Since I am still playing with it on my main workstation so I’m not using WD to get the images yet. I’m using a trial version of something called Active Webcam.
Was easy to setup. Cable is like 6ft long. I’ve got another extension cable hanging around that I will need to use to get it to the Weather box. When I will be able to play with WD and it.
Will see how it does at night. its pointed at a street lamp. There are a lot of trees around my home office window so there is not a good clear shot anywhere unless I really mount it differently.
Don’t forget to use the little focus ring thingy on the 4000 to focus the image up some… I suggest having one person at the camera… and the other at the computer viewing the image.
While I have been using Webcam32 for streaming my live web cam on my weather page, my daughter was looking for some software for hers but didn’t want to pay the $40 for Webcam32.
I found another software package that is similar called Conquer Webcam.
While not totally the same, it does offer many of the same features and provides a image archive that I will be looking at.
Currently, I am using on my page for testing. It is the Live Webcam link on the left side of the page. It opens up a popup window with just the streaming webcam image.
The same javascript which pulls the stream for webcam32 is being used for this.
Oh and the cost… $10. $30 less than webcam32.
Development seems to be stalled as it is with webcam32, but the sofware appears to work okay. I’m using the last stable version not the beta.
I have the same issue. The silver pole in my picture is a Street light which has been out for more than a month. I’ve got to yell at the city again. I will be moving my CCTV stuff shortly and will hookup on of my Night vision cameras.
Believe it or not, I’ve got it sitting out in the open.
It is mounted to the outside screen structure on a ledge outside my office window. The window is sheltered by an large eve and it is on the north side of the house. It rarely ever gets wet there.
I got the camera cheap and decided to stick it there until I came up with something else. Its been there now for almost 6 months.
A couple months ago, it poped off its mount and was hanging pointed at the ground for about a week. Not sure how that happened, but it was back on since.
they do pop off the mount. I had removed mine and used a tripod with the extention cable from H*** and it was nice but I think that I might have to figure out some way to plug it in outside. another project in the works.
I’d like to mount mine outside in an old light fixture but was wondering about the cable length. I have found an active usb cable which they claim can be daisy chained up to 80’ feet in 18’ increments. Anyone tried this? I need at least 30 to get it in a good place.
–Dave
Which is how I found out the 16’ active and 10’ passive worked together (already had the 10’ collecting dust), I didn’t WANT to get divorced myself LOL
The 5000 looks like the 4000 with I think a larger image. But I don’t see that being a real big draw as the bigger the image the more the bandwidth.
Now the MP looks interesting because of the pan and tilt. Might take a gander at that.
I’m spoiled by the other camera I was looking at though, but the aprox $1800 price tag has toned me a down just a tad. My son needs a used truck more than I need a camera that I can pan, tilt and zoom remotely on top of the house…
or does he.
Anyone want to buy an Excellent Student Son… he is 16 years old, growing like a Giraffe (currently 6’ 4" and climbing), eats more than a horse but is really picky about what he eats (oats are out)…
