Re: Webcams - model choice and installation

Les Crossan wrote:
> Jill. wrote:
>> Okay -- we have a few pennies remaining in our savings for the
>> weather station et all and have identified a location for a webcam
>> which, once in the house, could get wired by the same route as the
>> weather station.
>>
>> However the location is around 100 feet from the computer - maybe
>> even more Is this length going to cause us any problems? What is the
>> best way to achieve it?
>
> Best way would be wireless or an ipcam with a length of cat 5 to a
> hub. 100 feet is rather long for USB.
>

I wondered
What is a cat 5?
Do you have suggestions of good models for the wireless ?

>>
>> I have spotted that many seem to have the Philips ToUcam - are there
>> any views on whether this can be bettered now or other preferences
>> and reasons? [Amazon seems to suggest it may have been
>> discontinued??]
>> Suggestions for recommended suppliers would also be appreciated
>
> My South Cam is a Pyro (Sony) CCD device which uses ieee1284
> (firewire). The EastCam is analogue with a capture card (this would
> work in your case too). I've never had good results with a Toucam and
> mine ended up on some teenagers desktop for use with Yahoo! .
>
>>
>> Having seen some pictures of the Toucam - how is it fixed to a wall.
>> It seems to need some sort of ledge to be fixed to??
>
> Both my cameras are indoors on a windowledge,

Indoors is really difficult as just about all the windows that face the
right direction are dormers ---- and most are in Mum's house !!
We had spotted a corner of the house which would give us views across the
Morvern hills and down the tidal creek to the Sound of Mull


the eastcam sits on an
> old loudspeaker box and the southcam is held on with a big blob of
> Bluetack. The northcam when in use sits on one of these mini - tripod
> things that's bolted to the wall.
>
>>
>> Being greedy - is it possible to have two cameras running - from the
>> same cable? or into the same system? or on the same webpage?
>
> There probably is a way of making two cams run, one of mine foes to a
> capture card and the other straight into a firewire interface. Should
> have no probs with usb but *not* off a hub. If you look at my website
> there are two pictures, occasionally 3(!) Webcam32 will allow
> multiple instances, can't say for others.
>

gulp -- this is nearly getting complicated.
:~))

thanks Les


--
regards Jill Bowis

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