My live chicken house cam

[ScottLee]

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I think they rock back n forth when they fall asleep, its strange.

 

[ScottLee]

They do rock alot, just made this video from the past 2 hours.

 

[ivan3]

Scott, way to go! Would you be so kind as to post your equipment list (card/cam)? We have a hen that crows every morning, along with the rooster (for a few years, now). I've a bracket up for the Sony 510 vid cam, but I can never seem to get good shots of both seems like your setup would do the trick (good resolution).

Thanks for posting this (good to see someone else running Folding@Home).

Take care,

John

 

[chickenfanatic]

wow that is so cool i think i have found my new favorite sitcom the cluckelsons hahahaha

 

[1Speckled Hen w/Chicks]

WOW! How neat is that!--You can watch them and make sure all is well at the same time!
All are roosting but swaying with their snores!-LOL!
Neat work!...PS_hope they dont tear up your camera!

 

[sillybirds]

That's really cool, Scott! I like your chicken cam. I'm thinking about getting one for mine too, as our coop will be around the side of our house, down the hill a little so it would be nice to be able keep an eye on the chickies. If I do, I'm going to have to go with something wireless and solar powered. Is your cam wired or wireless?

 

[ScottLee]

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The resolution is actually set very low because the pc running the software is very old, 1gig celeron and 512 megs of ram.

ok im using a Picolo pro 2 capture card "4port" and i catcher console.
http://www.icode.co.uk/icatcher/

They do a special software for wildlife or proper cctv sofwtare called console, im using console because i have home cctv and the chicken cam is 1 of my feeds ive made public.

The camera is a cheap infrared camera from ebay, altho i did make a mistake and it was cmos camera not a ccd. If you get a camera make sure its a ccd chip and has a wide angled lens "2.6mm or 3mm"

I have set the software to record for 7 days any motion made. The videos automaticalyl get wiped if ther eolder than 7 days, you can set this to what you want. you can remote check the feeds and playback entire sessions. If you want to check playback options please goto http://www.scott-h.co.uk:8080 and click playback.

 

[ivan3]

Thanks, Scott. I'm using a P4 as dedicated video capture/encoder for many hours of analog, can put it to use for cam as well. Have tried a couple of hacks with older (cheap) webcams but the quality was less than adequate.

Take care,

John

 

[mrsengeseth]

i LOVE chicken cams!! thanks so much for sharing yours!!

 

[ScottLee]

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I have a vx 1000 and a viewsonic wv5202 webcaam, the viewsonic matches my sharp cctv ccd security camera for day footage. i catcher picks all webcams up.