While I wait for Fedex to deliver parts (a couple of PoE Switches), I was wondering about setting up a weather/sunset camera. I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to post the pictures at intervals of 2-5 minutes, but I'm a little concerned about possibly screwing up a camera.
Th natural direction for pointing a weather camera where I am is almost directly to the West, which would also result in occasional awesome sunsets. My concern is about the camera pointing into the sun and the possible harmful effects on the image sensor. I'm sure there are some setups that would do fine, and others that would fry the sensor the first time I did it.
So, any guidance on this? I'm currently using Dahua 4300 series IP cameras which have 3MP resolution. They're decent cameras, especially for the price, but I don't want to trash one just to try this out. Anybody else doing this with these or similar cameras? Any other suggestions on affordable cameras that can do this job? Any other suggestions or guidance?
Thanks!
Th natural direction for pointing a weather camera where I am is almost directly to the West, which would also result in occasional awesome sunsets. My concern is about the camera pointing into the sun and the possible harmful effects on the image sensor. I'm sure there are some setups that would do fine, and others that would fry the sensor the first time I did it.
So, any guidance on this? I'm currently using Dahua 4300 series IP cameras which have 3MP resolution. They're decent cameras, especially for the price, but I don't want to trash one just to try this out. Anybody else doing this with these or similar cameras? Any other suggestions on affordable cameras that can do this job? Any other suggestions or guidance?
Thanks!