I'm looking to setup a security camera to cover some property that's nearby a house on private land, that's not possible to get a wired connection to. There's mains power there.
My current plan is to get hold of a weatherproofed outdoor WAP with decent range (recommendations welcome) that'll cover the area mounted on the side of the house, and then have a device setup in the area in question connected to the home network via the aforementioned WAP, recording on motion detection and (preferably) sending the recorded videos back to a machine in the house.
I'm unsure as to whether I should go full DIY and do the above with this and setup a pi with the RPi-Cam-Web-Interface in a weatherproof box (perhaps alike this) with a battery bank to act as a mini UPS, or if there's any better solutions for this kind of thing on the market.
Nest 1102ES? decent res, 130 degrees of field view, 1080p res, Mic n speaker for 2-way comm Another option would be Vimtag 361 HD with Pan 120° and Tilt 320°, Mic n speaker for 2-way comm
Well thats 650' well beyond Ethernet cable lengths, and too far for WiFi, is this for monitoring (you want to be able to look at it in real time) or just to capture events, the reason I ask is a couple TrailCams like these will get you recorded events...
But no real-time monitoring, given the distance it's going to be rather difficult to come up with a solution that offers real-time monitoring at your location on your network.
Over 600' is a very long way to receive a stable video signal, you might be able to get a camera connected to the WAP but getting a stable constant video signal is a totally different matter, the other thing is wireless cameras are easy to defeat or jam if you can get close to the camera and of course it will require a encrypted path to keep everyone else close to it from being able to receive the signal..
Basically to me a wireless camera is a very last resort when no other option is feasible, at the distances you are talking your certainly fall into that category, but I've seen wireless cams that are no more that 50-60' away from the network still fail to give a steady constant video signal that isn't broken and full of artifacts, of course this all depends on the camera, the topography of the area, and having a unobstructed clear line of sight for the signal to travel, internal (indoors) antenna or a external (outdoors) antenna to transmit and receive signals will either help or hurt your range.
