Post by pete11 on Feb 1, 2022 12:37:46 GMT
Hi Linda + welcome!
I'm pretty new to all this so can only speak from limited experience of the year just gone (no nest, alas!) - but, I have the same camera as you.
I also have the green feathers daylight led lamp (which turns off automatically when it's dark outside) - some debate as to whether or not this bothers the birds, but on this forum at least the consensus seems to be it's not a problem. It does really help the camera images though. Without it I'd only be getting black and white 'night mode' pictures...and that's what I get anyway after about 4.30pm at this time of year. The camera also flips back and forth between daylight and night modes during the day if its cloudy, or if a bird hangs about in the nest box entrance hole for too long blocking the daylight coming through the hole!
Other things to say on this other than the daylight lamp:
1) I spent a fair bit of time focusing up the camera while it was still on the kitchen table having just secured it inside the box (my box is the green feathers 'deluxe'). I placed a box of matches on the floor of the box to mimic a bird
and then focused the camera on that. I also made sure the camera was seeing the floor of the box and the entrance hole. Once I was happy I tightened up the screws on the camera's mounting bracket so it no longer swivelled about and was locked off in the right position. Doing all that ensures the pictures are as sharp as possible as far as the lens is concerned.
2) The wifi camera needs a decent strong wifi signal to be available wherever you've sited it outside. I had to buy a second router, connect it with ethernet cable to my main router (via a long tortuous route through the house), and then configure the second router as just a wifi access point, 2G only (5G switched off), and placed it right up against the kitchen window in order to ensure maximum coverage in the tree where I'd put the nest box (distance of about 40ft from the house/window).
3) I'm sure you'll already have the smartphone/tablet app that green feathers advise you to download - this is definitely the quickest and least-hassle way of viewing the wifi camera's picture. But it's not a very big screen even if you have a big tablet. But the only other way I can see of getting the wifi camera's pictures on a TV is if you can plug a laptop into the TV and use that instead of a monitor - and then work out how to view the continuous video stream that's available from the camera on the laptop. I've worked out how to do this (using a thing called VLC player, on a windows laptop), and I use it myself in a slightly different set up, not on a TV.
I can add another post here with all the techy details if you're interested in viewing the camera video stream.
4) If you're unsure about the technical details, then it might be that a different type of camera is the best option - i.e. a non-wifi one that's designed for viewing primarily on a TV. Green feathers have various different things available.
Happy to talk more if you think it'll help!
Good luck with it all!
I'm pretty new to all this so can only speak from limited experience of the year just gone (no nest, alas!) - but, I have the same camera as you.
I also have the green feathers daylight led lamp (which turns off automatically when it's dark outside) - some debate as to whether or not this bothers the birds, but on this forum at least the consensus seems to be it's not a problem. It does really help the camera images though. Without it I'd only be getting black and white 'night mode' pictures...and that's what I get anyway after about 4.30pm at this time of year. The camera also flips back and forth between daylight and night modes during the day if its cloudy, or if a bird hangs about in the nest box entrance hole for too long blocking the daylight coming through the hole!
Other things to say on this other than the daylight lamp:
1) I spent a fair bit of time focusing up the camera while it was still on the kitchen table having just secured it inside the box (my box is the green feathers 'deluxe'). I placed a box of matches on the floor of the box to mimic a bird
and then focused the camera on that. I also made sure the camera was seeing the floor of the box and the entrance hole. Once I was happy I tightened up the screws on the camera's mounting bracket so it no longer swivelled about and was locked off in the right position. Doing all that ensures the pictures are as sharp as possible as far as the lens is concerned.2) The wifi camera needs a decent strong wifi signal to be available wherever you've sited it outside. I had to buy a second router, connect it with ethernet cable to my main router (via a long tortuous route through the house), and then configure the second router as just a wifi access point, 2G only (5G switched off), and placed it right up against the kitchen window in order to ensure maximum coverage in the tree where I'd put the nest box (distance of about 40ft from the house/window).
3) I'm sure you'll already have the smartphone/tablet app that green feathers advise you to download - this is definitely the quickest and least-hassle way of viewing the wifi camera's picture. But it's not a very big screen even if you have a big tablet. But the only other way I can see of getting the wifi camera's pictures on a TV is if you can plug a laptop into the TV and use that instead of a monitor - and then work out how to view the continuous video stream that's available from the camera on the laptop. I've worked out how to do this (using a thing called VLC player, on a windows laptop), and I use it myself in a slightly different set up, not on a TV.
I can add another post here with all the techy details if you're interested in viewing the camera video stream.
4) If you're unsure about the technical details, then it might be that a different type of camera is the best option - i.e. a non-wifi one that's designed for viewing primarily on a TV. Green feathers have various different things available.
Happy to talk more if you think it'll help!
Good luck with it all!