I am technical but new to IP cameras and this forum.
I have several machines in the crawlspace under my home and I need to monitor them randomly, NOT continuously. It is a pain for me to get under my house because I am an older person and I am 6'8" making it difficult to get into the crawlspace and out.
So, I need a remotely controlled camera (wifi, IP?) which MUST be A/C so I don't have to go down there to recharge the camera's battery.
I do not want to leave a light on, so it must have good night vision capabilities.
I certainly don't need it to be operating all the time but I need to turn the camera on when I need to see if the equipment down there is faulted or if anything is leaking, etc. It's OK if the camera is on all the time but it is a waste since I only need to check it occasionally.
For example, I have a crawlspace dehumidifier to monitor along with the HVAC unit, a whole house humidifier and a condensate pump. They have LED fault lights and other indicators that I could read with a camera.
Of course, this is not high priority surveillance so I'd like to keep the cost to a minimum.
I have a wireless network, a smartphone and desktop and laptop computers to connect to so I really only need an A/C camera. If I like it and the price, I will consider expanding to security surveillance, etc.
(A/C. Night-vision, remote on/off, cheap {but functionally reliable})
Any ideas who might make such a camera?
I have several machines in the crawlspace under my home and I need to monitor them randomly, NOT continuously. It is a pain for me to get under my house because I am an older person and I am 6'8" making it difficult to get into the crawlspace and out.
So, I need a remotely controlled camera (wifi, IP?) which MUST be A/C so I don't have to go down there to recharge the camera's battery.
I do not want to leave a light on, so it must have good night vision capabilities.
I certainly don't need it to be operating all the time but I need to turn the camera on when I need to see if the equipment down there is faulted or if anything is leaking, etc. It's OK if the camera is on all the time but it is a waste since I only need to check it occasionally.
For example, I have a crawlspace dehumidifier to monitor along with the HVAC unit, a whole house humidifier and a condensate pump. They have LED fault lights and other indicators that I could read with a camera.
Of course, this is not high priority surveillance so I'd like to keep the cost to a minimum.
I have a wireless network, a smartphone and desktop and laptop computers to connect to so I really only need an A/C camera. If I like it and the price, I will consider expanding to security surveillance, etc.
(A/C. Night-vision, remote on/off, cheap {but functionally reliable})
Any ideas who might make such a camera?