Question

Here's a situation: On the farm there are gates and equipment, barns animals and such. it's 5 miles away from the main house. there is a 5 gh router in use. Can one place 3-5 cameras out there and get a feed on the phone wherever the one travels, even out of state?  

Answer 1

I have the same question. Our cameras are far from the base and cameras do not always pick up activity

Answer 2

I have a camera that is on detached garage block construction. Signal goes through two of the garage walls and one on the main house. Camera is 85' from base station and has one red bar of signal. Only problem I noticed are slow to load live feed and every now and then I will get blurred out lines or pixels across screen. But other then that camera seems to work just fine.  

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Well I thought one could link it to regular cell data and still be battery operated. The cameras must have an internal antenna that sends signal why can't the phone receive it? or use the phone as the hotspot.  

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@highball the Arlo go is a cellular data Verizon only service. And the Arlo wifi is locked down prbly so no one can easily get into view your cameras.  

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Got it, they may come up with frequency hop, VPN, or some similar like, secure modem but then its difficult thus far to keep prices even. I just think there is a huge market out there for the farm community, since the plague (covid-19) there has been theft of equipment and other So many are looking ($and can pay for$) a good system to watch, now so many use game cameras but its a pain to check chips and batteries when so much is spread across the prairies

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@highball check out unifi camera if need something more remote and wifi based. Make a solar charge controller with ethernet ports. Few out door wifi access points and bunch of ethernet cameras.  

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Combine them to make a camera system on pole as long as not outside the initial wifi from house.  

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@highball not an Alro solution. Expensive at the moment but might be the solution you are looking for.  
https://www.sunflower-labs.com

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@pollack5033/activity" class="qa-user-link">pollack5033 Right @pollack5033/activity" class="qa-user-link">pollack5033 been repairing drones for over 10 years, working many Gov contracts back in the day, , so got a little experience and, now with the integration into public airspace they are popular. still it takes a pilot, preflight, batteries, ground station operators. I like Arlo and think this company will transition like water moving around in the industry when they see a market and need. I'm counting on it because I'm a small share holder.  

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I know GoPro put out the drone some years back called Karma didn't do so hot and I think it was because market focus was off, , , or not present at all? The sunflower looks good has many purposes and safety controls for the novice like geo boundary hold

Answer 3

1. You'll need the Arlo base station to be fairly close to the cameras (like < 200 ft). 2. The base station needs internet. If you can have both of these conditions, the Arlo might work for you. If I had your situation, I'd be looking at something using LoRa, and then only as a notification that the gate is open.