[PLUG] Suggestions please for a outdoor camera

[Chuck Hast]

Sorry I did not get back to you on this. I assume that they will try to
call home as all Chinese cams I
have worked with. But they do not require any connection to the internet, I
just plug them into an
island network with a dhcp server get the IP addy of the cam go in and set
it up. Some of the older
ones required an app that would like to the MAC addy of the cam then you
went in and setup the IP
addy, but now they just either come with a fixed IP and you change it to
dhcp or they come as dhcp
you log in and do what you need to do. But I always run them on an island
network.

I have never really dealt with the FW updates, I know that you can download
it and then you connect
to the cam and upload the new update.

Sorry for taking so long, this is my part of the year from hell. I server
lab gear and all of my customers
have lab inspections about this time of year, I am spread out from
Albuquerque NM to LittleRock AR..
The end of the year brings the end of the crazy time for me. Then I will
head to Costa Rica to deal with
family issues there... If not one hell,,, another.....

We use the SV3C cams on our local amateur radio data network here in
Oklahoma. They work well for
WX cams to visually monitor storm activity.


On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Chuck,
>
> Does SV3C require to call home to activate and setup? How often do they
> release FW updates if at all? Can you do local update without calling home?
>
> Thanks, Tomas
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 18:07 Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I use SV3C cameras, have helped several folks with setups using
> ZoneMinder
> > for the server,
> > we also use SV3C cameras at some of our AREDN sites, two in particular
> are
> > next to very
> > heavily trafficked railroad tracks, they have quite a following of
> railroad
> > fanatics. The SV3C's
> > went through a hail storm the other day, took out my van windshield but
> the
> > cameras are still
> > up there capturing video. Some of those stones were about fist size.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 8:31 PM King Beowulf <
> kingbeowulf at linuxgalaxy.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------
> > > The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
> --Albert
> > > Einstein
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Monday, October 14th, 2024 at 6:19 PM, briand at pounceofcats.com <
> > > briand at pounceofcats.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:19:24 +0000
> > > > King Beowulf kingbeowulf at linuxgalaxy.org wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 6:54 AM, Michael Ewan <[
> > > michaelewan15 at gmail.com](mailto:On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 6:54 AM,
> Michael
> > > Ewan <<a href=)> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I am looking for a cheap wireless camera, but not one that sends
> > > anything
> > > > > > at all to an upstream provider, just something with motion detect
> > > that I
> > > > > > can capture video to a local server.
> > > > >
> > > > > I’ve had pretty good luck with a pair of Reolink RLC-520A PoE
> outdoor
> > > cameras. they have both a low and a high resolution video streams. They
> > > have various features built in that I don’t use. I just capture with
> > ffmpeg
> > > or you can use Zoneminder etc.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > lol. I came here to warn you to avoid reolink.
> > > >
> > > > Right out of the box it would hang when attempting to continuously
> > > stream over wifi.
> > > >
> > > > Updated firmware after back and forth with support (credit to them
> for
> > > having tech support that actually answered) and then it would hang
> after
> > > about 6 hours.
> > > >
> > > > replaced it with an amcrest which has worked really well.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Brian
> > >
> > > Weird, never had any issues.
> > >
> > > The 2 PoE Reolinks have been running for over a year, and the wifi
> > Reolink
> > > E1 Pro (indoor) almost as long (only rebooted when the cat played with
> > the
> > > power cord).
> > >
> > > Other than the initial f/w update about 1 yr or so ago when I set them
> > up,
> > > never an issue and never complained about not being able to "dial
> home".
> > >
> > > -Ed
> > >
> > >
> >
>