bought a surveillance cam

[JimVT]

i'm in the process of installing this. the same is at a tower and it stood up to lots of ice storms. so I figured it would be good on my barn.
https://sunbatech.com/product/601-d25x-poe/

it is going to be a challenge because when I move it to my distant barn 300ft some good shielded cable will have to be laid.

 

[bczoom]

How big of cable needs run? If it's not too big, and you don't need to go more than a few inches, I found an edger works well. That's what I used for the invisible fence for the dog and we laid 1000' in just a few hours.

 

[JimVT]

if my field is ever reseeded and plowed to kill the grass a few inches wouldn't be good. but thanks for the advice.
my barn is surrounded by pasture with power and water run underground to it.
very high in the trees or a couple ft deep is what i'm thinking and my electric fence sometimes causes interference. a router and internet is one other way but I don't know much about that yet.
house is left in the distance and carport is only showing. picture taken from the barn.

 

[Jim_S]

Jim, I put a system similar to this one at our barn several years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/Extended-Rep...ld=1&keywords=Cc+vector&qid=1587139655&sr=8-1

 

[bczoom]

It says it's power over ethernet capable.
You have power and water to your barn. Do you by chance have phone wires?
Myself, instead of old/actual phone wires when running phone to buildings, I use CAT-5 ethernet wire. Hoping you did the same or similar.
Don't know if you have animals in that pasture but if not, a few inches deep of CAT-5 wire may take care of everything. If you dig it up in the future, just lay new wire as it's cheap and easily installed at a couple inches deep.

 

[JimVT]

if I put rj45 wire in it will be 2ft or more deep. I have 25 heifers in the pasture now.
I only have power and water to the barn. no phone.

 

[JimVT]

I got some help and connected it up .the 25 power one reads 26 at full zoom. it is just on a post in my yard for bench testing. a small woodpecker at 17 power

 

[JimVT]

i'm still learning on this thing. i added a recorder yesterday.
this is while i'm having my morning tea today looking out my window . 7 power and 26 power

right side halfway up.

 

[JimVT]

i moved my cam to the barn roof yesterday .this is the corner of one field and just one heifer. i have many trees so the view is blocked. 1 power and runs up to 26power.