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Issues with outdoor camera

endainoz · 2019-02-18 14:18:01

As a farmer for this time of year, things can be quite busy with cows calfing. I set up a Motorola focus 73 a few years back in my shed with calfing pens to keep an eye on things remotely. I brought internet out there using a powerline adaptor from my mother's house. (she has fibre so very good speeds) and used the Hubble…

18-02-2019 2:18pm

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As a farmer for this time of year, things can be quite busy with cows calfing. I set up a Motorola focus 73 a few years back in my shed with calfing pens to keep an eye on things remotely. I brought internet out there using a powerline adaptor from my mother's house. (she has fibre so very good speeds) and used the Hubble app to operate the camera myself. Quality was reasonably ok but originally the app itself was awful untill the updated more recently.

Anyway, this week I added another camera with much better quality and responsiveness. (foscam fi9928p full hd ptz dome camera) and the quality is a huge improvement on the last one.

So now I have two cameras set up in the shed, the Motorola through WiFi and the Foscam through a network cable directly from the powerline adaptor. However the main issue is seem to be having is that the Foscam camera seems to go into a sleep mode and needs to be reset a few times a day, sometimes it comes back on itself without the reset. There is a sleep timer on it but it's disabled. Just to be clear I don't need cameras for recording, all I need them for is a live picture so I can check on things but recording is not needed.

So what do people think the issue is here? The powerline adaptor? Or maybe there is a third party app to manage both cameras that would be more stable?

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