Anyone use DropCam to watch the lake when they are not there?

[Horton]

https://www.dropcam.com/p/2gH7jP

[Wish]

Holy Crap that is cool. Dang...vandalized/destroyed slalom course to the tune of hundreds and hundreds of dollars and countless hours to retrieving, repairing and reinstalling. I do not want to add up what lost ski time was worth but I am sure it is less then $200. Hmmmmm...

[Wayne]

I bought one a couple years ago to use as a baby monitor, then was going to use it as a nanny cam. It's still in the box and I want to set it up so I can do exactly what you say @Horton‌. Stare at the lake and my boat while at work.

 

They are super easy to set up, I'm just lazy. Now where did I put that thing?

[Texas6]

Ummmmm, Dropcam shows there appears to be no boat at the BOS HQ at the moment?

[Horton]

@Texas6‌ it is December. The Sparkly Blue Centurion Carbon Pro is in the garage.

[schafer]

@Horton‌ my google machine tells me its 11 degrees Celcius with a 3 Km/h wind. for all us Albertans go for a christmas day swerve to burn off that turkey

[GroovyGrant]

That seems like exactly what I need to keep an eye on my boat in a marina slip. Wonder if it will work via the marina's public wifi?

[Cam]

I have been using a Watchbot IP camera to watch our lake for a couple of years now, works really well especially as I live over 50 miles from the lake and can check water conditions before I travel.

At quiet times I can set up an alarm that sends me email pictures of any movement.

[Horton]

if anyone has been checking my dropcam and seeing nothing for a week there will actually be dogs and people and boats moving today. not saying it will be interesting but there will be movement

[Horton]

@scotchipman‌ yeah I do not pay for the cloud service.

[Wayne]

@horton do you have the infrared turned on? The night picture has a dominant reflection from a glass window. I found mine and set it up tonight (aimed through our basement walkout sliding glass door). I checked your feed and saw the same thing on mine, a reflection of the camera is all I could see. So I shut off the night vision setting and that helped quite a bit. If you have lights on your dock you should still have a good night time view.

[Horton]

@wayne thanks. I will play with that

[jbwann]

I'm not sure exactly how remote that camera location is, but, what is the best option for getting WiFi there?? Anyone know a cheap solution? Our lake has no homes on it...no internet.

[bowty]

@jbwann‌ It wouldn't be a live feed, but there are trail cameras set off by motion that will text a picture to your phone. That being said, you would run into the issue of getting a picture sent to you of every pass the boat makes if the camera is pointed at the lake.

[Fine409]

I just picked one of these up last week...pretty cool!

 

My view looks a bit different than yours these days @Horton‌

 

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn189/dtm8119/1-10-20157-47-10AM_zpsba9dba0a.jpg

 

[Horton]

I sort of felt bad that I wasn't going skiing today until I clicked on the live link from the lake househttps://www.dropcam.com/p/2gH7jP

[drewski32]

So now we have a link and everything for a spy cam on @Horton :wink:

[mlange]

Yeah. The IR being turned on when you have the camera behind a window makes it pretty useless at night, but it still is surprisingly good when there's a light on outside.

 

They now also make a bunch of outdoor enclosures. Haven't tried any of them out yet so I don't know if they fix the IR reflection issue.

 

http://dropcases.com/