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Mark / Ohio:
That's neat!
I'll look again tomorrow if I get a chance. With my slow dialup connection I got a bit lost and pointed into total darkness for a minute. But I have it showing the lights again now for the next visitor. :lol:
That would require a weather enclosure with heat and cooling if say I would put one like it on my antenna tower right?
NoQuitters:
--- Quote ---That would require a weather enclosure with heat and cooling if say I would put one like it on my antenna tower right?
--- End quote ---
That it would. It isn't weatherproof by any means. Even has a nice little sticker on the side that says indoor use only, but where it is mounted right now it's pretty safe. I have a feeling I'm going to end up getting something along the lines of this BB-HCM381A and get an outdoor enclosure for it.
I do however just for grins have one of these USB Color Camera with Pan / Tilt on the way because my current Logitech 4000 is all but dead after being exposed to the sun for 2 years.
Mark / Ohio:
I looked at again in daylight. Saw some birds and leaves needing raked up. Looks like my yard. :lol:
It was a touch fuzzy and faded with the sun but not bad once I adjusted the brightness to whatever it was I wanted to focus in on. Looks like it would be great for a weather cam. But if you wanted to identify bird species it would need to be a little sharper and better colors. :wink:
I'm a bit surprised how well it is working with a 28K dial up 3.3Kb avg. transfer rate. I've been on commercial cams that the image would break up and I had trouble operating the controls. But yours is running real smooth with no breakup in the image. I just see a thin refresh line come down the image as it updates.
up10ad N9RJH:
That's a nice image and really interesting control set, especially for the price. It auto-iris well to compensate for light conditions, and if it is overexposed you can always adjust it with the on-screen control.
The one thing I'm not very fond of is the necessity to download an Active-X control to view it. I much prefer a Javascript solution, and many folks sinply won't use Active-X.
For the $ it seems pretty nice. If you are serious about the BB-HCM381A and spending that kind of cash for a PTZ and enclosure, take a look at the Canon VB-C50iR as well. You can see it in action here
ncpilot:
--- Quote from: "k6dyc" ---The one thing I'm not very fond of is the necessity to download an Active-X control to view it. I much prefer a Javascript solution, and many folks sinply won't use Active-X.here
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I could view it with FireFox, which of course doesn't use ActiveX--probably getting a motion jpeg push (MJPEG) instead...
That's always been a main criteria for me with any video cams, it cannot require ActiveX or IE...
The only annoying thing to me is that the entire interface redraws when you pick a preset, or change a setting--rather than just the video image itself (at least in FireFox...).
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