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 installation.)
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.
Your problem is that any WiFi camera will need a lot of battery power. You'll be out there every single day changing the batteries, there's no way in hell you'll be able to just put in a 9V battery every six months (or whatever).
That's probably the reason you can't find one - no market for something so troublesome to use.
The cameras that are out there and are battery operated (lasting up to 5 months per charge) do just fine being on WiFi, because they don't keep most of their circuitry on except when the PIR has detected motion. So it is completely doable and not troublesome. They've just chosen to not offer an option to dump the videos to a local server instead of dumping the videos to the cloud.
Did you miss the first sentence in the summary, where it says I'm looking for a camera that'll dump the videos to a local server? We are all aware of cameras that dump the videos to the cloud.
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.
In my specific case, I own the home, so that's not a problem. The issue is that the camera would be about 100 feet away from the house, with no access to a cat5 or power.
As others have said, hardwired is the right answer here. I understand why you are reluctant but it really is the right answer. You can cable it up once and it will work as long as the switch is powered, no battery hassles, no signal hassles, etc. and it wonâ(TM)t matter what services or processes you want to run on the camera.
Even if it were a longer distance, there are solutions available to deal with it.
In general, I agree that wired is better, but if your camera is up in a tree and you live in a place that's prone to thunderstorms, wired may have some other downsides...
Many years ago my former company in Germany had two buildings around 50 m apart, with 10BASE5 (thick yellow coaxial cable) within each building and connecting the two. A heavy thunderstorm took out quite a lot of the connected equipment with permanent damage.
Consider also electric field versus elevation in a storm. Many years ago on a visit to public areas of the United States Naval Academy, there was a display relic (possibly an old training fixture): a submarine sail with some ladders and deck plate, a
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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 installation.)
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Your problem is that any WiFi camera will need a lot of battery power. You'll be out there every single day changing the batteries, there's no way in hell you'll be able to just put in a 9V battery every six months (or whatever).
That's probably the reason you can't find one - no market for something so troublesome to use.
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Just remember to put the cap back on the Pringles cantenna you camouflaged in the bush.
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Your landlord might not like you drilling holes and pulling cable.
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One hundred feet for PoE is fine.
As others have said, hardwired is the right answer here. I understand why you are reluctant but it really is the right answer. You can cable it up once and it will work as long as the switch is powered, no battery hassles, no signal hassles, etc. and it wonâ(TM)t matter what services or processes you want to run on the camera.
Even if it were a longer distance, there are solutions available to deal with it.
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In general, I agree that wired is better, but if your camera is up in a tree and you live in a place that's prone to thunderstorms, wired may have some other downsides...
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Many years ago my former company in Germany had two buildings around 50 m apart, with 10BASE5 (thick yellow coaxial cable) within each building and connecting the two. A heavy thunderstorm took out quite a lot of the connected equipment with permanent damage.
Consider also electric field versus elevation in a storm. Many years ago on a visit to public areas of the United States Naval Academy, there was a display relic (possibly an old training fixture): a submarine sail with some ladders and deck plate, a