I'm looking to set up an outside camera to monitor my driveway. Would prefer to do it wirelessly and battery operated if possible and integrate with my Insteon setup. But I probably could do it via hard wire if I had to. Any recommendations?? All comments appreciated!

I'm looking to set up an outside camera to monitor my driveway. Would prefer to do it wirelessly and battery operated if possible and integrate with my Insteon setup. But I probably could do it via hard wire if I had to. Any recommendations?? All comments appreciated!

 

Wireless should not be a problem from a communications standpoint as long as your chosen location is withing usable range of your WiFi. Battery powered may be a bit of an issue however. Newer cameras are fairly low power but short of having a car battery for the source, I think the draw would still be too high for smaller batteries to perform for more than a few hours.

 

-Xathros

It also depends on what you mean by "integrate with insteon". What insteon function do you desire a camera to possess?

What will you cook?

 

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Great Steak & Lobster and I'll do it for you

Cooking obviously wasn't what I was looking for Yea for spell check.

 

Insteon...thoughts were to have it turn on some lights depending on the time. Obviously controlled through ISY.

 

I will look to have it so it can be hardwired in. I figured the power would be an issue if I tried for battery.

There are no "Insteon" cameras in that none of them speak Insteon. You can however have your ISY control some aspects of many cams via the network module. I do this with my Foscam PTZ IP Cams to control where the cam is pointing based on other Insteon events. It's possible that some cams may be able to initiate events in the ISY using the rest interface but I have not seen any that are capable yet. There are some cameras that have dry contact IO that can be triggered by motion, those could be interfaced to Insteon through an IOLinc or similar Insteon IO module.

 

-Xathros

Insteon...thoughts were to have it turn on some lights depending on the time. Obviously controlled through ISY.

 

This is all very doable. However, I am not sure what this has to do with a camera.