{"id":2834,"date":"2018-03-04T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T01:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2019-04-03T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:00:59","slug":"cellular-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2834","title":{"rendered":"Cellular Webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A bit ago I posted about setting up an <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2769\">RPi with cellular connectivity<\/a> which could be used for any number of ideas. One I mentioned was a remote webcam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5363.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5363-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5363-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5363-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5363-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5363-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I took the basic setup I had shown before, and attached a small solar panel, sealed it in a watertight enclosure, and placed it on some national forest land adjoining a nearby mountain pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20171223-113745-1024x769.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20171223-113745-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2835\" data-link=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=2835\" class=\"wp-image-2835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20171223-113745-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20171223-113745-150x113.jpg 150w, 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https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20180218-071514-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20180218-071514-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20180224-070542-1024x769.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20180224-070542-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2837\" data-link=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=2837\" class=\"wp-image-2837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20180224-070542-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image_20180224-070542-150x113.jpg 150w, 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It woke up once an hour to take a photo and upload some telemetry and a thumbnail to my server over the cell connection. If there was a thumbnail I wanted a better look at, or to establish a ssh connection for admin, there were command files I could leave in place on the server that would instruct the RPi to perform additional actions before going back to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every so often as the SD card got full, I would drive up and park nearby, and download the full size files over wifi connected directly to the RPi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, in summer the unit stopped responding and had to be retrieved. Once I was able to get it home and look at it, I found the RPi&#8217;s SD card had died, so it couldn&#8217;t boot up to do anything. I&#8217;m usually careful to buy quality name brand SD cards, but it appears this time one slipped through and lead to the failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit ago I posted about setting up an RPi with cellular connectivity which could be used for any number of ideas. One I mentioned was a remote webcam. 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