Solar Powered Outdoor wifi Camera

[michiliman]

Does anybody have any recommendations for an outdoor, solar powered, wifi camera (ideally with zoom and pan) which can be integrated with HomeSeer? I looked at the HS Outdoor camera and it is not solar powered. I have a situation where I need to mount a camera in a location where power is not available nor is likely to be.

Thanks

[ts1234]

There are many in the forum much smarter than I am when it comes to this. I think other than HS ones Foscam/Amcrest may be the only ones that should integrate with auto discovery...though my models didn't except when hardwired. The little bit I've started to work on this I learned 2 things. If you have more than 1 or 2 you probably want to run something like Blue Iris coupled with the plugin for it on a separate server. It's very processor and interface intensive. Two, a really smart guy on the forum pointed out a relatively new Blue Iris feature called substreams. It use much less BW/CPU.

So my recommendation would be to look at Blue Iris supported cameras.

I'm actually surprised how many of the solar cameras are on Amazon. My only thought on them is a few have a separate solar panel vs. one fixed to the camera. Depending on where you need it that might be handy.

[Wade]

There are also DIY guides on the web for building your own solar power supply for a camera. If you're inclined to such a project it would allow you to use most any wifi camera, although choosing a 12V camera might give the most battery options.