How much power is enough?

Here’s a curve ball and a cunning trick..

As Rich suggested, you could put a screen on an SBC and turn it into a user interface / web broswer for OH.

Now take that a step further and use an Android tablet, you could use the fabulous IP Webcam Pro app and provide the video and audio from the tablet to your network.
With a choice of video and audio formats.

Throw into the mix that the app has motion detection, 2 way audio support, automatic night mode, stealth mode, GET command on Motion and you have yourself not only a great intercom but the most covert CCTV you could get…

I’ve got this running on an old Samsung S3 phone, which is “doing nothing” on a shelf, with it’s back to the room.

That same S3 is also running a GSM gateway server, so I can send and receive SMS in OH.
(it’s not difficult to filter the senders of text messages to add a layer of security)

It’s got a third app running that auto answers calls and switches on the speaker :wink:

all for a LOT less than the cost of a CCTV camera with a poor quality camera

Did I mention that you can remotely activate the flash light and (digitally) zoom in with Pavel’s IPWebcamPro app?

I “could” mount the phone / device on a Servo driven mount for Pan & Tilt via Art-Net / sACN / DMX control from OH, but that it probably way more than is needed. :slight_smile: (But I might do it anyway, now that I’ve thought about it)

AND that Pavel has written a IP Video to DirectShow app for Windows and Linux for his App, which I can use in Jinx! to influence my Art-Net LED array, but that is probably taking it all a little too far

Update

I’ve just been told that those pan and tilt assemblies are quite lumpy when they are running, but the idea is sound

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