Chicken picking at feet

[effingpot]

Well after months of mucking about with camera, firewall and html codes, we finally got our chicken cam working. It's a wireless camera sitting in the back of the garage pointing out the window into the chicken run. It sends the signal to my broadband router and with a bit of techy jiggery pokery out to the internet so it can be viewed from anywhere.

 

(It will ask to run some activex controls for the camera SW to work, which you need to accept).

 

The formatting is not great with Internet Explorer. I want to resize and embed it in this page. It works fine in Firefox and other browsers but formats wrong in IE.

 

If anyone has figured out how to solve this please let me know. If you want to have a go yourself, follow the instructions here.

 

 

Anyway it's a bit of fun to be able to see the kids feed the chickens when I'm at the office. What do you think? (Probably that I need help and maybe to get out more!)

[chocolateeclaire]

Blimming brilliant!!!

As I still havent mastered sending a basic photo to this site I wont bother at looking at your instructions just yet!!

Claire

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Wow, that's fab . I love your chicken run - it's fantastic . (I saw a strange looking pigeonchicken type creature wandering about for a bit before a real chicken hove into view though .)

[effingpot]

That may have been the blackbirds or pigeons. They seem to live on layers pellets and mixed corn.We've even had pheasants in there from time to time. It's funny to watch the chickens as the pheasant takes off and soars over the 6 foot fence. They just look at each other in amazement.

[scrambledhead]

That is soooo cool!

[Stargirl]

That's brilliant, I love it! I now have it bookmarked to look at when I need to calm down at work... My colleague on the next next says I'm mad!

[Ness3103]

i can't see it every time i click on the link it says oops this link appears to be broken

[effingpot]

It requires your browser to run an activex control. If in your security settings you have banned this, it won't work. It normally pops up a litte line at the top of the screen asking permission to run. You could try a different browser - Chrome and Firefox seem to work best. I just checked it and it works fine at the moment.

[attenbhp]

I can't see your camera yet - my office firewall won't let me. I'll try at home later, but I'm very interested in doing this myself. I got given the camera for my birthday, but haven't installed it yet.

 

Do you think it would be considered impolite to install a camera inside the nest box?

 

Did you have any problem with your broadband internet service provider? I was under the impression that they didn't like people streaming live video from their homes, without paying more.

[atsw]

Do you think it would be considered impolite to install a camera inside the nest box?.

Providing there's no noise and no bright lighting the chickens won't even notice. How much you'll see is another matter. A number of Omletters have installed cameras in their coops, most look out towards the run.

 

Did you have any problem with your broadband internet service provider? I was under the impression that they didn't like people streaming live video from their homes, without paying more.

Bandwidth is only consumed when someone connects to view the video stream. On most domestic Broadband connections the upstream link is much slower than downstream, so that is the limiting factor on usage and throughput. If you are on a metered service you pay for all your bandwidth, if you use lots your ISP will charge you accordingly.

 

Most decent web cams have good software that lets you disconnect people after a certain view time or cut them off after a certain amount of usage. Without these protections in place you could end up paying quite a lot more each month for bandwidth.

 

Andrew

[*mummy_hen*]

I am super

 

I desperately want a chickencam but OH is yet to get round to it!!