I assume this is a fixed installation. What you are asking for is like asking for a battery-powered ceiling lamp with wifi control, and then wondering why nobody does that.
Get a cam supporting the ONVIF standard and PoE, and run an ethernet cable to your home server. Which can do the rest.
If you really need to, you can let a RPi do the home server job, and install it next to the cam and a battery pack, and you got a fine solution. (If you think batteries and wifi are even remotely fine for a fixed installati
The summary cut off my submission, but they need to be battery powered and wireless due to distance from my house. If I could do any sort of wires or PoE there are a ton of solutions that'll suffice.
I'd verify the wifi will go that far. I've got a number of things outside on AC juice that will periodically go off wifi under high humidity(fog), weird sun angles, etc. If the right bad combination happens, and it does a dozen or so times a year, then I lose contact with those devices temporarily. It is rare for me, but I'd test on a rainy day to make sure the assumption you can get wifi is a good one. My house is stucco, so the wire meshing in the stucco may make my case worse than most.
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I assume this is a fixed installation.
What you are asking for is like asking for a battery-powered ceiling lamp with wifi control, and then wondering why nobody does that.
Get a cam supporting the ONVIF standard and PoE, and run an ethernet cable to your home server. Which can do the rest.
If you really need to, you can let a RPi do the home server job, and install it next to the cam and a battery pack, and you got a fine solution. (If you think batteries and wifi are even remotely fine for a fixed installati
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Re: Why a battery? Why wireless? That's pointless. (Score:1)
Just remember to put the cap back on the Pringles cantenna you camouflaged in the bush.