Smoky Mountains Pigeon Forge Web Cam Install

[Charles Rhodes]

Though we will be moving this awesome web cam soon, closer to the mountains, felt you may want to see the ease of use and great response from this Cannon VB-C50ir live web cam.

http://www.cabinfevervacations.com/pigeonforgesmokymountains-webcam.shtml

The manual is ok, but so far the support from Canon has been great in filling in the gaps. We are now working hard on installing wireless radio equipment at the new site for connecting to a T1. Current configuration is on a shared T1 hardwired.

[Fred Kaluza]

Charles, very nice indeed! I have the same cameras and am having less luck in achieving the fluidity of motion you have. Do you employ any kind of "video server" services or have you simply ported the camera server through your router/modem to the Internet? If so, what kind of uplink bandwidth does your ISP offer you? Uplink from my location is currently limited to about 670kb/s. I also like the web page you loaded into your camera server (if I have it right). Fred in Michigan

[Charles Rhodes]

Fred,
We kept the size down on the photo, other benifit is we are using a T1. Trick here is the camera sends up volume data while the actual users send small requests up. The return traffic is large volumes of data, while only small size requests come in to tell the camera what to do, thus no one need for bandwidth is starving the other and harmony abounds.

Thank you for the positive comments. Tough part was trusting and learning the new radio technology. We needed a data bridge across the parking lot to the T1 connection, without running cable. The radios we used where simplex, however small requests coming in are not interuppted by the volumes of data going out, seems to work great even in storms thus far.