him being a photographer, providing the village with a 24/7 owl cam (and maybe a church tower view of the village cam as well) might be a nice parting gift.
I'll keep it fairly simple at the moment - but my experience of wireless transmitters/receivers on networks is limited to home wifi extenders - so if anyone has any ideas/suggestions they'd be more than welcome.
I think I have an idea of what I want to do - but thought I'd run it past the 'experts' of TP - to see if I'm missing anything obvious, or there's any alternative solution.
The challenge is to set up an owl camera as a 'live view' for the local community - the small problem? they are at the top of the local church tower, and the church itself has no broadband. There is a church hall next door (a 6ft gap) which does have broadband. One thing I want to avoid if possible is drilling through the silly thick stone walls of the church to run a cable in.
I'm aware that likely the best choice of camera will have the Real Time Streaming Protocol RTSP - and there's a good chance that I can get power up at high level - so the challenge is to link the camera to the broadband router in the church hall.
My initial thoughts were to run a cable from the router to the outside wall to an external WIFI transmitter/receiver, and then at the other end run a camera to an access point that would connect to another external WIFI transmitter/receiver on the top of the church tower - the vertical distance between the two would be about 50m clear line of sight.
I'm only just beginning to put together my thoughts - as I want to leave the village with a little legacy project since my dad's passing, as he had strong links with the church, and with him being a photographer, providing the village with a 24/7 owl cam (and maybe a church tower view of the village cam as well) might be a nice parting gift.
I'll keep it fairly simple at the moment - but my experience of wireless transmitters/receivers on networks is limited to home wifi extenders - so if anyone has any ideas/suggestions they'd be more than welcome.