BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Ky!
> > port? Thinking mechanical droop causing stress on the connection.
> KM> The ones I have don't weigh enough to matter -- less torque on
> KM> the port than an ordinary dangling USB cable.
> OK - so can pretty much take that potential problem out -- unless accidentally
> smack one! <g>
Yeah, there's always that little problem, but at least when it's flipped
up it's no more in the way than a cable, and maybe less. I have one that
right-angles immediately, so you'd have to snuggle up to the PC to kick it.
Video "5 motherboards that shouldn't exist" -- one had like 25 USB
ports. Supposedly for industrial control circuits, but sure looked odd.
> KM> The thingee that makes signal go from there to here!!
> Yup!! ...And how come is 'route' as in "Route 66" can be pronounced
> 'root' or 'r-ow-t' but I've not heard 'router' as "root-er"?!
So they wouldn't start singing about getting their kicks??
> > TV so the televsion probably provides a bit of shielding if not RF
> > noise.
> KM> Maybe a LOT of shielding. I'd move it somewhere less sheltered.
> KM> Wave it around and see what works!
> That little project still on hold: other things 'filled the void' and
Oh, THAT little problem. I need to pick and process tomatoes. Vines
already froze. There are a LOT of tomatoes. Maybe tomorrow!
> regardless of the WiFi the camera can't be put in a position to get the
> full area: stuff's in the way. Dawned on me the other day to try "the
Durn stuff!
> other way": instead of view from the house to the back yard maybe from
> the (storage) shed at the back of the property looking towards the
> house. Nothing structurally in the way from that direction, though may
> have a problem at night because of a decorative light 'blinding' the
> camera. Years ago tested and have signal back there, but then I was
> also 'told' have signal in the house.
You can probably block the light with a suitably placed bit of dangly,
or an overhang -- place camera high and point camera more down rather
than squarely horizontal, should mostly avoid the problem. Right angle
to the line of travel for the light, anyway, then a little shielding as needed.
(Had to do something similar for outdoor lighting once.)
> KM> I have no idea... tho the notion of something cheap like a Pi as
> KM> a barn monitor is appealing. Have an old cell phone that can
> KM> connect from out there, dunno what Pi-Fi could do.
> For around $100 cheap enough to try, Raspberry Pi $35 -- Pi Zero and Pi
> W less (there is a $5 model IIRC), RPi 4 with more memory around $45.
> Case, wall wart, memory card. Attach a USB keyboard and mouse, HDMI
> cable during setup, otherwise run headless.
ExplainingComputers did a Howto on that recently, with a PiCheap and
whatever camera they sell. But I don't need to keep the pics....
Now that I mention it.... I suppose I could just use the cellphone's
camera. It's a 3G phone so will be permanently obsoleted end of 2022.
But it has great wireless range and connects painlessly, and takes
tolerably decent video, so... final component is some way to stream from
barn to house. I know there are apps to stream to the cloud but 1)
ancient version of Android (3.x, I think?) and 2) do not want to go
through someone else's cloud. Direct to some PC of mine is the way to
go, this being ephemeral monitoring, nothing I want to save. Protect the
phone in a plastic bag, plug it permanently into the wall, figure out
the streaming part. Two out of three ain't bad!
> Possibly. The only selection I've done is which network; figure the
> rest it can figure out on its own. ...Hmmm: wonder if some wise guy has
> an audio clip running while the WiFi is negotiating: "hchch! Boing!
> Boing! Squwarrrk! Ga-boing!!" (The dial-up modem sounds.)
Wrong network!!
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