How often do you move cameras?

IReallyLikePizza2

IReallyLikePizza2

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When I got my house, my cameras were placed based on trees that no longer exist, fence lines that have changed and priorities that have shifted, and limited by my much lower technical skill of running wire and fishing through tough areas

I've made things work, but if I were to do it all over again, I would change some things

Do you guys move your cameras around much? Wondering if I should give it a shot, but it sounds like a lot of work!
 
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I have never moved/removed a cam. I have added a few though.
 
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I can't think of ever moving a permanently installed camera, but before I choose a permanent place I set it up temporarily. An example would be the camera screwed to a board held to a fence with a clamp, fed by a temporary wire from an existing cam using a 2-port POE powered switch. From this I often "tweak" the location, and in a few cases have totally rejected it. I'm pretty much out of that business now because a new camera often means between 50 and 150 feet of ditching, and I tired of digging ditches!
 
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I am constantly swapping out cams (or adding more). It is less of a science (getting the best quality image) as it is a game (to see if I can improve it). Always fun to capture something amazing: wildlife, police arresting someone, an unexpected wild storm, etc.
 
Well it happened! I moved one. I installed some lights on my garage and it caused some glare. Moved it back and got a better view of my small shed (Installed after camera) and I don't see much of a downgrade in coverage

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The lights, looks good IMO

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Thanks! Very cheap upgrade
 
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All LED anyway, 10w each
 
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I've had to change quite a few! I generally purchase a few extra lights of each kind, just in case
 
IReallyLikePizza2 said:
Well it happened! I moved one. I installed some lights on my garage and it caused some glare. Moved it back and got a better view of my small shed (Installed after camera) and I don't see much of a downgrade in coverage

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The lights, looks good IMO

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Beautiful house and lighting. Looks like you picked the perfect spots for the cameras. Bugs shouldn't be too bad either, since the lighting is external. Now since the cameras are installed, you can rest and enjoy that pizza.
 
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Whenever I want to see what's going on outside but can't be bothered walking to the window..

Joking aside, only when we moved house a few years back did I take down the one camera we had in a shared car park.

Haven't put it back up permanently anywhere but instead bought two more, clamped one to the kitchen table to look into the rear garden and made a wooden stand for another to sit inside the window upstairs looking over the car's. All that wiring faff.. I'm to old for it. The 3rd one is another brand by 360eyes.. hardware is great, picture quality is great, app is great.. but no upload by FTP, no send by email, no http config or windows app. It's a bit crap in those aspects.

So I've just bought yet another Ctronics camera lol. This one is a 3/4G device - WiFi at the back of the garden is crap for the WiFi models.

Probably going to end up with another within a month.. I keep watching out for them going cheap on eBay.. can't stop myself..
 
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