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Every time this is posted I wonder if one could improve the backend so it doesn't take 5-10 seconds for a video stream to connect. Right now it's quite populat
by moffkalast 7mo ago
Every time this is posted I wonder if one could improve the backend so it doesn't take 5-10 seconds for a video stream to connect.
Right now it's quite populated, but if I ever check it otherwise it's like this: wait 10 seconds, no cat, wait 10 seconds, no cat, wait 7 seconds, leave.
- buildsjets 7mo agoThe "Feeders with Hungry Cats" dropdown filters to the active cameras.
- moffkalast 7mo ago60% of the time it works every time. Sometimes those are all empty as well, or maybe there's a racoon instead :)
- tdeck 7mo agoThis is in China so I assume there are no raccoons.
- moffkalast 7mo agoWell I did genuinely see one once on one of these cams, probably escaped from the zoo.
- dcrazy 7mo agoI get it, but also, it’s pretty amazing that it only takes 10 seconds to remotely activate and stream live video from a camera installed in a cat house placed on a sidewalk 6,000 miles away.
- 0x3f 7mo agoThey're in China so there's some inherent latency, but it only takes about a second to load each stream for me (in Europe).
- nyoronic 7mo agoOnly if someone else is streaming from the camera. If no one is, it goes to sleep and it takes noticably longer to connect. When I looked at the site some months ago, I noticed during Chinese nighttime, a sleeping feeder would turn on its lights right after I connected (darkness for a second then a flash of light). So maybe it's a cost-saving measure for the hardware?
- yawndex 7mo agoThe feeders are battery powered, so they can't be always streaming 24/7 with lights on.