Offgrid security cameras

I have 5 non- working game cameras plus 2 that do work aimed at my gate and cabin, Let them guess which ones to avoid.
BTW, All are at least 9 feet off the ground.

 

Drop Dead Fred keeps an eye out 24/7

 

Does Fred get a wardrobe change with the turning of the seasons?
There is a guy about 30 minutes from here that has a full size medical school skeleton sitting in a battered lawn chair at the end of his drive up by the road. Known locally as "Skeleton Man" his dress changes with the season, holiday and of course is dressed in Bama gear on game day weekends. Have no idea how long he's been there but it's been at least 15-20 years.

 

Not a bad ideal, I need some summer wardrobe suggestions?

 

Get him one a pair of faded cut off BDUs with this

 

I wanted to follow up on this post. I ended up using the Blue Iris software and purchased 2 bullet style and 2 dome varifocal night vision cameras. I purchased a 400w 24v inverter that I run directly off my battery bank of 16 Trojan T105's which runs a small uninterruptible power supply. The UPS runs my WeBoost cellular booster and my small 4 port PoE Ethernet switch. I built a compact PC that measures about 7" x 7" with an ITX board, i7 Intel processor, 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD hard drive. I tried it on an old laptop first, but the software pegged the processor at 100% and was unusable. I attached a Verizon Jetpack hotspot via a USB cord and get internet via the cable rather than WIFI to save power. It also keeps it continuously charged. I found that when the PC was at rest, it used a lot of bandwidth even without the BlueIris software running. The software took quite a bit too, but I didn't need it to broadcast any images, just send a text and an email with a small thumbnail of the movement when it is triggered. You might be able to get by with an i5 and 8GB RAM, but I would not go lower. I chose the SSD hard drive also to save power. The power supply is an automotive style that connects to 24vdc. I chose the automotive since it has a very wide range of acceptable DC input voltage since my batteries can operate anywhere between 22.5 and 29 volts. This has been working great for almost a week since I worked the bugs out of it. My next project is to find a way to remotely turn on my Magnum 4024 inverter and then my furnace. If anyone has ideas on that, let me know. If anyone wants specifics on the equipment I used, I am happy to reply. Thank you to all the posters that helped me with this. I am pretty happy with it...but so far, I have only gotten movement photos of horseflies and spiders on my cameras. Hoping to see lynx, bear and moose soon.

 

Very nice!

 

"My next project is to find a way to remotely turn on my Magnum 4024 inverter and then my furnace. If anyone has ideas on that, let me know."

Look around here:

Frequently asked questions about DLI power controllers.

 

I have seen many cheap systems on Amazon that would most likely work. I was looking into those PTZ POE Type cameras and setup. Sounds good if you have a working internet. I would guess that a low power setup could work at home with hardwired cameras
to a small computer and hard drive in an SHTF kinda time. I looked at some of the links from above and the cameras seemed really good. Any advice would be good.Maybe help out the less technically inclined. Any good sites to look at?