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Great stuff! I'm a little frazzled by the fact that you're leaving 350$ cameras in the woods unattended, though. Figures they're not too far from your home give

Great stuff! I'm a little frazzled by the fact that you're leaving 350$ cameras in the woods unattended, though. Figures they're not too far from your home given the CAT5 length you mention, but for anyone interested in building one in a more remote location (IoT SIMs with decent data plans are a thing now!), you might want to consider camouflage, and/or setting up in a tree.

Raphmedia 10y ago
> leaving 350$ cameras in the woods unattended Hunters do it all the time.
- jdc0589 10y ago
  I worked on a revamp of the system for controlling those cameras remotely, viewing all your pictures, etc... (the cameras had cell modems) at my last job. Its insane. Not only are the cameras a little pricey (not crazy), but HOLY SHIT the data plans are expensive. Granted, that's where they make money, but still.
  - kobeya 10y ago
    Wha? Not anymore. You can get some really cheap data plans these days. Granted I don't know what the reception would be like out in the wilderness...
    - jdc0589 10y ago
      you can get cheap dataplans as a consumer, straight from the cell providers. Most of the game cameras do not let you just plug in a sim card. Most of the game camera companies act as resellers of data plans from places like Verizon and AT&T; so they 100% control the data plan rates.
deanclatworthy 10y ago
You'd be surprised how much untouched wilderness there is out there. And generally opportunistic criminals don't tend to be wandering through the wilderness looking for cameras to steal. And even then they're face will be recorded for all they know.
- trendia 10y ago
  Yeah. There are many trails in the US where you can hike for days without seeing another human.
  - ci5er 10y ago
    Maybe if you go in circles. If you cover 20 miles/day, even in places like Alberta or Wyoming, it's hard to go much more than two days without bumping into another one in one form or fashion.
    - macNchz 10y ago
      On the trails, sure, but a short way off of even the busiest trails you could go an extremely long time without seeing anyone, especially in areas that don't allow hunting. For example, this woman died after weeks spent lost just near the Appalachian Trail: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/25/hiker-who-died-after-disappearing-from-appalachian-trail-survived-for-weeks/KAcHuKSdYVHNTNu0qQobvK/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/25/hiker-who-died-...
      - ci5er 10y ago
        Yeah - we used to have a few of those unfortunate events reported every year when I was growing up in Wyoming. Sometimes even when it wasn't cold (dehydration is a thing, apparently). As young kids, we didn't know anything about anything, and always wondered, "why didn't they walk in a straight line? they were never more than 75 miles away from help."
        10y ago
alexdgg 10y ago
here in California there are people even in the woods.
traverseda 10y ago
>IoT SIMs with decent data plans are a thing now! [Citation Needed] --- What do you mean by decent data plans? I'm seeing plans that are between $10 and $20 usd per GiB. That's definitely not good enough of live video, but I suppose you could release new video every month.

Raphmedia 10y ago

> leaving 350$ cameras in the woods unattended Hunters do it all the time.

jdc0589 10y ago
I worked on a revamp of the system for controlling those cameras remotely, viewing all your pictures, etc... (the cameras had cell modems) at my last job. Its insane. Not only are the cameras a little pricey (not crazy), but HOLY SHIT the data plans are expensive. Granted, that's where they make money, but still.
- kobeya 10y ago
  Wha? Not anymore. You can get some really cheap data plans these days. Granted I don't know what the reception would be like out in the wilderness...
  - jdc0589 10y ago
    you can get cheap dataplans as a consumer, straight from the cell providers. Most of the game cameras do not let you just plug in a sim card. Most of the game camera companies act as resellers of data plans from places like Verizon and AT&T; so they 100% control the data plan rates.

deanclatworthy 10y ago

You'd be surprised how much untouched wilderness there is out there. And generally opportunistic criminals don't tend to be wandering through the wilderness looking for cameras to steal. And even then they're face will be recorded for all they know.

trendia 10y ago
Yeah. There are many trails in the US where you can hike for days without seeing another human.
- ci5er 10y ago
  Maybe if you go in circles. If you cover 20 miles/day, even in places like Alberta or Wyoming, it's hard to go much more than two days without bumping into another one in one form or fashion.
  - macNchz 10y ago
    On the trails, sure, but a short way off of even the busiest trails you could go an extremely long time without seeing anyone, especially in areas that don't allow hunting. For example, this woman died after weeks spent lost just near the Appalachian Trail: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/25/hiker-who-died-after-disappearing-from-appalachian-trail-survived-for-weeks/KAcHuKSdYVHNTNu0qQobvK/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/25/hiker-who-died-...
    - ci5er 10y ago
      Yeah - we used to have a few of those unfortunate events reported every year when I was growing up in Wyoming. Sometimes even when it wasn't cold (dehydration is a thing, apparently). As young kids, we didn't know anything about anything, and always wondered, "why didn't they walk in a straight line? they were never more than 75 miles away from help."
      - 10y ago

alexdgg 10y ago

here in California there are people even in the woods.

traverseda 10y ago

>IoT SIMs with decent data plans are a thing now! [Citation Needed] --- What do you mean by decent data plans? I'm seeing plans that are between $10 and $20 usd per GiB. That's definitely not good enough of live video, but I suppose you could release new video every month.